Summary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: Two strangers' lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash. Based on the airline accident that occurred in July of 2002 and on the events that took place 478 days later.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AFTContents: Handclapping song (the Meters) -- Hip drop (the Explosions) -- Who's gonna help brother get further (Lee Dorsey) -- It's gonna rain (Gentleman June Gardner) -- Check your bucket (Eddie Bo) -- Big chief (Professor Longhair) -- Free, single, and disengaged (Huey "Piano" Smith & his Clowns) -- Can I be your squeeze (Chuck Carbo) -- Hercules (Aaron Neville) -- I've got reasons (Mary Jane Hooper) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEWSummary: In the aftermath of World War II, a group of surrendered German soldiers are ordered by Allied forces to remove their own landmines from the coast of Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Foreign LandSummary: All Batman favorites on two discs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BATDiddley, Bo
Contents: Disc one: 1955 to 1959. -- Bo Diddley 2:43. -- I'm a man 2:55. -- You don't love me 2:50. -- Diddley Daddy 2:26. -- Pretty thing 2:48. -- Bring it to Jerome (alternate take) 2:38. -- Bring it to Jerome (master) 2:27. -- Diddy Wah Diddy 2:30. -- I'm looking for a woman 2:30. -- Who do you love? 2:27. -- Down Home special 3:10. -- Hey Bo Diddley 2:09. -- Mona 2:19. -- Say boss man 2:29. -- Before...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records inc. 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIDSummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELSummary: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BABSummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Summary: With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and ale bread-- a gourmet French meal! Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Foreign Babette's 1999Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BABContents: [Set 1]. Crucible of horror / Michael Gough (1970) -- Double exposure / Michael Callan, Joanna Pettet, Cleavon Little (1983) -- Horror rises from the tomb / Paul Naschy (1973) -- The dungeon of Harrow / Russ Harvey (1962) -- The werewolf of Washington / Dean Stockwell (1973) -- They saved Hitler's brain / Walter Stocker (1963) -- The thirsty dead / Jennifer Billingsley (1974) -- The amazing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURContents: Disc 1. Hey-hey-hey-hey (Little Richard) -- Shirley (John Fred & the Playboys) -- Would you believe it, I have a cold (Huey Smith) -- Telling lies (Fats Domino) -- Someday (you'll want me) (Smiley Lewis) -- Nervous boogie (Paul Gayten) -- It must be jelly (Frankie Ford) -- A-tisket a-tasket (Joe Jones) -- I'm so blue (Jimmy Beasley) -- I know (Ray Washington) -- Honey, honey (The Supremes) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantastic Voyage 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES HEADavies, Peter Ho
Summary: At the height of World War II, a forbidden romance blossoms between seventeen-year-old Esther Evans, the daughter of a Welsh shepherd, and Karsten Simmering, a troubled young German POW, who questions what he has been fighting for.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DavDavies, Peter Ho
Summary: A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain. A second pregnancy ends in a fraught birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests-- and questions that reverberate down the years. A couple faces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political experiences a family can have: to have a child, and conversely, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVSummary: On June 2, 1958, Richard Loving and his fiancee Mildred Jeter traveled from Caroline County, VA, to Washington, D.C. to be married. Later, the newlyweds were arrested, tried and convicted of the felony crime of miscegenation. Two young ACLU lawyers took on the Lovings case, fully aware of the challenges posed. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in their favor on June 12, 1967 and resulted...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LOVWho (Musical group)
Contents: Disc One: Pete Townshend dialogue / Pete Townshend (0:21) -- I'm the face / Pete Meaden (The High Numbers) (2:27) -- Here 'tis / Ellas McDaniel (The High Numbers) (2:08) -- Zoot suit / Pete Meaden (The High Numbers) (1:57) -- Leaving here / Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Eddie Holland (The High Numbers) (2:47) -- I can't explain / Pete Townshend (2:03) -- Anyway, anyhow, anywhere / Pete...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WHOContents: Gossip (Cyril Neville) (2:35) -- If it's good to you (it's good for you) (Eddie Bo) (2:29) -- Right place, wrong time (Ray J.) (2:55) -- Chicken strut (The Meters) (2:45) -- Tequila (Allen Toussaint) (3:11) -- Hot Tamales (The Prime Mates) (2:37) -- Show it (Betty Harris) (2:55) -- Four corners (Lee Dorsey) (2:51) -- You keep me hangin on (Bonnie and Sheila) (2:42) -- Yeah you're right, you...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEWContents: Beautiful dreamer / Raul Malo -- Slumber my darling / Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor, featuring Alison Krauss -- Don't bet money on the Shanghai / BR5-49 -- Nelly was a lady / Alvin Youngblood Hart -- No one to love / Judith Edelman -- Camptown races / The Duhks -- My old Kentucky home, goodnight / John Prine -- Autumn waltz / Henry Kaiser -- In the eye abides the heart / Beth Nielsen...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: American Roots Publishing 2004
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOS EASY LISTENINGDavies, Peter Ho
Summary: "Although revision is essential to writing, readers only see the final draft, leaving the practice shrouded in mystery. Peter Ho Davies addresses this invisibility by examining his own work, alongside classic and contemporary authors, while also reaching beyond literature to film adaptations and retconning. And a story about his father--told and retold across the book--serves as impetus for the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 DAVDavies, Peter Ho
Summary: Explores a century of American history through the lives of Chinese Americans, using the lives of four individuals to depict how an immigrant community survives and ultimately becomes American in the process.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVThomas, Prins.
Contents: Disc 1 Forever more pt. III / Turns -- Galatea's guitar / Gabor Szabo -- Drum odyssey / Brian Bennett -- Ibiza / Aqua Bazzino -- Vin / Claude Speeed -- Ma holo / Sun Araw -- Samba trip / Richard Schneider Jr. -- Starship 109 / Mistral -- Weggeputscht / Durian Brothers -- Lamuka / Azaou Bikaye & Cy1 -- El Amarna / Berliner Ring -- Dalbouka / C. Cat Trance -- Scandinavian bellydance / Split...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Eskimo 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC THOSummary: Aspiring stand-up comedian Will is forced to face the realities of relentless hecklers, drunk comedy groupies and hard-to-impress morning radio DJs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Enterainment 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OPESummary: Chronicles the life of writer, poet, and meditation master Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of Tibet's most revered 20th-century Buddhist teachers, whose students include His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Royal Family of Bhutan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alive Mind 2011