Summary: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIMPesmen, Dale
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cornell University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 PESSummary: Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ARTBall, Jesse
Summary: The old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavor. The world is divided into two groups, pats and quads. The pats may kill the quads as they like, and do. The quads have no recourse but to continue with their lives. The Divers' Game is a thinly veiled description of our society, an extreme case that demonstrates a truth: we must change or our world...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBall, Jesse
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBall, Jesse
Summary: A woman "examiner" and a man, her "claimant," move into a small house where the examiner teaches the claimant the most simple functions and monitors his progress, until an encounter at a party raises doubts about everything he has learned.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBall, Jesse
Summary: Enjoying small everyday pleasures before his home city erupts into war, William seeks to escape the region with his young daughter until an old friend appears with information about William's wife, who was taken away when the violence started.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALSummary: "Although Buffalo Bill has fought Indians and Civil War battles, nothing can prepare him for his newest challenge: show business! His 'Wild West Show' is hugely popular, but when he signs a former enemy, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, for a featured role, a hysterical clash of cultures reverberates far beyond the boundaries of their sprawling outdoor theater. And the complications only multiply when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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Summary: Learning that he does not have long to live and will need to figure out how to provide for his developmentally disabled adult son, a widower signs up as a census taker for a mysterious government bureau and leaves town with his son on a cross-country journey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBall, Jesse
Summary: "How to Set a Fire and Why is a blistering, singular, devastating novel by Jesse Ball ("A young genius who hits all of the right notes." --Chicago Tribune) about a teenage girl who has lost everything and will burn anything. Lucia has been kicked out of school, again, this time for stabbing a boy in the neck with a pencil. Her father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; and she's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALKessler, Dale.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.J. Printing 1964
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 731.463 KESEvans, Chris
Summary: Mike Weiss, a young Houston lawyer and a functioning drug addict, uncovers a health care conspiracy when he takes on a case involving a local ER nurse who contracted AIDS after she was accidentally pricked by a contaminated needle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PUNSummary: Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna is accused of killing him by witchcraft. Deserted by the cowardly son and reviled by the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAYJensen, Carl.
Contents: Ida Mae Tarbell -- Lincoln Steffens -- Upton Sinclair -- Margaret Sanger -- George Seldes -- John Steinbeck -- J. William Fulbright -- Rachel Carson -- I.F. Stone -- Edward R. Murrow -- Jessica Mitford -- Betty Friedan -- Malcolm X -- Michael Harrington -- Paul Brodeur -- Paul Ehrlich -- Ralph Nader -- Seymour Hersh -- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein -- Frances Moore Lappé.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070 JENKeen, Robert Earl.
Contents: Black baldy stallion -- Ready for confetti -- I gotta go -- Lay down my brother -- The road goes on and on -- Show the world -- Waves on the ocean -- Top down -- Play a train song -- Who do man -- Paint the town beige -- Soul of man.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lost Highway 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK KEEKeen, Robert Earl.
Contents: For love -- Mr. Wolf and Mamabear -- What I really mean -- The great Hank -- The wild ones -- Long chain -- Broken end of love -- The dark side of the world -- The traveling storm -- A border tragedy -- Ride.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK KeenKeen, Robert Earl.
Contents: So I can take my rest (3:21) -- Whenever kindness fails (3:35) -- Amarillo highway (2:26) -- Night right for love (4:16) -- Jesse with the long hair... (3:46) -- Blow you away (3:35) -- Here in Arkansas (4:45) -- Daddy had a Buick (2:57) -- Corpus Christi Bay (3:58) -- Crazy cowboy dream (2:27) -- Paint the town beige (4:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sugar Hill Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK KEESummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a mysterious murder at Buckingham Palace. It seems like an open-and-shut case as all signs point to Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind and longtime nemesis of the crime-solving duo. When new twists and clues begin to emerge, the world's greatest sleuth and his trusted assistant must now use their legendary...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Holmes 2019Keen, Robert Earl
Contents: disc 1. Tell it like it is (featuring Cody Canada) -- Feelin' good again -- Gringo honeymoon -- State of thanks address -- I gotta go -- Lucky weather -- This old porch ; T for Texas (featuring Lyle Lovett) -- Write a drinking song -- Hot corn, cold corn-- Cory's story -- I'll go on downtown (featuring Cory Morrow) -- Ding dong daddy from Dumas (featuring Mark Patterson, Bryan Duckworth) -- On...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK KEEKeen, Robert Earl.
Contents: Think it over one time -- Tom Ames' prayer -- Gringo honeymoon -- The raven and the coyote -- Lonely feeling -- Merry Christmas from the family -- Barbeque -- Lynnville train -- I'm comin' home -- Dreadful selfish crime.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sugar Hill 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK KEESummary: Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WoSummary: Professor Gates' journey continues as a weekly series that will look at an ever-widening spectrum of our nation's fascinating ethnic mixture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FINKeen, Robert Earl
Contents: Hot corn, cold corn -- 52 Vincent Black lightning -- Footprints in the snow -- 99 years for one dark day / feat. Peter Rowan -- East Virginia blues -- Poor Ellen Smith -- Long black veil -- This world is not my home -- T for Texas / feat. Lyle Lovett -- Peter Rowan intro -- Walls of time -- White dove -- Old home place -- Twisted laurel -- Wayfaring stranger / feat. Natalie Maines.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015