Summary: "WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films - Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968), Piers Haggard's Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (1973) - through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOOSummary: In a twisted social experiment, a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogota, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's speaker system to participate in a series of murderous moral decisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BELSummary: Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BATSummary: A band of hardy pioneers, led by guide Breck Coleman, makes its perilous way along the Oregon Trail, braving bison, treacherous river crossings, blizzards and Indian attacks. Filmed in two versions simultaneously, each scene had to be shot twice, once for the widescreen process Grandeur in 70mm, and again for the standard 35mm version.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY WESTERN BIGBrandy
Summary: Brandy delivers a fresh sounding, well-crafted second album that sounds as much like pop as it does R&B. Mase makes an appearance on Top of the World. Includes the Grammy nominated track Almost Doesn't Count.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Recording 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BRABrandy
Summary: Special Disney presentation of the classic musical of Cinderella, who suffers the torments of her wicked stepmother and spoiled stepsisters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CINSummary: Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IBrende, Eric.
Summary: The author and his spouse spent 18 months in Amish country living without electricity and its dependent technologies. Here he recounts the experience, not only detailing the daily activities and frequent difficulties they found necessary to maintain existence without electricity, but also touting the benefits of such a life and exploring the culture of their adopted community.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.483 BRESummary: Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THR RATED RBrandy
Contents: Saving all my love -- Unconditional oceans -- Rather be -- All my life, pt. 1 -- Lucid dreams -- Borderline -- No tomorrow -- Say something -- All my life, pt. 2 -- I am more -- High heels / (Brandy & Sy'rai) -- Baby mama / (feat. Chance the Rapper) -- All my life, pt. 3 -- Love again / (Brandy & Daniel Caesar) -- Bye bipolar.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BRAArendt, Hannah.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.9 AREBerendt, John
Summary: Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble--foundations shift, marble ornaments fall--even as efforts to preserve them are underway. This book opens in 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house, a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving three...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 945.31 BERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.31 BERSioux, Mariee.
Summary: 2012 album from the Folk singer/songwriter. Gift For The End was recorded between April 2010 and August 2011 in Placerville's Moonsoon Studios and in the Nevada City's Sun Dial studios. Mariee Sioux added intricate melodies to her traditional guitar picking, combining the most classical and the less conventional instruments, allowing herself a wider personal and emotional exploration.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Almost Musique / Whale Watch Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SIOUXBerendt, John
Summary: The story opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians, made worse by the revelation that arson might have been the cause. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective--inquiring into the nature of life in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 945.31 BerenBrandy
Contents: Who I am -- Afrodisiac -- Who is she 2 u -- Talk about our love (Feat. Kanye West) -- I tried -- Where you wanna be (Feat. T.I.) -- Focus -- Sadiddy -- Turn it up -- Necessary -- Say you will -- Come as you are -- Finally -- How I feel -- Should I go.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Recording Corporation 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BRABrandy
Contents: Movin' on -- Baby -- Best friend -- I wanna be down -- I dedicate (part I) -- Brokenhearted -- I'm yours -- Sunny day -- As long as you're here -- Always on my mind -- I dedicate (part II) -- Love is on my side -- Give me you -- I dedicate (part III)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BRABrandy
Contents: B rocka intro -- Full moon -- I thought -- When you touch me -- Like this -- All in me -- Apart -- Can we -- What about us? -- Anybody -- Nothing -- It's not worth it -- He is -- Come a little closer -- Love wouldn't count me out -- WOW -- Die without you.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BRABerendt, John.
Summary: An account of life in Savannah, interwoven with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case, and peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1997
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 975.8724 BERBrandt, Nat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Syracuse University Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.123 BRABrandt, Nick
Summary: "Nick Brandt depicts the animals of East Africa with an intimacy and artistry unmatched by other photographers who choose wildlife as their subject. Whether the creatures here are in action or in quintessential still moments, the pictures in On This Earth go far beyond the documentary realm of wildlife photographs. They portray another world, one of drama and poignancy, where the very souls of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.32 BRAArendt, Hannah
Summary: "No one," Hannah Arendt observed, "has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue." But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion? And how much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it ceases to function?--From publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America, The 2022
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Common Sense Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.042 BENRioux, Anne Boyd
Summary: A 150th anniversary tribute describes the cultural significance of Louisa May Alcott's classic, exploring how its relatable themes and depictions of family resilience, community, and female resourcefulness have inspired generations of writers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 RIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 RIORioux, Anne Boyd
Summary: "Since its publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women has been one of America's favorite stories. While we now think of it as a girls' book, it was initially read by both boys and girls, men and women of all ages. Professor Anne Boyd Rioux, who read it in her twenties, tells us how Louisa May Alcott came to write the book and drew inspiration for her story from her own life. Its Civil...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018