Summary: Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment [distributor] 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BESContents: Reginald on house parties / Saki -- The Sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- Tobermory / Saki -- On being idle / Jerome K. Jerome -- For better or worse / W.W. Jacobs -- The model millionaire / Oscar Wilde -- The garden of truth / E. Nesbit -- The cat that walked by himself / Rudyard Kipling -- The girl from Arles / Alphonse Daudet -- Mr. & Mrs. Dove / Katherine Mansfield -- Georgie Porgie...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRESummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVSummary: Jean Valjean is a young man accused of stealing. He escapes prison and spends the rest of his life miserable and being chased by one man: a policeman named Javert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISBenson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prion 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBenson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BensoBenson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENHoxie, Frederick E.
Summary: Describes the Native American political activists who for two hundred years sought redress and change from the American government, and their place in shaping the modern political landscape for other activist movements.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1197 HOXFrederick, Matthew E.
Summary: Covers all U.S. and Canadian models of Jeep Cherokee, Grand Cherokee (1993 thru 1998), Comanche, Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer (1993 only). For model years 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Haynes Pub. Group 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 Jeep WagoneerSnoop Dogg
Contents: Don Doggy -- Da boss would like to see you -- Stoplight -- From tha chuuuch to da palace / feat. Pharrell -- I believe in you / feat. LaToiya Williams -- Lollipop / feat. Jay-Z, Soopafly, Nate Dogg -- Ballin' / feat. the Dramatics, Lil' Half Dead -- Beautiful / feat. Pharrell, Uncle Charlie Wilson -- Paper'd up / feat. Mr. Kane, Traci Nelson -- Wasn't your fault -- Boss playa -- Hourglass /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Priority 2002
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP SnoSummary: The destitute, selfish Duke of Bristol persuades a lovely, unselfish American heiress to attempt a month-long trial marriage in a Scottish castle. Another mismatched couple-- his impoverished, timid bachelor pal and a shrewish, wealthy widow-- join them, and all discover their shortcomings in this comedy of manners.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ONSummary: This hilarious and high-spirited musical stars Danny Kaye as a professor of high-brow music who inadvertently becomes involved with a sensual saloon singer (Virginia Mayo) and a crooked criminal gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SONBurg, Ann E.
Summary: In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUROlmsted, Frederick Law
Summary: The biggest and best single-volume collection ever published of the fascinating and wide-ranging writings of a vitally important nineteenth century cultural figure whose work continues to shape our world today. Seaman, farmer, abolitionist, journalist, administrator, reformer, conservationist, and without question America’s foremost landscape architect and urban planner, Frederick Law Olmsted...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712 OLMBurg, Ann E.
Summary: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BURSummary: Powell and Pressburger merge film with opera and dance to tell the tale of a poet who dreams of three women who all break his heart. He tells "the three tales of my folly of love"--In Paris, when he fancied himself in love with Olympia, who turned out to be a life-sized doll; in Venice, when bewitched by a beautiful courtesan; and on a Grecian isle, in love with daughter of a singer and conductor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TALSummary: "What price conscience? Abigail Disney's directorial debut, THE ARMOR OF LIGHT, follows the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America. The film tracks Reverend Rob Schenck, anti-abortion activist and fixture on the political far right, who breaks with orthodoxy by questioning whether being pro-gun is consistent with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ARMSummary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.0237 FREHandel, George Frideric
Contents: Scoglio d'immota fronte (5:00)/ Scipione (1726) -- Verdi piante, erbette liete (6:20) / Orlando (1733) -- Se pieta (8:50)/ Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724) -- L'amor ed il destin (3:00)/ Partenope (1730) -- Ah spietato (5:25)/ Amadigi (1715) -- Brilla nell'alma un non inteso ancor (5:20) / -- Alessandro (1726) Ombre piante, urne funeste (5:46) / Rodelinda (1725) -- Combattuta da due venti...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naive 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O HANSummary: In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORSummary: 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