Summary: Silent film reenactment detailing the events leading up to the Russian Revolution. The film was commissioned to Sergei Eisenstein to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Eisenstein chose to capture the spirit of the era by focusing on one place at one point in time: Petrograd between February and October 1917, and using a political perspective. The original version was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Corinth Films 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OCTSummary: Mehendra is a chain-wallah, eking out a living fixing zippers on the streets of New Delhi. To ease his financial woes, he sends his twelve-year-old Siddharth to work in a distant factory. When the boy doesn't come home for the Diwali holiday, Mehendra and his wife Suman slowly begin to suspect that he was kidnapped by child traffickers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SIDContents: Kiss you all over (Exile) (3:28) -- Stumblin' in (Suzi Quatro and Chris Norman) (3:28) -- Which way you goin' Billy? (The Poppy Family) (3:21) -- Last song (Edward Bear) (3:10) -- Oh, babe, what would you say? (Hurricane Smith) (3:24) -- Love really hurts without you (Billy Ocean) (2:59) -- Kung fu fighting (Carl Douglas) (3:14) -- Right back where we started from (Maxine Nightingale) (3:12) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARSummary: "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 PAUTopol
Summary: Tevye the milkman struggles to raise five daughters as observant Jews in the rapidly changing society of pre-revolutionary Ukraine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIDPopova, Eugeniya
Summary: Invites young readers to find certain images in holiday scenes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clever Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.2663 POPPopova, Maria
Summary: "Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries, beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement. Stretching between these...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.43 POPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil PopovaPopova, Maria
Summary: This is the real-life story of Jeremy, a rare garden snail found in 2015 by a retired London scientist. Jeremy's shell spiraled to the left, indicating reversed internal anatomy--including a heart positioned on the right. As a result, a similarly rare mate was needed in order to procreate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J594 POPPoppy
Contents: Flux -- Lessen the damage -- So mean -- On the level -- Hysteria -- Her -- Bloom -- As strange as it seems -- Never find my place.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK POPPoppy
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK POPPopol Vuh
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC CORPopol Vuh (Musical group)
Contents: Wehe Khorazin -- Scene from "Ernani" -- Engel der Luft -- RidiPagliacci (Caruso/Leoncavallo) -- O Paradiso (Caruso/Meyerbeer) -- Kind mit Geige (traditional) -- Im Garten der Gemeinschaft -- Blasmusik (traditional) -- Tod und Verklärung (excerpt) (R. Strauss) -- Musik aus Burundi (traditional) -- Il Sogno (Manon/Verdi) -- Quartett (Rigoletto/Verdi) -- Oh Mimi, tu piu non torni (Caruso/Puccini)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: SPV Recordings 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC FITPopovic, Lana
Summary: In 1578 Hungary, sixteen-year-old Anna is elevated from scullery maid to chambermaid by the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Báthory, falling completely under the Countess's spell until Anna realizes that she is not a friend but a prisoner of the increasingly cruel and murderous Elizabeth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POPPolma Polpo
Contents: Romeo heart -- Requiem for a fox -- Farewell -- Sky histoire -- Like hearts swelling.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Constellation 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK POLPopoff, Martin
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Krause 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.26 POPPopol Vuh (Musical group)
Contents: Kleiner Krieger / Fichelscher (1:05) -- King Minos / Fricke (4:30) -- Morgengruss / Fichelscher (2:55) -- Würfelspiel / Fricke (3:00) -- Gutes Land / Fricke (5:13) -- Einsjäger & Siebenjäger / Fricke (19:30).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kosmischen Kuriere 2018
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL ELECTRONIC POPPopol Vuh (Musical group)
Contents: Selig sind die, die da hungern -- Tanz der Chassidim -- Selig sind, die da hier weinen -- Selig sind, die da willig arm sind -- Selig sind, die da Leid tragen -- Selig sind die Sanftmütigen -- Selig sind, die da reinen Herzens sind -- Ja, sie sollen Gottes Kinder heissen. Bonus Track: Be in love.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: SPV 2021
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL ELECTRONIC POPPopoff, Alexandra.
Summary: Presents a different look at Leo Tolstoy's wife's from her unpublished memoir and reveals how the classic author's followers actively suppressed the truth about Sophia's dedication to her husband and his work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOLSTAIA, S.A. POPPotok, Chaim.
Summary: Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he's in love, and he's studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die. One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes him sailing and cloud-watching. Reuven also introduces him to an old friend, Danny Saunders--now a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTPodos, Rebecca
Summary: On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PODPopoff, Alexandra.
Summary: Discusses the lives of six wives who were married to famous Russian authors, describing their dedication to their husbands' careers and the hardships they endured under the repressive policies of Russian regimes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.709 POPPotok, Chaim.
Summary: Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year." THE DETROIT NEWS Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction. When his beloved uncle dies suddenly, Asher and his family rush back to Brooklyn--and into a world...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTPotok, Chaim.
Summary: A collection of stories about six different young people who each experience a life-changing event.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC POTPotok, Chaim
Summary: The story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016