Taubman, William
Summary: A comprehensive biography of the final leader of the Soviet Union chronicles Gorbachev's rise from peasant to politician and describes how his liberal policies ended the Cold War and unintentionally provoked the breakup of the USSR. "When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GORBACHEV, MIKHAIL TAUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GORBACHEV TAUSummary: This is the story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Xenon Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOMPinkney, Andrea Davis
Summary: "Born enslaved, Harriet Tubman rose up to become one of the most successful, determined and well-known conductors of the Underground Railroad. With her family's love planted firmly in her heart, Harriet looked to the North Star for guidance--and its lighthelped guide her way out of slavery. Her courage made it possible for her to help others reach freedom too"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TUBSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inspired by She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up, and rose up against the odds. This collection includes the first eight biographies in the series.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 920 SHEVerdi, Giuseppe
Summary: Leonora loves a knight who serenades her as a troubadoor. The knight is in an army fighting a civil war agaist the Count, who also loves Leonora. The knight thinks he's the son of the gypsy woman who raised him & whose mother was killed by the Count, but he's actually the Count's brother. When the rivalry between the two men becomes violent, tragedy occurs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TROSummary: In one of their best loved, most charming song and dance comedies, Fred and Ginger demonstrate just how they became known as America's greatest dance team. Includes the Academy Award-winning hit The Continental.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2010
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GAYSummary: A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's epic story of passion, betrayal and revenge. The president of the Denmark Corporation is dead, and already his wife is remarried to the man suspected of his murder. No one is more troubled by this than her son, Hamlet. Now, after this hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passion is on the rise and vengeance is in the air.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HAMWill.i.am.
Summary: "Parental Advisory; explicit content."-- Container insert.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope Records 2013
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP WILWill.i.am.
Contents: Good Morning (1:44) -- Hello (4:45) -- This Is Love (4:39) -- Scream & Shout (4:12) -- Feelin' Myself (4:13) -- Gettin' Dumb (5:14) -- Geekin' (3:34) -- Freshy (4:07) -- #thatPOWER (4:39) -- Great Times Are Coming (4:36) -- The World Is Crazy (3:59) -- Fall Down (5:07) -- Love Bullets (4:11) -- Far Away From Home (3:54) -- Ghetto Ghetto (3:51).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope 2013
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Will.i.am.
Contents: Good Morning (1:44) -- Hello (4:45) -- This Is Love (4:39) -- Scream & Shout (4:12) -- Feelin' Myself (4:13) -- Gettin' Dumb (5:14) -- Geekin' (3:34) -- Freshy (4:07) -- #thatPOWER (4:39) -- Great Times Are Coming (4:36) -- The World Is Crazy (3:59) -- Fall Down (5:07) -- Love Bullets (4:11) -- Far Away From Home (3:54) -- Ghetto Ghetto (3:50) -- Reach For The Stars (4:21) -- Smile Mona Lisa...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope 2013
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Summary: The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Love, Cecil, and Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel) masterfully collages a wealth of archival material, including dishy talk show appearances with David Frost and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRUSummary: "The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXISummary: Restoration : Robert Merivel is a young man who seems to have everything ... until an affair leads to scandal, suddenly leaving him heartbroken and penniless.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BrSummary: American History X: "Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists in Los Angeles, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA AMESummary: "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 WELToriyama, Akira
Summary: "Trapped on war-torn Planet Namek, Earth's heroes Gohan, Kuririn and Bulma struggle to keep the Dragon Balls out of the hands of both Vegeta and the planet-destroying Emperor Freeza. But even a power-up courtesy of the Great Elder of Namek may not be enough to save them from Freeza's reinforcements: the Ginyu Force, the five strongest fighters in outer space, led by the supervillain Captain...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz, LLC 2003
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1 available in Manga, Call number: YA FIC TORSummary: An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOMSummary: The only true 'film noir' ever directed by a woman, this tour de force thriller ... is a classic, tension-packed, three-way dance of death about two middle-class American homebodies (Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy) on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by [a] psychopathic serial killer ... [A] fascinating character-study.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 1998
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HitSadamoto, Yoshiyuki
Summary: Follows the adventures of Shinji Ikari, a child of the new Earth who pilots Evangelion, a colossal biomechanical weapon, to battle the fearsome Angels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEOSummary: Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PULSummary: After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PULCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PULSummary: The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1994