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Universal Cinema classicsGilbert, David
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PM Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 GILBERT, DAVID GILGilbert, David
Summary: A famous reclusive writer and his three sons find their bond tested by the weight of long-held secrets and a cumbersome legacy shaped by boarding school, Hollywood, and the elite circles of the publishing world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILGilbert, David
Summary: The funeral of Charles Henry Topping on Manhattan's Upper East Side would have been a minor affair (his two-hundred-word obit in The New York Times notwithstanding) but for the presence of one particular mourner: the notoriously reclusive author A. N. Dyer, whose novel Ampersand stands as a classic of American teenage angst. But as Andrew Newbold Dyer delivers the eulogy for his oldest friend,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GILSnowblink (Musical group)
Contents: Rut & nuzzle -- Ambergris -- The tired bones -- Stand where a fruit tree drops the things it doesn't need -- Membrillo -- Green to gone -- Bulb, for later -- Driving rod -- Three prayers for unsensational resurrection : Sea change ; None ; Heckling the afterglow -- This is this -- Go deep -- The fish of little thoughts -- The Haunt.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Out of this Spark 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SNOSummary: "Set in the 1890s, West plays a brash barroom entertainer with a soft spot for men in trouble, especially the mission director, young Cary Grant. She unknowingly gets caught up in a murder, as well as a white slavery ring, and sets about clearing things up as only Mae can. In between rescues she manages to perform some of her heated, hip-swinging classics including a steamy belting of 'Frankie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SHESummary: This film is a journey through history, where famed photographer Edward S. Curtis explains Native American cultures in his own words, and photographs. This motion picture reconstruction of his 1911-1912 magic lantern slide show illuminates a time when Native Americans were forced from their land and cultures. It includes hundreds of photos and re-created music composed for the original 1911...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mosa Motion Graphics 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INDContents: Red Solo Cup (3:44) -- Drink In My Hand (3:11) -- I Don't Want This Night To End (3:39) -- Alone With You (3:31) -- God Gave Me You (3:50) -- Hello (4:29) -- Just A Kiss (3:38) -- Crazy Girl (3:20) -- Sparks Fly (4:21) -- Baggage Claim (3:17) -- Banjo (Radio Edit) (3:44) -- You Gonna Fly (3:35) -- All Your Life (3:51) -- Old Alabama (4:13) -- Country Must Be Country Wide (3:35) -- Let It Rain...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: NOW Country 5 2012
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Summary: A writer returns to his home town to write a novel and finds material in the owner of a run-down hat factory and the projectionist at the town's old fashioned movie palace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FARSummary: 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: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOColbert, David.
Summary: In just a few generations, Michelle Obama's family has blazed a path from a slave cabin to the White House. She's now writing a new chapter in history as a fresh kind of first lady, old-fashioned in many ways, yet so genuine and natural that she constantly surprises and inspires.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2009