Summary: General William Tecumseh Sherman's total war strategy against the South helped end the Civil War and forever changed the nation. Sherman's brutal and effective campaign, which not only saved the Lincoln presidency, the Union, and thousands of lives, but also made Sherman one of the most hated and controversial figures in American history. In November 1864, Sherman and an army of 60,000 troops...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHESummary: "A young F.B.I. agent is assigned watchdog duty over a fellow agent, but finds herself drawn into his investigations of paranormal and unexplained phenomena."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV XSummary: 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 2020Boerst, William J.
Summary: Presents the life and work of the famous seventeenth-century British physicist Sir Isaac Newton.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds Pub. 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUFuerst, James W. (James William)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Eugene "Huge" Smalls is short, mean, angry, and brilliant, characteristics which win him no friends, but he is also an amateur sleuth with his first real case, which leads him to believe life might be better if he did not imagine himself a character in a Raymond Chandler novel.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FUEContents: Disc one: Stax writers, Stax releases (part one). Comfort me / Carla Thomas -- You make a strong girl weak / Jeanne & The Darlings -- What did I do wrong / William Bell -- Another night without my man / Carla Thomas -- I got everything you need ; Mister fix it ; I'll always have faith in you ; Got to make a comeback / Eddie Floyd -- I've seen what loneliness can do / Homer Banks -- Slow train /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WRISummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: 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 OWilliams, Esther.
Summary: Cynthia must choose between her wealthy husband and the soldier she loves; Maria steps in for her twin brother when he abandons the bullfighting ring; a singing soldier abandons his pre-war life for love; an Ohio schoolteacher falls in love with a Tahitian girl; Williams portrays Australian swimmer and film star Annette Kellerman; swimming star Julie Hallerton falls in love with her boss who is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ESTSummary: This 1953 classic spotlights the careers of W.S. Gilbert (Robert Morley, The African Queen), a barrister turned-comic-writer, and Arthur Sullivan (Maurice Evans, Planet Of The Apes), a classic composer (converted against his will) to light music, who together wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOContents: Disc 1. Volumes 1-7. Lucy Mae blues ; I woke up crying ; Love blues ; I told you not to do that / Cecil Barfield -- In the evening ; Hey lawdy Mama ; Thousand woman blues ; Blue shadow falling ; Cold rainy day ; Amy / Buddy Moss -- Motherless child ; Hush, somebody is calling my name ; What God can do ; He'll understand and say well done / Leon Pinson -- Big road blues ; Cool water blues ; Big...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fat Possum Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MITSummary: 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 RANSummary: "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 BATWill.i.am.
Summary: "Parental Advisory; explicit content."-- Container insert.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope Records 2013
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP WILWill.i.am.
Contents: Good Morning (1:44) -- Hello (4:45) -- This Is Love (4:39) -- Scream & Shout (4:12) -- Feelin' Myself (4:13) -- Gettin' Dumb (5:14) -- Geekin' (3:34) -- Freshy (4:07) -- #thatPOWER (4:39) -- Great Times Are Coming (4:36) -- The World Is Crazy (3:59) -- Fall Down (5:07) -- Love Bullets (4:11) -- Far Away From Home (3:54) -- Ghetto Ghetto (3:50) -- Reach For The Stars (4:21) -- Smile Mona Lisa...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope 2013
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Summary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSWill.i.am.
Contents: Good Morning (1:44) -- Hello (4:45) -- This Is Love (4:39) -- Scream & Shout (4:12) -- Feelin' Myself (4:13) -- Gettin' Dumb (5:14) -- Geekin' (3:34) -- Freshy (4:07) -- #thatPOWER (4:39) -- Great Times Are Coming (4:36) -- The World Is Crazy (3:59) -- Fall Down (5:07) -- Love Bullets (4:11) -- Far Away From Home (3:54) -- Ghetto Ghetto (3:51).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope 2013
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Summary: Citizen Kane: The story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose life is investigated by a magazine reporter trying to discover the meaning of Kane's dying word: "Rosebud".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CITContents: Bottleneck blues (Weaver & Beasley) (2:51) -- Untitled (Barbecue Bob) (3:07) -- God don't never change (2:57) ; Dark was the night (Blind Willie Johnson) (3:18) -- St. Louis blues (Weaver & Beasley) (2:44) -- Experience blues (Ruth Willis, Blind Willie McTell) (3:09) -- Guitar rag (Sylvester Weaver) (2:58) -- You can't get that stuff no more (Tampa Red) (2:55) -- High sheriff blues (Charlie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1990