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Chris Robinson Brotherhood (Musical group) Kho, Kian Lam. Robinson, Adam Robinson, LisaSummary: 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 Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Robinson, Adam
Summary: Learn words that will make you sound smart, eloquent, and persuasive. But knowing which words to use is only half the battle: Once you've found the perfect words, you need to know how to put them together. This all-in-one Word Smart & Grammar Smart program was created to help you cover all the bases. Learn to speak and write with clarity and confidence -- without being bored to tears.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.1 ROBRobinson, Lisa
Summary: Emma the pirate does not want to start kindergarten, so she returns to her preschool classroom to stir up a mutiny against kindergarten.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROBSummary: In the 1890's Frank T. Hopkins, a former U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider who is haunted by memories of what he saw at the battle of Wounded Knee, and his mustang Hidalgo, are performing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, billed as the greatest horse and rider the West has ever known. This leads them to be invited to run in the 3,000 mile endurance race across the Middle Eastern desert, the Ocean of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HiCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hidalgo 2008Robinson, Lisa
Summary: "From the effects of fame on family and vice versa to motherhood and drugs, sex, and romance, Lisa Robinson has discussed every taboo topic with nearly every significant living female artist to pass through the pages of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Here, her interviews with and observations of fabulous female pop and rock stars, from Tina Turner and Alanis Morrissette to Rihanna, show how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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Summary: An influential music columnist for"The New York Post" presents an insider's assessment of major rock-and-roll personalities while tracing her career and the genre's evolution throughout the past four decades.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBINSON, LISA ROBRobinson, Lisa
Summary: "A picture book biography that tells the story of Dr. James Barry, born female, who lived as a man from age 18 to his death"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BARSummary: Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LAS RATED PGSummary: "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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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HALContents: Dirty Harry / screenplay by Harry Julian Fink & R.M. Fink and Dean Riesner ; produced and directed by Don Siegel (102 min.) -- Magnum force / screenplay by John Milius and Michael Cimino ; produced by Robert Daley ; directed by Ted Post (123 min.) -- The enforcer / screenplay by Stirling Silliphant and Dean Riesner ; produced by Robert Daley ; directed by James Fargo (97 min.) -- Sudden impact...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ASHSummary: Dancing great Bill Williamson takes a look back on the beginnings of his career and his romance with fellow rising star Selina. Their romance is brief because Selina does not want to settle down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOSummary: "Antonio, a successful but cash-poor merchant, approaches Shylock, a wealthy moneylender, for a loan to help his young friend Bassanio woo the fair Portia. Despite being longtime enemies, Shylock grants the request, but demands one pound of Antonio's flesh if the debt is not repaid on time. When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock seeks what is legally owed him but soon learns that those to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Merchant 2005Summary: An offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon, who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank, a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying band mate Clara.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRASummary: Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR LOVSummary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRESummary: A realistic drama depicting students at a Portland, Oregon high school before and during a tragic school shooting. Follows a young boy who takes over the wheel from his drunken dad while returning from lunch. Then follows another student who crosses paths with the first, then the other of the two boys in camouflage gear, carrying heavy bags, who arrive inside the school and begin shooting. No...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELESummary: Will Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot ever get their relationship together? Or will three wrenching crimes and the investigation of Detective Investigator Helen Morton keep them forever out of sync? Welcome back to the hit crime series set in a bucolic Yorkshire town, where you would never expect social workers to abduct a young boy ... never imagine...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DCISummary: Two friends who envy each other's lives wake up one morning to find they have switched bodies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Change 2011Summary: "AFTER TILLER intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFTSummary: Attorney Claire Darrow defends an old colleague of her mother's for murder. Things get complex when Claire's romantic interest, Miles, is named as prosecuting attorney on the case.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2020
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2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDChris Robinson Brotherhood (Musical group)
Contents: Behold the seer -- She shares my blanket -- Hark, the herald hermit speaks -- Blonde light of morning -- Dog eat sun -- Blue star woman -- High is not the top -- If you had a heart to break -- Glow -- Good to know.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ROBSummary: 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