Pelly, Jenn
Summary: The Raincoats were not the most famous band of late 70s London punk, nor were they the most critically acclaimed. But the peculiar charms of this pioneering feminist punk band helped bolster the iconic Rough Trade label at its radical beginnings. The brilliantly anti-commercial Raincoats is one of our earliest documents of D.I.Y. as an aesthetic-timeless spiritual music for Riot Grrrls, indie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 PELSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRIMurray, Anne
Contents: Danny's song (with Martina McBride) -- I just fall in love again (with Dusty Springfield) -- Another pot o' tea (with Emmylou Harris) -- Daydream believer (with Nelly Furtado) -- Somebody's always saying goodbye (with Jann Arden) -- Song for the mira (with Celtic Woman) -- Time don't run out on me (with Carole King) -- Cotton Jenny (with Olivia Newton-John) -- A love song (with k.d. lang) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Music Canada 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL MURSummary: A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: the Criterion Collection 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOFHarvey, Polly Jean
Contents: Devil -- Dear darkness -- Grow grow grow -- When under ether -- White chalk -- Broken harp -- Silence -- To talk to you -- Piano -- Before departure -- Mountain.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARJelley, Jane
Summary: Johannes Vermeer's luminous paintings are loved and admired around the world, yet we do not understand how they were made. We see sunlit spaces; the glimmer of satin, silver, and linen; we see the softness of a hand on a lute string or letter. We recognise the distilled impression of a moment of time; and we feel it to be real. We might hope for some answers from the experts, but they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 JELHarvey, Polly Jean
Contents: Let England shake -- The last living rose -- The glorious land -- The words that maketh murder -- All and everyone -- On Battleship Hill -- England -- In the dark places -- Bitter branches -- Hanging in the wire -- Written on the forehead -- The colour of the earth.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vagrant Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARHarvey, Polly Jean.
Contents: To bring you my love (5:32) -- Meet ze monsta (3:29) -- Working for the man (4:45) -- C'mon Billy (2:47)-- Teclo (4:57) -- Long snake moan (5:17) -- Down by the water (3:14) -- I think I'm a mother (4:00) -- Send his love to me (4:20) -- The dancer (4:06).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARHarvey, Polly Jean.
Contents: The life and death of Mr. Badmouth -- Shame -- Who the f**k -- Pocket knife -- The letter -- The slow drug -- No child of mine -- Cat on the wall -- You come through -- It's you -- The end -- The desperate kingdom of love -- The darker days of me & him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARHarvey, Polly Jean
Summary: For her latest album, PJ Harvey draws from several journeys that she has undertaken over a four-year period. It was recorded as part of an exhibition where public audiences could observe the recording process through one-way glass.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARHarvey, Polly Jean
Contents: Big exit -- Good fortune -- Place called home -- One line -- Beautiful feeling -- Whores hustle and the hustlers whore -- This mess we're in -- You said something -- Kamikaze -- This is love -- Horses in my dreams -- We float.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARDeng, Achut
Summary: "I want life. For ten years, Achut Deng surrived at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya after her family was ripped apart by the Second Sudanese Civil War. But Achut wanted to do more than merely survive. She wanted to live. The twenty-two-year civil war essentially orphaned over 20,000 children and drove them from their villages in southern Sudan. Some of these children walked over a thousand miles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 DENLally, Linda Jean.
Summary: Traces the history, development, and design of the popular bug-shaped car, from its origins in Nazi Germany, to its appeal among college students in the 1960s, to its nostalgic but modern version introduced in 1998.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RiverFront Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.2222 LALBean, Billy
Summary: From the only openly gay former major-league baseball player comes a chronicle of America's national pastime, and an intimate memoir of a man who learned to follow his own path. A relentless work ethic, exceptional multi-sport talent, and a quick left-handed swing got Bean into the big leagues--playing in the majors from 1987 to 1995 for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Diego...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marlowe & Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 BEASummary: Huppert plays Mika, wife of celebrated pianist André Polonski (Jacques Dutronc) and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a carwreck on his sixth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne (Anna Mouglalis), a young woman who has learned that she was almost switched at birth with Guillaume. Also a pianist, she harbours a suspicion that she may be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First-Run Features 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Harvey, Polly Jean
Contents: Oh my lover -- O Stella -- Dress -- Victory -- Happy and bleeding -- Sheela-na-gig -- Hair -- Joe -- Plants and rags -- Fountain (3:53) -- Water.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Indigo 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARHarvey, Polly Jean
Summary: PJ Harvey's tenth studio album marks her first release in seven years, following UK #1 album 'The Hope Six Demolition Project'. On this album, which was recorded with long-time creative collaborators John Parish and Flood, PJ Harvey builds a sonic universe somehow located in a space between life's opposites, and between recent history and the ancient past. Scattered with biblical imagery and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARHarvey, Polly Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARHarvey, Polly Jean.
Contents: Oh my lover -- Victory -- Sheela-na-gig -- Water -- Naked cousin -- Wang dang doodle -- Losing ground -- Snake -- That was my veil -- This wicked tongue -- Beautiful feeling -- You come through.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island 2006