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 PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Heidi: Based on the classic, Shirley stars as an adorable orphan who transforms her gruff grandfather in the Alps into a loving man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SHIContents: Crossing the rubicon / Bob Dylan -- Azad / Frazey Ford -- Highly Amplified / Cornershop -- So we won't forget / Khruangbin -- Yankee and the brave / Run The Jewels -- I was not born / Fontaines D.C. -- Galleon ship / Nick Cave -- Halloween / Phoebe Bridgers -- Ry Cooder / Bill Callahan -- Virile / Moses Sumney -- Got to be tough / Toots and the Maytals -- House music all night long / Jarv Is...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: Louisa 'Lou' Clark lives in a quaint town in the English countryside. With no clear direction in her life, the quirky and creative 26-year old goes from one job to the next in order to make ends meet. Taking a job at the local 'castle' she becomes caregiver and companion to Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker who became wheelchair bound in an accident. Embarking together on a series of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ME RATED PG-13Contents: Ain't she sweet / Beatles. -- Telstar / Tornados. -- Shout / Lulu & the Luvers. -- Some other guy / Big Three. -- Yeh, yeh / George Fame & the Blue Flames. -- My Bonnie / Beatles with Tony Sheridan. -- Everything's alright / Mojos. -- Downtown / Petula Clark. -- Game of love / Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders. -- Baby, please don't go / Them. -- Road runner / Pretty Things. -- Diane / Bachelors....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BRIBig Red Machine (Musical group)
Contents: Latter days / (feat. Anaïs Mitchell) -- Reese -- Phoenix / (feat. Fleet Foxes & Anaïs Mitchell) -- Birch / (feat. Taylor Swift) -- Renegade / (feat. Taylor Swift) -- The ghost of Cincinnati -- Hoping then -- Mimi / (feat. Ilsey) -- Easy to sabotage / (feat. Naeem) -- Hutch / (feat. Sharon Van Etten, Lisa Hannigan & Shara Nova) -- 8:22AM / (feat. La Force) -- Magnolia -- June's a river / (feat....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BIGMoses
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1952
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOSES, GRANDMA MOSSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATMethyl Ethel (Musical Group)
Contents: Idée fixe -- Shadowboxing -- Rogues -- To swim -- Twiligt driving -- Depth perception -- Unbalancing acts -- Also Gesellschaft -- Obscura -- Artificial limb -- Sweet waste -- Everything is as it should be.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK METKallir, Jane.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Art Services International 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 KAIContents: disc A: God's chariot : pt. 1 ; God's chariot : pt. 2 (Gospel Travelers) -- High cost of living ; Teach me lord (Sons of Jehovah) -- So glad I've got good religion ; The old landmark (Brewster Singers) -- How much more can I bear ; Come on over here (Southern Wonders) -- I never heard of a city/These are they (Queen C. Anderson ; with the Brewster Ensemble) (live) -- I'm so glad today ; I...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS MEMCroker, Theo
Contents: Love quantum (prelude) (0:57) -- Jazz is dead (feat. Gary Bartz & Kassa Overall) (5:07) -- To be we (feat. Jill Scott) (4:26) -- Royal conversation (feat. James Tillman) (4:26) -- Cosmic intercourse (pt. II) (feat. Chris Dave) (2:14) -- Humanity (1:03) -- Divinity (feat. Jamila Woods) (2:02) -- Love thyself (feat. Teedra Moses) (3:38) -- Love quantum (Soliloquy) (2:51) -- Somethin' (feat. Ego...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ CROMoses, Rucker
Summary: Returning to Brooklyn, where his magician-father disappeared years before, twelve-year-old Kingston learns that magic is real and that if he enters the Realm, he might get his father back.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOSSummary: Sally Adams has made it her business to know everyone worth knowing in Washington, D.C., and her penchant for parties pays off when she's appointed U.S. Ambassador to Lichtenburg. Once she is installed in her new position, shes falls in love with the sauve Foreign Minister Cosmo Constantine, while Princess Maria has her head turned by Sally's press attaché, Kenneth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CALSummary: Meet Seymour Bernstein: a virtuoso pianist, veteran New Yorker, and true original who gave up a successful concert career to teach music. In this wonderfully warm, witty, and intimate tribute from his friend, Ethan Hawke, Seymour shares unforgettable stories from his remarkable life and eye-opening words of wisdom, as well as insightful reflections on art, creativity, and the search for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEYSummary: In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MOTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Motherless 2020Contents: White winter hymnal / Fleet Foxes -- Winter blows / The Waterboys -- Pink frost 13 / The Chills -- Listen the snow is falling / Thea Gilmore -- Snowstorm / Galaxie 500 -- Winter is blue (Immediate version) / Vashti Bunyan -- January man / Rachel Unthank & The Winterset -- Stormy winds / The Watersons -- Come in/The winter is past / PG Six -- Cold winter day / Blind Willie McTell -- River /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJCollins, Nicolas.
Contents: Broken light (1991) for string quartet and modified CD player (13:50) : Corelli ; Locatelli ; Torelli (Soldier String Quartet) -- Tobabo fonio (1986-90) (Nicolas Collins, trombone-propelled electronics) (9:36) -- It was a dark and stormy night (1990) (David Moss, voice ; Nicolas Collins, voice, backwards electric guitar, electronics ; Robert Poss, electric guitar ; Guy Klucevsek, accordion ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Trace Elements 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE COLAppelman, J. Reuben
Summary: "While Idaho Slept is a thought-provoking, literary chronicle of a small-town murder investigation blistering beneath the unceasing light of international interest, as traditional investigators, citizen sleuths, and the true-crime media acted--sometimes together, often in conflict--to uncover the truth. As J. Reuben Appelman brings this terrible crime into focus, he humanizes the four victims,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 APPSummary: Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BAASummary: Jazz legend Chet Baker's tumultuous life is thrillingly re-imagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BORDoves.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DOVKor, Eva Mozes
Summary: Eva Mozes Kor and her twin Miriam were ten years old when they were subjected to the medical experiments of the Auschwitz Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. The story of their fight for survival, recovery, and forgiveness are told again and updated here in this new edition with interesting details and important context in a new afterword. Eva turned her triumph over pain and suffering into a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tanglewood Publishing, Inc. 2020