Summary: When a harried housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday of her own in Venice. She becomes charmed by the city and her newfound freedom. She decides to extend her stay, finding a job in a flower shop, renting a room from a wistful waiter, and rediscovers her love for playing the accordion. But her solo journey does not sit well with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A painterly and sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian farm life that lovingly focuses on four families working for one landowner on an isolated estate in the province of Bergamo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRESummary: After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women, while at the same time searching for the right subject (and actress) for his next film.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IDESummary: Collects twelve short stories about the Disney princesses, including Moana, Belle, Pocahontas, Tiana, and Snow White.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Zero Motivation is a unique, sharply observed, sometimes dark and often hilarious portrait of everyday life for a unit of young, female soldiers in a remote Israeli desert outpost. Playing out like M*A*S*H meets Orange is the New Black, Talya Lavie's debut details the power struggles of three women with different agendas and very little to do. Pencil-pushers in the Human Resources Office, best...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZERItal.
Summary: 2012 debut from Daniel Martin-McCormick AKA Ital. Hive Mind uses House's easygoing 4/4 structure as a kind of camouflage for more out-there sonic explorations, subverting expectations, seeking the links between Dub's space- and sound-bending, Industrial's unsettling sonics and the effects and black holes of Minimal at its weirdest. The album has a sculptured feel: sounds twist in space while...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Planet Mu 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ITASummary: Aviva is a poor cook at a local Tiberias hotel whose big dream is about to come true. Through her sister, Anita, she meets Oded, a famous write who promises he'll make Aviva a great writer too. But Aviva's big break starts to affect her family, and not necessarily in a good way. Aviva's future begins to alternate between despair and hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Sisu Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVISummary: Explores the life and legacy of late war photojournalist Chris Hondros, who covered every major world event since the late 1990s, taking viewers behind the scenes to tell the untold stories of many of Hondross most iconic photographs. The film follows director Greg Campbell, Hondross childhood friend and fellow journalist on a global journey to visit the people and places made famous by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Freestyle Digital Media 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HONSummary: Every year Scranton High's 1957 champion basketball team reunite to relive the glory and reinvent the myths. At their twenty-fourth reunion the coach is rallying his boys. Friendship and betrayal, success and failure, past and present--the dreams and realities of the game of life are explored in a moving experience.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1983
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THAEhrbar, Gregory
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of and introduction to the Disney live action movie about Mulan, who's different from the other girls in her village, and feels like a disappointment to her family--until a wise remark from her younger sister changes her perspective.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Milan, Courtney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILStitt, Milan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. T. White 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 StittSummary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NINIlnitzki, Megan
Summary: Profiles such Marvel superheroes as Captain America, Black Widow, and Black Panther.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Press, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2017
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Contents: Sirens II (2:46) -- Star Now (3:11) -- Open Up The Door (3:10) -- I Really Don't Care (3:00) -- Pleasure Toy (feat. BIG K.R.I.T.) (4:33) -- Satellites (2:59) -- Lunatic (2:43) -- Money Over Love (feat. Kendrick Lamar) (2:45) -- Love Child (3:20) -- Holding It Back (feat. Kimbra) (3:28) -- Spiraling (3:00) -- Bury Me Next To You (3:44).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: eOne Music 2015
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Hammerman, Ilana
Summary: "A Woman on Her Own, the latest book by Israeli writer Ilana Hammerman, is an episodic book, marrying stories of protest and more personal interludes on larger moral issues at play in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Though Hammerman is an activist, thereader will not find her arguing with Israeli settlers, tearing down blockades, or getting arrested. Hers is a much more personal, moving, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 HAMSummary: "All five Bourne films are available together in The Bourne Complete Collection! Matt Damon is Jason Bourne, an elite government agent determined to outwit and outmaneuver anyone who stands in the way of his mission to discover the secrets of his mysterious past. As part of the next generation of genetically-engineered agents, Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross attempts to finish what Bourne started....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 801 KUNKundera, Milan.
Summary: A novel on the theme that the pleasure inherent in a slower rhythm of life has disappeared from our speed-obsessed age. The protagonists are two men, one who has a romance in the 18th Century, the other in the 20th Century. Subsequently, they meet for a morning-after chat. By the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNPelouch, Milan
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 589.2 PelCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 PELCopies Available at Interlochen
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food PelouchKordestani, Milan
Summary: "In I'm Just Saying, author Milan Kordestani shows us that although challenging conversations can be unpleasant, they can also help us grow. Sometimes, people inspire us to change how we speak, making us better communicators in the process as we search to find common ground with those with whom we disagree. Kordestani uses contemporary case studies and personal experience to teach readers how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2242 KORKundera, Milan
Summary: This short collection of early essays offers context for the Milan Kundera's subsequent career and holds a mirror to recent European history.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: The only authorized translation of the bestselling masterpiece by one of the greatest authors of our time, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1999