Grady, Cynthia
Summary: In 1942, children's librarian Clara Breed discovers that her young Japanese-American patrons are being relocated and gives them stamped and addressed postcards so they can write to her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 GRAPartridge, Elizabeth
Summary: "Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches-and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration-and the complexity of documenting it-through the work of these three photographers"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 PARPayton, Asie.
Contents: I love you -- Worried life -- Nobody but you -- Please tell me you love me --Asie's jam -- Can't be satisfied -- All I need is you -- Come home with me -- Skinny legs & all -- I love you.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fat Possum Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES PAYSummary: "In photographs and remembrances, Children of Manzanar captures the experiences of some of the nearly four thousand children and young adults held at Manzanar during World War II under Executive Order 9066, an act that authorized the U.S. Army to undertake the rapid removal of more than one hundred thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast."--P. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 CHIArts Center Jazz Collective
Contents: Ernie's romp / Bill Sears (7:44) -- Green bean girl / Bob Ferrazza (5:16) -- Each waking moment / Brent Wallarab (8:07) -- With one accord / Bill Sears (4:51) -- DaNaBar / Luke Gillespie, arranged by Brent Wallarab (6:14) -- Sogni d'oro / Bob Ferrazza (6:14) -- Isabelle / Brent Wallarab (8:48) -- So perfect / Bob Ferrazza (7:02) -- Triple double / Bill Sears (6:58)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arts Center Jazz Collective 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL ARTSummary: Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But then 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home to confront his pain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arts Alliance America 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CATSummary: A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHASummary: A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the only survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE LIFInterlochen Center for the Arts
Contents: Berceuse and finale from The Firebird (Stravinsky) -- Prelude, fugue and variations (Franck) -- Sylvia (Speaks) -- Danzas argentinas (Alberto Ginastera) -- Lay a garland (Pearlsall) -- La cathedrale engloutie (Debussy) -- Boogie stop shuffle (Mingus) -- Piru bole (Bergamo) -- Symphony no. 2 in C minor, allegro maestoso (Mahler).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interlochen Center for the Arts 1995
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL INTSummary: Tells the riveting, behind-the-scenes story of Cantor Fitzgerald. On September 10, 2001, financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald was headquartered on the top 5 floors of the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, 658 of their 960 employees were missing, presumed dead, in the nation's worst terrorist attacks. Tells twin stories' the saga of the ravaged business and surviving employees, and an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OUTWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1. The camp meeting jubilee (Unknown) -- My man rocks me (Trixie Smith) -- Kansas city blues (Jim Jackson) -- Going to move to Alabama (Charley Patton) -- Move it on over (Hank Williams) -- It's tight like that (Tampa Red) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Clarence "Pinetop" Smith) -- Jimmy's blues (Jimmy Blythe) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves) -- Tiger rag (Washboard Rhythm...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FIRBunting, Eve
Summary: Laura Iwasaki and her family are paying what may be their last visit to Laura's grandfather's grave. The grave is at Manzanar, where thousands of Americans of Japanese heritage were interned during World War II. Among those rounded up and taken to the internment camp were Laura's father, then a small boy, and his parents. Now Laura says goodbye to Grandfather in her own special way, with a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUNWinter, Ariel
Summary: Through a variety of adventures Sofia proves she can be a true princess.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOFSummary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVEContents: I've got a claim on you / Betty Everett -- Let love go by / Jeanette "Baby" Washington -- Question / Roscoe Shelton -- I need your lovin' / Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford -- Let the good times roll / Alvin Robinson -- A fool in love / Ike and Tina Turner -- Mathilda / Cookie & His Cupcakes -- Ain't that loving you baby / Jimmy Reed -- Let's stick together / Wilbert Harrison -- Iko Iko / Dixie cups...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Charly Acquisitons Limited 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SCESummary: An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last perfect heist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After returning from World War II, a young G.I. finds he has little in common with the wife he left behind. Disillusioned, he heads north to work as a traveling salesman where he meets the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. On her way home, she is terrified of what her father will do when he learns she is unmarried and pregnant. The young man gallantly offers to help by posing as her husband...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WALBender, Robert M. (Robert Morton)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.2 BENSummary: Grammy-nominated film that chronicles the life and career of Arif Mardin, the man who produced more than 50 gold and platinum records and won twelve Grammys. Featuring interviews and/or studio footage with Willie Nelson, Carly Simon, Jewel, Daryl Hall, Phil Collins, Norah Jones and many others. The Greatest Ears in Town is one of the most insightful, inspirational and enjoyable documentaries...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRECohen, Morton Norton
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aperture 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 COHSummary: 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: When two fathers find themselves out of work, they decide to start a day care center. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing prestigious children's academy tries, with hilarious results, to put them out of business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DADCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Daddy 2003Summary: 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