Summary: "This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OTHSummary: Frankie is an African-American go-go dancer with dissociative identity disorder (DID). She struggles to retain her true self while fighting against two very different personalities: a seven-year-old girl named Genius, and a Southern white racist named Alice. Inspired by a remarkable true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRASummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OHosseini, Ali
Summary: The Place of Stones is Ali Hosseini's newly translated first novel, his second book to appear in English. In it, he paints a vivid portrait of Sangriz, a village in the southern part of Iran where life has been disrupted by industrialization and the revolution of 1979. Haydar and Jamal are best friends, and their families have always made their living from the land in the foothills of Iran's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Curbstone Books, 2017. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSSummary: Simone Bitton, a Jewish woman born in Morocco who identifies with both Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the personal, cultural, and monetary costs of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, a wall being built to separate Israelis and Palestinians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Life Size Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WALSummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRSummary: An airport janitor makes a big difference in the lives of the children in his poor neighborhood when they mistake him for an airplane pilot. Using his imagination to weave stories of the wonderful places he has visited around the world, a friendship develops as he brings hope to their otherwise grim home life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Entertainment 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CAPAu Revoir Simone.
Contents: Through the backyards -- Hurricanes -- Disco song -- Where you go -- Back in time -- Winter song -- And sleep al mar -- Stay golden.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AU RSummary: From Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, dictators have shaped the world we live in. How did they seize and wield power? What forces rose up against them or resisted them in secret? How did they finally come to the bitter end? This series answers those questions in six immersive hours, each a revealing portrait of brutality and power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DICSummary: Spring 1972 brings with it a new start for Morse, having taken time out to deal with the drink. His return to CID coincides with a gruesome discovery in a college garden. The investigation leads him and Thursday to a celebrated orchestra and when a second tragedy hits, they uncover a web of secrets at the company's core.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ENDSummary: The Best Eighties Album contains the defining tracks of the decade features some of the biggest hits from artists including Belinda Carlisle, Kim Wilde, Bonnie Tyler, Toto, Adam & The Ants, KC & The Sunshine Band, The Bangles, Billy Ocean, James Brown and many more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONEBaron-Cohen, Simon
Summary: "In The Pattern Seekers, Simon Baron-Cohen reveals the surprising answer to two apparently distinct questions: Why are humans so inventive? And why does autism exist? The first question hangs over almost every human endeavor: Business people want to knowhow to innovate. Cognitive psychologists want to understand the nature of creativity. Evolutionary scientists and comparative psychologists...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 BARAu Revoir Simone (Musical group)
Contents: More than -- The lead is galloping -- Crazy -- We both know -- Just like a tree -- Somebody who -- Gravitron -- Boiling point -- Love you don't know me -- Hand over hand -- Let the night win.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AUAu Revoir Simone (Musical group)
Contents: The lucky one -- Sad song -- Fallen snow (Age of Rockets remix) -- I couldn't sleep -- A violent yet flammable world -- Don't see the sorrow -- Dark halls -- Night majestic -- Stars -- Lark -- The way to there.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Our Secret Records 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AU RSummary: Zaman and his wife Najma have built their happy life together in a house of reeds. When Najma falls ill, the doctor tells them she needs surgery or some medicine he does not have. Zaman sets off in his boat and journeys to Baghdad for the cure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZAMSummary: A new arrival in British-occupied Hong Kong wants to open a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style. But a corrupt cabal of martial arts masters, led by Master Hung, refuses to allow him to teach in peace until he proves himself in a series of fights against the local master, which Ip does, in style. But even after earning the respect of the local masters, Ip's troubles are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPContents: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: It's A Happening Thing -- Love: !Que Vida! -- The Monkees: She Hangs Out (Single Version) -- The Cryan' Shames: Mr. Unreliable (Single Version) -- Rose, Tim: Morning Dew -- The Spike-Drivers: Strange Mysterious Sounds -- The Blues Magoos: Pipe Dream -- The Blues Project: No Time Like The Right Time -- The Youngbloods: Merry-Go-Round -- Fowley, Kim: Strangers From...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, it captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels, the dealer to grieving mother, the narcotics officer to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOUMagoon, Kekla
Summary: Two-time Olympic gymnast Simone Biles reigns over gymnastics. With four impressive skills already named after her, Biles has amassed legions of fans. Explore this standout superstar's career and life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BILSummary: On the evening of December 11, 1936, England's King Edward VIII formally broadcast his farewell to a nation. Torn between duty and love, he had decided to follow his heart. Follows the true story and the unforgettable romance that developed between the Prince of Wales and an extraordinary American woman named Wallis Simpson. That she was already married and rumored to have had other affairs,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV EDWSummary: In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER INVEl-Waylly, Sohla
Summary: "More than 200 recipes--and techniques--for cooking with creativity and confidence"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Contemporary art reflects the ideas of our time, and artists are the creative role models grappling with today's most timely questions. What is the nature of reality? How do we respond to a world in flux? Why do some historical events shape the way we think today, and why have some been forgotten? Explore these ideas and many more in Season Six of Art in the Twenty-First Century. Spotlights...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012