Summary: Based on a true story, Charles S. Gilpin was the first African-American to star in a leading role in a stage play during a time where roles of color were previously played by white men in blackface. As Gilpin rose to fame and recognition, tensions were high between him and playwright Eugene O'Neill which ultimately lead to parting ways, though his acclaimed performance has changed Broadway...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLASummary: Part 5 continues to explore the meaning of the scientific revolution and to examine the many problems that it raises. It is in this period that the West becomes keenly aware of the social and psychological origins and purposes of its activities. This is a period of spiritual turmoil as well as of material advance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLIContents: Accidentally in love (Counting Crows) -- Holding out for a hero (Frou Frou) -- Changes (Butterfly Boucher featuring David Bowie) -- As lovers go (Ron Fair remix) (Dashboard Confessional) -- Funkytown (Lipps, Inc.) -- I'm on my way (Rich Price) -- I need some sleep (Eels) -- Ever fallen in love (Peter Yorn) -- Little drop of poison (Tom Waits) -- You're so true (Joseph Arthur) -- People ain't no...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC SHRSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANEngels, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 ENGArmour, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Linford 1992
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W ARMBrown, Arthur
Contents: Disc 1-Prelude-nightmare--Fanfare-fire poem--Fire--Come & buy--Time-confusion--I put a spell on you--Spontaneous apple creation--Rest cure--I've got money--Child of my kingdom
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Red Records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BROSummary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIGBjork
Contents: Human behaviour (4:12) -- Crying (4:49) -- Venus as a boy (4:41) -- There's more to life than this (3:21) -- Like someone in love (4:33) -- Big time sensuality (3:56) -- One day (5:24) -- Aeroplane (3:54) -- Come to me (4:55) -- Violently happy (4:58) -- The anchor song (3:32).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BJOSummary: A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain: they live at the same address, have the same names, and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed, and highly modern...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHE NOT RATEDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV ShSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: Eugene O'Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity. The program traces his life from his early days in New York to his last years in Boston when he suffered from tremors which kept him from his writing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EUGSummary: Fantastic voyage: A team of miniaturized scientists go on a remarkable journey through the human body. The lost world: Prehistoric beasts are discovered in the modern-day world. The towering inferno: Faulty wiring sparks a deadly fire in a high-rise building. Voyage to the bottom of the sea: Adventures aboard the submarine Seaview.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Afterglow / Small Faces -- I can show you / Rupert's People -- Day of the change / Andromeda -- Mr Universe / Episode Six -- She says good morning / The Pretty Things -- On a meadow-lea / Bobak, Johns, Malone -- Yesterday was such a lovely day / Sadie's Expression -- The Open ground / Pussy -- Magic in the air / The Attack -- Heart without a home / Blonde on Blonde -- All along the watchtower /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2018
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu Movie MisfitsSummary: Tough, restless Jack Malone heads the Missing Persons unit of the FBI. And this season, the dedicated investigators of the MPU have a particularly important person to locate: Jack Malone, who disappears after going solo on a perilous case. The search for Malone is only one of many high-impact cases involving the mysteriously vanished, from a waitress who won 32 million in the lottery to an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WITDoyle, Arthur Conan
Summary: The publication of Leslie S. Klinger's brilliant new annotations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four classic Holmes novels in 2005 created a Holmes sensation. Klinger reassembles Doyle's four seminal novels in their original order, with over 1,000 notes, 350 illustrations and period photographs, and tantalizing new Sherlockian theories. Inside, readers will find:
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYSummary: A corrupted police officer is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. While solving a brutal murder, he makes sure to turn his colleagues against one another to ruin their ambitions. By stealing their wives and exposing their secrets the cop starts to lose himself in the web of deceit he created.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Algeria-born French intellectual Hélène Cixous is a feminist legend, a May 68 activist, and a major postmodern author. With friends like the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the artist Adel Abdessemed, and stage director Ariane Mnouchkine, Cixous examines the wounds of our time while allowing us to hear the cry of literature. In his "road movie" documentary EVER, RÊVE, HÉLÈNE CIXOUS, director...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC EVETorske, Bjorn
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TORJohn, Jory
Summary: Feeling fried? Peel yourself on the couch and meet your new pal-tato! The winning fourth picture book from the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, and The Cool Bean, Jory John and Pete Oswald, will get you and your kids moving!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The critically acclaimed drama returns for six more riveting episodes. In this season, DC Kate Fleming and DS Steve Arnott of AC-12 investigate the conduct of Sergeant Danny Waldron of the Armed Response Unit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LINSummary: Heidi: Based on the classic, Shirley stars as an adorable orphan who transforms her gruff grandfather in the Alps into a loving man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011