Kandel, Susan
Summary: Staging an Agatha Christie play to help launch the promotion of a mystery-themed housing development along the Mojave Desert, amateur sleuth Cece Caruso finds herself investigating the disappearance of the play's leading lady.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KANSpencer-Wendel, Susan
Summary: A moving and inspirational memoir by celebrated journalist Susan Spencer-Wendel who makes the most of her final days after discovering she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SPENCER-WENDEL, SUSAN SPEBandes, Susan J.
Summary: From 1940 to 1970 mid-Michigan had an extensive and varied legacy of modernist architecture. While this book explores buildings by renowned architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Alden B. Dow, and the Keck brothers, the text—based on archival research and oral histories—focuses more heavily on regional architects whose work was strongly influenced by international modern styles. The reader will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Arts BandesSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Vande Griek, Susan
Summary: Presents twelve poems about birds from around the world, including the Atlantic puffin, ruby-throated hummingbird, and bald eagle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 VANDaniel, Susanna.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANDaniel, Susanna.
Summary: "In Sea Creatures, a riveting domestic drama by Susanna Daniel, a mother must make the unthinkable choice between her husband and her son. Sea Creatures is a mesmerizing exploration of the high stakes of marriage and parenthood"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANSummary: ER doctor Rike (Susanne Wolff) embarks on a one-woman solo sailing trip to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision. Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STYSummary: In a north German village prior to the outbreak of World War I, strange events, accidents, and deaths are occurring. The village people are beside themselves with worry and can't figure out what to do. After the school teacher starts to unravel the mystery, he discovers that the children of the town may be guilty of the crimes and have formed a secret society that the local pastor's daughter...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHIHandel, George Frideric
Contents: Scoglio d'immota fronte (5:00)/ Scipione (1726) -- Verdi piante, erbette liete (6:20) / Orlando (1733) -- Se pieta (8:50)/ Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724) -- L'amor ed il destin (3:00)/ Partenope (1730) -- Ah spietato (5:25)/ Amadigi (1715) -- Brilla nell'alma un non inteso ancor (5:20) / -- Alessandro (1726) Ombre piante, urne funeste (5:46) / Rodelinda (1725) -- Combattuta da due venti...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naive 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O HANAlessandrini, Gerard
Contents: Lin-Manuel as Hamilton -- Aaron Burr, sir, nervous-er -- His shot -- Look around (The Schuyler puppets) -- Lin-Manuel's quest -- Ticket beggar woman -- Straight guy's winter's prom -- Straight is back -- What did you miss? -- Ben Franklin, Sondheim & Lin-Manuel -- Daveed Diggs : the fresh prince of big hair -- Rap battle -- Ticket beggar woman #2 -- Liza's "down with rap" -- Ticket beggar woman...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC SPASummary: Bianca is a content high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body refers to her as "Designated Ugly Fat Friend" to her prettier, more popular friends. With her universe turned upside down, she ignores words of wisdom from her favorite teacher and enlists Wesley, a slick but charming jock, to help set her apart from the pack and erase her label forever. In doing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DuSummary: This documentary traces the unorthodox path of Daniel Smith - eccentric musician, visual artist and devout Christian - as he creates a musical phenomenon with family and friends, and mentors an unknown singer-songwriter whose subsequent success stands in contrast to the music world's uneasy reception of Danielson just a few years earlier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DANSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Explores the indomitable spirit of three "Lost Boys" from the Sudan who are forced to leave their homeland due to a tumultuous civil war. Chronicles their triumph over seemingly insurmountable adversities and a relocation to the United States, where the Lost Boys build active and fulfilling new lives but remain deeply committed to helping friends and family they have left behind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GODSummary: Based on the seminal novel by John Edward Williams, Gabe Polsky's epic frontier adventure, Butcher's Crossing, is a riveting commentary on human nature, ambition, masculinity, and man's relationship to his natural environment. A gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller, a mysterious frontiersman offering an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Butcher'sCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMJandek.
Contents: Starless (2:25) -- Hey (2:38) -- Why did I change a word in the last song (3:00) -- Waltz in two-fourths time (2:51) -- Call you the sun (3:03) -- I ain't got none (3:04) -- The spirit (2:31) -- Rifle in the closet (4:30) -- Sung (1:36) -- Ha ha (2:26) -- Customary (2:47) -- May 7, 9:15 A.M. (2:52)-- Situations (2:31) -- Couldn't be a reader (2:22) -- Kick (3:48).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Corwood 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JANVande Zande, Jeff
Summary: Jeff Vande Zande's latest story collection travels down the shady lanes of the American neighborhood. From kids egging windows to lost joggers and insomniacs to basement prisoners and Orwellian gated communities, these stories grow ever more surreal, holding a darkened mirror up to that which we are-and may become.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Whistling shade press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANSummary: Percy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, is sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight the giant legal battle, Percy joins forces with up-and-coming attorney Jackson Weaver and environmental activist Rebecca Salcau to fight one of the most monumental cases all the way up to the Supreme Court.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PERSummary: Arrested for fatally beating an elderly widow, Barbara Graham at first goads the police, refusing to answer their questions. But when an alleged accomplice turns state's evidence, Graham insists that she is innocent. Condemned by the press and the public, Graham is found guilty of murder and sentenced to die in the gas chamber. With her execution date getting near, Graham desperately attempts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY IHandel, George Frideric
Contents: Alceste : HWV 45. Act I : Grand entrée (2:46) -- Agrippina : HWV 6. Sinfonia (4:04) -- Il pastor fido : HWV 8a. Overture (25:00) -- Saul : HWV 53. Act I : Sinfonia (12:00) ; Act II : Sinfonia : Wedding symphony (4:44) -- Teseo : HWV 9. Overture (5:19) -- Samson : HWV 57. Act. I : Sinfonia (8:00).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Archiv Produktion 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL HANSummary: The story of a down-on-her-luck Southern teen who, after gaining 15 minutes of fame for giving birth to "The Wal-Mart Baby," begins to put her life together with the help of the kind, quirky strangers who become her surrogate family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000