Summary: A French officer falls in love with a woman lieutenant and must cross dress in order to get into the United States.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY I

Summary: Features a selection of songs specific to the 1950s, carefully curated by Martin Scorsese and music supervisor Randall Poster as a sonic companion to the film's enthralling narrative of organized crime in postwar America.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC IRI

Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOL

Contents: She's got it / Little Richard and His Band -- Shake it / Johnny Otis and His Orchestra -- Right now, right now / Alan Freed and His Rock 'n' Roll Band -- Hold it / Bill Doggett -- Twist & shout / The Isley Brothers -- Sho' know a lot about love / Hollywood Argyles -- Skippin' / Buddy Guy -- Saturday night fish fry / Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five -- Flamingo / Earl Bostic -- Junker blues /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2018

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MOJ

Summary: 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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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROO

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 ROO

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROO

Summary: Follows the adventures of two young men and a young woman in the 1960's who are undercover police officers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MOD

Contents: Disc one. Rumble (Link Wray) -- Peter Gunn (Duane Eddy) -- Buckeye (Johnny & the Hurricanes) -- Tequila (the Champs) -- Wild weekend (the Rockin' Rebels) -- Big shot (Johnny Cannon) -- Bongo rock (Preston Epps) -- Teen beat (Sandy Nelson) -- Walk don't run (the Ventures) -- Apache (the Shadows) -- Rebel rouser (Duane Eddy) -- Red river rock (Johnny & the Hurricanes) -- Moon dawg! (the Gamblers)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2012

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BAC

Summary: "Sunset Story is a funny and intimate documentary that will make you think differently about growing old. It tells the story of Irja (81) and Lucille (95), two friends at a rest home for retired radicals. As they attend demonstrations, register their fellow residents to vote and debate everything under the sun, Irja and Lucille's verve and humor delight us. Sunset Story doesn't shy away from...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Capital Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUN

Hubert

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Comics Lit 2009

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HUB

Contents: Big fine hunk of woman -- Hubidy -- The World is round -- On and off -- A Bitter dose -- Honky tonk, part I -- Honky tonk, part II -- Barefootin' -- Some shady stuff -- Walking the dog -- Halfsteppin' -- Soulful high yellow.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie Entertainment 1995

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BLU

Summary: Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson has an offbeat personality, uses a tough-as-nails approach, and has a track record as one of the country's leading investigators. For the Atlanta transplant heading up the Priority Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, her position on this elite detective squad, which handles high-profile cases of a sensitive nature, is a tenuous...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CLO

Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KEN

Halbert, Frederic

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.2 HAL

Aubert, Rosemary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bridge Works Pub. 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUB

Talbert, Tom

Contents: Clothes line ballet (Waller) -- In a mist (Beiderbecke) -- Bond Street (Waller) -- Prelude to a kiss (Ellington) -- Green night & orange bright (Talbert) -- Black and blue (Waller/Razaf/Brooks) -- Candlelights (Beiderbecke) -- Keepin' out of mischief now (Waller/Razaf) -- In the dark (Beiderbecke) -- Do nothin' till you hear from me & Ko-Ko (Ellington/Russell).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Concepts 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ TAL

Alburt, Lev.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.12 ALB

Alberts, Laurie.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of New England 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Walbert, Kate

Summary: "In Sunken Cathedral, Kate Walbert tells the stories of four women living in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, more or less now. Two, Marie and Simone, friends for decades, are widows in their seventies, yet robust, engaged, appetiteful, even ready to find love again. They were immigrants, survivors of World War II in Europe, and now are living alone in the houses where they raised their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Walbert 2015

Little, Elbert L. (Elbert Luther)

Summary: An identification guide to trees of western North America, with 855 color photographs, three identification keys, and detailed descriptive information.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1980

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 582.16 LIT

Alberg, Lucas

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE ALB

Albers, Susan

Summary: Albers has discovered that the key to successful weight loss is not physical exercise, calorie counting, or willpower-- it's emotional intelligence (EI). Learn how to use EI to strengthen your relationship with food, and get out of the vicious cycle of dieting failure.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 ALB

Alberti, Rafael

Summary: A bilingual anthology by a Spanish poet, illustrated with paintings that inspired it. In the poem, Botticelli, accompanied by the painting, The Birth of Venus, he writes: "Upon the sea / all is curling witchery, / twirling curl / & rippling wave, / a geometric order / carried to the border / by uncooling winds that shower bird & flower."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ALB

Halbert, Sam.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAL