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Summary: Illustrations and rhythmic, rhyming text show what happens when popping popcorn gets out of hand.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Green Light Readers/Harcourt Brace 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: I've got a claim on you / Betty Everett -- Let love go by / Jeanette "Baby" Washington -- Question / Roscoe Shelton -- I need your lovin' / Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford -- Let the good times roll / Alvin Robinson -- A fool in love / Ike and Tina Turner -- Mathilda / Cookie & His Cupcakes -- Ain't that loving you baby / Jimmy Reed -- Let's stick together / Wilbert Harrison -- Iko Iko / Dixie cups...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Charly Acquisitons Limited 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SCESummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLBeeby, Betty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pearl Press 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 BEECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 Beeby1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 BEE
Summary: A young showgirl falls for a playboy soldier the night before his leave. When he comes back and is given a medal, he finds that she's singing at the celebration his family has arranged, and she finds that he gave her an assumed name and is engaged.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GANSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSBeeby, Betty.
Summary: Tells the story of the author's childhood visit to her great-grandmother's picnic table workshop in Eastport, Michigan near Grand Traverse Bay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: B. Beeby 2004
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: P-J Basket BEEEveritt, Anthony.
Summary: In this biography Anthony Everitt brings to life the world of ancient Rome in its glorious heyday. Cicero squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised Pompey on his botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted Mark Antony and was the master of the smear campaign, as feared for his wit as he was for exposing his opponents' sexual peccadilloes....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CICContents: Yankee Doodle Dandy / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; screen play by, Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph ; original story by, Robert Buckner ; lyrics and music by, George M. Cohan ; directed by, Michael Curtiz -- This is the Army / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; screen play by, Casey Robinson and Claude Binyon ; music and lyrics by, Irving Berlin ; produced by, Jack L. Warner and Hal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREContents: All shook up (The Jeff Beck Group) -- Lawdy Miss Clawdy : (stereo) session 1964 (Duffy Power) -- Hound dog (Betty Everett) -- That's all right (Albert King) -- Money honey (Little Richard) -- Let's play house (Rockin' Rebels) -- I forgot to remember to forget (Johnny Cash) -- Love me tender (Link Wray) -- Trying to get to you (Roy Orbison) -- In the ghetto (Chris Clark) -- It's now or never (El...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2006
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: In one of their best loved, most charming song and dance comedies, Fred and Ginger demonstrate just how they became known as America's greatest dance team. Includes the Academy Award-winning hit The Continental.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2010
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GAYSummary: Old-school grandparents Artie and Diane get more than they bargained for when they get stuck babysitting their type-A daughter's overprotected kids. But things go from hectic to hysterical when Artie realizes the kids are running the house with their newfangled technology. By playing by his own rules, which include sugary snacks, old fashioned games, and tough love, Artie manages to outsmart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Parental 2012Everitt, Anthony
Summary: "What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial portrait. More than two millennia have passed, but Alexander the Great is still a household name. His life was an adventure story and took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALEXANDER THE GREAT EVEEveritt, Anthony.
Summary: Rome's decline and fall have long fascinated historians, but the story of how the empire was won is every bit as compelling. Emerging as a market town from a cluster of hill villages in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E., Rome grew to become the ancient world's preeminent power. Historian Anthony Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to glory into an erudite page-turner filled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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Contents: Thunder -- Work it out -- Rio -- Leave it alone -- Who knows -- Go 2 -- High alert -- TNT -- stay up with me -- Forget what you look like -- Bird of paradise -- Higher
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n] 2016
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Everitt, Anthony
Summary: "The Roman emperor Nero has long been the very image of a bad ruler--cruel, vain, and incompetent. He committed incest with his mother, who had schemed and killed to place him on the throne, and later murdered her. He supposedly set fire to Rome and thrummed his lyre as it burned. Afterward he cleared the charred ruins of the city center and, in their place, built a vast palace. Historians of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NERO EVEEveritt, Anthony.
Summary: He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations for all of Western history to follow. Yet despite Augustus's accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUGUSTUS EveEveritt, Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Marine Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.88 EVESummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Johnson, Betsey
Summary: "A memoir by the internationally famous fashion designer and style icon Betsey Johnson. Mention the name "Betsey Johnson" and almost every woman from the age of 15 to 75 can rapturously recall a favorite dress or outfit; whether worn for a prom, a wedding, or just to stand out from the crowd in a colorful way. They may also know her as a renegade single mom who palled around with Edie Sedgwick,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, BETSEY JOHSummary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUGBird, Betsy
Summary: Did Laura Ingalls cross paths with a band of mass murderers? Why was a Garth Williams bunny tale dubbed "integrationist propaganda"? For adults who are curious about children's books and their creators, here are the little-known stories behind the stories. A treasure trove of information for a student, librarian, new parent, or anyone wondering about the post-Harry Potter book biz, Wild Things!...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 809 BIRBowen, Betsy.
Summary: Introduces the letters of the alphabet in woodcut illustrations and brief text depicting the changing seasons in the northern woods.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Joy Street Books 1991