Summary: Widely hailed as the greatest film of the 1980s, this searing story charts the tortured rise and fall of middleweight boxing champion Jake 'The Bronx Bull' La Motta.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RAGSummary: Jake La Motta is a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. His brother Joey falls prey to Jake's mounting paranoia and jealousy, while fifteen-year-old Vickie, becomes Jake's wife and most prized trophy. The same anger that drives Jake in the ring, ultimately drives him to beat his wife and brother, and sends Jake down a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Charlie, a 27-year-old, tries to work his way up the bottom rungs of organized crime's ladder. Teresa, is the girlfriend Charlie's family declares "unsuitable" because she has epilepsy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MEASummary: This compilation of five early short films by Martin Scorsese offers a fascinating window onto his artistic development. Spanning the years from Scorsese's time at NYU in the mid-1960s to the late '70s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SCOSummary: De Niro stars as champion boxer Jake La Motta, who rose from the streets of the Bronx to the heights of his sport, only to find disillusionment and corruption as well as fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RAGBree, Marlin
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marlor Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.13 BRESummary: Grammy-nominated film that chronicles the life and career of Arif Mardin, the man who produced more than 50 gold and platinum records and won twelve Grammys. Featuring interviews and/or studio footage with Willie Nelson, Carly Simon, Jewel, Daryl Hall, Phil Collins, Norah Jones and many others. The Greatest Ears in Town is one of the most insightful, inspirational and enjoyable documentaries...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GREMarrin, Albert.
Summary: Describes the conditions in the textile industry in the early 20th century behind the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company that led to the death of many young women, and explains its impact on the labor movement and on society.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 MARMarrin, Albert.
Summary: Discusses Drake, Morgan, Blackbeard, and other pirates and privateers, both men and women, who have roamed the sea since 1500.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.164 MARConjunto Jardin.
Contents: El balaju -- La culebra -- El ahualulco -- La yerba buena -- Fandanguito de los muertos -- El aguanieve / El zapateado -- Fandango jarocho -- La tuza -- El pajaro cu -- La vieja -- Conquistador
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Trova Recordings 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CONMarrin, Albert
Summary: A Polish Jew on the eve of World War II, Janusz Korczak turned down opportunities for escape in order to stand by the children in his orphanage as they became confined to the Warsaw Ghetto. Dressing them in their Sabbath finest, he led their march to the trains and ultimately perished with his children in Treblinka. Marrin examines not just Korczak's life but his ideology of children: that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 KORWhittekin, Martie
Summary: The Probiotic Cure, a guide to overcoming many of our most common health issues. The Probiotic Cure is divided into two parts. Part One is designed to explain what our internal flora is and how it works in our gut. It examines what comprises this living community, specifically focusing on the natural balance of bad and good bacteria. It details how this community can become unbalanced from a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Square One Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615 WHILambert, Marjie.
Summary: Explains the use of the bread machine and includes interesting bread recipes, many with an international flavor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books 1996
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Place a hold to request this item.Stern, Marnie.
Contents: Year of the glad -- You don't turn down -- Noonan -- Nothing is easy -- Immortals -- The chronicles of Marnia -- Still moving -- East side glory -- Proof of life -- Hell yes.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kill Rock Stars 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK STEMarais, Bianca
Summary: "Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy. Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARBiz Markie
Contents: Dedication -- Check it out -- The dragon -- Spring again -- Just a friend -- She's not just another woman (Monique) -- Mudd foot -- A thing named Kim -- Me versus me -- My man Rich -- I hear music -- Biz in the harmony -- Things get a little easier -- Just a friend : 12" version -- Just a friend : instrumental -- Spring again : club mix -- Spring again : 12" remix -- Spring again : dub.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cold Chillin' 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BIZCardin, Maryse
Summary: Bring more magic to every day with just 5 minutes of positive self-talk each morning. What you say to yourself has been scientifically proven to influence your success and happiness. No matter what your goals, you can fill yourself with confidence, resolve, self-love, and strength by choosing the right words to fill your heart and mind. 5-Minute Morning Magic is your guide to making it happen!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Castle Point Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 CARMarais, Bianca
Summary: "From the author of Hum if You Don't Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time, and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMardini, Yusra
Summary: Traces the author's life-changing rescue of a boatload of fellow refugees and how it inspired her to compete on the 2016 Refugee Olympic Team in Rio de Janeiro, tracing her subsequent advocacy on behalf of people who have been forced from their homes by war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARDINI, YUSRA MARMontgomery, Marin
Summary: When teenage best friends, Callie and Avery are kidnapped from a tent in their front yard in a sleepy Midwestern town, the entire population of Newell is rocked to its core.But when one of the girls returns twenty-four hours later, her body covered in injuries and zero recollection of what happened, the search is on for the girl who didn’t get away…Callie is still missing, her whereabouts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMontgomery, Marin
Summary: When Blair and Bristol Bellamy’s overprotective parents agreed to let their daughters spend spring break in Oahu, they never anticipated that only one of them would return. What should have been a week of soaking up the Hawaiian sun next to pristine blue waters takes an unexpected turn when Blair wakes up on the beach one morning with no purse, no shoes, and no memory of what happened the night...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONHanel, Marnie
Summary: "A picnic is a great escape from our day-to-day and a chance to turn a meal into something more festive and memorable ... With variations on everyone's favorite deviled eggs, 99 uses for a Mason jar (think cocktail shaker, firefly catcher, or cookie jar), rules for scoring lawn games, and refreshing drinks to mix up in crowd-friendly batches, let The Picnic take the stress out of your next...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 642.3 HANHardin, David
Contents: The daughter of the confederacy : Winnie Davis -- The conqueror's son : Tom Sherman -- The general's last battle : Ulysses S. Grant -- The diarist : Mary Boykin Chesnut -- The crippled knight : John Bell Hood -- That devil Forrest : Nathan Bedford Forrest -- The mad woman : Mary Todd Lincoln -- The good hater : Joseph E. Johnston -- The legend : Robert E. Lee -- The turncoat : George H. Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivan R. Dee 2010