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Summary: Molly, a poor, uneducated young woman, leaves her mountain cabin home in search of a rich husband and a better life. She finds both in Leadville Johnny Brown as she strikes it lucky and he strikes gold.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS UNS

Kandinsky, Wassily

Summary: This volume presents abstract Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). It reproduces scores of recently rediscovered paintings that had languished for decades in Soviet museums and in private collections. The author provides new details on Kandinsky's life and art, discussing his little-known experimental stage plays which strove for a synthesis of all the arts, and his friendships with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Guggenheim Museum 2009

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.7 Kan

Massini, Stefano

Summary: "... Spanning three generations and 150 years, The Lehman Trilogy is a moving epic that dares to tell the story of modern capitalism through the saga of the Lehman brothers and their descendants. Surprising and exciting, brilliant and inventive, Stefano Massini's masterpiece--like Hamilton--is a story of immigration, ambition, and success; it is the story of America itself from a daring and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAS

Tzomaka, Vassiliki

Summary: "This journey through the world's coral reefs uncovers the incredible codependencies between fish, marine animals, and the underwater landscape. Across thirteen unique reef locations in tropical and cold waters, readers will discover the rich variety of marine life that rely on coral reefs for their survival. Along the way, they will encounter corals, turtles, fish, crustaceans, and marine...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.77 TZO

Summary: Francis Bernardone, son of a wealthy cloth merchant, after hearing the voice of Jesus speak to him, had a radical conversion from a worldly man of adventure to a life devoted to Christ lived in Gospel simplicity and service to the poor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. 2004

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRA

Vassell, Charlotte

Summary: "Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's--catered with cocaine and Veuve Clicquot. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about aristocrats and Classics degrees, Instagram influencers...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: M VAS

Grossman, Vasily

Summary: "Vassily Grossman (1905 - 1964) has become well-known in the last twenty years - above all for his novel Life and Fate. This has often been described as a Soviet (or anti-Soviet) War and Peace. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a dilogy. The first half, originally titled Stalingrad but published in 1952 under the title For a just cause, has received...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRO

Bassil, Andrea.

Summary: Vincent van Gogh's artistic career only lasted from about 1880 to 1890. During that time, he produced over eight hundred paintings and a huge collection of drawings. Virtually self-taught, van Gogh developed his own individual style, which continues to inspire many today. Few artists of his time regarded him as a great painter, but during the twentieth century, decades after his death, he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub./World Almanac Library 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759.492 VAN

Aslan, Çiğdem

Contents: Kardiokleftra (Heart thief) -- I Mortissa tis Kokkinias (Mortissa from Kokkinia) -- Ithela na 'rtho to Vradi (I wanted to come by tonight) -- Çile Bülbülüm (Sing my nightingale) -- Evlerinin Önü Handır (In front of their house is an inn) -- Tourna (Crane) -- Destmala min (My handkerchief) -- Zaira (Zaira)-- Gennithika gia na Pono (Born to suffer) -- I Lili i Skandaliara (Cheeky Lili) -- Lingo...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Asphalt Tango Records 2016

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN ASL

Assil, Reem

Summary: "Arabiyya celebrates the alluring aromas and flavors of Arab food and the welcoming spirit with which they are shared. Written from her point of view as an Arab in diaspora, Reem takes readers on a journey through her Palestinian and Syrian roots, showing how her heritage has inspired her recipes for flatbreads, dips, snacks, platters to share, and more. With a section specializing in breads of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5953 ASS

Massilia Sound System

Contents: Li siam (1:24) -- Si lèva mai la cançon (3:36) -- Trois MCs sur la version (3:25) -- Es tot pagat (3:24) -- Je marche avec (3:37) -- Ma ville réveille-toi! (2:58)-- La respònsa es dins lo vent (4:34) -- Massilia no. 1 (4:08) -- Pourquoi je morfle? (3:22) -- L'eligit (3:58) -- Quand on vit connecté (2:59) -- Parlar fòrt (3:57) -- Tous ces mots (3:26) -- À Marseille (4:23).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Chant Du Monde 2014

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT MAS

Summary: Set against the Russian Civil War. Vavilova has to make a decision between motherhood for revolutionary martyrdom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COM

Ansamblʹ pesni i pli͡a︡ski "Krasnai͡a︡ zvezda."

Contents: Regimental polka / music, B. Terentiev ; words, V. Gurian (3:12) -- Meadowland / music, Lev Knipper ; words, V. Gusev (2:24) -- Kalinka : Russian folk song (4:35) -- Volga Boat song : Russian folk song (4:59) -- The sun set [i.e. sunset] behind a mountain / music, M. Blanter ; words, A. Kovalenko (3:03) -- The swallow : Armenian folk song (4:03) -- The pine trees are rustling : Russian folk...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teldec 1992

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/RUSSIAN RED

Summary: Sabata: Sabata is a mysterious steely-eyed gunslinger who, after he discovers the town of Daugherty's elite are the masterminds behind the big bank heist, imposes his bullet-laced brand of justice on the town.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2005

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SAB

MacQuity, Miranda.

Summary: The natural history, behavior and secret lives of sharks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 1997

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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: 597. MACQU

Summary: as shown.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Philips 1990

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BAL

Summary: 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 HIS

Summary: Eight hundred years ago, Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt met on the bloody battlefields of the Crusades. Based on new research and scholarship about that fateful meeting, The Sultan and The Saint tells one of the great, lost stories from history as two men of faith fought against a century of war and distrust in a search for mutual respect and common ground.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2017

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SUL

Cook, William R. (William Robert)

Summary: A series of twelve 30 min. lectures. Historian William Cook and literary scholar Ronald Herzman discuss the life, world, and legacy of Francis of Assisi.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 271.3 COO

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 271.3 Francis

Andrew, Christopher M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.124 AND

Summary: Based on the true story of WWII Russian hero Vassili Zaitsev whose fame thrust him into a personal war with the Nazis best sharpshooter, Major Erwin Konig.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ENE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Enemy 2001

De' Medici Stucchi, Lorenza

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Collins Publishers 1989

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.5945 DEM

Hay, Sam

Summary: When a little boy stumbles across a lost star, he decides to take care of it, putting it in a jar and carrying it with him everywhere. But when the sky calls out for its missing star, can the little boy and his sister figure out a way to return the star to its friends in the sky...even if it means saying goodbye forever?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HAY

Marinca, Anamaria

Summary: Set during the final days of communism in Romania, two college roommates have twenty-four hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for an illegal abortion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOU

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