Summary: Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOSCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOSSummary: The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TuskegeeSummary: 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
Forget, Thomas.
Summary: Examines the creation of the comic book superhero, Captain America, including information on his creators, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2007
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 741.5 ForgeHobbes, Thomas
Summary: Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures as well as methods of science were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world. Thomas Hobbes, an outspoken royalist, fled to France during the English Civil War. There he wrote this polemic, in which he calls for a powerful sovereign — a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.1 HOBHobbes, Thomas
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1947
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Baby Carriage: Infused with a jazzy, nouvelle vague-inspired energy, Bo Widerberg's feature debut has the freshness of youth. Building on his film criticism's call for a socially relevant Swedish cinema, the writer turned director offers a vivid portrait of a young factory worker finding her way toward independence as she weathers unexpected pregnancy, learns hard lessons from relationships...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BOSummary: Join Mary and the rest of the crew from the WJM-TV newsroom for another season of the classic sitcom. This time around Mary deals with more adventures, both in the newsroom and with her romantic life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARDylan, Bob
Contents: All along the watchtower (Eddie Vedder & the Million Dollar Bashers) -- I'm not there (Sonic Youth) -- Goin' to Acapulco (Jim James & Calexico) -- Tombstone blues (Richie Havens) -- Ballad of a thin man (Stephen Malkmus & the Million Dollar Bashers) -- Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again (Cat Power) -- Pressing on (John Doe) -- Fourth time around (Yo La Tengo) -- Dark eyes (Iron...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax 2007
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC I'MSummary: Part 3 explores the period from the Renaissance to the onset of the Enlightenment in the middle to late seventeenth century. This section marks the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science.
Format: moving image
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 CLISummary: Raw and smoldering, the film follows a young reggae DJ in Thatcher-era Brixton as he pursues his musical ambitions, battling fiercely against the racism and xenophobia of employers, neighbors, police, and the National Front. Fearless and unsentimental, and set to a blistering reggae, dub, and lovers rock soundtrack featuring Aswad, Johnny Clarke, and more, anchored by legendary producer Dennis...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BABHoman, Lynn M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pelican Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.544 HOMSummary: Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground. Featuring jaw-dropping aerial action and thrilling special effects, Red Tails is a breathtaking tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RED RATED PG-13Nadler, Steven M.
Summary: "This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority--sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death--to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world ... Heretics! tells the story of their ideas, lives, and times in a vivid new way. Crisscrossing Europe as it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NADFontes, Justine.
Summary: A retelling, in graphic novel form, of the story of the independent girl whose resolve to never marry is tested when her father insists that she choose a husband.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC FONKuhlmann, Torben
Summary: When two unlikely friends build a vessel capable of taking them to the bottom of the ocean and find a missing treasure, the truth turns out to be far more amazing. A mixture of STEM and animal adventure recommended for kids fascinated by engineering or invention.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North South Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KUHAntony and the Johnsons
Contents: Cut the world -- Future feminism -- Cripple and the starfish -- You are my sister -- Swanlights -- Epilepsy is dancing -- Another world -- Kiss my name -- I fell in love with a dead boy -- Rapture -- The crying light -- Twilight.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Secretly Canadian 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ANTSummary: Explores the simple truth that it's never too late to start over again. Even at age 50. We meet two long-time golf-buddies, Adam, going through a trial separation from his wife of 15 years and Jon, who is not only losing work to the 'young guy', but also dealing with a 'generous' prostate. They decide to take off on a weekend journey to let loose and re-live the Palm Springs get-a-ways of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2011
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABOLindberg, Jakob.
Contents: Drewries accordes (1:32) ; A mery moode (1:41) / Anon.-- The Spanish pavan / A. Ferrabosco (4:00) -- Lord Willoughbies his galliard (1:20) ; My Lord Chamberlaine his galliard (1:41) ; Complaint (1:17) / J. Dowland -- Passingmeasures galliard / J. Danyel (4:00) -- Sellengers rounde (1:41) ; The flatt pavion (2:06) ; The galyard to the flatt pavion (1:26) ; A dump (1:55) / J. Johnsone -- A...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BIS 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL LINSummary: After the unexpected death of his mother, Paco an aspiring actor from Sao Paulo, longs to leave his native Brazil. He accepts a delivery job from a shady antique dealer and travels to Lisbon carrying a violin filled with uncut diamonds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films; distributed by Winstar TV & Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FORSummary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WESSummary: Briggs and his companion Lulu, a Belgian Malinois, haul ass down the Pacific Coast in time to catch their best friend's and handler's funeral. One of them has a week to live; the other lives like every day is his last.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DOGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOGSummary: Inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately, murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022