Summary: Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEISouth, Mary
Summary: "A collection of stories featuring characters who use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOUContents: [Disc 1]. The inheritance (1997; 93 min.) / a Kraft Premier movie ; Alliance Atlantis Communications presents an Alliance Atlantis Communications/Cosgrove Meurer/Televest production ; producer, Ed Self ; teleplay by Maria Nation ; directed by Bobby Roth -- Love among the ruins (1975; 103 min.) / ABC/Circle Films ; produced by Allan Davis ; directed by George Cukor ; written by James Costigan....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BrRoach, Max
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ROARoach, Max
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ROARoach, Max
Contents: Parisian sketches. The tower ; The champs ; The caves ; The Left Bank ; The arch (17:10) -- Nica (4:46) -- Petit déjeuner (4:05) -- Un nouveau complet (3:23) -- Liberté (6:25).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Gitanes 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAZRoach, Max
Contents: Streams of consciousness (21:01) -- Inception (3:53) -- Acclamation (9:30) -- Consanguinity (6:55).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Piadrum Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ROACHSummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Roach, Max
Contents: You stepped out of a dream / Kahn, Brown (7 min., 45 sec.) --Filide / Ray Draper (7 min., 6 sec.) -- It's you or no one / Cahn, Styme (4 min., 12 sec.) -- Jodie's cha-cha / Bill Lee (4 min., 56 sec.) -- Deeds, not words / Bill Lee (4 min., 32 sec.) -- Larry-Larue / Booker Little (5 min., 11 sec.) -- Conversation / Max Roach (3 min., 47 sec.).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverside 1960
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ ROARoach, Max
Contents: It don't mean a thing -- Love letters -- Minor trouble -- Tune up -- Raoul -- This time the dream's on me -- Anthoropology.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EmArcy 1984
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ ROARoach, Max
Contents: Ghost dance (pt. I): Ghost dance (14:50) / (Max Roach Chorus & Orchestra) -- Ghost dance (pt. II): Glorious monster (9:32) / (M'Boom) -- Ghost dance (pt. III): Ghost dance (6:19) / (Max Roach Chorus & Orchestra) -- A quiet place (3:51) / (M'Boom) -- The profit (3:40) / (Max Roach Quartet) -- Tears (6:50) / (Max Roach Quartet) -- Self portrait (4:02) / (Max Roach solo) -- A little booker (21:03)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bluemoon Recordings 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ROASummary: Four decades ago, legions of young people trekked to San Francisco and its famed Haight Asbury district, the epicenter for the youth-driven counterculture revolution that was transforming American culture. They came for peace, politics, community, love...and they came for the music, the most enduring legacy of that very special place and time. It has proven to be the element that really tells...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2007
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOVSummary: 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
Roach, Mary
Summary: Roach takes a magnifying glass to everyday life, exposing moments of hilarity in the mundane and revealing amusing musings about marriage, automated customer service, and mazelike bargain stories
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ROARay, Worth S. (Worth Stickley)
Summary: Tennessee Cousins historical account devotes considerable space to Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, Georgia and other Southern States, and sometimes to English Origins of those families who played important roles in Tennessee history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2010
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3768 RAY VOL. ICall number: R-GEN 929.3768 RAY VOL. II
Mal Waldron Quintet
Contents: Disc 1. Status seeking ; The git go -- Disc 2. Snake out ; Judy ; The seagulls of Kristiansund -- Disc 3. Crowd scene ; Yin and yang -- Disc 4. Where are you? (take I) ; Waltz for Marianne ; Wha's nine? ; Where are you? (take II).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CAM London 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ WALSummary: Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim. A bass guitarist for garage band Sex Bob-omb, the 22-year-old has just met the girl of his dreams, literally. The only catch to winning Ramona Flowers? Her seven evil exes are coming to kill him. As Scott gets closer to Ramona, he must face an increasingly vicious rogues' gallery from her past, from infamous skateboarders to vegan rock stars and fearsome...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SCOSummary: Tells the story of Newland Archer, whose engagement to an innocent socialite binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing. When her cousin arrives in town on a wave of scandal after separating from her husband, she ignites passions in Newland he never knew existed. Swelling with exquisite period detail, this film is an alternately heartbreaking and satirical look at the brutality of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Roach, Mary
Summary: "'Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries-- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise-- and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 ROACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 ROACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 ROACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 ROARoach, Mary.
Summary: Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 612.6 RoaRoach, Mary.
Summary: Few of us realize what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal. In her trademark style, Mary Roach investigates the beginning, and end, of our food.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 612.3 ROASummary: When Pam and Greg get their parents together it turns into one disaster after another. The hippie Fockers are the direct opposite of the uptight Byrneses. With one pitfall after the next, the film takes awkward in-law experiences to new heights.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Meet 2005Mingus, Charles
Contents: v. 1. Disc 1. What is this thing called love -- Darn that dream -- Yesterdays -- Body and Soul -- Blue moon, blue tide -- Darn that dream (alt) -- Jeepers creepers (take 1) -- Jeepers creepers (take 2) -- Portrait (take 1) -- Portrait (take 2) -- I've lost my love (take 1) -- I've lost my love (take 2) -- Extrasensory perception -- Extrasensory perception (alt) -- Precognition -- Make believe...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Debut 1990