Otto, Shawn Lawrence.
Summary: "From the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated House of Sand and Fog, a fierce, elegant, page-turning novel about race, money, and the American Dream JW is a small-town banker. His specialty: teaching other bankers in towns near Indian reservations how to profit from casino deposits without exposing themselves to risk. His problem: having lost his son in a car accident a year ago, JW is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTTSummary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSpann, Otis
Contents: Country girl (4:51) -- Get on down to the nitty gritty (4:26) -- Long distance call (10:08) -- I got my mojo working (4:32) -- Chains of love (7:43) -- Stomp with Spann (2:33) -- My baby (6:53) -- I wonder why (4:10) -- My man (5:33) -- Blues for Otis (6:32).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mr. Cat Music 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SpannSpann, Otis
Contents: It must have been the devil (3:47) ; Otis blues (4:19) / Spann -- Goin' down slow / Oden (4:00) -- Half ain't been told / Spann (4:41) -- Monkey face blues / Oden (4:58) -- This is the blues / Spann (3:10) -- Can't atand you evil ways (3:53) ; Come day, go day (4:13) / Oden -- Walkin' the blues / Spann (4:58) -- Bad condition / Oden (4:24) -- My home in the delta / Morganfield (3:13).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SPASpann, Otis
Contents: Good morning Mr. Blues (3:19) -- Love, love, love (2:26) -- River side blues (3:18) -- Must have been the Devil (2:40) -- Jelly Roll Baker (4:06) -- Trouble in mind (3:27) -- Worried life blues (4:05) -- T.B. blues (4:10) -- Spann's boogie (2:11) -- Don't you know (4:25) -- Goin' down slow (4:39) -- The skys are blue (3:35) -- Keep your hands out of my pocket (2:51) -- Boots and shoes (3:11).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Analogue Productions 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SPASpann, Otis
Contents: Popcorn man / McKinley Morganfield -- Brand new house / Woody Harris, Bobby Darin -- Chicago blues / Otis Spann, G. Spink -- Steel mill blues ; Down on Sarah Street / Otis Spann -- T' ain't nobody's business if I do / Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins -- Nobody knows Chicago like I do (party blues) / Otis Spann -- My home is in the Delta / McKinley Morganfield -- Spann blues / Otis Spann --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SPASummary: 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
Otoo, Sharon Dodua
Summary: "A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer, tries to hide her affair with Charles Dickens from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTOSummary: Storm of the century: When a murder shakes the island of Little Tall, the local constable must stop the evil that is growing as quickly as the snowstorm.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD StMingus, Charles
Contents: Dizzy moods / C. Mingus, D. Gillespie -- Ysabel's table dance -- Tijuana gift shop -- Los mariachis = The street musicians -- Flamingo / E. Anderson, T. Grouya.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bluebird 1986
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ MINSummary: A human baby accidentally ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD ELFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELF RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ELFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELFKaner, Etta.
Summary: Children wonder how the sun is involved in certain processes, and readers can flip open the pages to discover why grapes turn into raisins, how sunglasses work, and what shadows are.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two passengers board a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn when their hibernation pods mysteriously wake them 90 years before they reach their destination. As Jim and Aurora try to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction, only to be threatened by the imminent...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAS RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PaOcto Octa
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC OCTSummary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.0237 FRELaurance, Ewa Mataya.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.72 LAUOtto.
Contents: Crua -- O leite / (feat. Céu) -- Janáina -- Meu mundo danc̦a -- 6 minutos -- Lágrimas negras / (feat. Julieta Venegas) -- Saudade / (feat. Julieta Venegas) -- Naquela mesa -- Filha -- Agora Sim.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nublu Records 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN OTTSummary: It tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The film relates the stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view, stories of service and pain, of courage and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 355 Warrior 2019Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WARSummary: John James Audubon's story is dramatic and surprising. He was not born in America, but saw more of the North American continent than virtually anyone alive. His growing apprehension about the destruction of nature became his prophecy. As an artist and naturalist his achievements were monumental. John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature creates a meaningful portrait of Art and Science in the first...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOHSummary: Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI LIQSummary: Whatever became of the "American Dream"? Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUKaner, Etta.
Summary: Young children describe why they like the snow and information hidden under the flaps explains various aspects of snow, including how snow muffles sound, what snowflakes look like up close, and why snow looks white.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.5784 KANMcGriff, Jimmy.
Contents: Groove grease (3:33) -- The bird (3:14) -- Plain brown bag (3:36) -- There will never be another you (4:48) -- Canadian sunset (3:30) -- Mr. Lucky (3:44) -- Moonglow (3:24) -- Red sails in the sunset (3:07) -- Secret love (4:32).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ioda 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MCGSummary: Kathy gets evicted from her home for failing to pay a tax she never should have been charged to pay in the first place. The house is swiftly put up for auction and bought by a former military officer from Iran named Behrani. When legal efforts fail her, Kathy turns to a sympathetic cop who wants out of a loveless marriage and who is willing to step over legal boundaries if it might give him the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2004