Summary: "This dramatic documentary, with full scale battles, elaborate sets, and a large cast, tells the fascinating story of three world powers - England, France and an alliance of Native American nations - whose struggles planted the seeds for the American Revolution. A central figure is George Washington, then a brash and ambitious young officer in his twenties hoping to make his reputation in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WARSummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 2
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 3
Smith, Wilbur A.
Summary: "Inseparable since birth and growing up in India, Theo and Connie Courtney are torn apart by the tragic death of their parents. Theo, wracked with guilt, strikes a solitary path through life. Haunted by the spirits of lovers and family members, he is determined to atone for his mistakes. He seeks salvation in combat and conflict, joining the British in the war against the French and Indian...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zaffre 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smith 2019Best, Mat
Summary: "Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEST, MAT BESSummary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSSummary: 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 RANSummary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNSummary: Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIL
Summary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHESummary: Led by Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible. From an underground base built on a rift in time and space, the team responds to any alien threat-- a meteorite crash landing, sightings of extra-terrestrial technology, an unusual autopsy report, the spread of a deadly alien virus. Everyone who works for Torchwood is under 35. Some day that's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1. (Sittin' on) the dock of the bay ; Sweet Lorene (Otis Redding). I thank you ; Wrap it up (Sam & Dave). Don't pass your judgement ; I wanna be (your lover & your honey) (The Memphis Nomads). I was born to love you ; I'm so glad you're back (Shirley Walton). Lovey dovey ; New Year's resolution (Otis Redding, Carla Thomas). I got a sure thing ; Girl, you have my heart singing (Ollie & the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES STAGuthrie, Woody
Contents: Hard travelin' hootenanny (All Severance Hall cast) -- Payback (Peter Glazer) -- 1913 massacre (Ramblin' Jack Elliott) -- Regular fires (Arlo Guthrie) -- Against the law / Woody Guthrie, Billy Bragg (Billy Bragg) -- Riding in my car (Bruce Springsteen) -- Pretty Boy Floyd (David Pirner) -- Free in every moment (Arlo Guthrie) -- Do re me (Ani DiFranco) -- What a song is (Fred Hellerman) -- Dust...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Righteous Babe Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TILContents: Grazing in the grass / Friends of Distinction. -- Color him father / Winstons. -- Hey there lonely girl / Eddie Holman. -- Crumbs off the table / Glass House. -- Rainy night in Georgia / Brook Benton. -- Everybody is a star / Sly & The Family Stone. -- Give me just a little more time / Chairman of the Board. -- Didn't I (blow your mind this time) / Delfonics. -- Bells / Originals. -- Turn back...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CANSummary: The Best Eighties Album contains the defining tracks of the decade features some of the biggest hits from artists including Belinda Carlisle, Kim Wilde, Bonnie Tyler, Toto, Adam & The Ants, KC & The Sunshine Band, The Bangles, Billy Ocean, James Brown and many more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONEWar And Treaty (Musical group)
Contents: Love like there's no tomorrow (2:24) -- Healing tide (3:33) -- Are you ready to love me? (3:32) -- Hearts (5:11) -- Jeep Cherokee Laredo (3:16) -- One and the same (5:59) -- If it's in your heart (5:04) -- Here is where the loving is at / (feat. Emmylou Harris) (4:17) -- All I wanna do (4:14) -- It's not over yet (5:20) -- Little New Bern (4:26).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WARMinian, Ana Raquel
Summary: "A probing work of narrative history that reveals the hidden story of immigrant detention in the United States, deepening urgent national conversations around migration. In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as children were torn from their parents at the US-Mexico border under Trump's "family separation" policy. But as historian Ana Raquel Minian reveals in In the Shadow of Liberty, this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Air (Musical group : France)
Contents: Do the joy (3:05) -- Love (2:44) -- So light is her footfall (3:13) -- Be a bee (3:46) -- Missing the light of the day (4:25) -- Tropical disease (6:49) -- Heaven's light (3:53) -- Night hunter (4:42) -- Sing sang sung (3:06) -- Eat my beat (2:45) -- You can tell it to everybody (5:37) -- African velvet (3:48).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Aircheology/Revolvair 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AIRWar and Treaty (Musical group)
Contents: Yearning -- Beautiful -- Five more minutes -- Hearts town -- Jubilee -- Hey pretty moon -- Jealousy -- Liquid lies -- Lonely in my grief -- Little boy blue -- Hustlin' / feat. Jerry Douglas and Chris Eldridge -- Take me in.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WARSummary: Brings to light a new history of the Korean War; an event that still reverberates to this day. New archives in Russia, China, South Korea, and the United States will change public understanding of a critical turning point in world history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KORSummary: In a story inspired by the events surrounding the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi, a suicide bomber examines her emotions and finds herself in a psychological divide as she contemplates her future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Winstar TV & Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TERSummary: From master director Jia Zhang-Ke comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong, born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, respectively. In their stories, we hear of the dire circumstances they faced in their rural villages and small towns, and the substantial political effort undertaken to address it, from the social...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWIContents: I need a doctor (Hot Snakes) -- Rhinestones (Olivia Jean) -- Take up thy stethoscope and walk (Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin) -- Matter of matter (White Denim) -- Cicada (La Luz) -- Ontology (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard) -- Encrypted bounce (Thee Oh Sees) -- I can see light bend (Sonic Boom) -- Golden flower (Wooden Shjips) -- Perfume (Wand) -- Hypnagogia (Death Valley Girls) -- This side of...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014