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Reed, Julia. Rees, Celia Rees, Celia. Reich, Steve Reyes Taubman, Julia Reyes, Dolores Santos, RomeoReyes Taubman, Julia
Summary: Over the past six years, documentary photographer and architectural historian Julia Reyes Taubman has taken more than 30,000 photographs across the sprawled terrain of Detroit, ambitiously mapping out a comprehensive survey of a major American city. Photographing on the ground, in the buildings and by air and water, Reyes Taubman believes that when buildings and landscape are manipulated by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Contemporary Art 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 715 REYSummary: A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALASummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELRees, Celia
Summary: Germany, 1946. Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany, which oversees their zone of occupation. The Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany, rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes. Bored with her job as a provincial schoolteacher, and unwilling to live with her overbearing mother any longer, Edith Graham applies-- and is also recruited by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC REERees, Celia.
Summary: In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INFSummary: When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MISSummary: "This film tells the story of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, English writer, poet, philologist and author of many stories, including most famously The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It describes the importance of the rural English West Midlands, where Tolkien grew up, in shaping his literary imagination and how the ancient northern languages he studied and taught throughout his life influenced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV J.R.R.Summary: After a viral pandemic decimates the world, a survivalist is forced to take on a group of heavily armed religious fanatics who believe that he is harboring a woman who could be the key to ending the virus and repopulating the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SURSantos, Romeo
Contents: Golden intro (2:00) -- Tuyo (3:38) -- Perjurio (3:32) -- Premio (featuring Swizz Beatz) (3:40) -- Carmin (featuring Juan Luis Guerra) (3:28) -- Centavito (4:22) -- Sobredosis (featuring Ozuna) (3:15) -- El papel part 1 (version amante) (3:37) -- El papel part 2 (version marido) (4:41) -- Bella y sensual (featuring Nicky Jam & Daddy Yankee) (3:24) -- Doble filo (3:59) -- Ay bendito (3:32) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SANSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYReed, Julia.
Summary: A journalist and resident of New Orleans describes her relocation to the city and work as a reporter, recounting her purchase of a Garden District home just prior to Hurricane Katrina and her shared efforts with locals to recover and rebuild.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.63 REESummary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world-famous novels. The BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon's books have been adapted many times, Davies's celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon himself, who stated: "At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV MAISummary: "Five legendary sessions (originally released 1956-1964) featuring an all-star line-up including: Julio Gutiérrez, Niño Rivera, José Fajardo and Cachao. Reissued together in their entirely for the first time, encapsulating a panorama of Cuban music; from mambo to Afro-Cuban rumba, big band son montuno, cha-cha-cha and more." Package label.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN COMSummary: From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction VandriverSummary: Doctored evidence. Signora Battestini is dead and to everyone who knew her, it wasn't a moment too soon. Her impoverished Romanian cleaning lady gets pegged for the crime and Brunetti's boss declares the case closed. What continues to mystify Brunetti is why the old woman had so much money with no visible means of income. And what exactly has her lawyer done with her many scattered bank...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONReyes, Dolores
Summary: Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYSummary: Carl Nargle, Vermont's #1 public television painter is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke...until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PAICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAISummary: Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WISSummary: "In 1910 Elinore Randall, a widow, and her seven-year-old daughter travel by train to face two great unknowns-- a strange land and life with a man they have never met. Elinore has contracted by mail to keep house for Clyde Stewart, a rancher living in the remote frontier near Burntfork, Wyoming. Captivated by the vast landscape, Elinore acts quickly on her secret passion: to homestead a piece...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hen's Tooth Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEASummary: A woman psychiatrist, trying to help a patient whose life has been threatened, is drawn into the dangerous but provocative underworld of a smooth-talking con man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HOUSummary: A beautifully animated film based on the bestselling children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The story of a kind witch who invites a surprising collection of animals to join her on her broom, much to the frustration of her cat. When the gang saves the witch from a fearsome dragon, she rewards them with a magnificent new broom which has room for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NCircle Entertainment 2013