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Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV O

King, Russell

Summary: "In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to the United States to fulfill his dream of creating a utopia for his thousands of disciples. Four years later, the incendiary Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon collapsed under the weight of audacious criminal conspiracies hatched in its inner sanctum, including the largest bioterrorism attack in US...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 KIN

Summary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIN

Russell, Bill.

Summary: Presents the illustrated text to the song about the curious spider. Includes musical notation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1993

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Russell 1993

Contents: Now you has jazz / Bing Crosby -- I've got the world on a string / Frank Sinatra -- Until the real thing comes along / Dean Martin -- Let's face the music and dance / Matt Monro -- Always / Bobby Darin -- I want a little girl / Billy Eckstine -- I cried for you (now it's your turn to cry over me) / Andy Russell -- But not for me / Chet Baker -- It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 1995

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL PEN

Various Artists

Contents: Sentimental journey (Les Brown & his orchestra, with Doris Day) -- Swinging on a star (Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter & his orchestra) -- You'll never know (Dick Haymes & the Song Spinners) -- The gypsy (Dinah Shore with Sonny Burke & Orchestra) -- Paper doll ( Mills Brothers) -- Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief ( Betty Hutton with Paul Weston & his orchestra) -- Laura (Woody Herman & his...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL SEN

Summary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WU

Summary: "The plow that broke the plains" depicts the social and economic history of the Great Plains from the settlement of the prairies by cattlemen and farmers through the World War I boom to drought and depression. "The river" traces life in the Mississippi River Valley during the previous 150 years, showing the consequences of sharecropping, soil exhaustion, unchecked erosion and floods, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2007

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLO

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Summary: A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023

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Summary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMP

Summary: A heartwarming story about a deceased Sicilian father trying to negotiate his way into heaven. But the only way in is to first go back and repair his relationship with his reluctant son, reunite his feuding family back in Sicily, and help all find love in places they never imagined.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROA

Benz, Christine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2003

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Summary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOL

Summary: In the early 1600s, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. The new government immediately imposes a martial arts ban, forbidding the practice of martial arts altogether in order to gain control.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEV

Hassell

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Forced Exposure 2020

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE HAS

Summary: "Two homicidal grifters perversely turn the tables on a corrupt system of unregulated mines and negligent owners by befriending fellow miners, murdering them in staged 'accidents', and then passing their victims off as relatives in order to pocket their employer's hush money"--Cntainer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLI

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Summary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLI

Summary: Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUS

Jing Ying Soloists

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1981

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN LIK

Contents: Just a little while to stay here (Eureka Brass Band) (3:56) -- Shine-hambone (Shoeshine boy) (1:02) -- Tiger rag (Freddie L. Small) (1:42) -- Blackberries! (Dora Bliggen) (:18) -- Red white and blue got the golden band (Mardi Gras Indians) (5:07) -- Times done changed (Sister Dora Alexander) (1:24) -- Dark was the night (Rev. Lewis Jackson and Charlotte Rucell) (:52) -- Back to the time (Choir...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CLA

King, Regina

Summary: Follows a detective in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in an alternate history where police must use masks to conceal their identities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2020

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WAT

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WAT

Summary: Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty as a super-spy in order to train new IMF agents. He is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he has ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team - his old friend Luther Strickell, transportation expert Declan, and background operative Zhen, in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MIS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIS

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Summary: Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley travels back in time to the Tudor Court of England's Henry VIII to witness some of the most dramatic moments in the lives of his six wives. Combining drama based on eyewitness accounts and historical sources with Lucy's own contemporary historical commentary, it is these women's stories that Lucy sets out to uncover, witness, and explore.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Contents: CD 1. The seasons (Lynyrd Skynryd) (4:09) ; Smokies (Barefoot Jerry) (2:13) ; Hush (Joe South) (3:45) ; Papa, won't you let me go to town with you (Bobbie Gentry) (2:33) ; Stone fox chase (Area Code 615) (3:16) ; God rest his soul (Duane and Gregg Allman) (3:52) ; I walk on guilded splinters (Cher) (2:30) ; Please be with me (Cowboy) (3:46) ; Ain't wastin' time no more (The Allman Brothers) ;...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2011

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES DEL

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