Friedman, Hilary Levey
Summary: "Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America's most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement's signature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.6 FRIRedman, Dewey.
Contents: Nine (10:52) -- Bekei (4:19) -- Spoonin' (7:27) -- Life as (8:31)-- It (7:15) -- Is (20:47) -- Dew (0:49).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ REDDewey Redman Quartet
Contents: Boo boodoop / Dewey Redman (9:46) -- Mirror windows / Dewey Redman (8:32) -- Blues for J.A.M., part 1 / Dewey Redman (5:02) -- If I should lose you / Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger (8:07) -- As one / Dewey Redman (5:58) -- Lazy Bird / John Coltrane (6:20).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Saint 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ REDSummary: It tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII. A suburban wife and mother who led a secret double life, her remarkable contributions to the science of cryptology would...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CODCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CODContents: Els segadors / Spanish traditional (4:13) -- The ballad of the fallen : folk song from El Salvador (4:19) -- If you want to write me / Spanish traditional (3:55) -- Grandola vila morena / José Alfonson (2:11) -- Introduction to people / Carla Bley (3:55) -- The people united will never be defeated / Sergio Ortega (1:37) -- Silence / Charlie Haden (5:45) -- Too late / Carla Bley (8:20) -- La...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1983
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Craft in America is an exploration into the hearts and minds of artisans devoted to a diverse array of mediums -- from furniture making and basket weaving to pottery and metalsmithing. Each episode reveals that craft has earned itself a place within the realm of fine art"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Craft in America, Inc. 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CRASummary: Cheaper by the dozen: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD CHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family CheaperSummary: This is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually leading to his impeachment trial.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HUNSummary: "AFTER TILLER intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFTSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It is 2153. The crew of the starship Enterprise are engaging in the third year of their mission under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. An alien probe has attacked the Earth, killing over seven million people. The Enterprise is sent to track down and stop the aliens from attacking again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: When the President is caught in a sex scandal less than 2 weeks before the election, "Mr. Fix-it" decides they need a war to distract the public's attention and he calls on Hollywood's top producer to create it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WAGSummary: On the run from a drug cartel, a Mexican couple battles vicious thugs who plan to continue the violent tradition of the now-outlawed Purge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Cheaper 2003Summary: Allen Bauer is a successful New York businessman, knocked unconscious in a boating accident. His beautiful rescuer is the girl of his dreams. There's only on complication--Allen's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan. Offers a revealing study of the housewife's plight during the Eisenhower era, along with an inspiring tale of tenacity and survival against formidable odds. Evelyn is a cheerfully strong-willed mother of ten who compensates for the failings of her alcoholic husband by becoming the most successful "contester" in the country. Between the mid-1950s and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRI1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PRI
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PriCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PrizeHaden, Charlie.
Contents: Disc 1. Handwoven -- Dewey's tune -- Chairman Mao -- Next to the quiet stream -- Augmented -- Old and new dreams.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: C.A.M. 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HADMonk, Thelonious.
Contents: Crépuscule with Nellie -- Justice : evidence -- Ruby my dear -- Straight no chaser -- Bye-ya -- Ugly beauty -- Trinkle tinkle -- Epistrophy -- Off minor -- Reflections.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Winter & Winter 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MOTSummary: Eloise and Nanny are on their way to Hollywood where Eloise is given the chance to star in a real movie! She is certain her glamorous dreams are coming true, but stardom is a lot of work. Can she pull off her secret plan and go back to being just plain fabulous Eloise?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ELOLevey, Joel.
Summary: Three relaxation sessions combining spoken words and music.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Earth View 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE LEVSummary: Based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese, a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 55 SCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIFWeston, Randy.
Contents: African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 1 (3:16) -- The healers (10:44) -- African cookbook (17:13) -- La Elaha-Ella Allah/Morad Allah (6:39) -- The call (6:12) -- African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 2 (8:26) -- The seventh queen (16:35) -- Blue Moses (11:57) -- African sunrise (19:50) -- A prayer for us all (5:16).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Antilles 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ WESSummary: "When a fiercely devoted group of military school cadets learns that their school is being sold to real estate developers, they refuse to acept defeat-- instead choosing to rise up together to protect the academy and their honor. But the brave young soldiers soon learn that the most courageous decisions can sometimes have unexpected and even fatal consequences!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TAPSummary: Frankie is a former boxing manager, who initially refuses to train Maggie due to her gender and age. With her talent and his coaching the spirited young fighter rises through the ranks of women's boxing, the pair form a touching bond in the process.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005