Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Thomas, Janis.

Summary: After her husband leaves her for another woman, Ruby McMillan, dealing with an unpaid mortgage and her failing bakery, decides, for once in her life, to live life without following a recipe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLI

Dent, Thomas C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.043 DEN

Summary: "A Swedish efficiency expert under strict orders not to interact with his subject is sent to improve a Norwegian farmer's culinary efforts. But the sly old farmer much prefers to amuse himself by impeding the timid researcher's work! Soon, in the struggle between neutral observation and the need for human interaction, the kitchen becomes a battleground!"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KIT

Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Gaet's

Summary: "In the middle of a depressing youth in a ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley sees only one way out: music. And that music will be what Jamaica made of rock and pop locally that had hardly been heard anywhere else: reggae! It is Marley who brings the unmistakable beat of reggae to the entire world. From small stages in Jamaica, his partners of the Wailers accompany him all the way...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels 2019

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAE

Summary: A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOJ

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JOJ

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JOJ

Summary: Follows the trials and tribulations of a busload of tourists who get stranded in an abandoned mining town in the middle of the African desert. After a fine bout of partying, they fall prey to the heat, isolation, and fear of death that pushes them to the extremes of introspection and emotional exploration. And in a beautifully futile gesture, they begin to rehearse a production of Shakespeare's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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

Tenci

Contents: Earthquake -- Hair sticks -- Serpent -- Blue spring --Forgot my horse's name -- Joy -- Joy2 -- No wings -- My heart is an open field

Format: sound recording-musical

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

Summary: Rachel, a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazi's during World War II in The Netherlands, sees her hiding place blown up. She escapes with her rescuer, a young sailor, but the boat sails into a trap set by the Germans. She escapes and joins the resistance, and under the false name Ellis de Vries she meets SS-hauptsturmf┬⌐╞´hrer Ludwig Muntze on a train smuggling weapons. She goes to his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLA

Summary: In late 1960s Southern California, private investigator Doc Sportello is drawn into murky dealings with his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay, her current real estate mogul boyfriend, his wife and her boyfriend.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA INH

Summary: Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CUR

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

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CUR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CUR

Bent Arcana (Musical group)

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Thomas, Jane.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Merrell 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.54 THO

Albinoni, Tomaso.

Contents: Adagio in G minor -- Concerto in B flat, op. 7 no. 3 -- Concerto in C major, op. 7 no. 5 -- Concerto in D major, op. 7 no. 6 -- Concerto in G major -- Concerto in F major, op. 7 no. 9 -- Concerto in C major, op. 7 no. 11 -- Concerto in C major, op. 7 no. 12 -- Concerto a 5 in D minor, op. 9 no. 2.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL ALB

Summary: Bestselling British author Vanessa Collingridge searches for the man behind the legend Captain James Cook as she traces his story in a series that is part biography, part travelogue and completely enthralling.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2013

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV CAP

Summary: When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK and France, detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann are sent to investigate on behalf of their respective countries. The case takes a surreal turn when a shocking discovery is made at the crime scene, forcing the French and British police into an uneasy partnership.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TUN

Liljestrand, Jens

Summary: Even when the climate crisis escalates beyond our worst nightmares and people become refugees, the world keeps turning and life carries on as usual: teenaged love stories, marital collapses, identity crises, and revolts against hopeless parents continue to play out. Didrik is a forty-year-old media consultant whose misguided efforts to become the family hero render him a pathetic vision of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIL

Summary: Profiles Paul Taylor, pioneer of 20th century modern dance. Features interviews with Taylor and company members. Includes excerpts from: Espanade; Company B; Polaris; 3 epitaphs; Events II, Epic, and Duet from 7 new dances; Scudorama; Aureole; Airs; Cloven kingdom; Last look; Musical offering; Offenbach overtures; Eventide; Piazzola caldera.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1999

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