Summary: "Ousmane Sembène ... made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot--about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally--into a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLASummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISGardner, Andrew
Summary: The following book will therefore go further than most other guide books and blogs '10 tips for staying safe in Thailand,' and expose not only how dark and belligerent the country can be at times, but also how you can ensure your own safety when abroad in the so called Land of Smiles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.3 THA 2015Martin, Esteban.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSummary: In Season 2, Lyra follows Lord Asriel into the mysterious abandoned city Cittagazze while Mrs. Coulter continues to search for her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HISCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HISCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series His 2021Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: Filled with humor, wit, and moral dilemmas, this raucous drama tells the true story of New Zealand's most controversial lawyer, Mike Bungay. In a high-profile career that begins in the 1960s and spans decades, he successfully defends alleged murderers, spies, and gang members, but he can't escape his own inner demons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRETatum, Art
Contents: If I had you / Ted Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell, Reg Conelly (3:52) -- Night and day / Cole Porter (8:37) -- Fine and dandy / Kay Swift, Paul James (3:38) -- Fine and dandy (2:53) -- Fine and dandy (3:54) -- Humoresque / Antonin Dvorak (3:59) -- Poor butterfly / Raymond Hubbell, John Golden (3:31) -- Willow weep for me / Ann Ronell (3:04) -- I gotta right to sing the blues / Harold Arlen, Ted...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Storyville Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ TATGaudi
Contents: Cinematic dub (with Mad Professor) -- Dub's nine lives (with Adrian Sherwood) -- Cross to theremin (with Dennis Bovell) -- Smokin dub (with The Scientist) -- Theremin dub mafia (with Prince Fatty) -- Kumo dub (with Mad Professor) -- Dub out of theremin (with Adrian Sherwood) -- Secret service dub (with Dennis Bovell) -- Future sound of theremin (with Mad Professor) -- Butterfly dub (with Adrian...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC GAUGaudi
Contents: 30HZ dub prelude -- Opus 12, no. 7 -- Memories in my Pentagram -- Nocturnal sonata -- Electronic impromptu in E-flat minor -- Modular rondo -- Die Ballade vom Frosch -- Epilogue leitmotif.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC GAUGaudi
Contents: Put your guns down (feat. Michael Rose) -- Tamino and the temple of dub -- Life (feat. Jahmai) -- Why u wanna run (feat. Danny Ladwa) -- Hurriya (feat. Tahar Momoproject) -- I start to play (feat. Lee Scratch Perry and the Orb) -- Spiritual orphans -- Planet x -- Crucial data -- Subtle obscurity -- Babylon is fallin (feat. Deadly Hunta) -- Unlimited possibilites (feat. Danny Ladwa).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC GAUSummary: New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHESummary: A deeply moving portrait of a family's unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son's addiction and his attempts at recovery. As David's son repeatedly relapses, the family are faced with the harsh reality that addiction is a disease that does not discriminate and can hit any family at any time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEASummary: Bend of the river: When a town boss confiscates homesteader's supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.--www.imdb.com (Aug. 28, 2012).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JAMSummary: The movie is based on the 1951 novel by Daphne Du Maurier and tells the story of a young Englishman who plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Aciman, André
Summary: In this follow-up to Call Me By Your Name, Elio has become a classical pianist in Paris, while Oliver, now a college professor, finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ACIAciman, André
Summary: In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the bestseller "Call Me by Your Name" revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ACIGerolymatos, André.
Summary: Provides an account of the history of covert operations in the Middle East, looking at how the United States and other Western powers have tried to establish control over the region's resources and commerce, while at the same time working to prevent the spread of communism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1241 GERLinklater, Andro.
Summary: Linklater's fascinating, provocative and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures, is explained in this volume that also shows how it has shaped the culture and country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LINSummary: In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a rebel spy, band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FIC ROGGrau, Andrée.
Summary: Surveys all forms of dance throughout the world, discussing its cultural and social significance, its costume, its history, and noted dancers and choreographers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Inc. 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 792.8 GRALinklater, Andro.
Summary: Historian Linklater relates how the borders and boundaries that formed states and a nation inspired the sense of identity that has ever since been central to the American experiment. Linklater opens with America's greatest surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, measuring the contentious boundary between Pennsylvania and Virginia in the summer of 1784; and he ends standing at the yellow line dividing the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2007