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Anderson, Jon Lee Cocchiarella, Cara Djavadi, Négar Gooding, Cuba Homayoonfar, Nioucha Scuba. SubaAnderson, Jon Lee
Summary: "The graphic novel adaptation of the groundbreaking and definitive biography of Che Guevara. The Argentine revolutionary has become an internationally recognized icon, as revered as he is controversial. In Che: A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson and José Hernández present the man behind the myth, creating a complex and human portrait of this passionate idealist. Adapted from Jon Lee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUEVARA, CHE ANDSummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: An adaptation of the novel by Baroness Orczy in which a dashing dandy of the English court tries to defend innocent aristocrats from the violence of the French revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCASummary: The TARDIS arrives near Paris during the French Revolution, a time of great upheaval, bloodshed and terror. Soon, with the Doctor trapped inside a burning farmhouse, Ian imprisoned and Susan and Barbara on their way to the guillotine, it's clear this will be one of their most dangerous and exciting adventures yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas 2013
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: Now married to Suzanne, Nick buys a suburban house to escape the rat race of the big city and to provide more space for his new wife and kids Lindsey and Kevin. But when his new home quickly becomes a costly "fixer upper," he finds himself at the mercy of an eccentric contractor, Nick's suburban dream soon becomes a nightmare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ASummary: The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANDSummary: Fistful of dollars: An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Examines Trotsky, the revolutionary, venerated and reviled, loved, hated, feared. Archive material compiled from all over the world, citations and new shoots create an electrifying proximity to the historical person and to the man Leon Trotsky.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TROSummary: In 1954 a reclusive ex-soldier is thrown into the woes of rebellion when he's ordered to escort a villager accused of murder to prison during the Algerian War. As their journey leads them through a deadly fire-fight between settlers and rebels, the two men on opposite sides of the conflict must join forces to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement, and becomes infatuated with a mysterious woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PETHomayoonfar, Nioucha
Summary: This coming-of-age memoir, set during the Iranian Revolution, tells the true story of a young girl who moves to Tehran from the U.S. and has to adjust to living in a new country, learning a new language, and starting a new school during one of the most turbulent periods in Iran's history. When five-year-old Nioucha Homayoonfar moves from the U.S. to Iran in 1979, its open society means a life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 HOMSummary: Charlie Hinton and Phil Ryerson are a pair of fathers who attempt to keep their summer camp running even though they are under heavy economic strain. To whip together a group of kids who have problems following orders and to help improve their financial situation, Hinton brings in his military trained father - even though he and his father have been on the outs. Soon the campers, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family DaddySummary: Nick offers to take Suzanne's kids cross-country in an effort to win her heart. He must survive 24 hours with two kids bent on destroying him. Through all the road-blocks, he impresses not only Suzanne, but himself also.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ArSummary: Nick offers to take Suzanne's kids cross-country in an effort to win her heart. He must survive 24 hours with two kids bent on destroying him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TuskegeeSummary: The story of the relationship between a prominent high school football coach in a small South Carolina town and the illiterate, mentally-challenged man nicknamed Radio whom he mentors. Although their friendship raises some eyebrows at first, Radio's growth under the coach's guidance ultimately inspires the local townsfolk. Inspired by a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Radio 2003Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RaDjavadi, Négar
Summary: "Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DJACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DJACocchiarella, Cara
Summary: "Utilizing the eight dimensions of wellness-physical, social, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, environmental, occupational, and financial -this book encourages coaches to invest in their own wellness alongside that of their athletes to make a lasting impact and propel their athletes toward excellence"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.07 COCSummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
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Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 3
Scuba.
Contents: HF029B2 (Sigha) -- The power of doubt (Surgeon) -- For tonight (dBridge) -- Lost highway : incyde remix (Badawi) -- Sun dance (Peverelist) -- The affair (Until Silence) -- An we drop (Addison Groove) -- Leapfrog (Roska) -- Shorty (Trevino) -- CPX11 (Beaumont) -- Two ninety one : original mix (Function vs. Jerome Sydenham) -- Breakup (Braille) -- Everybody in the place (Quest) -- Let me in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: !K7 Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SCUSuba
Contents: Tantos desejos (Cibelle, vocals ; João Parahyba, percussion) -- Você gosta (Taciana, vocals ; percussion, João Parahyba) -- Na neblina (Patricia H., landscapes) -- Segredo (Katia B., vocals) -- Antropòfagos (Mestre Ambrosio, percussion, bass, rabeca) -- Felicidade (Cibelle, vocals ; Luis do Monte, guitar ; João Parahyba, drums) -- Um dia comum (em SP) (Kuaker, guitar) -- Sereia (Cibelle,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SUBSummary: They were the most legendary and respected politicians, statesmen and warriors of history's first republic since the days of ancient Rome. They were also traitors and smugglers, rabble rousers and hot-heads, unfaithful husbands and prodigious drinkers. Our "Founding Fathers" were, in fact, human beings. Gain a fascinating glimpse behind the images on the marble busts and faces on our dollar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 1Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 2
Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 3
Summary: To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023