Moby

Summary: From Moby, one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, comes a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and unlikely success. It's about making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. It's about finding your people, your place, thinking you've lost them both, and then, somehow, when you...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOBY MOB

Summary: "Earthlings is a feature length documentary about humankind's absolute economic dependence on animals raised as pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research. Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, Earthlings chronicles the day-to-day practices of some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit. Earthlings is the most...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Earthlings.com 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAR

Summary: Brooklyn based artist Vik Muniz grew up poor in Brazil. This film follows him as he returns to Rio de Janeiro, specifically to Jardim Gramacho, or "Garbage Garden." The world's largest landfill, it receives 7,000 tons daily, an astonishing 70% of all Rio's garbage. "We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials," says Tião, a catadore, or trash picker who thinks of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Almega Projects 2011

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAS

Summary: Jeff Goldblum may have starred in some of the biggest movies in history, but to secure a green card for his young Canadian fiancée, he's agreed to do a two-week regional theater production of "The music man" in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now he's faced with grueling rehearsals, a furious agent, good friends with their own troubles whom he's convinced to co-star, and the very real prospect of a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PIT

Warrick, Joby

Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the harrowing story of America's mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and defeat ISIS--only to lose control of both In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. Concerned that Assad might resort to chemical weapons, President Obama warned that any such use would...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9104 WAR

Warrick, Joby.

Summary: In December 2009, Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent and a go-between for the CIA and al-Qaeda, detonated a suicide bomb at a CIA base, killing seven agents. Here, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick chronicles how this tragedy happened, examining al-Balawi's journey through the spy world and how the CIA failed to recognize the danger he posed.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BALAWI, HUMAM KHALIL AL War

Harnden, Toby

Summary: America is reeling; Al-Qaeda has struck and thousands are dead. The country scrambles to respond, but the Pentagon has no plan for Afghanistan--where Osama bin Laden masterminded the attack and is protected by the Taliban. Instead, the CIA steps forward to spearhead the war. Eight CIA officers are dropped into the mountains of northern Afghanistan on October 17, 2001. They are Team Alpha, an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 HAR

Joey.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 JOE