Summary: Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBSummary: Based on a true story, Darlene longs for love, family and passion. She leaves her small rural town to find the one man that can fulfill all of her desires. One child, still single and three years later, Darlene, comes back home. She accepts a marriage proposal from a neighbor who turns her into his personal slave. Her husband's cousin comes to live with them and she finds comfort with him. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEBunn, Cullen
Summary: With the original five X-Men lost in space, Emma Frost, Havok, Bastion and Miss Sinister hatch their devious plans -- and unleash Project: Mothervine! Meanwhile, Jimmy Hudson and Bloodstorm feel the wrath of Polaris -- once again a victim of the body-stealing Malice! And with his mutant charges missing, Magneto mobilizes against his enemies. His first target: Sebastian Shaw! But Magneto will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 XMESilva, Hugo
Summary: When a bank heist in the city doesn't all go according to plan, Jose and Tony find themselves in possession of some hostages and speeding through the mountains of Spain to slip over the border. Little do they know when they make a stop at a small tavern in the Basque countryside they find themselves the honored quests of a family of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN WITVarious artists
Contents: Cafúa / Nonato & Seu Conjunto -- Mar afunda / Os Novos Crioulos -- Crioula multicolorida / José Roberto -- Agora é moda / Rita Lee -- No aguento você / Trio Esperança -- 16 Toneladas (Sixteen tons) / Noriel Vilela -- Ele guenta / Chocolate da Bahia -- E necessário / Tim Maia -- Cobra criada / Joao Bosco -- Tanga / Som Três -- Uma Rosa prà dita / Os Incriveis -- Aleluia / Robson Jorge -- Jeep /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mr Bongo 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BraziDa Silva, Ana.
Contents: Friend -- Two window over the wings -- Running in the rain -- Lighthouse -- Hospital window -- Modinha -- In awe of a painting -- Sister -- Disco ball -- Climbing the walls -- Hospital window video clip
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicks on Speed Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK Da SiContents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PROSummary: "Novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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Summary: Of mixed Laguna Pueblo, Cherokee, Mexican, and white heritage, Silko brings a unique perspective to her powerful works. In this deeply personal and spiritual book, she combines memoirs, traditional storytelling, and ruminations on the natural world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 813.54 SILKO, LESLIE MARMON SilSummary: The 1967 'Six-Day' war ended with Israel's decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking; a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CENSummary: The lectures in Part 6 bring the progress of philosophy into the present day, beginning with the work of Nietzsche and the American pragmatists William James and John Dewey. This section explains the work and consequence of modern linguistic and logical analysis in lectures on Ayer and Wittgenstein. Also discussed is the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss and the attempts to develop rational...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 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 PAUSilko, Leslie Marmon
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SILSummary: The first feature-length appreciation of Eva Hesse's life and work, makes superb use of the artist's voluminous journals, her correspondence with close friend and mentor Sol LeWitt, and archival interviews with fellow artists who recall her passionate, ambitious, tenacious personality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EVAGetz, Stan
Contents: Desafindo / Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Ferreira de Mondonca (5:49) -- Samba Dees Days / Charlie Byrd (3:32) -- O Pato / Jayme Silva, Nevza Teixeira (2:30) -- Samba triste / Roberto Baden Powell de Aquino, William Blanco de Abrunhosa Trindade (4:45) -- Samba de uma noa só / Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonca (6:10) -- E luxo só / Ary Evangelista Barrosa, Luis Peixoto (3:41) -- Bahia (aka...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GETSilko, Leslie Marmon
Summary: Silko takes readers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, weaving tales from both sides of her family's past into her observations, and using the turquoise stones that she finds on her walks to unite the strands of her stories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SILKO, LESLIE SILSummary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DIECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIESummary: Writer and director Faraut revisits the rich bounty of footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe as he competes in the French Open at Paris's Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe's attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOHSummary: "Son is Cuba's principal dance and song form and the root of salsa. Fusing African and Spanish elements, it ranges in style from simple, rustic bands to the brassy arrangements of New York salsa. This rough guide, literally a 'who's who' in Cuban music, explores this rich tradition, from its conception in the early 1900s to the present day big-band revival"--Container verso.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ROUSummary: Sandra, who lives in Belgium, has just been released from a psychiatric hospital only to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWO
Summary: A multi-story romantic comedy about the people who work on weddings to create the perfect day for a loving couple - while their own relationships are outlandish, odd, crazy and far from perfect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Saban Films 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LoCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVSisti, Alessandro
Summary: World-famous air racer Dusty joins forces with a dynamic crew of firefighting aircraft to battle a wildfire.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2022