Summary: A fearless group of journalists maintain India's only women-led news outlet. All from the Dalit caste, the women of Khabar Lahariya prepare to transition the newspaper from print to digital while fighting for marginalized voices in the world's largest democracy. The film chronicles the astonishing determination of these reporters as they redefine what it means to be powerful.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WRIPinto, Freida
Summary: A young Indian woman falls for a British businessman who has come to India to work for her father's business, but must overcome the pressure of society in order to make their relationship work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRISummary: 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 2010Summary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOPalacios, Tomas
Summary: Introduces the origin story of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PALAlbinoni, 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 ALBSummary: In this delightful parable, a kingdom within a painting is divided into three castes: the impeccably colored Alldunns, the incomplete Halfies, and the barley outlined Sketchies, who are treated as outcasts. Chastised for her forbidden love of the dashing Ramo, Claire runs away into the cursed forest. Ramo and her best friend Lola journey after her, crossing over the boundaries of the forest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PAISummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSAchindu, Agatha
Summary: When Agatha Achindu came to the US from Cameroon, West Africa, for university, she didn't know what to make of the aisles and aisles of canned foods in the grocery store. She started making meals with fresh ingredients for her roommate; after her first community dinner for fifty fellow students, word spread. Fast-forward thirty years: What started as small dinners and workshops teaching moms...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ACHSummary: "From ongoing reports of police brutality to the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on Black Americans, 2020 brought a renewed awareness to the deep-rootedness of racism and white supremacy in every facet of American life. Edited by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, The Black Agenda is the first book of its kind-a bold and urgent move towards social justice through a profound collection of essays...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 BLAContents: I Can Feel It(4:58 min) -- Bahari Boys: Simba Yuna Nguruma(4:11 min) -- Celina, Kamaru: Mukurara Nake / Kamaru Celina Band(3:29 min) -- Orchestre Conga Internationale: Nakupenda Sana(4:43 min) -- The Rift Valley Brothers: Mucang'ang'o Ugiraga Mukindirio(4:52 min) -- L'Orchestre Central International: Jane Jaber(4:37 min) -- The Lulus Band: Daina(4:36 min) -- Les Mangelepa: Nseya / Orchestre Les...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soundway Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KENThoman, Lauren
Summary: Is it the right place at the wrong time? Or the wrong place at the right time? Trapped in a dead-end town, Justin Warren has had his life defined by the suspicious deaths of his grandparents. The unsolved crime happened long before Justin was born, but the ripple effects are still felt after thirty-eight years. Justin always knew he wouldn't have much of a future. He just never imagined that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction ThomanSummary: 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 BLASummary: When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot and an untested trainee, who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PACSummary: When legions of monstrous creatures known as Kaiju started rising from the sea, a war began. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes: a washed-up former pilot and an untested trainee, who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAC RATED PG-13Tranströmer, Tomas
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodaxe Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.71 TRAContents: Roll, Alabama, roll : The Alabama / The X-Seamen's Institute (3:00) -- Shenandoah / The X-Seamen's Institute (3:27) -- Clear the track and let the bullgine roll / Sam Eskin (1:31) -- Greenland whale fisheries / Stuart Gillespie (2:11) -- Paddy Doyle's boots / Alan Mills and the Shanty Men (:36) -- The black ball line / The Foc'sle Singers (:59) -- The sloop John B. / The Dicey Doh Singers...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK CLAFlynn, Ian
Summary: Join Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles Tails Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Amy Rose, Mighty the Armadillo, Ray the Flying Squirrel, and even more special guests as they travel through zones inspired by the seasons in search of Chaos Emeralds! It's a hilarious and hectic race against the clock in Seasons of Chaos by longtime Sonic writer Ian Flynn! Plus bonus stories by some of Sonic the Hedgehog's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2021
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Summary: "Tomas Tranströmer--the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature--can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: his verse is drawn again and again to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 439.7 TRASummary: 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 OSharma, Ritu.
Summary: "An insider's look at women in poverty, the inner workings of Washington, and how change really happens"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.4 SHAPalacios, Tomas
Summary: Peter Quill, son of the king of Spartax, leads the Guardians of the Galaxy, a group of intergalactic heroes set on protecting the universe from the evil Badoon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2014