Mohn, Reinhard

Summary: A legendary entrepreneur and father of the global media giant Bertelsmann offers penetrating insights into his motives, beliefs, and hopes as one of the world's foremost businesspeople.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174 MOH

Dizon, John Reinhard

Summary: In the aftermath of the War on Terror, a succession of nuclear attacks have left the nations of the world in a Great Depression. Katia Wynter is a teenage girl living in a commune in New Mexico, ruled by motorcycle gangs who exchange protection for tribute. One of many kids who left their poverty-stricken homes in Truth or Consequences, Katia is searching for a better future outside the world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 0000

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DIZ

Renard, John

Summary: Provides the history, beliefs, symbols, membership, leaders, observances, and customs of the major religions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2012

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 200 REN

Summary: The film follows a group of misfit kids as they search for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of lady criminal Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. Fortunately, the kids manage to befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GOO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GOO

Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV O

Summary: A psychedelic precursor to music videos, in which The Mothers of Invention, a touring musical group, wreak havoc in Centerville, a stereotypical American town. The first color movie made on videotape and then transferred to film, it includes many visual effects.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE TWO

Summary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOL

Summary: When a corrupt corporate developer buys out their neighborhood and plans to flatten all their homes, a gang of kids stumbles onto a treasure map and searches out the treasure in the hopes of buying back their houses.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. 2010

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FAMILY GOO

Summary: Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANG

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in rural North Carolina are forced to confront a tangle of difficult choices as they discover what it takes to make a modern American hero.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GEO

Summary: An intimately epic exploration of the convergence between artistry and eroticism. Edouard Frenhofer is a reclusive painter living in the French countryside with his wife. Their lives are radically upended with the arrival of a younger artist and his girlfriend, who becomes the muse that awakens Edouard's fading passions. Rivette creates a layered character study, while also offering an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEL

Summary: One of the most talked-about comedy shows ever, this hilarious collection of classic laughs became a legend during its showings on NBC.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RIC

Summary: Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in the decaying rural South must confront a tangle of difficult choices.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA GEO

Summary: Life in Judge Harry Stone's court starts with a tear (as the gang says farewell to Selma) and a horselaugh (as they welcome wiseacre Flo to the municipal menagerie). Harry and his staff contend with New York's zaniest nuts and dolts: the usual winos, weirdos, hookers and con artists, plus an orangutan, a rock star, a man from Saturn and a gorgeous witch who has Harry under her spell.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIG

Summary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009

Summary: Frank and April Wheeler live a life that appears to be perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job that he hates. One he places little effort at, but he has yet to figure out what his passion in life is. April is a housewife who forgoes her dream of being an actress. They are not happy. One day, April...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REV

Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KIL

Black, Alexandra

Summary: "The second title in DK's new illustrated biography series, Scientists Who Changed History profiles trailblazing individuals from Greek mathematicians, such as Archimedes and Hipparchus, through physicists of the early 20th-century, such as Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, to modern greats such as Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee. Each featured individual has made a major contribution to one...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509.2 BLA

Cohen, Richard

Summary: Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who would cross swords with Bess after school. Lincoln was a canny dueler. Ignatius Loyola challenged a man to a duel for denying Christ's divinity (and won). Less successful, but no less enthusiastic, was Mussolini, who would tell his wife he was "off to get spaghetti," their code to avoid alarming the children....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.86 COH

Strauss, Richard

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Records 1985

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MA