Summary: Notable highlights include an episode in which a program to build an international space station is threatened by sabotage. Another where Superman encounters Kryptonite for the first time. Then there is the episode where Superman is suspected of causing a heatwave and jailed for using his powers. Lois and Clark share a hotel suite whilst investigating high level political corruption. Superman...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TESSummary: Tess Darbeyville, a beautiful young peasant, seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TESPerlman, Itzhak
Contents: Meditation (from Thäis) / Jules Massenet -- Mazurka-Obéreque / Alexander Glazunov -- Vocalise, op. 34 no. 14 / Sergei Rachmaninov -- Zigeunerweisen, op. 20 / Pablo Sarasate -- Fantasy on Russian themes (after Rimsky-Korsakov) / Fritz Kreisler -- Meditation, op. 32 / Glazunov -- Scherzo, op. 42 no. 2 (orch. Glazunov) in C minor / Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky -- Légende, op. 17 / Henryk Wieniawski --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL PERSummary: An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music. This fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Home Video 1994
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HEA1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HEA
Mitski
Contents: Geyser -- Why didn't you stop me? -- Old friend -- A pearl -- Lonesome love -- Remember my name -- Me and my husband -- Come into the water -- Nobody -- Pink in the night -- A horse named cold air -- Washing machine heart -- Blue light -- Two slow dancers.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Oceans 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MITMinsky, Richard.
Summary: In the 1870s, book cover art in the United States entered a Golden Age that lasted more than fifty years. Some of the work is startling for its prescience and can be associated with art movements that occurred decades after the books were produced.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: George Braziller 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.6 MINMitski
Contents: Texas Reznikoff -- Townie -- First Love / Late Spring -- Francis Forever -- I Don't Smoke -- Jobless Monday -- Drunk Walk Home -- I Will -- Carry Me Out -- Last Words Of A Shooting Star.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Oceans 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MITMitski
Summary: An eleven track album from rock artist Mitski that includes songs such as Happy; Once More To See You; Your Best American Girl; and more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MITMitski
Summary: In this album, which is sonically Mitski's most expansive, epic, and wise, the songs seem to be introducing wounds and then actively healing them. It plays like a tiny epic.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MITMitski
Summary: With this release, Mitski cements her reputation as an artist in possession of such power, capable of using her talent to perform the alchemy that turns the most savage and alienated experiences into the very elixir that cures them. Her last album, Be the Cowboy, built on the breakout acclaim of 2016's Puberty 2 and launched her from cult favorite to indie star. Like the mountain laurels for...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MITContents: Train I ride (Omar Coleman ; tribute to Junior Wells) (4:06) -- One day you're gonna get lucky (Lurrie Bell & The Bell Dynasty ; tribute to Carey Bell) (3:31) -- All for business (Linsey Alexander & Billy Flynn ; tribute to Jimmy Hawkins) (6:06) -- Riverboat (Demetria Taylor ; tribute to Big Time Sarah) (4:36) -- She left me a mule to ride (Jimmy Burns ; tribute to Big Joe Williams) (2:45) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Delmark 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES TRITerry, Teri
Summary: "Twin teen girls with very different upbringings meet for the first time at their mother's funeral. As they get to know each other, it becomes clear that one of the sisters is driven by a secret destructive power-or is it both?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TERSummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Tenci
Contents: Earthquake -- Hair sticks -- Serpent -- Blue spring --Forgot my horse's name -- Joy -- Joy2 -- No wings -- My heart is an open field
Format: sound recording-musical
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TENSummary: In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Pinsky, Robert.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 PINFerris, Jeri.
Summary: A portrait of the man who wrote the first U.S. dictionary traces his youth as a bookish Connecticut farm boy and his twenty-year effort to write the all-American dictionary that was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB WEBSTER KIRTerris, Ben
Summary: "In this fascinating investigation into the real life inner workings of a post-Trump American government, uncover the odd and eccentric personalities grappling for their own bit of power in D.C. The Big Break investigates how Washington works, and how different kinds of people try to make it work for them. Ben Terris presents an inside history of this crucial moment in Washington, reporting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 TERPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PROHerji
Summary: "Go back in time with Nobel Prize laureate Michel Mayor to understand the secrets of the Universe and meet the great names in physics: Newton, Einstein and many more. This graphic-novel guide to the Universe explains complex ideas in a way anyone can understand. It's a book full of adventure-- as well as some of the most important concepts humankind has ever studied. On the program:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Helvetiq 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: Y GRAPHIC HERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 523.1 HERWillis, Terrie.
Summary: Describes the geography, history, plants and animals, economy, language, religions, culture, and people of Romania.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 949.8 WILPerry Lang, Adam.
Summary: A collection of recipes for barbecuing different types of meat and fish emphasizes grilling techniques while presenting ideas for side dishes, sauces, bastes, and brines.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 2012