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Husband and wife Jordan Politics and government 1952-1999 King of Jordan Hussein 1935-1999 Minneapolis (Minn.) Drama Queen, consort of Hussein, King of Jordan Noor 1951- Single women Minnesota Minneapolis Drama Strang, James Jesse 1813-1856 Television broadcasting of news Minnesota Minneapolis Drama West United States Western filmsFilter By Subjects
Husband and wife Jordan Politics and government 1952-1999 King of Jordan Hussein 1935-1999 Minneapolis (Minn.) Drama Queen, consort of Hussein, King of Jordan Noor 1951- Single women Minnesota Minneapolis Drama Strang, James Jesse 1813-1856 Television broadcasting of news Minnesota Minneapolis Drama West United States Western filmsSummary: "Paul Hegeman highlights the music of renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt while attempting to unveil the mystery around the purportedly reclusive writer of such famed works as "Tabula Rasa," "Fratres," "Trivium" and "Für Alina," all stirringly performed here. But Hegeman, who also shot the film (with Auke Dijkstra), eschews a typical biographical recounting of the 83-year-old maestro's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THAVarious
Summary: In John Adams' opera, J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists explore the moral implications of the development of the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA DOCEinhorn, Richard
Contents: Exclamavit (3:07) -- Victory at Orleans (5:04) -- Interrogation (6:43) -- The jailers (2:58) -- Pater Noster (9:06) -- Torture (5:22) -- Illness (4:17) -- Sacrament (5:09) -- Abjuration (7:38) -- Relapse (3:44) -- Karitas (2:05) -- Anima (5:28) -- The final walk (3:01) -- The burning (3:03) -- The fire of the dove ; Epilogue (3:54).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL EINProkofiev, Sergey
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: London 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL PROSummary: Two infants from very different backgrounds become friends through circumstance, only to become rivals as adults. When the pair work together on a quest to find their princesses, will their true friendship once again shine through?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY AZUSummary: Thirty-two vignettes, spanning pianist Glenn Gould's life from age four until his death at fifty, give an impressionistic depiction of his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming environmental collapse. Intrigued and excited, Arnauld sings up for the boot camp himself. They soon realize that the boot camp is harder than they had imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LOVSummary: A 17-year-old Kurdish refugee, Bilal, has struggled his way through Europe in an attempt to reunite with his girlfriend, who has emigrated to England. When he is stopped in France, he decides to swim the English Channel to complete his journey. While training at a local swimming pool he meets Simon, a middle-aged swim instructor, who agrees to help Bilal, in order to regain the affection of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WELSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANNoor
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 NOOSummary: Set in Argentina during the Dirty War of the mid-seventies, on the eve of the nation's descent into a military dictatorship, ... follows Claudio, a renowned lawyer living a seemingly picture-perfect life in a deceptively quiet provincial city. One night, a stranger starts insulting Claudio in a restaurant for no apparent reason. Later that night, the stranger intercepts Claudio and his wife...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROJSummary: Good night, gorilla: The zookeeper makes his nightly rounds but never suspects that someone is making mischief along the way. How do dinosaurs say good night: Even dinosaurs make a fuss before bedtime. Happy birthday, moon: Little Bear and the moon wish each other happy birthday. Napping house: Granny and all her critters pile on her bed for a nap.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV GOOSummary: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obligated to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOBSummary: Six classic westerns starring Hollywood cowboy legend Randolph Scott. Desperadoes: when a bank is robbed, the sherrif's best friend who is an ex-outlaw is the prime suspect -- Nevadan: an undercover operation to discover the location of stolen loot is complicated by a greedy rancher and his beautiful daughter -- Santa Fe: an ex-Confederate soldier begins to work for the Yankee-funded Santa Fe...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RANNoor
Summary: Sharing a personal perspective on the past three decades of world history, Queen Noor talks frankly of the many challenges of her life as wife and partner to the monarch, providing both an intimate portrait of the late King Hussein and a moving account of their public role.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NOOR, QUEEN NoorSummary: "This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CINSummary: Join Mary and the rest of the crew from the WJM-TV newsroom for another season of the classic sitcom. This time around Mary deals with more adventures, both in the newsroom and with her romantic life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARLazarowich, Orest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tab Books 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 LazarowichVan Noord, Roger
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRANG, JAMES JESSE VAN1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 289.33 VANN
Harris, Charlaine
Summary: "Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she's become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become a murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos. Children are being murdered in New York,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC INDNoory, George
Summary: A late-night talk-show host fascinated by paranormal phenomena becomes entangled in a deadly conspiracy after being accused by government agents of having dealings with a hacker who has died after stealing dangerous secrets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOOVan Noord, Roger
Summary: A skeptical follower of James Jesse Strang once wrote: "No man can serve two masters. You cannot serve a temporal king and a republican government at the same time. The thing is preposterous." And yet, under Strang, such a system survived in Michigan for six years. This book traces the life and assassination of King Strang, the extraordinary Mormon leader who, in the 1850s, created a literal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRANG, JAMES JESSESummary: This crime-thriller follows the investigation into the infamous murder of iconic rap artist Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. Determined LAPD detective Russell Poole spent nearly 20 years trying to solve the murder, and Jack Jackson, a journalist teams up with Poole in search of the elusive truth. Together they explore why the case remains old, and why a secretive division of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2021