Summary: Commercial motion pictures were invented at the Edison Laboratory between 1888 and 1893. Perhaps none of the component parts were strictly new, but the ability of Edison and his staff to reorganize them for a specific purpose was an extraordinary cultural achievement. In 1894, Edison was the sole producer of motion pictures in the world. Many Edison films continue to be impressive as the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EDIHall, Isobel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Batsford 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 686.302 HALBrandes, Yokhi
Summary: "Discover the concealed stories of the sturggles of King David and King Saul in the early days of the kingdom of Israel, seen through the eyes of Michal, Saul's daughter and David's abandoned queen."--Dust jacket, p. [2]
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brandes 2016Brooks, Geraldine.
Summary: Based on the story of King David, traces his journey from an obscure shepherd to a hero and king before his fall.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Brooks 2015Fraction, Matt
Summary: After the fall of Attilan and the Terrigen Bomb explosion, thousands of people across the globe have transformed into Inhumans Their new powers are dangerous and terrifying, making them targets. With Black Bolt believed dead, who can these new Inhumans turn to? As the Avengers face Karnak, who has discovered the Inhumans' secret, Medusa struggles to rule her vastly increased population, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 INHHandel, George Frideric
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL HANHawkins, Coleman
Contents: Rainbow mist (2:55) -- Woody'n you (2:57) -- Bu dee daht (3:10) -- Disorder at the border (2:54) -- Yesterdays (2:53) -- Feeling zero (2:55) -- Salt peanuts (2:53) -- Uptown lullaby (3:17) -- Pick-up boys (2:59) -- Porgy (3:00) -- Concerto for tenor (3:13) -- Taps Miller (3:08) -- I can't get started (4:30) -- Sweet & lovely (3:08).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Delmark 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HAWHering, Marianne.
Summary: Mr. Whittaker uses the Imagination Station to transport cousins Patrick and Beth to the Holy Land in 1000 B.C., where Hugh is trying to change history by helping the Philistines defeat the Israelites.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HERSummary: Two families, who both grow sugar cane, have been squabbling over the ownership of a piece of land for years. The disagreement then turned violent. The Breveses, a much smaller family, have been suffering more than their rivals and a steady drop in sugar prices has also left the family with little but their pride. When the eldest son of the Breves family is killed, his father orders his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEHSummary: In this Christmas drama, a young widow trying to raise a son by working as a comparison shopper gets a handsome toy salesman fired, and a romantic triangle ensues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Westlake Entertainment Group 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOLSummary: Four outcast high school girls a brainiac student, a scandal-ridden cynic, a tomboy, and a fashion maven join together to form their own "girl gang" and trigger a rock-'n'-roll revolution at Rydell High. Of course, the adults are in a 1950s moral panic over the burgeoning new era, but the Pink Ladies are ready to get this party started.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV GRE2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about the 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli. They can only get financing if he can cast a well-known action star. However, production is halted when the lead actor is kidnapped from the European film set. The producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Peace Arch Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Deal 2007Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DEASummary: It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SPESummary: Aviva is a poor cook at a local Tiberias hotel whose big dream is about to come true. Through her sister, Anita, she meets Oded, a famous write who promises he'll make Aviva a great writer too. But Aviva's big break starts to affect her family, and not necessarily in a good way. Aviva's future begins to alternate between despair and hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Sisu Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVIThomas, Isabel
Summary: Learn all about the water cycle and find out how water shapes our planet. Make a precipitation gauge or grow your own stalactite. Find out how important it is to conserve water and harness its energy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: QEB Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 553.7 THOPerlman, Itzhak
Contents: CD 1: Violin concerto in G minor, BWV 1056 (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra/Itzhak Perlman) ; Partita no.3, BWV 1006 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Violin concerto in C minor, RV 199 : "Il sospetto" / Antonio Vivaldi (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra/Itzhak Perlman) -- Oboe quartet in F, K.370 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Ray Still, oboe ; Pinchas Zukerman, viola ; Lynn Harrell, cello) -- Violin sonata...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL PERKamakawiwo'ole, Israel
Contents: Hi'ilawe -- In this life -- Wai'alae -- Starting all over again -- Living in a sovereign land -- 'Opae E -- Aloha Ku'u pua -- Johnny Mahoe -- Lover of mine -- Yokozuna -- Na ka pueo/Keyhhole hula -- The fly.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Big Boy Record Company 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD WM Kamakawiwo'ole 1996Keats, Israel
Summary: Teens Leo, James, and Sigrid are forced to use their instincts to locate their families after an alien invasion disables most electronics and their entire town is evacuated without them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEASummary: Greek fisherman Demetrios guides a lost princess home to Atlantis, but is imprisoned there and must fight for his life, before rescuing the princess again as they flee the doomed realm.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY ATLKamakawiwoʻole, Israel.
Contents: E ala e -- Ulili E -- Kaleohano -- Wind beneath my wings He Hawaii au -- Tengoku kara kaminari (Thunder from heaven) -- Kamalani -- Aloha ka manini -- Maui medley -- Hele on to kauai -- Kauai beauty -- Theme from gilligan's island -- I ke alo o Iesu -- A Hawaiian like me
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bigboy Record 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/OCEANIC KAMNash, Israel.
Contents: Willow -- Parlour song -- The fire & the flood -- L.A. lately -- Lavendula -- Strangers -- A coat of many colors -- Mariner's ode -- The rag & bone man.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NASIsrael, Barbara.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 IsraelIsrael, Dr
Contents: Adam and Eve -- Deborah -- The secrets of Enoch -- David and Goliath -- The tribulation of Job -- Solomon and Sheba -- Psalm 87.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CCG 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE ISRBartal, Israel
Summary: "In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 2005