King, Maxwell (Maxwell Evarts Perkins)
Summary: "Every weekday for decades, a kind man named Mister Rogers stepped through a door in his TV house, spoke directly into the camera while he changed from street clothes into a cardigan and sneakers, and sang, "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." Offering unconditional love, this soft-spoken icon was a household name for tens of millions of children, as well as their parents who grew up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 ROGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROGERS, FRED KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROGERS KINSummary: A stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and Thomas Wolfe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GEN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Genius 2016King, Maxwell
Summary: Maxwell King delivers the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers, telling the story of this utterly unique and enduring American icon. Drawing on original interviews, oral histories, and archival documents, he traces Rogers's personal, professional, and artistic life through decades of work, including a surprising decision to walk away from the show to make television for adults, only to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 ROGERS, FRED KINSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIMaxwell
Contents: All the ways love can feel (5:21) -- The fall (4:11) -- III (4:47) -- Lake by the ocean (3:57) -- Fingers crossed (4:40) -- Hostage (3:55) -- 1990x (4:40) -- Gods (3:36) -- Lost (3:52) -- Of all kind (3:42) -- Listen hear (3:38) -- Night (0:23).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MAXSummary: This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since those events unfolded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CITSummary: An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. Midge, played by Kirk Douglas, is not the basic good guy corrupted by the sweet science and led astray by evil mangers and promoters, his arrogance and stubbornness make him at once a villain and a hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHAContents: Earthing / Kong (12:00) -- Black djinn trance / Bill Laswell (11:45)-- Calling N.Y. / Silk Saw (14:10) -- L'homme armé / Laibach (6:25).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sub Rosa 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WARSummary: "This two-disc set contains every item that Lester Young recorded for Aladdin including the rare 1942 trio session with Nat Cole and a 1946 Helen Humes date, from which comes a newly discovered instrumental"--Container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ YOUSummary: This hilarious and high-spirited musical stars Danny Kaye as a professor of high-brow music who inadvertently becomes involved with a sensual saloon singer (Virginia Mayo) and a crooked criminal gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SONSummary: When her younger brother vanishes into the colorful and animated world of Playmobil, Marla is compelled to abandon her organized and structured life to rescue him. She soon crosses paths with two others investigating the disappearances -- secret agent Rex Dasher and food-truck driver Del -- as they discover new worlds and gather clues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PlBagwell, Gillian.
Summary: Twelve years old when she enters the court of King Henry VII, where she is plunged into a world of politics and intrigue, Bess of Hardwick eventually discovers that, for a woman of substance, power and possibility are endless.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAGMarmell, Ari.
Summary: Working as a private detective, Fae Mick Oberon is hired to find a gangster's daughter sixteen years after she had been replaced by a changeling, and Mick encounters Fae politics and mob power struggles as he investigates.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Marmell 2014Turnbull, Cadwell
Summary: An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURSummary: Childhood friends must reunite to fight an evil demon posing as a clown after having successfully defeated him as children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR ITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IT RATED RSummary: Anne of the thousand days: Follow King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in one of history's most famous tragic love affairs in the Academy Award winning masterpiece starring Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANNSummary: Three crime dramas based on the best selling novels by Henning Mankell. They follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAL NOT RATEDFarwell, Matt
Summary: "The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERGDAHL, BOWE FARLaswell, Bill.
Contents: First reading -- The old man of the mountain -- The western lands -- The spilled cup -- Marco Polo's tale -- Pilgrimage to Cairo -- Freya Stark at Alamut -- Castles -- Hashish poem -- Sinan's boat -- Assassinations -- The Mongols destroy Alamut -- The divine self -- Morning high -- A quick trip to Alamut -- Slogans -- Book of the highest initiation -- The Lord of the Ressurrection --...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sub Rosa 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT LASSummary: 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 GOLMaxwell, Gavin
Contents: Ring of bright water -- The rocks remain -- Raven seek thy brother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.4 MAXSummary: Will and Carlton enter the University of Los Angeles, home of the Peacocks--and college life is fly. Gorgeous coeds, their own place, fraternity parties, and even some education.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Fr 4Markell, Denis
Summary: After discovering a ghost in his apartment, twelve-year-old Danny and his friends traverse Brooklyn's diverse neighborhood together to learn the spirit's origins and bring it to rest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARContents: Dreamspeed. Dreamspeed ; Being and time ; Emotional smear ; Clouds without water ; Time function ; A vague sense of order (bloody miles mix) ; Never come morning ; Dreamspeed (realm of the senseless mix) ; A vague sense of order ; Smoke and mirrors -- Blind light. The absence of time/djeema el fna ; Blind light ; Our completion ; Midnight ; The nostalgic ache ; Clairvoyance of self (seeing...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003