Summary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMRobertson, Chris
Summary: Harry is a little boy with a big imagination. One day, a simple game of "don't step on the hot lava" turns into a adventure he'll never forget! This children's picture book features the iconic art of Chris Robertson and has fun simple text perfect for beginning readers and story time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Xist Publishing 2014
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Summary: Nursery rhymes are rarely as innocent as they seem--there is a wealth of concealed meaning in our familiar childhood verse. More than a century after Queen Victoria decided that children were better off without the full story, London librarian Roberts brings the truth to light. He traces the origins of the subtle phrases and antiquated references, revealing religious hatred, political...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.8 ROBTyrus
Summary: "The product of a 1970s mixed marriage, George Murdoch learned to fight early in life, fending off both race-baiting bullies and the demons of a dysfunctional home. Couch surfing all through high school and most of college, the quick-witted, sharp-tongued giant played football, ran drugs, and bounced at clubs to try to survive. After a false start with the WWE, he eventually became Snoop Dogg's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TYRUS TYRRoberts, Chris.
Summary: "Was Little Jack Horner a squatter? What did Jack and Jill really do on that hill? Nursery rhymes are rarely as innocent as they seem, a wealth of concealed meaning hides in our familiar childhood verse. More than a century after Queen Victoria decided that children were better off without the full story, London librarian Chris Roberts brings the truth to light. He traces the origins of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 398.8 ROBStebbins, Robert C. (Robert Cyril)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Animal Wild StebbinsSummary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN MYSummary: An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRISummary: Harry Dresden is a private detective who also happens to be a real wizard. Although he tries to be a regular guy, Harry finds himself helping the Chicago police solve inexplicable crimes and battle dark forces that lurk around the city streets. Harry deals in all matters of supernatural threats.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DRESummary: "Haphazard pirates, wayward ghosts, dashing knights, rampaging kaiju (and down-to-earth regular joes!) are all assembled here to amaze and delight you in a wildly unique anthology celebrating love between men, from an astounding array of comics creators who know exactly how it feels. Featuring stories and art from SINA GRACE, NED BARNETT, ANTHONY OLIVEIRA, CHARLES PULLIAM-MOORE, NICK ROBLES,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A Wave Blue World, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 YOUSummary: "One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CANSummary: "The town Christmas forgot: An urban family that can not seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town's home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town's problems but learn to connect with each other just in time for the holidays. Naughty or nice: After she is suddenly fired from her job,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2014
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HALSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACParton, Dolly.
Contents: Disc 1. Puppy love -- Girl left alone -- Gonna hurry (As slow as I can) (demo, previously unreleased) -- It's sure gonna hurt ; Love you gave ; Nobody but you (previously unreleased) (with the Merry Melody Singers) -- Busy signal -- Don't drop out -- I've known you all my life (previously unreleased) -- Put it off until tomorrow (with Bill Phillips) -- Dumb blonde -- Something fishy -- I...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Nashville/Legacy 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PAR1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC CD COUNTRY PAR
Gianluigi Trovesi Ottetto
Contents: As strange as a ballad -- Sogno d'Orfeo -- African triptych -- Canto di lavoro -- Clumsy dancing of the fat bird -- Siparietto I -- Blues and west -- Siparietto II -- Il domatore -- Ramble -- Siparietto III -- Fugace -- Siparietto IV -- Totò nei caraibi.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ECM 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GianlSummary: Bob Ho is an undercover CIA superspy who decides to give up his career in espionage to settle down with his next-door neighbor and girlfriend, Gillian. But Bob has one more mission to complete before Gillian agrees to marry him; he has to win over her three opinionated kids. When Gillian suddenly has to leave town, Bob volunteers to babysit the children so he can earn their approval.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPorter, Cole
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 1989
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A look at what happened when Mr. Rochester met and married his first wife, and how she became the madwoman locked in the attic. A prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WIDRogers, Kim
Summary: "A biographical picture book about Clarence Tinker, a member of the Osage Nation, who endured abuse growing up at the hands of a boarding school and went on to serve in the United States Air Force in World War II"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TINSummary: Based on a true story, an inner-city Baltimore family copes with ever-present drug traffic and violence in their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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Summary: The action takes place in ancient Egypt, and tells of the love of Radames, the captain of the guard, for a slave girl, Aida. She is the daughter of the King of Ethiopia, who is captured by Radames and the Egyptian troops. Tricked into betraying military secrets, Radames is condemned to be buried alive. He is joined by Aida, who dies with him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca Music Group Classics 2011
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA AIDSummary: Christmas has been canceled! Or at least it will be if Santa can't find a way to guide his sleigh through a fierce blizzard. Fortunately for him, there's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Classic Media 2010