Platt, Stephen R
Summary: Describes how nineteenth-century British efforts to open China to trade set in motion the fall of the Qing dynasty and started a war that allowed for the rise of nationalism and communism in the twentieth century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951 PLAPratt, Steven.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 PRASummary: In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the war on April 6, 1917, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRESummary: A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LONPratt, Steven.
Summary: Ophthalmologist Steven Pratt saw the positive results when his patients with macular degeneration changed their diets, leading him to research the natural powers certain foods have to reduce blindness, heart diseases, diabetes, and cancer. Now, Dr. Pratt, with the assistance of Kathy Matthews, has written the first book to combine all the new information beyond fat-carbs protein-vits-minterals...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 PRASummary: The breathtaking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Chbosky, the film is written for the screen by the show's Tony winner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD DEACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DEASummary: Tells the story of former FBI Dir. James Comey and President Donald J. Trump, two powerful men whose strikingly different ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COMSummary: Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, a nurse operates a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Global Road Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOTJ Page R Plant
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Superhype Music 1972
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: "Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant looms just 35 miles from Times Square. With over 50 million people living in close proximity to the aging facility, its continued operation has the support of the plant's operators and the NRC--Nuclear Regulatory Commission--yet has stoked a great deal of controversy in the surrounding community, including a vocal anti-nuclear contingent concerned that what...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INDPratt, Douglas R.
Summary: Tells how to get started in radio controlled model airplanes, discusses the Academy of Model Aeronautics, and shows how to assemble and operate an RC airplane kit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tab Books 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1331 PRASummary: Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV StephenSpratt, R. A.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A modern twist on several of the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. This humorous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel, all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INTO RATED PGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INTCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS INTSummary: A baker and his wife journey into the woods in search of a cow, a red cape, a pair of golden slippers and some magic beans to lift a curse that has kept them childless. Tony Award winners Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason and the rest of the original Broadway cast weave their magic spell over you in Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece, directed by James Lapine, a seamless fusion of fairy tale...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2010
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Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACSummary: Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2003
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE POSSummary: A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Under siege: Casey Ryback is a one-man strike force, waging war against hijackers intent on commandeering a battleship's arsenal of nuclear missiles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDSummary: From executive producer Stephen Colbert comes this hilarious look into the Trump presidency, animation style. Starring two-dimensional avatars of Donald Trump and his merry band of insiders and family members, this cutting-edge comedy presents the truish adventures of Trump, his confidants and bon vivants. It's a workplace comedy where the office is oval, a character study in search of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OURFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ga 7Summary: Death Hunt: Set in the '30s, Mountie Millen (Lee Marvin) is assigned to track down accused murderer Johnson (Charles Bronson), who has escaped in the high passes of the Canadian Rockies. Butch & Sundance: The Early Years: A prequel to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, chronicling the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the hit Paul Newman/Robert Redford movie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2011
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BUTSummary: From executive producer Stephen Colbert comes this hilarious look into the Trump presidency, animation style. Starring two-dimensional avatars of Donald Trump and his merry band of insiders and family members, this cutting-edge comedy presents the truish adventures of Trump, his confidants and bon vivants. It's a workplace comedy where the office is oval, a character study in search of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019