Summary: Arriving in 1924, Pesachʹke Burstein, the dancing-singing comedian, quickly became a leading figure in the Golden Era of Yiddish theater. On stage, he would meet, fall in love with and eventually marry raising star Lillian Lux. Embarking together on triumphant overseas tours as a couple, they soon became the parents of twins. Before long the children, Mike and Susan, were given stage names and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KOMSummary: [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
Summary: While Batya, a struggling waitress, cares for a mysterious child that appeared to her out of the sea. Newlywed Keren nurses a broken leg and a ruined honeymoon. Filipino migrant worker Joy tries to support her son back home. A reflection on making connections and confronting destiny in a deconstructed urban landscape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JELSummary: A chambermaid with Paris flair, gets a job at a country estate. The family she works for and the other staff members are a strange sort and she must learn the ways of country living and neighbor revialry. After a child is murdered near the estate, she begins to have her suspicions as to whom may be responsible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIAShinya, Shima
Summary: "In the aftermath of the Hyperspace Disaster, young Jedi Knight, Lily Tora-Asi is assigned to help displaced civilians relocate to Banchii, a newly inhabited planet in the Inugg system far in the outer rim. Banchii is the site of a new Jedi temple led by Master Arkoff, Lily's Wookiee mentor, who imagines the temple as a place of peace for new inhabitants and for those who are traveling beyond....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC STAPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC POWShinya, Shima
Summary: "Centuries before the Skywalker saga, a new adventure begins... It is the era of the High Republic and interstellar expansion is at its height. As trusted guardians of peace, the renowned Jedi protect the Republic and shine their light on those exploring the darkest reaches of the galaxy. When Padawan Keerin Fionn and Jedi Knight Lily Tora-Asi learn that the recent Drengir battle was not an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC STAPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC POWLerer, Seth
Summary: Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. Seth Lerer here explores the iconic books, ancient and contemporary alike, that have forged a lifelong love of literature in young readers during their formative years. Along the way,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.89282 LERSummary: Teenage Rockhopper penguin Cody Maverick is an up-and-coming surfer who is about to enter his first pro competition. Followed by a documentary crew to film his experiences, Cody leaves Antarctica for the warmer climes in order to surf in the Big Z Memorial Surf Championship covered by the SPEN network. His hero, champion surfer Big Z, has been gone for ten years, and Cody wants to win the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SURShura.
Contents: (I) -- Nothing's real -- What's it gonna be? -- Touch -- Kidz 'n stuff -- Indecision -- What happened to us? -- (Ii) -- Tongue tied -- Make it up -- 2shy -- White light.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHULerer, Seth
Summary: Presents lectures on the history of the English language.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1998
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 420 LER PART ICall number: CD 420 LER PART III
Jeter, Derek
Summary: "Derek is juggling finals and a baseball tournament during the last few weeks of school, but when his friend Dave starts ignoring him, Derek's perfect summer starts to look less fun"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JETJeter, Derek
Summary: A "collection of never-before-published images taken over the course of Derek's final season. Fans will have unprecedented access to The Captain, as the famously private baseball legend takes us behind the scenes inside his home, the stadium, the gym, at his Turn 2 Foundation events, fortieth birthday party, and more as he looks back with candor and gratitude on his baseball career"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 JETShura
Contents: That's me, just a sweet melody -- Side effects -- Religion (u can lay your hands on me) -- The stage -- Bklynldn -- Tommy -- Princess Leia -- Flyin' -- Forever -- Control -- Skyline, be mine.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHUJeter, Derek
Summary: While spending the summer with his extended family in New Jersey, Derek finds a team he can play baseball with and earns money to take his best friend to a Yankees game.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JETSummary: Teenage Rockhopper penguin Cody Maverick is an up-and-coming surfer who is about to enter his first pro competition. Followed by a documentary crew to film his experiences, Cody leaves Antarctica for the warmer climes in order to surf in the Big Z Memorial Surf Championship covered by the SPEN network. His hero, champion surfer Big Z, has been gone for ten years, and Cody wants to win the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SuFerer, Christy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 FERSummary: A searing portrait of the self-absorbed English artist Francis Bacon at the height of his fame in the 1960s and his tumultuous love affair with his self-destructive lover George Dyer, a would-be thief whom Bacon discovered one night as the young man attempted to burgle Bacon's studio.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LOVLeier, Ray.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: GUILD Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.41 LEIBeyer
Summary: The glockenspiel or xylophone represents the ideal means of offering a real starting point for young children to learn about the fundamentals of making music, both individually and in groups. Children will discover that music is creative, fun and an exciting experience when playing this instrument. In addition to learning the basics of musical harmony, the xylophone being non-electrical, allows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beyer
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3 available in Sight and Sound Equipment, Call number: Music Equipment-Xylophone Kit #1Call number: Music Equipment-Xylophone Kit #3
Call number: Music Equipment-Xylophone Kit #5
Lefer, David.
Summary: Provides an insightful and gripping account of the birth of modern American conservatism and its impact on the earliest days of our nation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 LEFLeser, David
Summary: In Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing, author David Leser presents an essential and incisive investigation, unearthing the roots of misogyny, its inextricable links to the patriarchy, and how history brought us to the #MeToo movement and the wave of incandescent female rage that is sweeping the world. his book calls on men (yes, all men) to be accountable for their contribution to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 LESLever, Darcy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1998