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Architects Turkey 16th century Fiction Electronic music Istanbul (Turkey) Fiction Mihrimah Sultan 1522-1578 Fiction Mimar Sinan 1489 or 1490-1588 Fiction Popular music Sampler music Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 Fiction Turkey History Süleyman I, 1520-1566 Fiction Turkey Social life and customs 16th century FictionSummary: "This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CINSummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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Summary: "Magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, Talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis, from one of the world's most honored and beloved teachers. From a multitude of sources, Elie Wiesel culls facts, legends, and anecdotes to give us fascinating portraits of notable figures throughout Jewish history--from the Kingdom of Israel in the ninth century B.C.E. to nineteenth-century...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.1 WIESummary: The movie is based on the 1951 novel by Daphne Du Maurier and tells the story of a young Englishman who plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATContents: Love minus zero/No limit (Eliza Gilkyson) (3:54) -- Sweetheart like you (Guy Davis) (5:07) -- Clothes line saga (Suzzy & Maggie Roche) (3:14) -- Girl of the north country (John Gorka) (3:29) -- Delia (Spider John Koerner & Dave Ray) (2:42) -- I want you (Cliff Eberhardt) (5:15) -- All along the watchtower (Tom Landa & the Paperboys) (4:20) -- Dieu à nos côte's (With God on our side)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red House Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK NODDungen
Contents: Vara snabb -- Min enda vän -- Brallor -- Soda -- Högdalstoppen -- Skit i allt -- Barnen undrar -- Blandband -- Nästa sommar -- Marken låg stilla.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mexican Summer 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DUNSummary: When his wife and daughter are violently attacked, Dr. Paul Kersey hunts down his family's assailants to deliver justice. Fury and fate collide in this intense action-thriller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEACopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEASummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: Kim and Amy have been best friends since high school but haven't seen each other since Amy moved to the West Coast for grad school. They are reunited on a trip to Jay, Kim's boyfriend's lake house, joined by Jay himself, his stepbrother Alex, and Kim's cousin, Lin. When Amy left for the West Coast, she was in love with Jay, even though she thought it'd never work out because she was fat. Now...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAISummary: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, 95 min.): After wading in a puddle of radioactive waste, these radical reptiles are transformed into New York City's greatest crime-fighting quartet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TEERongen, Renee.
Summary: A collection of quotes, vignettes, and stories illustrated with art by and for women.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kittleson Creek Press 2012
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Summary: Examines the life and career of pop singer Amy Winehouse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2015
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC AMYDungen
Contents: Sätt att se -- Målerås finest -- Det tar tid -- Samtidigt 1 -- Ingenting är sig likt -- Fredag -- Finns det någon möjlighet -- Mina damer och fasaner -- Samtidigt 2 -- Bandhagen.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kemado 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DUNRange
Contents: Regular -- Copper wire -- Florida -- Superimpose -- Five Four -- Falling out of phase -- No loss -- Skeptical -- Retune -- So -- 1804.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC RANShafak, Elif
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire In her latest novel, Turkey's preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAShafak, Elif
Summary: In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Isanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most...
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 SHAShafak, Elif
Summary: The lives of twin sisters born in 1940s Turkey diverge when one stays in their childhood village and becomes a revered midwife while the other moves to London with her bitter husband and three children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAVisaggio, Magdalene
Summary: Welcome to Bolingbroke. It's a small town just like any other . . . or so eighth graders Val and Lanie think. They're the best of best friends--they love the same comics, they watch the same shows, and they're always there for each other. Which is important when you're queer, like Lanie, or on the spectrum, like Val, and just don't seem to fit in anywhere. When a school project about their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Turkish teen Asya is coming of age under the wing of her tattoo-parlor owner mother and her three aunts, befriending a cousin from America, and discovering a secret that links her family to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAShafak, Elif
Summary: Peri, a wealthy Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. Wrestling to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground-- an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor, a relic from the past. Over the evening, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAEliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
Summary: These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T.S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 ELI1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821 ELI
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Contents: Bicameral -- 1995 -- Urethane -- Ricercar -- Not for me -- Relegate -- A tree day -- Balm -- Cantor -- Every good thing -- Violet.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022