Galeano, Eduardo
Summary: "Galeano's new book is his richest and most poetic yet, a joyous calendar of the sacred and the damned, a book of inspiration for those fighting tyranny, greed, and amnesia Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Galeano's new work has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that day of the calendar year. Each entry resurrects the heroes and heroines who have fallen off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 902.02 GALBrown, Nacio Herb
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1935
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: "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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: "The Colonies' survivors have found their hopes of eluding their Cylon pursuers dashed by an invasion and occupation of their new home. As the fate of all human life hangs in the balance, friends become enemies, enemies become unexpected allies, and decisions are made that will haunt some people for the rest of their lives"--Set container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATContents: [Disc 1]. The inheritance (1997; 93 min.) / a Kraft Premier movie ; Alliance Atlantis Communications presents an Alliance Atlantis Communications/Cosgrove Meurer/Televest production ; producer, Ed Self ; teleplay by Maria Nation ; directed by Bobby Roth -- Love among the ruins (1975; 103 min.) / ABC/Circle Films ; produced by Allan Davis ; directed by George Cukor ; written by James Costigan....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BrSummary: Freud invites iconic author C.S. Lewis to debate the existence of God. And his unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis' unconventional relationship with his best friend's mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREField, Mary.
Summary: Presents information needed for the day-to-day care of ferrets, from housing to nutrition, to litter training and medical care. There is a section devoted to the most common questions that ferret keepers have about their pets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.9766 FIERosenthal, Mark
Summary: Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts, held from March 15 - July 12, 2015, celebrating the famous Mexican artist couple Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo during the year they spent in Detroit while he completed the "Detroit Industry Murals".
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Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Institute of Arts/Yale University Press 2015
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 ROSSummary: The story of a down-on-her-luck Southern teen who, after gaining 15 minutes of fame for giving birth to "The Wal-Mart Baby," begins to put her life together with the help of the kind, quirky strangers who become her surrogate family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Washington, D.C., in the mid-to-late 1960s, vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to become a unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr. to fully express himself and "tell it like it is." With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the new ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TALSummary: "John Waters' gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous sequences. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Amar, Akhil Reed
Summary: "A leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the past two decades and illuminates the Constitution's spirit and ongoing relevance When the stories that lead our daily news involve momentous constitutional questions, present-minded journalists and busy citizens cannot always see the stakes clearly. In The Constitution Today, Akhil Reed Amar, America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 AMASummary: Superman, the movie: As an infant, Superman is sent to earth from the doomed planet Krypton. As he grows up, he learns he has super powers which he must hide from the ordinary mortals around him. But the time comes when Superman's powers for good are revealed to the world. Superman battles with supercriminal Lex Luthor and his cohorts as they attempt to destroy California by activating the San...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUP RATED PGGershwin, George
Contents: Disc 1. Swanee (Al Jolson) -- The Yankee doodle blues (Van & Schenck) -- Do it again (Arthur Lange's Orchestra) -- Somebody loves me (Isabelle & Tom Patricola) -- Fascinating rhythm (Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards) -- Oh, lady be good (Buck & Bubbles) -- Tell me more (Alexander Gray) -- Sweet and low-down (Singing Sophomores ; Ed Smalle) -- Song of the flame (Tessa Kosta ; The Russian Art Choir)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Amar, Akhil Reed
Summary: "From Illinois to Alabama, and from Florida to Utah, our laws and legal debates arise from distinctive local settings within our vast and varied nation. As the renowned scholar Akhil Amar explains, Abraham Lincoln's argument against the legality of succession can be traced to his Midwestern upbringing, just as a close look at the Florida legislature and state Supreme Court reveals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 AMAAmar, Akhil Reed.
Summary: Explores the little-understood relationship between the written Constitution and the many external factors that shape the interpretations of this foundational document.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7302 AMASummary: Chronicles the life and times of Queen Victoria from her childhood to her early rise to power and the first turbulent years of her rule. Her romantic relationship and eventual marriage to Prince Albert culminates in a royal power struggle which ultimately is the key to her happiness when she comes to the realization that he is someone she can fully trust and believe in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Young 2010Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008