Summary: The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called 'the most powerful movie musical ever made.' Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, it captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscarʼ- nominated...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIDSummary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele (The Angel of Death), forced her to dance for his amusement. This dance saved her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ISummary: This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend called Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House. Black Dynamite is ready to seek his revenge and take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLACline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "A girl named Ruth Ellen tells the story of her family's train journey from North Carolina to New York City as part of the Great Migration"--Provided by publisher
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Contents: Valentine -- Ben Franklin -- Headlock -- Light blue -- Forever (sailing) -- Madonna -- C. et al. -- Glory -- Automate -- Mia.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SNASummary: Best selling crime novelist Charles suffers from terrible writer's block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His picture-perfect new wife Ruth is doing her best to keep him focused so they can fulfill her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles' quest for inspiration leads him to invite the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti to perform a séance in his home. He gets more than he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLISummary: Phoolan Devi was a murderer, kidnapper and living folk legend who had endured a life of rape and abuse after beng sold into marriage at the age of eleven. A spree of murders known as the Behmai Massacre to avenge the death of her lover made Devi the object of a police hunt. In prison from 1983 until 1994, she spent years being prosecuted by the Indian police, only to be turned into a legend by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BANDuMond, Neva.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1962
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.443 DUMBeach, Neva
Summary: From the files of America's oldest chocolate company comes a beautifully illustrated treasure of a book for chocolate lovers everywhere. Eighty recipes for cakes, cookies, sauces, desserts, breads, drinks, and other special delights are illustrated with artwork and memorabilia from the archives of the 130-year-old company. Full-color photos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Hall, Evan Stephens
Contents: Moment -- Dotted line -- No drugs -- The alarmist -- Morningtime -- Sunday -- Alcove -- Thanksgiving -- Peeling off the bark -- On jet lag -- The metronome -- Skylight -- Spiral -- Overthrown -- Hairpin -- Need -- Endless -- Amulets/Light on -- Paterson & Leo -- Phase -- Intrepid.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PINSmile
Contents: Wall of eyes -- Teleharmonic -- Read the room -- Under our pillows -- Friend of a friend -- I quit -- Bending hectic -- You know me!
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The first German film devoted to life and death in a concentration camp tells the story of organized resistance by political prisoners in the Buchenwald concentration camp. When one of the prisoners smuggles a child into a camp, the men are faced with the question of how many lives may be endangered in order to save the life of the child. Based on a true story"--Cover text.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NAKSummary: Still grieving the death of nine-year-old Alice who was killed by a savage dog, Pat and Louise relocate to the remote town of Wake Wood where they learn of a pagan ritual that will allow them three more days with Alice. The couple find the idea disturbing and exciting in equal measure, but once they agree to the terms with the village's leader, a far bigger question looms: what will they do...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Reel Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR WAKStephens Hall, Evan
Contents: Dotted line -- Spiral -- The alarmist -- No drugs -- Moment -- Hairpin -- Phase -- Endless -- Alcove -- Neighbor.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PINSwell.
Contents: Today -- Oh my my -- Make up your mind -- I hate Christmas -- Off in my head -- Something to do -- Pink pink rain -- Blackmilk -- Everything is good -- Swill 9 -- Tonight -- Don't you know they love you?
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Beggars Banquet Records Ltd. 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SWELLSummary: Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at the local Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. A simple, somewhat dour man, the stubble-bearded Jacob...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icestorm International 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JACSummary: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk ways were maintained well into the twentieth century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAUConroy, Kevin
Summary: Batman fights evil villains and protects the people of Gotham City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUISmalls, Alexander
Summary: "Alexander Smalls has owned, conceptualized, and helmed some of New York's most iconic African American restaurants. Now, he follows up the James Beard award-winning Between Harlem and Heaven with Meals, Music, and Muses, a look at his world glimpsed through the lenses of music, food, culture, and history. It is a must-read journey through a life well lived and in recipe and reminiscence...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 SMAStall, Chris.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mountaineers 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599 STA1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.977 STA
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 599.0977 STASmall, Cathleen
Summary: Deportation can be a frightening concept, especially for immigrants or people whose friends or relatives are from another country. Why do people get deported, and what happens to them after the deportation decision is made? The answers to these questions and more are found in this thorough examination of a topic that is often in the news. Comprehensive text and fact-filled sidebars, and vivid...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Press, an imprint of Greenhaven Publishing, LLC 2018