Summary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUM

Summary: 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 PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Hirt, Al

Contents: Bourbon Street parade (3:31) -- I can't get started (2:42) -- Stranger in paradise, from Kismet (2:43) -- Java (1:56) -- I love Paris, from Can-can (2:50) -- Sleepy lagoon (2:48) -- Tansy, from the film No, my darling daughter (2:23) -- Clarinet marmalade (2:20) -- Fly me to the moon (In other words) (2:37) -- Alley cat (2:31) -- Up above my head (I hear music in the air) (2:18) -- Out of...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1989

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HIR

Summary: "Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MIL

Summary: Founded in 2011 after Vladimir Putin was given a third term as Russian president, Pussy Riot is an anonymous feminist art collective/punk band based in Moscow. The group's protest inside the cathedral was intended to protest Putin's union of church and state. On Feb. 21, 2012 they participated in a 40-second "punk prayer protest" on the altar of Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral before being...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PUS

Hirt, Al.

Contents: Bourbon street parade (4:37) -- Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? (6:12) -- Java (2:14) -- Struttin with some barbeque (5:30) -- Basin street blues (7:07) -- Stardust (4:10) -- When the saints go marching in (6:08) -- Just a closer walk with thee (4:48) -- Echoes of Harlem (4:06) -- Walkin' (2:16) -- South Rampart street parade (2:21) -- Cotton candy (1:58) -- New Orleans (4:06) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: ProJazz 1989

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HIR

Hirt, Al.

Contents: Disc One: 1. Bourbon Street Parade -- 2. Cotton Candy -- 3. That's a Plenty -- 4. Java -- 5. Stardust -- 6. South Rampart Street Parade -- 7. When It's Sleepytime Down South -- 8. Echoes of Harlem -- 9. Walkin' -- 10. Trumpeter's Lullaby -- 11. Struttin' With Some Barbeque -- 12. Muskrat Ramble -- 13. Royal Garden Blues -- 14. Mama's Gone, Goodbye -- 15. I'll Be Seeing You -- 16. Strangers in...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Intersound 1992

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HIR

Darling, Birt.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stratford House 1950

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.427 DAR

Fior, Manuele

Summary: "Celestia has become an outpost for criminals and other misfits, as well as a refuge for a group of young telepaths. Events push two of them, Dora and Pierrot, to flee the island and set sail to the mainland. There, they discover a world on the precipice of a metamorphosis, though also a world where adults are literally prisoners of their own fortresses, unintentionally preserving the "old...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FIO

Summary: Centered around a small group of American soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq. Alternates points of view between these soldiers, the media and the local Iraqi people illuminating how each group is deeply affected by the current conflict and their encounters with each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RED

Summary: 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 WHI

Fisk, Eliot.

Contents: El colibri / Julio S. Sagreras -- No quiero que me quieras / Pedro Oropeza Volcán -- Las perdices / Pedro López -- Vision porteña / Pedro Pablo Caldera -- María Luisa / Antonio Lauro -- Canción caroreña ; Merengue venezolano / Rodrigo Riera -- Scherzino mexicano / Manuel María Ponce -- Guajira criolla / Leo Brouwer -- Triste : no. 4 / Julián Aguirre -- Ojos brujos / Leo Brouwer -- Norteña /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 1987

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

(FITT, WILLIAM C., ED.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1980

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.1 STE

Summary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOY

Summary: Four decades ago, legions of young people trekked to San Francisco and its famed Haight Asbury district, the epicenter for the youth-driven counterculture revolution that was transforming American culture. They came for peace, politics, community, love...and they came for the music, the most enduring legacy of that very special place and time. It has proven to be the element that really tells...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2007

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOV

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Contents: Jambalaya (On the bayou) -- Dirt Band interview -- Cosmic cowboy (part 1) -- Aluminum record award -- Fish song -- Mr. Bojangles -- Vassar Clements interview -- Listen to the mockingbird -- The sheik of Araby -- Resign yourself to me -- Dixie hoedown -- Cripple Creek -- The mountain whippoorwill (or, How Hillbilly Jim won the great fiddler's prize) -- Honky tonkin' -- House at Pooh Corner --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Liberty Records 1995

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY NIT

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1986

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY NIT

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Nitty

Summary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN MY

Blue Dirt (Musical group)

Contents: Cruz'n 4 a bruz'n -- Sour grapes -- Rusty cage -- You're here... it's now! -- So long -- 10$ky -- Gonna find my money -- RU ready 4 this? -- Walking treasure -- Feeling as a child -- All in your mind -- Close your eyes.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: [S.N.]

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL BLU

Blue Dirt Band

Contents: You're here...It's now! -- Down at the mill -- Ghost of the Mississippi -- The Light! -- Church by noon -- Say anything -- Sultans of swing -- Take it with me -- Bottles break -- Sierra Madres

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Dirt Band

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL BLU

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Contents: From small things (big things one day come) / B. Springsteen (3:56) -- Waitin' on a dark eyed gal / R. Davies (4:14) -- Junior's Grill / J. Photoglo, V. Melamed, J. Ibbotson (3:08) -- Blow out the stars, turn off the moon / B. Braddock (3:52) -- The rest of the dream / J. Hiatt (4:36) -- Just enough Ashland City / J. Hiatt (3:56) -- Hillbilly Hollywood / J. Photoglo, V. Melamed (2:55) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: MCA 1990

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY NIT

Summary: A deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Filmed at a rare 96 frames-per-second, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth's most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia's Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela's mighty Angels Falls,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC AQU