Summary: A Touch of Greatness is a feature-length documentary film focusing on the extraordinary work of Albert Cullum, an elementary school teacher for over twenty years and a pioneer in American education. Championing an unorthodox educational philosophy, Cullum regularly taught his elementary school children literary masterpieces, most notably the works of Shakespeare, Sophocles and Shaw. Combining...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Aubin Pictures 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOUSummary: Henry, now forty-five, marries Jane Seymour. Jane helps to reconcile Mary with her father, but only after Mary signs a paper admitting that she is illegitimate. Jane gives birth to a son, but dies shortly thereafter. Devastated by Jane's death, Henry locks himself away, drawing fantasy palaces, with caustic court jester Will Sommers as his sole companion. Henry then marries Anne of Cleves, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TUDSummary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GrCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Summary: Cinemax's first scripted primetime drama series returns. A high-octane, globe-spanning thriller, Strike Back focuses on two members of Section 20, a secret British anti-terrorist organization: Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester), a consummate British soldier still struggling to overcome tragedy in his life, and Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton), a disgraced U.S. Delta Force operative who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STRSummary: Three teenage friends convey the hilarity of their awkward sexual quest and the genuine pain of growing up. Hermie is finally united with an "older woman" of 22.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE SUMSummary: "With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY PHISummary: "The controversial sitcom that defined the late '70s and became an instant classic, Soap took viewers into the homes of not one but two of the most dysfunctional families ever-- and we couldn't help but embrace every eccentric one of them!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SOARIKE, CATHARINE.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1970
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 RIKArnold, Catharine
Summary: "Before HIV or Ebola, there was the Spanish flu--this narrative history marks the one hundredth anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history"--Dust jacket flap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 ARNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 614.5 ARNSlade, Catharine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Art SladeGardam, Catharine.
Summary: On Christmas Eve a farm family discovers its missing animals celebrating Christmas in a very special way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GARSuliman, Ali
Summary: Elia Suleiman tells stories of the Israeli state from 1948 up to the present day, through the writings found in his father's diaries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TIMMullican, Moon
Contents: Gimmie my dime, give me my money -- When you're smiling -- I wish that I could shimmy like my sister Kate -- Kangaroo blues -- Draggin' the bow -- I'm tired of you -- Truck driver's blues -- Boog-a-boo baby -- Jessie -- Alice from Dallas -- Pipeliner blues -- New falling rain blues -- What's the matter with deep elem -- Sundown blues -- I'm going back to Sadie -- Rackin' it back -- No good for...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Proper Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MULBarbieri, Caterina.
Contents: At Your Gamut -- Transfixed -- Canticle Of Cryo -- Knot Of Spirit (Synth Version) -- Broken Melody -- Life At Altitude -- Terminal Clock -- The Landscape Listens. Electronic music.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Light-Years 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BARMullican, Moon
Contents: I'll sail my ship alone (2:11) -- Jole blon (2:31) -- Cherokee boogie (3:00) -- Pipeliner blues (2:29) -- Sweeter than the flowers (2:53) -- Good times gonna roll again (2:06) -- Wabash Cannonball (2:10) -- Ragged but right (2:18) -- I was sorta wonderin' (2:43) -- Farewell (2:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nashville 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MULSulaiman, Hamid
Summary: "It is spring 2012 and 40,000 people have died since the start of the Syrian Arab Spring. In the wake of this, Yasmine has set up a clandestine hospital in the north of the country. Her town is controlled by Assad's brutal regime, but is relatively stable. However, as the months pass, the situation becomes increasingly complex and violent. Told in stark, beautiful black-and-white imagery,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SULOctorina, Catharina
Summary: Iris, a young human woman, is swept into the world of divine bureaucracy when she's recruited to work in the office of the gods, in the department of Hermes. The gods and goddesses may be beautiful beyond human comprehension, but she quickly learns that they're every bit as petty and quarrelsome as they were thousands of years ago. Can she survive Eros' antics, Aphrodite's temper, and getting...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OFFNolte, Katherin
Summary: Ages 8-12. Random House.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NOLSuleiman, Juna
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LETGregory, Philippa
Summary: When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined with Margaret's younger sister Mary to a sisterhood unique in the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRECullinan, Thomas
Summary: "The basis for the major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning, and directed by Sofia Coppola "[A] mad gothic tale. The reader is mesmerized with horror by what goes on in that forgotten school for young ladies." --Stephen King, in Danse Macabre Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Whole Nectar Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.875 MULMulligan, Gerry.
Contents: Little Rock getaway -- Ballad -- Big city life -- Big city blues -- My kinda love -- Pretty little gypsy -- Bridgehampton South -- Bridgehampton strut.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1963