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: DVD COMEDY SUM

Roberts, Chris.

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 ROB

Roberts, 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 ROB

Summary: 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 GRI

Stebbins, Robert C. (Robert Cyril)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1985

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 597.90 Stebbins 1985

Summary: "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 CAN

Summary: 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 S

Summary: 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 DRE

Parton, 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 PAR
1 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 Gianl

Summary: 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: DVD TV PAC

Summary: Owen Sheers explores six works of poetry about the British landscape.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2010

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POE

Summary: Jerry and Rachel are two strangers who are thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. Now they must carry out a high-tech assassination plot of an unscrupulous artificial...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EAG RATED PG-13

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

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER EAG

Porter, Cole

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 1989

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ANY

Summary: Devout teen Rachel Joy Scott shows compassion and love for her fellow students, until armed classmates enter Columbine High School on a fateful day that changes America forever. Her hopes and dreams seemed to end, but God was just getting started.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017

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

Summary: In 1972, before the Internet, Deep Throat was a phenomenon: the first scripted pornographic theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes, and Linda Lovelace. Escaping a strict family, she discovered freedom and married Chuck Traynor. As Linda Lovelace she became an international sensation, fully inhabiting her new identity and a enthusiastic spokesperson for sexual freedom. Later she...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday Ru

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1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: DVD J Rudolph

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD JUV RUD

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD RUD

Verdi, Giuseppe

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 AID

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 WID

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

Solti, Georg Sir

Summary: Performance of the opera about the complex medieval Doge of Genoa whose life was ruled by love of family and devotion to country.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2007

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA SIM

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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