Summary: Follows the lives of a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital, a world in which everything and everyone has their place. But underneath this veneer simmers a cauldron of lies and guilty secrets, driven by love, ambition and sex. Breathless opens in 1961, a time when Britain was on the brink of the '60s revolution, abortion is illegal and the contraceptive pill is only just...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BRESummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSVentures
Contents: Mighty Quinn (Quinn, the Eskimo) / Bob Dylan -- Innermotion faze / Bogle ... [et al.] -- The ballad of Bonnie and Clyde / M. Murray, P. Callander -- Walking the carpet / Bogle .. [et al.] -- Flights of fantasy / Bogle ... [et al.] -- Soul coaxing = Ame caline / Michael Polnareff -- Green light / Annette Tucker, Nancie Mantz -- Cry like a baby / Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn -- Fly away / Bogle ......
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: One way Records 1968
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VENSummary: The Grande Chartreuse, considered one of the world's most ascetic monasteries is based in the French Alps. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back with him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks' quarters for six months -...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INTSummary: Restaurant kitchens are a pressurized stew of brutal hours and high stress. Acting out goes with the territory and anyone is fair game. But the familiar macho posturing of celebrity chefs has reached a tipping point. Now with an influx of women at the helm of restaurants, and a younger generation unwilling to submit to the brutal conditions once considered the norm, the rules of "kitchen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HEASummary: Inspired by the Jesuit saying, "Give me a child until he is 7 years old, and I will give you the man," in 1964 Granada Television commissioned a short documentary wherein producers profiled 14 7-year-old children, and loosely speculated on what sort of lives they might lead. It was meant and received as an indictment of the British class system, which seemed most inflexible in 1964. Almost as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Granada Television Ltd. 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORADVENTURES
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VANSummary: In 1964 Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven year old children from diverse backgrounds from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future. Every seven years, Apted has been back to talk to the same subjects.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UPCanada
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprimé par S. Derbishire et G. Desbarats 1863
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3714 MONTREAL Commissioners Vol. 1Call number: R GEN 929.3714 MONTREAL Commissioners Vol. 3
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprimé par G. Desbarats 1863
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3714 COURONNE CommissionersGranata, Vince
Summary: "Vince Granata remembers standing in front of his suburban home in Connecticut the day his mother and father returned from the hospital with his three new siblings in tow. He had just finished scrawling their names in orange chalk on the driveway: Christopher, Timothy, and Elizabeth. Twenty-three years later, Vince was a thousand miles away when he received shocking news that would change his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANATA, VINCE GRASummary: Returning home to Montana for her high school reunion, filmmaker Kimberly Reed (previously the school quarterback and now a transgender woman) hopes for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother. But along the way she uncovers stunning revelations (including a connection to Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth), intense sibling rivalries, and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PROSummary: Seven elderly women and their bus driver band together to survive when their bus breaks down in the Quebec countryside. As they draw closer, the women begin to share stories from their pasts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 1990
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STRSummary: Democracies should protect their citizens, especially the most vulnerable among them, but the United States is increasingly failing to do so. This investigative documentary shows how corporations and billionaires have taken control of the American political process and in doing so have brought economic hardship and ruin. It combines insights from political thinkers and journalists with the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CORSummary: Pink ribbons, the symbol of the breast cancer prevention movement, are everywhere: T-shirts, hats, yogurt cups, KFC buckets, car ads, NFL stadiums - the list goes on and on. They make people feel good, as if engaged in a successful battle against breast cancer. But who is really benefiting? More and more women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. Wouldn't it be something if some of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PINVentures (Musical group)
Contents: 1. Morgen -- 2. Raunchy -- 3. Home -- 4. My own true love (Tara's theme) -- 5. The switch -- 6. Walk, don't run -- 7. Night train -- 8. No tresspassing -- 9. Caravan -- 10. Sleep walk -- 11. The McCoy -- 12. Honky tonk -- 13. The shuck -- 14. Detour -- 15. Ram-bunk-shush -- 16. Hawaiian war chant -- 17. Perfidia -- 18. Harlem nocturne -- 19. Blue tango -- 20. Ups 'n' downs -- 21. Lonesome town...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: See For Miles Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VENJones, Grandpa
Contents: Eight more miles to Louisville -- Mountain dew -- Old Rattler -- How many biscuits can you eat -- Five string banjo boogie -- 15 cents is all I got -- Tragic romance -- Jenny get your hoe cakes done -- Old Rattler's treed again -- I'm my own grandpa.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: King Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY JONAranda, Ana
Summary: "A family honors their living and dead relatives as they celebrate the Day of the Dead with shared food and stories"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ARACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ARAForbes, Grania.
Summary: On 4 August 1999, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday! The Queen Mother's life thus tells in its own distinctive way the story of the twentieth century, and as the years pass, she is increasingly venerated as 'a beloved national institution.' Forbes, a British journalist specializing in the royal family, offers a pictorial biography that, as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 921 ELIGrande, Peggy
Summary: "In The President Will See You Now, devoted Reagan insider Peggy Grande shares behind-the-scenes stories, intimate moments, and insights into one of America's most beloved presidents. Grande, who started in the Office of Ronald Reagan as a college student and earned her way into a coveted role as the president's Executive Assistant, offers an unparalleled perspective on the post-presidency of a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDE, PEGGY GRAVentura, Jesse.
Summary: Jesse Ventura--former governor, wrestler, and Navy SEAL--on what's wrong with the Democrats, the Republicans, and politics in America.--From publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.6 VENSummary: "Inside the walls of St. Vincent's Orphanage, young boys fall victim to sexual, physical and emotional abuse at the hands of their guardians. Henry Czerny gives a terrifying performance as Brother Lavin, the head of the orphanage who must juggle the teachings of the church with his own personal demons. The plight of the boys under his care remains a secret until the orphanage janitor and a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYGrande, Ariana
Contents: Raindrops (An angel cried) -- Blazed / (feat. Pharrell Williams) -- The light is coming / (feat. Nicki Minaj) -- R.E.M. -- God is a woman -- Sweetener -- Successful -- Everytime -- Breathin -- No tears left to cry -- Borderline / (feat. Missy Elliott) -- Better off -- Goodnight n no -- Pete Davidson -- Get well soon.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings 2018