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Charlie Saunders CollectionSummary: Embark on thrilling adventures to South America and Mexico. Join Goofy, Donald Duck and Walt Disney himself as they experience all the music, beauty and excitement Latin America has to offer. Travel to fun and exciting places and capture the gangs' adventures along the way. It's Donald's turn to take a fantastic journey with his friends Joe Carioca and Panchito. Contains lighthearted dance and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CLAContents: Disc one. Rumble (Link Wray) -- Peter Gunn (Duane Eddy) -- Buckeye (Johnny & the Hurricanes) -- Tequila (the Champs) -- Wild weekend (the Rockin' Rebels) -- Big shot (Johnny Cannon) -- Bongo rock (Preston Epps) -- Teen beat (Sandy Nelson) -- Walk don't run (the Ventures) -- Apache (the Shadows) -- Rebel rouser (Duane Eddy) -- Red river rock (Johnny & the Hurricanes) -- Moon dawg! (the Gamblers)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BACSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Frank Butler, handsome star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, bags clay pigeons and ladies' hearts. He's the best marksman in the world--until a backwoods hoyden challenges him. Her name? Annie Oakley.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ANNLord, Giselle Kennedy
Summary: "The Ark of Taste is a living catalog of our nation's food heritage preserving treasures passed down for generations-some rare, some endangered, all delicious. Created by Slow Food USA, the Ark shines light on history, identity, and taste through these unique food products, featuring recipes and the stories of how they reach our tables. In these pages you'll learn about: Carolina Gold rice,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious, Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 LORSummary: A historical drama that tells the story of a young frontier leader, his spirited wife, and their struggles in the backwoods of New York state.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DrumsSummary: Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SWIColeman, Cy.
Contents: Overture (3:27) -- You should see yourself (2:22) -- Big spender (3:35) -- Charity's soliloquy (4:16) -- Rich man's frug (1:41) -- If my friends could see me now (3:27) -- Too many tomorrows (3:04) -- There's gotta be something better than this (4:51) -- Charity's theme (1:26) -- I'm the bravest individual (2:18) -- The rhythm of life (3:56) -- Baby dream your dream (3:42) -- Sweet Charity...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC SWESummary: The rebuilding Ground Zero is the most architecturally, politically, and emotionally complex construction project in recent American history. The struggle to develop these 16 acres of 'sacred' land has encompassed 12 years, 19 government agencies, and over $20 billion. Aside from the engineering challenges, various constituencies - politicians, developers, architects, insurers, local residents,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2014
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Summary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLOSummary: Mick St. John is a private investigator 'living' in Los Angeles. Mick's bride turned him into a vampire on the couple's wedding night fifty-five years earlier. In the present day, he struggles with his love for a mortal woman, his dealings with other vampires and other criminal elements.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOOSummary: 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
Contents: Rock & roll cowboy (Eddie Dean with The Cletro Combo) -- The wild and woolly west (Jenks Tex Carman) -- Nothing but the night (Sterling Blythe) -- Mailman (Tex Atchison) -- What do you do with a memory (Goldie Fields) -- Doggone longgone blues (Bobby Bobo) -- Everybody likes a little lovin' (Doye O'Dell) -- Could you, would you (Okie Jones and The Lazy Ranch Boys) -- No time for love (Goldie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bear Family Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY GONSummary: "This two-disc set contains every item that Lester Young recorded for Aladdin including the rare 1942 trio session with Nat Cole and a 1946 Helen Humes date, from which comes a newly discovered instrumental"--Container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ YOUShields, Carol.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIShields, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHIShields, David
Summary: "An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate, about life and art-cocktails included. Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he's a stay-at-home dad to three young girls). David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he has overcommitted to art. At antipodes since first meeting twenty-five years ago, they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SHIShields, Kieran.
Summary: Investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1892 Portland, Maine, Deputy Marshal Archie Lean discovers that the victim was ritually executed as a witch, and enlists the help of a criminologist with whom he follows a trail to the spiritual societies of gothic New England.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIShields, Breeana
Summary: "When Juliette's sister, Clare, returns from her birthday week at the magical hotel upon a hill, she comes back changed ... Deeply unsettled, Juliette uses the last of her savings to book a stay at the Splendor and unravel its mysteries. Run by the talented young illusionist, Henri, the halls are full of magnificent delights and alluring distractions. Every wonder seems to twist Juliette's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHIShields, Carol.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIShields, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2002
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Summary: The co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers chronicles his life from his birth in Australia and upbringing on the streets of Los Angeles through his rise to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FLEA FLEShields, Aomawa
Summary: "A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for life in the universe while building a meaningful life here on Earth. As a child, Aomawa Shields was always bumping into things, her neck craned up at the sky, dreaming of becoming an astronaut. One year into an astrophysics PhD program, she was plagued by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023