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Art appreciation Frontier and pioneer life Drama Railroads United States History 19th century Drama Revenge Drama Soldiers Confederate States of America 19th century Drama Union Pacific Railroad Company History Drama United States History 1865-1898 Drama United States Territorial expansion History 19th century Drama Visual literacy Visual perceptionSummary: In Season five, Cullen Bohannon finds himself a stranger in a strange land, the mountain town of Truckee, California, home to the Central Pacific Railroad. This rough railroad town teems with thousands of Chinese workers, foreign in language, culture and traditions. Despite the challenges of corralling his new workforce, Cullen leads the Herculean effort to tunnel through the Sierra Nevada...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELSummary: Cullen Bohannon, a former soldier and slaveholder, follows the track of Union soldiers, who killed his wife. This brings him to the middle of one of the biggest projects in US history, the building of the railroad. After the war years in the 1860s, this connected the east with the still wild west.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELSummary: Hellbent on vengeance, former Confederate officer Cullen Bohannon travels west in searh of the Union soldiers who murdered his wife. His quest leads him to 'Hell on Wheels,' the dangerous, raucous town that follows the construction of the nation's first transcontinental railroad.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELSummary: The second season of AMC's post-Civil War series Hell on Wheels continues the story of former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon, whose journey is filled with turmoil and danger as he struggles to leave a troubled past behind. Centered around the traveling town that follows the construction of the transcontinental railroad, the series examines the greed and corruption in man's fight for power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hopscotch Entertainment 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELSummary: A former Confederate soldier still haunted by his past, Cullen Bohannon made a home in Hell on Wheels hunting down the men responsible for killing his family. Following the Indian attack that destroyed the railroad settlement, Cullen spends a long winter reshaping his lust for revenge into a burning ambition, to take control of the Union Pacific and drive it across the country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELSummary: In season four of AMC's top-rated drama, Hell freezes over. Following the brutal winter of 1868, the railroad is at a standstill and restless workers wreak havoc on Cheyenne. Cullen Bohannon is trapped in a fort with a pregnant wife and the Swede. Thomas Durant is broke and Elam Ferguson is presumed dead. The task of uniting America by rail remains undone and the costs and consequences are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HELSummary: From Boot Hill to the Kansas plains, Marshal Matt Dillon rides tall in the saddle as he joins cantankerous Doc Adams, game-but-gullible Chester B. Goode and the first lady of Dodge City, Miss Kitty Russell.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUNArness, James
Summary: Follows the adventures of Marshall Matt Dillon as he brings law and order to Dodge City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUNMignola, Michael
Summary: With Liz Sherman back in fiery action, two B.P.R.D. teams make their way through the monster-filled streets of the Manhattan wasteland in order to reach the Black Flame's fortress and take down his army.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2014
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Williams, D. J
Summary: A coming-of-age teen is thrown into a world of ancient secrets when he discovers a supernatural compass that protects a weapon of mass destruction. With the help of a diverse group of friends, he embarks on a global adventure, seeking the truth about his sister's death. He uncovers two clandestine, supernatural societies waging an epic, hidden war that threatens the future of civilization.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILSummary: Might a work of art move us to temper our more destructive impulses? In what ways do artists’ feelings of empathy contribute to works that tackle problematic subjects and address the human condition? Compassion, features three contemporary artists-William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems-whose unique works and experimental methods explore the conscience and the possibility of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Why do we find comfort in some systems while rebelling against others? How can the artist use systems as a mean of expression? Systems explores these questions in the work of contemporary artists Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Kimsooja, and Allan McCollum—all motivated to explain and explore the infinite systems of life as they experiment with abstract composition, performance art, stenciling,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Can art antagonize? Seduce? Inspire transformation? And if so, how might desires and taboos shape our ability to imagine? Fantasy, featuring contemporary artists Jeff Koons, Mary Heilmann, Florian Maier-Achen, and Cao Fei, explores a defiant and unconventional world of sculpture, painting, video and photography-a techno-inspired collection that is at times hallucinatory, irreverent, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: What happens when the artists becomes the art? In Transformation, three artists satirize society and reinvent icons of literature, art history, and pop culture by inhabiting the characters they create and capturing the sensibilities of our age. It is a personal portrait of Yinka Shonibare MBE, Cindy Sherman, and Paul McCarthy-three contemporary artists refashioning their identity by way of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Oke, Janette
Summary: "Joshua has been raised by his 18-year-old Aunt Lou and their grandparents and has grown accustomed to their close-knit family. When he overhears plans to marry off Lou, he fears that he will be forgotten, so he sets his mind to find ways to keep her for himself. He won't let anyone take away his big sister, mother figure, and best friend."--Container.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OKESummary: [College] Ronald is an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary. [The electric house] Buster turns an ordinary dwelling into an automated funhouse. [Hard luck] A suicidal Buster makes a final effort at fitting in with society at a swank country...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COLGreen, Jocelyn
Summary: "With a notorious forger preying on New York's high society, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Lauren Westlake is just the expert needed to track down the criminal. As she and Detective Joe Caravello search for the truth, the closer they get to discovering the forger's identity, the more entangled they become in a web of deception and crime"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRESummary: In a health care setting, intricate ethical, moral, and professional obligations make the workplace particularly prone to conflict. Focusing specifically on aged care, this program examines the typical conflicts that can occur at work and the most productive ways to handle them. First, conflict is defined, and situations in which it is more likely to arise as well as indicators of forthcoming...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Brallier, Max
Summary: Surviving their first winter after the Monster Apocalypse was no easy feat, yet Jack and his buddies waste no time springing to action against some of the nastiest, most evil monsters around. When Jack discovers his Louisville Slicer has new, otherworldly powers, he's thrown into epic training to find out what kind of destruction the blade can wield. But between fighting off zombies, fleeing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRASummary: In The navigator, Keaton stars as Rollo Treadway, an inexperienced lad of extraordinary wealth, and surprisingly little common sense, who finds himself adrift on an immense 500 ft. yacht.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAVTrentham, Laura
Summary: Harper Lee Wilcox has been marking time in her hometown of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina since her husband, Noah Wilcox’s death, nearly five years earlier. With her son Ben turning five and living at home with her mother, Harper fights a growing restlessness, worried that moving on means leaving the memory of her husband behind. Her best friend, Allison Teague, is dealing with struggles of her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC TRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREGreen, Jocelyn
Summary: "For years her explorer father promised Dr. Lauren Westlake she'd accompany him on one of his Egyptian expeditions. But as the empty promises mounted, Lauren determined to earn her own way. Now the assistant curator of Egyptology for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lauren receives two unexpected invitations. The first is her repentant father's offer to finally bring her to Egypt as his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction GreenSummary: Our hospitality: A New York man returns to his southern antebellum home to find himself embroiled in a longstanding feud between his family and that of the woman he loves (75 min.)
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corporation 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OURSummary: Four and a half years after the searing and surprising events that marked their final days at Tree Hill High, old friends return to their North Carolina hometown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009