Port, Ian S
Summary: Chronicles the rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar's sound--Leo Fender and Les Paul--and their competition to convince rock stars like The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.87 PORSummary: 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 TWIPorat, Dan
Summary: A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust? In The Boy: A Holocaust Story, the historian Dan Porat unpacks this split second that was immortalized on film and unravels the stories of the individuals--both Jews and Nazis--associated with it. ...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 PORSummary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRASummary: 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: It's the night of the Jellicle Ball and all these tinier-than-usual cats present themselves to Old Deuteronomy in hopes of being chosen to make the journey to the Heaviside Layer where they will be reborn, to live a new -- and hopefully better -- life. But someone is trying to eliminate the competition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CATSummary: "Paul Hegeman highlights the music of renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt while attempting to unveil the mystery around the purportedly reclusive writer of such famed works as "Tabula Rasa," "Fratres," "Trivium" and "Für Alina," all stirringly performed here. But Hegeman, who also shot the film (with Auke Dijkstra), eschews a typical biographical recounting of the 83-year-old maestro's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THALloyd Webber, Andrew
Contents: Overture -- Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats (cast of the motion picture Cats) -- The old gumbie cat (Rebel Wilson feat. Robbie Fairchild) -- The Rum Tum Tugger (Jason Derulo) -- Bustopher Jones: the cat about town (James Corden feat. Jason Derulo, Cory English & Idris Elba) -- Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer (Danny Collins, Naoimh Morgan & Francesca Hayward) -- Old Deuteronomy (Robbie Fairchild...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC CATSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: During the height of the blizzard of 1978, a tanker foundered on the shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in trouble, too. A pilot-boat captain, Frank Quirk, heard of the Coast Guard's plight on his radio. He gathered his crew of four, readied his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard soon to be...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 551.555 TOUHorst, Arend Jan van der.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cassell 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633 HorstSummary: Writer and director Faraut revisits the rich bounty of footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe as he competes in the French Open at Paris's Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe's attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOHSummary: In the Interest of the Nation - Masked soldiers attack a vehicle loaded with high-tech missiles in an attempted smuggling operation in Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, a Swedish engineer is kidnapped in Ethiopia. But Not if It Concerns Your Daughter - Carl Hamilton's family was wiped out in a revenge attack years ago. Now, those painful memories resurface as Hamilton's seven-year-old goddaughter is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AGEPorte, Barbara Ann
Summary: Harry is worried about being the ring boy at his Aunt Rose's wedding, after he hears his friend Dorcas tell horror stories about what went wrong at her Uncle Fred's wedding.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HARPERCOLLINS 1991
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PORPorte, Barbara Ann.
Summary: Harry is upset about losing his library card three times in a row, but feels better when he learns that his father and his friend Dorcas sometimes lose things.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Juvenile Books 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PORSummary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVAly, Götz
Summary: "Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 995.3 ALYVan der Post, Laurens
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.7 VANSummary: Features 18 of the best of the hip-hop repertoire with tracks from Outkast, DMX, Busta Rhymes, Flo Rida, Migos, Eve, Notorious B.I.G., and more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWThomas, Iain S.
Summary: What happens when the world's most advanced AI is prompted with the spiritual and philosophical texts that have formed the basis of human belief--and then answers our most pressing questions about life? A bold and daring endeavor, What Makes Us Human? offers a contemporary and moving exploration of what makes us humans, humans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 THOContents: Memories (Maroon 5) (3:09) -- Lover (remix) (Taylor Swift feat. Shawn Mendes) (3:38) -- Graveyard (Halsey) (3:01) -- Trampoline (Shaed & Zayn) (3:04) -- Lose you to love me (Selena Gomez) (3:26) -- Love me anyway (Pink feat. Chris Stapleton) (3:01) -- Circles (Post Malone) (3:35) -- Highest in the room (Travis Scott) (2:55) -- Time (NF) (3:56) -- 10,000 hours (Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber) (2:47)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Group/Sony Music 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWKort
Contents: Incredibly lonely -- Eyes look away -- A special day -- Pickin' wild mountain berries -- Yours forever -- He's only a memory away -- She came around last night -- Penetration -- April's fool -- I can't sleep with you -- Let's think about where we're going -- Who's gonna love me now
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: City Slang 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY KORSummary: Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchanan butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017