Summary: "This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Silence

Contents: Tsumi to warai -- Butterfly blues -- Meido nisshi -- Electric meditations -- Improvisation -- I'm a maan

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Brown, Chuck

Summary: "There's a storm brewing in the seven seas! Arthur Curry and Jackson Hyde unite to take on a massive underwater conspiracy, in the first series teaming the Aquamen of two eras! When a terrorist in Middle America is revealed as an Atlantean sleeper agent seemingly gone rogue, the Aquamen-Arthur Curry and Jackson Hyde-are on the case. But it soon becomes clear that the tragedy was not just a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2022

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Summary: When the moonless shadows of London give birth to a new nightmare, John Luther (Idris Elba) once again confronts the depths of human depravity. As a series of monstrous killings becomes more audacious, Luther and new recruit DS Catherine Halliday (Wunmi Mosaku) are confounded by a tangle of misdirection that seems to protect an unspeakable horror. But as the case brings him closer than ever to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Studios 2019

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Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Mahler, Gustav

Contents: Disc 1: Symphony no. 2 in C minor, for soprano, mezzo and orchestra, "Resurrection": I. Allegro maestoso (22:22).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Classics 1988

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Contents: Corazón contento / (Marisol) (2:58) -- Creo en ti / (Rocío Dúrcal) (1:56) -- Ya verás / (Karina) (2:34) -- Pinta mi mundo / (Gelu) (2:46)-- Molino al viento / (Los Stop) (1:56) -- Aquí en mi nube / (Sonia) (2:33) -- Si llegara el amor / (Rosalia) (2:19) -- Nunca hay bastante / (Adriángela) (2:51) -- No sé por qué / (Massiel) (2:51)-- Prima o poi / (Silvana Velasco) (2:11) -- Tendrás que llorar...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Ace International 2018

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Summary: When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not what it seems.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Wilentz, Sean.

Summary: One of America's finest historians shows us how one of the country's greatest and most enduring artists still surprises and moves us after all these years. Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discovered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan's work with the skills of an eminent American historian as well as the passion of a fan....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010

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Contents: The Clock / Ty Segall -- Big balloon / Dutch Uncles -- Moviehead / Sic Alps -- Shine your light / Gap Dream -- Future history and the irrelevance of time / The Sunshine Fix -- Ritual / Sundowners -- 30000 megatons / Pond -- The Lens / Thee Oh Sees -- Strawberryfire / The Apples in Stereo -- Primrose / The Essex Green -- Inner Circle / The Frowning Clouds -- Vanilla / Cosmonauts -- Cascais /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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The Silence (Musical group)

Contents: Lemon iro no cannabis / (Batoh) -- Götter im exil / (Ogino/Batoh) -- Jewels in Tibet / (Batoh/purpleyuko) -- Black is the colour of my true love's hair / (Trad. Arr. Waters/Batoh) -- Tango whiskeyman / (Can/Batoh) -- Triptycon / (Batoh) -- Nana no open back banjo / (Batoh) -- Pesach / (Batoh) -- Overture / (Ogino/Batoh).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Drag City Incorporated 2015

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Valente, Anne

Summary: Four high school yearbook-committee members struggle to understand and appropriately document a horrific school shooting in a suburban St. Louis town that is also being terrorized by mysterious house fires at the homes of the victims.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

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Hunter, Fil.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Focal 2007

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Sister Wilene

Contents: Back in baby's arms -- Never no more -- Dying man -- Kentucky means paradise -- Leavin' on our mind -- Just for the hank of it -- There was a time -- Half a chance -- I'll have somebody else -- 90 miles an hour -- You can't break my heart -- It's no lie.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Do What's Next Records 2011

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Meijer, Fik.

Summary: Overview: Meijer traces the origins of the gladiators over 2,500 years, from the initial belief that their blood spilled on a grave would sustain the dead on its journey to the underworld. Yet, as centuries passed and the Roman Empire grew, gladiators became part of vaster, more brutal entertainments staged by successive emperors eager to manipulate the public with "bread and circuses" and to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2005

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Valente, Dominique

Summary: "Willow Moss's small magic has always seemed unremarkable. But when the most feared witch in the land of Starfell appears on the Moss family's doorstep looking for help, it's not Willow's talented sisters she seeks, it's Willow. Because Willow is a finder of lost things--and Moreg Vaine says that last Tuesday has gone missing. Willow and Moreg set out on a perilous journey across the wilds of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Fig, Joe

Summary: Twenty-four painters, video, mixed- media artists, sculptors, photographers reveal highly idiosyncratic production tools, techniques, quotidian habits, strategies for getting work done: music they listen to; hours they keep; relationships with gallerists, curators, friends, family, fellow artists that sustain them outside the studio.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2015

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Zimmerman, Eilene

Summary: "Eilene Zimmerman's ex-husband, Peter, had it all: He was a partner at a prestigious law firm, lived in a $2 million house by the beach, and had two great kids. Maintaining a friendly relationship, Eilene and Peter talked and saw each other frequently. But a few years after their divorce she started noticing erratic behavior: absenteeism, weight loss, constant exhaustion and sickness. Peter...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

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Edelman, Ric.

Summary: "From the #1 independent financial advisor in America, ranked three times by Barron's: a guide to making the most of your retirement plans and assuring long-term financial security. Everyone knows that saving for your retirement is important. Yet only half of all eligible Americans contribute to a retirement plan. That's because all plans--including the 401(k), 403(b), 457, and even the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Mixter, Ric

Summary: Thought you knew everything about the Edmund Fitzgerald? Go behind the scenes to learn more about the most famous shipwreck investigation in Great Lakes history. Ric Mixter opens his archive of conversations with the men who built, sailed and dove the Fitzgerald ; complete with the controversies and many unreleased photographs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Airworthy Productions 0000

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Castrovilla, Selene

Summary: Recounts the story of an enslaved man seeking sanctuary during the Civil War whose heroism saved Fortress Monroe and helped convince President Lincoln that slavery must be abolished.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022

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Mixter, Ric

Summary: "Messages in a bottle were a last ditch effort calling for rescue, or desperate goodbyes to loved ones. Penned by Christopher Columbus and passengers on Titanic, history has recorded thousands of bottles, but which ones are hoaxes? Historian Ric Mixter investigates and adds new information to famous and unknown messages on the ocean and Great Lakes." -- page 4 of cover

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Airworthy Productions 2020

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Rapid Ric.

Summary: Dubbed the Mixtape Mechanic, Austin's DJ Rapid Ric is building a lengthy lead out in front of the premiere purveyors of impeccably blended mix discs. In this effort, Ric provides 47 blistering tracks from a pool of artists in the likes of Paul Wall, Bun B, Hawk and Cee- Lo. Included is 2nd disc Chopped Up Not Slopped Up by OG Ron C.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: BCD Music Group 2006

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