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Early reader Mr. Selfridge 1 Thursday Next 3 Thursday Next 7 Thursday Next novel (Audio)Summary: Female rapper Patti Cake$ takes advantage of every opportunity in her New Jersey hometown as she chases her dreams of music stardom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PATDauber, Jeremy Asher
Summary: In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organizing the product of Jews’ comic imagination over continents and centuries into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy—including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar—he traces the ways...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.7 DAUDauber, Jeremy Asher
Summary: "The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their century-long hold on the American imagination. Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus, author Jeremy Dauber whizzes readers through comics' progress in the twentieth century and beyond: from the golden age of newspaper comic strips (Krazy Kat,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.5 DAUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 DAUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 DAUSummary: These legendary documentaries have only been released on VHS until now. Penelope Spheeris' Decline of Western Civilization was perceived as shocking and outrageous at the time of its original release in 1981. Parts II and III were no less extraordinary and unprecedented. Today, museums and educational institutions around the world present them as historically significant works of art....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2015
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DEC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD MUSIC DEC
Summary: Emmy Award-winning actor Jeremy Piven stars as American entrepreneur and colorful retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry Selfridge created a theater of retail for early 1900s Londoners where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining-or sometimes just eccentric-was showcased. Based on the book Shopping, Seduction and Mr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MR.Summary: In Fireworks a dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a light and is drawn through the needle's eye to return less empty than before. Puce Moment reflects Anger's concerns with the myths and decline of Hollywood. Rabbit's moon, a fable of the unattainable (the Moon) combining elements of Commedia dell'Arte with Japanese myth. In Inauguration of the pleasure dome, members of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantoma Films 2007
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FILHale, Shannon
Summary: Shannon knows sixth grade is going to be a perfect year. She's got a spot in the in-crowd called The Group, and her best friend is their leader Jen, the most popular girl in school. But the rules are always changing, and Shannon has to scramble to keep up. She never knows which TV shows are cool, what songs to listen to, and, most importantly, which boys you're allowed to talk to. Who makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Analysis of how governments bent on war-making have relied on a vast arsenal of propaganda techniques to overcome resistance at home and disapproval abroad ... Moving from Vietnam to Iraq, the film examines how news reports have become nearly indistinguishable from White House and Pentagon talking points, a problem that has become exacerbated by journalists who have grown accustomed to being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Media Education Foundation 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WARSummary: A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features, Universal Studios 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group is asked to examine a series of strange meteorite showers. His investigations lead to his uncovering a conspiracy involving alien infiltration at the highest levels of the British Government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Issued by PRS 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV QUAGramling, Gary
Summary: Presented in the format of Top 10 lists, this book is a comprehensive yet fun look at the greatest aspects of Pro Sports. From the top athletes to the most popular teams in the world, SI Kids ranks a variety of topics covering every professional sport. Readers are guaranteed to love the big, exciting action photos from the Sports Illustrated collection and the insider knowledge of SI Kids....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Home Entertainment Inc. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.02 GRAFforde, Jasper.
Summary: "Leaving Swindon behind her, to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots - the place where all fiction is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail in the real world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOSanchez, Jasper
Summary: Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANClausen, Casper
Contents: Used to think -- Feel it coming -- Dark heart -- Snow white -- Falling apart like you -- Little words -- 8 bit human -- Ocean wave.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CLASummary: Narrated by Tony-and Academy Award-winner Joel Grey, this entertaining documentary mingles cultural history with illuminating perspectives on the origins and meanings of some of Broadway's most beloved songs, stories, and shows. With performances by Matthew Broderick, Kelli O'Hara, Zero Mostel, Nathan Lane, Barbra Streisand, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, and many more!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BROSummary: Carl Fredericksen is a seventy-eight-year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY UPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV UPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UP RATED PGG. Love
Contents: Ride -- Ain't that right -- Hot cookin' -- Can't go back to Jersey -- Missing my baby -- Holla! -- Banger / feat. Blackalicious and Lateef the Truth Speaker -- Thanks and praise / feat. Jasper -- Let the music play / feat. Ben Harper and Marc Broussard -- Free -- Beautiful / feat. Tristan Prettyman -- Rainbow / feat. Jack Johnson -- Breakin' up -- Still hangin' around.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brush Fire Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK G.LOBix, Jasper.
Summary: Even on the coldest winter days its easy to have fun outside! Early readers learn all they need is a pair of ice skates and a bit of patience, and they can enjoy the winter weather in style. From lacing up a pair of skates tightly to wearing a helmet for safety, readers learn all the basics needed to get on the ice and give skating a try for themselves! Accessible text presented alongside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Fforde, Jasper.
Summary: The threat of all-out Genre war looms over BookWorld. But with the real Thursday Next retired in the real world, the Council of Genres has no other choice than to tap the fictional Thursday to save the day. Her mission as emissary is to prevent the brewing war--but her task is made more difficult by a hidden foe manipulating events.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Literary sleuth Thursday Next is once again out to make the world safe for fiction in the fifth installment of Fforde's wildly popular series. Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's newest adventure will be celebrated by fans and critics alike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOSummary: Spans three decades from the early twenties to World War II in Charles Ryder's relationship with the wild and eccentric Sebastian Flyte and the aristocratic Marchmain family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The continuing story of British transplant Dr. Ruby Walker and the staff of the Good Karma Hospital as they work to heal their patients in modern-day rural India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GOOSummary: Inspired by the legend of Shields 'Emperor' Green, a descendant of African kings turned outlaw slave in the pre-Civil War South. Seeking freedom for his family, Emperor fights his way north, joining the daring raid on Harper's Ferry and helping alter the course of American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020