Summary: The detectives are on a mission to uncover the mystery behind an unsolved murder that occurred 39 years ago. Beneath the ground of a demolished house, the bones of the victim are found. With this evidence, the modern police team opens a case to unearth the history that has remained buried for decades. Four main suspects emerge, and as their dark past is unraveled, the truth behind the events of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UNFContents: Disc 1. The camp meeting jubilee (Unknown) -- My man rocks me (Trixie Smith) -- Kansas city blues (Jim Jackson) -- Going to move to Alabama (Charley Patton) -- Move it on over (Hank Williams) -- It's tight like that (Tampa Red) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Clarence "Pinetop" Smith) -- Jimmy's blues (Jimmy Blythe) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves) -- Tiger rag (Washboard Rhythm...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FIRSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSContents: I've heard that song before (Harry James & his orchestra) -- Frenesi (Artie Shaw & his orchestra) -- Paper doll (Mills Brothers) -- Swinging on a star (Bing Crosby) -- I'll never smile again (Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra) -- Amapola (Jimmy Dorsey & his orchestra) -- You'll never know (Dick Haymes & the Song Spinners) -- Don't fence me in (Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters) -- In the mood (Glenn...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL BILVarious Artists
Contents: Sentimental journey (Les Brown & his orchestra, with Doris Day) -- Swinging on a star (Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter & his orchestra) -- You'll never know (Dick Haymes & the Song Spinners) -- The gypsy (Dinah Shore with Sonny Burke & Orchestra) -- Paper doll ( Mills Brothers) -- Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief ( Betty Hutton with Paul Weston & his orchestra) -- Laura (Woody Herman & his...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL SENContents: I've heard that song before / Harry James & His Orchestra -- Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! / James Baskett -- Swinging on a star / Bing Crosby -- My dreams are getting better all the time / Les Brown & His Orchestra -- Boogie woogie bugle boy / Andrews Sisters -- You'll never know / Dick Haymes & the Song Spinners -- Jingle jangle jingle / Kay Kyser & His Orchestra -- It's magic / Doris Day -- Doctor,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BILSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: When the British government is discovered smuggling precious Chinese artifacts out of the country, folklore hero Wong Fei Hong uses his uniquely outlandish style of martial arts...Drunken Boxing...to fight the conspirators and salvage the valuables before it's too late! And the more Hong drinks, the more agile he becomes -- able to fend off numerous attacks with unbelievable moves! With Chinese...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LEGSummary: The time is 1998. The setting is Macau. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money before the Portuguese colony ushers in a new era under the Chinese rule. A relationship is formed between an ex-gangster trying to turn over a new leaf with his wife and newborn baby and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EXISummary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLONelson, Willie
Summary: On April 29 and 30 of this year, a variety of artists spanning genres and generations came together with Willie Nelson to celebrate the legend's 90th birthday for a star-studded, once-in-a-lifetime event at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. This two CD+Blu-ray set captures the highlights of this amazing night, including 39 performances across the two CDs and the same songs captured in HD on...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Death don't have no mercy (Blind Gary Davis) -- Rolling log blues (Lottie Kimbrough) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves and Bro.) -- Expressman blues (Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell) -- Love in vain #1 (Robert Johnson) -- Tallahatchie River blues (Mattie Delaney) -- High water everywhere, Part 1 (Charley Patton) -- Original stack O'Lee Blues (Long Cleve Reed & Little Harvey Hull...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A twisted tale told by Harley Quinn herself, as only Harley can tell it. When Gotham's most nefariously narcissistic villain, Roman Sionis, and his zealous right-hand, Zsasz, put a target on a young girl named Cass, the city is turned upside down looking for her. Harley, Huntress, Black Canary and Renee Montoya's paths collide, and the unlikely foursome has no choice but to team up to take...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIRSummary: Watch an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kung fu master, Ip Man, who mentored Bruce Lee. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China's last dynasty, a time of chaos, division, and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRAOldfield, Mike
Contents: Harbinger (4:08) -- Animus (3:09) -- Silhouette (3:19) -- Shabda (4:58) -- Tempest (1:30) -- Harbinger (reprise) (2:26) -- On my heart (2:26) -- Aurora (3:42) -- Prophecy (2:54) -- On my heart (reprise) (1:16) -- Harmonia mundi (3:46) -- The other side (1:28) -- Empyrean (1:37) -- Musica universalis (6:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE OLDSummary: 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.Bone, George Harvey
Summary: "Food is good. Whether it's the sweetest desserts or the freshest soups or the finest steaks, the culinary arts provide us with some of the richest sensual experiences that we are privy to. Alcohol is also good. Beer, whiskey, wine, rum, cider, brandy, tequila, absinthe: mankind's multifarious methods of inducing intoxication run from the simple to the exotic--all with the same pleasurable...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.62 BONSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Bocelli, Andrea.
Contents: DVD: Melodrama -- Romanza -- A te (feat. Kenny G, saxophone) -- Vivo per lei (feat. Heather Headley, vocals) -- Io ci sarò (feat. Lang Lang, piano) -- Hungarian rhapsody no. 2 in C sharp minor (Lang Lang, piano) -- Voce del silenzio (feat. Elisa, vocals) -- Dancing (Elisa) -- Canto della terra (feat. Sarah Brightman, vocals) -- Bellissime stelle -- Medley: Besame mucho ; Somos novios = It's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC VIVSummary: The most wonderful time of the year: The overwhelming tasks that go along with Christmas have taken the joy out of the holidays for busy single mom Jennifer Cullen. Then her Uncle Ralph arrives at her home with the young, handsome Morgan Derby. Morgan's love of Christmas, and life, is contagious and as Jennifer glumly navigates through the holidays, she soon realizes that what she needs most is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam Americas, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 10 MSummary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MULCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MULCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Mulan 2013Halley.
Contents: Adventures of George and the robbers -- Heart attack on a one way street -- Movie song (trailer theme) -- Peninsula Pomegranate Pendegrass -- Redlightgreenlight -- As cheap as fake -- ... -- Herkimer battle jettne -- Living from a heart palpatation -- The last word is a silent vowel -- Movie song (love theme) -- Kites are slow downers.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hooked on Songs 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HALSummary: A new regime has arrived at Litchfield and with it comes new business interests, spiritual movements, and parental problems that turn life behind bars upside down and ignite power struggles among Litchfield's residents and guards.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016