Summary: The legendary life of Fidel Castro, from exiled revolutionary to the world's most controversial and longest serving head of state. As seen through the eyes of his wife, mistress and female cohort, this film reveals the untold story of Fidel's rise to become one of the world's most powerful leaders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIDSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex rotescue? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGABrown, Clifford
Contents: Cherokee (Indian love song) / Ray Noble (Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet) (5:41) -- I've got you under my skin / Cole Porter (Dinah Washington, vocals) (5:22) -- Willow weep for me / Ann Ronell (with strings) (3:25) -- Daahoud / C. Brown (Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet) (4:10) -- Flossie Lou / Tadd Dameron (Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet) (4:50) -- September song / Maxwell Anderson, Kurt...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1958
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ BROSummary: 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 GRESummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding due to the increasing persecutions against Jews. Businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the attic rooms above their place of business. They arrange for the Frank and Van Daan families to stay there. Later on, they are joined by the dentist Dussel. Anne Frank is Otto's 13-year-old...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DIASummary: Set in 1919 but based on a real incident from 1906. A coal mine collapses on the frontier between Germany and France, trapping a team of French miners inside. Workers on both sides of the border spring into action, putting aside national prejudices and wartime grudges to launch a dangerous rescue operation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KAMSummary: Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ShoCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHOSummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELSummary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GREReser, Anna
Summary: From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoveries in science. In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509.252 RESBoyer, Anne
Summary: "A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PROParsons, Gram
Contents: GP. Still feeling blue / Gram Parsons (2:38) -- We'll sweep out the ashes in the morning / Joyce Allsup (3:13) -- A song for you / Gram Parsons (4:57) -- Streets of Baltimore / Tompall Glaser, Harlan Howard (2:50) -- She / Gram Parsons, Chris Ethridge (4:55) -- That's all it took / Darrell Edwards, Carlos Grier, George Jones (2:57) -- The new soft shoe / Gram Parsons (3:52) -- Kiss the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PARSummary: An acrobatically inclined free spirit, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancée's aristocratic family, setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, the film is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY HOLMuldrow, Georgia Anne
Summary: "An all-instrumental affair, reestablishing Muldrow as one of the most reliable crafters of sturdy, funky, spaced-out hip-hop working today"--Bandcamp WWW site, accessed July 22, 2019.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mello Music Group 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MULSummary: On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BREContents: Disc 1. Delilah ; Darn that dream ; Parisian thoroughfare ; Jordu ; Sweet Clifford ; Sweet Clifford (Clifford's fantasy) ; I don't stand a ghost of a chance ; I don't stand a ghost of a chance ; Stompin' at the Savoy ; I get a kick out of you ; I get a kick out of you ; I'll string along with you -- Disc 2. Joy spring ; Joy spring ; Mildama ; Mildama ; Mildama ; Mildama ; Mildama ; Mildama ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BROHalpin, Anne Moyer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1993
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.966 HALHalpin, Anne Moyer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Better Homes and Gardens Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9543 HALGeorge, Anne.
Summary: It all begins with a call to sisters, Mary Alice and Patricia Anne, from their good friend Mitzi Phizer, who's starting an investment club - king of a Beardstown Ladies group. Patricia Anne is willing to make a small, conservative investment in a thriving chain of HMOs; Mary Alice is hot to trot to put her money on Viagara. But before the club idea gets off the ground, the sisters spot Mitzi's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Twilight 1999