Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RACSummary: 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 TWISummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: 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 OSummary: Set in the '90s, Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on an action-packed, globetrotting adventure as the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorons join the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth. Noah, a sharp young guy from Brooklyn, and Elena, an ambitious, talented artifact researcher, are swept up in the conflict as Optimus Prime and the Autobots face a terrifying new nemesis bent...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRASummary: New Orleans developed a unique funk sound. Many slaves were brought from Haiti and brought with them the religion of Voodoo and its drums and music. Jazz funeral marching bands were solemn brass bands accompanying a coffin and would, on burial, be joined by a second line of drummers and dancers which would turn the event into a celebration of the spirit cutting free from earth. The backline...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEWContents: Disc one. Can the circle be unbroken (bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Barbara Allen (Bradley Kincaid) -- I'll fly away (James and Martha Carson) -- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- Blue yodel number 9 (standin' on the corner) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Wildwood flower...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC COUSummary: Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PICContents: Disc 1. Can the circle be unbroken (Bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) -- Mountain Dew (Grandpa Jones and His Grandchildren) -- I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart (Patsy Montana and The Prairie Ramblers) -- New San Antonio Rose (Bob Wills and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW CouSummary: Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PICSummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Dexter, Pete
Summary: The mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that eats away at the social fabric of a small town, exposing the hypocrisies of its ways and shattering the lives of its citizens.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXSummary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAISummary: The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FULLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LaKater, Peter.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE KATKater, Peter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE KATSummary: A famous psychotherapist is forced to steal thirteen paintings from the world's renowned museums and private collections to prevent his suffering from terrible nightmares he has as a result of subliminal messaging he received as a child. Accompanied by his four patients, he and his band of thieves strike regularly and with great success: the Louvre, Tate, Uffizi, Hermitage, the Museum of Modern...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUBSummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELPenney, Darby.
Summary: Foreword / Robert Whitaker -- 1. He took them on their last walk -- 2. Who were the people that went to Willard and why did they go there? --3. How I would have furnished my room (if not for the voices) -- 4. In permanent limbo: she kept asking for dispensation (until her doctor turned into the devil incarnate) -- 5. Children were buried and she knit her life away -- 6. Like a fly in a spider...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2009