Gaul, Gilbert M.

Summary: Examines the economics and culture surrounding college football, discussing how in the last decade football programs have overtaken universities, creating entertainment factories where sports are more important than education.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 GAU

Gaul, Gilbert M

Summary: Consider this: Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made landfall since 2005: Katrina ($160 billion), Ike ($40 billion), Sandy ($72 billion), Harvey ($125 billion), and Maria ($90 billion). With more property than ever in harm’s way, and the planet and oceans warming dangerously, it won’t be long before we see a $250 billion hurricane. Why? Because Americans have built $3...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.34 GAU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.34 GAU

Summary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WEL

Summary: A group of addicts in a dingy apartment await the arrival of their "connection," to bring them heroin, while a documentary film maker struggles to film them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CON

Gilbert, Paul

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2021

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GIL

Summary: "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 PAU

Summary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Contents: Wah wah blues (Earl Hooker) (4:36) -- The thrill is gone / Arthur Benson, Dale Pettite (B.B. King) (5:27) -- I'll play the blues for you, pts. I & II / Jerry Beach (Albert King) (7:20) -- I wouldn't treat a dog (the way you treated me) / Michael Price, Dan Walsh, Steve Barri, Michael Omartain (Bobby Bland) (3:17) -- Let's straighten it out (Latimore) (5:15) -- Wonder why / Mel London, Lillian...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1993

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

Summary: In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, a man who is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by a bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner's bored wife and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman's responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN JUB

Summary: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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

Contents: She walks right in (Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown) -- Lion's den (Johnny Copeland with Albert Collins) -- Midnight hour blues (W.C. Clark) -- Those lonely, lonely nights (Katie Webster with Lonnie Brooks) -- Street walkin' woman (Phillip Walker with Long John Hunter) -- Tin Pan Alley (Johnny Winter) -- Pound woman (Floyd Dixon) -- Richest man (C.J. Chenier) -- Standing on shaky ground (Delbert...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Alligator Records 2004

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

Summary: Determined to get engaged before her youngest sister's wedding, flight attendant Montana Moore finds herself with only 30 days to find Mr. Right. Using her airline connections to 'accidentally' meet up with eligible ex-boyfriends and scour for potential candidates, she racks up more than 30,000 miles and countless comedic encounters, all the while searching for the perfect guy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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

Niebuhr-Siebert, Sandra

Summary: Mina is worried about starting a new kindergarten in her new country. The classroom is full of laughter, friendly faces and fun things to do, but the only word Mina can understand is her name. As she listens to stories and songs, chatter and instructions, Mina's understanding steadily grows. She tries out sounds that roar in her throat and tickle her tongue until the new words feel like her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Floris Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NIE

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NIE

Summary: Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in 2014.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 BES

L Wolfe Gilbert R Fall

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist 1924

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Summary: 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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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRE

Summary: Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: From the host of television's comedy-punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23 hours of your day. This book contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast, his most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. Stephen...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.602 COL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Wit Colbert

Contents: Mack the knife/Bobby Darin (October 1959) -- Venus/Frankie Avalon (March 1959) -- Lonely boy/Paul Anka (July 1959) -- Stagger Lee/Lloyd Price (February 1959) -- Kansas City/Wilbert Harrison (May 1959) -- A big hunk o' love/Elvis Presley (August 1959) -- The happy organ/Dave "Baby" Cortez (May 1959) -- Charlie Brown/The Coasters (March 1959) -- 16 Candles/The Crests (February 1959) -- Sleep...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1988

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BIL

Summary: The beautiful and kindhearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except one, the Queen, her jealous stepmother. When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White as the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest. There, she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs, Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy and Dopey. The Queen finds Snow White and tricks her with an enchanted...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Entertainment, Inc. 2016

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SNO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF Sn