Summary: While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SHASummary: 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 IRobertson, Deborah A.
Contents: Making the case for cultural programming -- Planning : from goals to evaluation and back again -- Building participation : developing audiences and interactive engagement -- Collaboration -- Series, formats, themes, and tie-ins : putting the pieces together -- The talent and showtime -- Funding for cultural programs -- Marketing and public relations for programming.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Library Association 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 021.2 RobertsonHornstein, Hugh A.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09774 HORSummary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: Emperor Penguins from Antarctica each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing. Instead he has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HAPSummary: Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II, where the real enemy of the soldiers is actually the bureaucracy of the military.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CATCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CATRoberto, Michael A.
Summary: Presents a survey course on the dynamics of decision making as applies to various fields, including politics, business, athletics, and personal life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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4 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 658.4 ROBCall number: CD 658.4 ROB PART 1
Call number: CD 658.4 ROB PART 2
Summary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIContents: Disc 1. Hey-hey-hey-hey (Little Richard) -- Shirley (John Fred & the Playboys) -- Would you believe it, I have a cold (Huey Smith) -- Telling lies (Fats Domino) -- Someday (you'll want me) (Smiley Lewis) -- Nervous boogie (Paul Gayten) -- It must be jelly (Frankie Ford) -- A-tisket a-tasket (Joe Jones) -- I'm so blue (Jimmy Beasley) -- I know (Ray Washington) -- Honey, honey (The Supremes) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantastic Voyage 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Baugh, Joyce A.
Summary: Overview: In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, racial equality in American public education appeared to have a bright future. But for many that brightness dimmed considerably following the Supreme Court's decision in Milliken v. Bradley (1974), which emerged from Detroit's efforts to use cross-district busing to desegregate its schools and was the first such case to originate outside the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.73 BAUSummary: Happy feet: Emperor Penguins from Antarctica each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing. Instead he has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HAPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Happy 2013Robertson, Kay
Summary: Outlines the roles of Duck Dynasty women, discussing the core values that make their relationships work and explaining how their spiritual beliefs shape family dynamics and have helped them work through various challenges.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIOD Robertson,A Hoffman W Weldon
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Shapiro Bernstein 1944
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMLyon, Lea
Summary: Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV. Although there aren't many ballet schools that will accept a girl like Sylvia in the 1950s, her local bookmobile provides another possibility. A librarian helps Sylvia find a book about ballet and the determined seven-year-old, with the help of her new books,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LYOSummary: Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank, jaded by disillusionment, and Casey, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as "Tomorrowland". What they must do there changes the world-and them-forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Tomorrowland 2015Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TOMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ToHuff, Peter A.
Summary: This guide provides an overview essay and approximately 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries that explores the background and significance of atheism and agnosticism in modern society.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 HUFRoyal, Kate.
Contents: Waiting: Waitin / Bolcom (1:32) ; Jemand / Schumann (1:35) ; Die Kleine / Wolf (1:43) ; Es muß ein Wunderbares sein / Liszt (1:40) -- The meeting: Apparition / Debussy (3:46) ; O wär' dein Haus (1:26) ; Erstes Liebeslied eines Mädchens (1:17) / Wolf ; Gretchen am Spinnrade (3:28) ; Rastlose Liebe (1:21) / Schubert ; Pour un baiser! / Tosti (2:14) ; Tchut, tchut / Canteloube (2:01) ; Love went...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL ROYSummary: Takes the viewer behind the walls of government, as CIA, Pentagon and foreign service experts speak out detailing the lies, misstatements and exaggerations that served as the reasons for fighting a "preemptive" war against Iraq that wasn't necessary. Includes interviews with more than 20 experts in opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNCSummary: Francesca and Calvin are actors performing in a motion picture directed by David Fincher and co-starring Brad Pitt (who play themselves). Woven in and out of the film production story thread are several other subplots including one about a lovelorn woman, Linda; the self-absorbed Gus; and a husband, Carl, whose wife is falling for Calvin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FulSummary: Features a selection of songs specific to the 1950s, carefully curated by Martin Scorsese and music supervisor Randall Poster as a sonic companion to the film's enthralling narrative of organized crime in postwar America.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC IRIRush, Elizabeth A.
Summary: "Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In this highly original work of lyrical reportage, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018