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Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOL

Summary: 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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Summary: Before he was King of the Jungle, Tarzan was an awkward young kid just trying to fit in. When one of his missteps puts his family in jeopardy, Tarzan decides they would be better off without him. Along his new journey he must come face to face with the mysterious Zugor, the most powerful force in the land. Together, Tarzan and Zugor discover that being different is not a weakness and that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TAR

Richter, Max

Contents: Europe, after the rain (6:13) -- Maria, the poet (1913) (4:49) -- Laika's journey (1:29) -- The twins (Prague) (1:58) -- Sarajevo (4:03) -- Andras (2:42) -- Untitled (figures) (3:27) -- Sketchbook (1:56) -- November (6:23) -- Jan's notebook (2:39) -- Arbenita (11 years) (7:07) -- Garden (1973)/interior (3:25) -- Landscape with figure (1922) (5:14) -- Fragment (1:27) -- Lines on a page (one...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Fatcat Records 2009

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RIC

Summary: Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with huge hair, a big grin, and all the right moves, becomes the queen of Baltimore's number one dance revue.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hairspray 2002

Summary: The Witness Protection Program is turned upside down by a mob informant and an FBI agent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MY

Summary: Presents the story of Manhattan Project scientist Ted Hall, who shared classified nuclear secrets with Russia in an effort to save the world from nuclear annihilation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COM

Conn, Jordan Ritter

Summary: "The Alkasem brothers, Riyad and Bashar, spend their childhood in Raqqa, the Syrian city that would later become the capital of ISIS. As a teenager in the 1980s, Riyad witnesses the devastating aftermath of the Hama massacre--an atrocity that the Hafez al-Assad regime commits upon its people. Wanting to expand his notion of government and justice, Riyad moves to the United States to study law,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CON

Rutter, John

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Arsis 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RUT

Summary: Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu Movie Misfits

Summary: Biographical drama of Buddy Holly, the 1950's rock musician from Lubbock, Texas, who changed rock'n'roll history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUD

Summary: From dusk till dawn (107 min.): The notorious Gekko Brothers, Seth and Richard, are on the run and headed for Mexico to meet with the mysterious "Carlos." Their simple bank robbery ended up killing multiple Texas Rangers. They hijack the mobile home of Minister Jacob Fuller and his family to ensure their safe passage. Their appointed destination is a neon-covered topless bar catering to bikers...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2000

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRO

Rutter, John

Contents: Gloria (17:10) -- Anthems. All things bright and beautiful (2:43) ; Cantate domino (5:15) ; O clap your hands (3:11) ; Wedding canticle (Blessed are all they that fear the lord) (5:25) ; The lord is my shepherd (5:12) ; A Gaelic blessing (1:48) ; Hymn to the creator of light (7:13) ; Arise, shine (4:45) ; Praise ye the lord (1:41) ; For the beauty of the earth (3:38) ; God be in my head (1:28)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1984

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RUT

Rutter, John.

Contents: Distant land -- Five meditations for orchestra. What sweeter music ; Blow, blow, thou Winter wind ; Candlelight ; Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace ; the Lord bless you and keep you -- Suite for strings. A-roving ; I have a bonnet trimmed with blue ; O waly waly ; Dashing away -- Suite antique : for flute, harpsichord, and strings. Prelude ; Ostinato ; Aria ; Waltz ; Chanson ; Rondeau --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RUT

Summary: Acclaimed director Steve James tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves, and their bank's legacy...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ABA

Steele, Jon

Summary: Memory-challenged British private detective Jay Harper investigates a series of murders that may be the handiwork of a gang of international killers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Steele, Jon

Summary: Otherworldly Special Agent Harper must stop the remnants of the Nephilim from capturing and destroying Katherines half-mortal/half-heavenly child and save humankind from utter destruction.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Steele, Jon

Summary: In Switzerland, cathedral night watchman Marc Rochat awaits the angel his mother said he'd have to save. When he spots high-class prostitute Katherine Taylor, he thinks he's finally found her. But then Marc and Katherine meet British detective Jay Harper and discover they all share a common destiny.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Rotter, Andrew Jon.

Summary: Reveals the international story behind the creation of the atom bomb and the development of the modern age, as it discusses the crises that led to the Second World War, unsuccessful attempts to control the spread of nuclear weapons, the political and strategic decisions that led to the bomb, and its implications for the modern world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.8 ROT

Summary: A young woman searches for love in New York City in this romantic comedy based on the novel by Liz Tuccillo.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOW RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOW

Summary: [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 AME
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME

Summary: Northumberland Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her partner, Detective Sergeant Joe Ashworth, work to unravel four new crimes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by RLJ Entertainment 2014

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VER

Britten, Benjamin

Contents: Suite for violin and piano, op. 6 (15:58) -- Elegy for solo viola (5:50) -- Cello sonata in C, op. 65 (22:14) -- Six metamorphoses after Ovid (14:10).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1995

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL Britt

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