Summary: Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAISummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRAl-Saadi, Laith
Contents: Chains (4:02) -- No one left to blame (4:22) -- Morning light (5:26) -- Can't keep going (6:19) -- My hands are tied (5:30) -- Free (3:47) -- So different now (5:07) -- Before too long (3:04) -- All these years (7:02) -- Big mama (4:37).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL ALSummary: Explores the nature of Islam and unfolds many of its inner-dimensions. It dispels many myths and discusses contributions to science and math.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297 LEGAl-Saadi, Laith
Contents: Gone (3:45) -- What it means (5:23) -- Ophelia (4:38) -- How's it gonna be (6:07) -- Complete disgrace (4:56) -- Last time you'll see me cry (3:45) -- Gone (alternate take) (3:40) -- What it means (alternate take) (5:20).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL ALAl-Khatahtbeh, Amani
Summary: "At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home in New Jersey as two planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That same year, she heard her first racial slur. At age eleven, when the United States began their invasion in Iraq and the television was flooded with anti-Muslim commentary, Amani felt overwhelmed with feelings of intense alienation from American...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AL-KHATAHTBEH, AMANI ALKAl-Saadi, Laith
Contents: Breathe (5:45) -- Circle (4:20) -- Mystified (5:50) -- Misbehave (5:25) -- In time (3:23) -- Everything (3:37) -- Turn it around (4:41) -- If (4:36) -- Who turned out the lights? (5:43) -- Run to you (7:02).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Laith Al-Saadi 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL ALRamadu.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Music 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN RAMSummary: "An impassioned group of men and women risk everything for family, faith and the very future of their country--as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War--the daring people's revolt that rocked 20th century North America. ... General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife ......
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by ARC Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FoCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD/Blu Movie ForPartridge, Elizabeth
Summary: "Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches-and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration-and the complexity of documenting it-through the work of these three photographers"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 PARSummary: In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER INVSummary: What if you entered a world full of magic and mystery but couldn't get back home? When Sybil, her kid sister Alex, and two cousins discover a magical book in the family manor, it opens a hidden door into the forest of Keoherus. As the powerful Warriors Four, the girls must now locate secret temples and solve intricate puzzles to gather crystals that will allow them to control time. But when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family GuardiansCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUASummary: Earth's last city, Olympus rose from the ashes of a global war on the backs of bioroids, artificial clones who make up half the city's population. Human terrorists seek a return to power and clash with a legendary soldiers, Deunan Knute and her boyfriend who is 75% machine. To save humanity and end the conflicts, retrieving the Appleseed is a must. Deunan alone holds it's secret.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Geneon 2005
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME APPContents: I sing ammore (Nicola Arigliano) -- Je so pazzo (Pino Daniele) -- Rosso relativo (Tiziano Ferro) -- Quando quando quando (Tony Renis) -- Figli delle stelle (Alan Sorrenti) -- Vacanze romane (Matia Bazaar [sic]) -- Dio e'morto (I Nomadi) -- Bandiera bianca (Franco Battiato) -- La descrizione di un attimo (Tiromancino) -- Per amore mio (Roberto Vecchioni) -- Nel sole (Albano) -- Tutto quello che...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Petrol 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN ITAHubbard, Freddie.
Contents: Arietis / Freddie Hubbard (6:38) -- Weaver of dreams / V. Young, J. Elliott (6:33) -- Marie Antoinette / Wayne Shorter (6:36) -- Birdlike / Freddie Hubbard (10:12) -- Crisis / Hubbard (11:31) -- Arietis (alternate take) (5:48) -- Marie Antoinette (alternate take) (6:13).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HUBSummary: Spring breakers are getting murdered in Neptune, thereby decimating the seaside town's tourist industry. After Mars Investigations is hired by the parents of one of the victims to find their son's killer, Veronica is drawn into an eight-episode mystery that pits the enclave's wealthy elites who would like to put an end to the bacchanalia against the working class that relies on the cash influx.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VERSummary: Tokyo teenager Gorgeous is upset with her long-widowed father--he wants to marry his new girlfriend Ryoko. Seriously miffed, Gorgeous hits the road to visit her aunt in the country, bringing along her best girlfriends Sweet, Melody, Fantasy, Prof, Mac, and Kung Fu. The titular house belongs to the wheelchair bound aunt, whose large white cat has been immortalized in artwork throughout. Things...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOUGraves, Cameron
Summary: The debut album by visionary pianist, keyboardist, composer, and West Coast Get Down founding member, Cameron Graves.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GRAWashington, Kamasi
Contents: Volume 1, The plan. Change of the guard -- Askim -- Isabelle -- Final thought -- The next step -- The rhythm changes.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brainfeeder 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ WASRamati, Alexander
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1986
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Contents: Halflight visions -- Nzuku -- Fluorescences -- Folding water -- Foam -- Parallelism -- Moving target -- A clearing -- Ozu -- Reading a wave -- Figi
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ARPRama
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Himalayan Institute Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7046 RAMALe, Khang
Summary: Documents the creative process of concept design by 3 students from the Art Center College of Design under the guidance of their instructor, Scott Robinson. The concept design includes a host of intriguing places and people, inspired by the Brothers Grimm's tale "The skillfull huntsman". Discussion of ideas and techniques used to create this stunning collection of artwork between Robertson and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Design Studio Press 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 LEDurvasula, Ramani
Summary: How do you know if you are in a relationship with a narcissistand what can you do about it? Narcissism is a modern epidemic and it's spreading rapidly. Narcissists tend to be pretty on the outside, but empty on the inside. While they are often successful, they are also controlling, manipulative, entitled, vain, and they have no empathy. If your significant other can be charismatic and charming...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2015