Summary: This is the story of Danny, a slave who has lived his whole life without any sort of normal human interaction, with the mind and personality of a young child, Danny has only ever learned one lession in life: how to fight. Treated like a dog, including being forced to wear a collar, by his owner/boss, Bart, Danny has been raised to be a lethal fighting machine. Danny fights in illegal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE UNLSummary: Melanie is a young woman whose ambitions as a concert pianist were dashed as a child by the thoughtless behavior of the jury chairwoman, the famous pianist Madame Fouchecourt, during her exam. Ten years later Melanie sets up an elaborate plan for revenge and soon begins to ingratiate herself into the family. Unrecognized by Madame, Melanie becomes her trusted "page turner" as both women...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video USA 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PAGGonzález, Rubén
Contents: Date una vueltecita -- Enriqueta -- Fabiando -- Como siento yo -- Nuestra canción -- Préstame la bicicleta -- Indestructible -- Ambrosio -- Mil congojas -- Zancudo -- Yo te enseño Lola -- Que infelicidad -- Fantoche -- Tu corazón otra vez -- Todo aquel ayer.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Escondida 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN GONSummary: Ian Curtis has aspirations beyond the trappings of small town life in 1970s England. Wanting to emulate his musical heroes, he joins a band, and his musical ambition begins to thrive. Soon though, the everyday fears and emotions, fueled by his music, slowly begin to eat away at him. Married young, with a daughter, he is distracted from his family commitments by a new love and the growing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONGalway, James.
Contents: Sonata for flute and piano, op. 13 : originally Sonata for violin and piano, op. 13 / Gabriel Fauré ; arr. Galway (27:00) -- Suite for flute and piano, op. 34 / Charles-Marie Widor (18:00) -- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (9:31) ; La plus que lente : valse (4:10) ; La fille aux cheveux de lin : from Preludes, Book I (2:12) ; En bateau : from Petite suite (3:55) / Claude Debussy ; arr. Galway.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor Red Seal 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GALSummary: Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Finding 2005Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FINSummary: Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIN RATED PGSummary: In June of 1969, the fourth Memphis Country Blues Festival took place at the city's famed Overton Park Band Shell. Fueled by the rediscovery of blues artists like Furry Lewis and Mississippi Fred McDowell, the fest had been launched in 1966 by a group of Bluff City blues fans and counterculturalists. The '69 edition -- which doubled as a celebration of Memphis' sesquicentennial -- promised the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MEMGershwin, George
Contents: Sweet and lowdown (from Tip-toes) (3:30) -- Novelette in fourths (2:24) -- That certain feeling (from Tip-toes) (2:45) -- So am I (from Lady, be good!) (4:14) -- Rhapsody in blue (14:22) -- Swanee (2:17) -- When you want 'em, you can't get 'em, when you've got 'em, you don't want 'em (1:57) -- Kickin' the clouds away (from Tell me more) (3:20) -- Idle dreams (from Scandals of 1920) (2:59) -- On...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra Nonesuch 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GERSummary: Curso completo de inglés, con más de 300 ilustraciones, más de 100 ejercicios con autocorrección, más de 100 conceptos fundamentales, 30 artículos sobre costumbres y cultura de Estados Unidos, más de 700 palabras agrupadas en más de 50 temas de vocabulario, más de 500 frases verbales de uso común en Estados Unidos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.3 INGSummary: 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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISCall number: DVD 709 HIS
Summary: A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the only survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LIFSummary: Step up to the bar at Paddy's Pub and get into the crazy world of Dee, Charlie, Frank and Mac as they pursue even more outrageous subjects like cannibalism, glory-hole fixations, or Dennis's over-the-top sexual memoirs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DAV RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DAMcPartland, Marian
Contents: Jeepers creepers ; I've got a crush on you (with Tommy Flanagan) -- Some time ago ; It's you or no one (with Renee Rosnes) -- Just friends ; Twilight world (with George Shearing) -- Lullaby of the leaves ; Chrysalis (an improvisation) (with Geri Allen) -- Gone with the wind ; Marian McPartland (with Dave Brubeck) -- There will never be another you ; Lady be good (with Gene Harris) -- When the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Concord Jazz 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MCPSummary: "In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEYSummary: Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PARSummary: Imagine the joy on your child’s face when they see their Lightning McQueen cake made using this shaped pan. Durable aluminum construction for even heating and long wear. Before first and after each use, wash in warm, soapy water.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Wilton Industries 2009
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1 available in Baking pans, Call number: BAKING PANSummary: The up-and-down and then up-again story of musician Dewey Cox. Dewey's songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Dewey sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 step-kids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp. He becomes addicted to and then kicks about every drug known to man. Despite it all, Cox grows...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WALSummary: Grappling with impossible love, artistic rivalry, and a dark inner life, the conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe embrace their freakishness and spit it back in the form of searing underground 70's punk rock.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment [distributor] 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRORomberg, Sigmund
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Williamson Music Inc. 1944
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: "La nueva edición del exitoso Curso completo de inglés para latinos --de la prestigiosa serie Inglés en 100 días-- te ofrece todo lo que necesitas para desenvolverte con soltura en inglés en Estados Unidos. A través de sus 30 unidades aprenderás el vocabulario y la expresiones claves del idioma, así como la gramática imprescindible. Además, ahora incluye una app de apoyo y acceso a audios que...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aguilar 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.2 CURCrawford, Robert
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Carl Fischer 1942
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008