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Tirole, Jean

Summary: When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 TIR

Summary: Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation to France as well as a camcorder. Boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves to be a barrier for Bean. He struggles to catch his train to the south of France. He orders a seafood meal and finds the consumption of the platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Russian film director Emil,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007

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Summary: Sixteen year-old Irish activist, Brendan Behan, confronts inner conflicts when imprisoned in England during World War II.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2002

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

I Mills D Ellington,Juan Tizol

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: American Academy of Music 1937

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Dennis-Benn, Nicole

Summary: Receiving her long-coveted visa to America, Patsy leaves behind her family in Jamaica, only to discover that life as an undocumented immigrant is not what her best friend had described.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEN

Summary: Henry, now forty-five, marries Jane Seymour. Jane helps to reconcile Mary with her father, but only after Mary signs a paper admitting that she is illegitimate. Jane gives birth to a son, but dies shortly thereafter. Devastated by Jane's death, Henry locks himself away, drawing fantasy palaces, with caustic court jester Will Sommers as his sole companion. Henry then marries Anne of Cleves, a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TUD

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

Power, Tyrone

Summary: The lives and adventures of members of a surreal and disturbing travelling carnival.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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

Dennis-Benn, Nicole

Summary: "In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican village. Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2016

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Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

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Summary: Four decades ago, legions of young people trekked to San Francisco and its famed Haight Asbury district, the epicenter for the youth-driven counterculture revolution that was transforming American culture. They came for peace, politics, community, love...and they came for the music, the most enduring legacy of that very special place and time. It has proven to be the element that really tells...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2007

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

Summary: The gunfighter: In this noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks wanting to make a name for themselves by slaying a legend. After being warned by his old friend the Sheriff, Peck decides to return East to see his estranged wife and the child he left behind. Knowing his death is an inevitability if he stays, Peck leaves but before...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: Claire Smythson, wife of the famous abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his last show.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

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Summary: Queen of France at sixteen, widowed at eighteen, Mary Stuart defies pressure to remarry and instead returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. By birth, she also has a rival claim to the throne of Elizabeth I, who rules as the Queen of England. Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth's sovereignty. Betrayal, rebellion, and conspiracies within each...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019

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

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

Hurwitz, Justin

Contents: Snare liftoff -- Overture -- Too hip to retire -- Whiplash -- Fletcher's song in club -- Caravan -- What's your name -- Practicing -- Invited -- Call from Dad -- Accident -- Hug from Dad -- Drum & drone -- Carnegie -- Ryan/breakup -- Drum battle -- Dismissed -- Good job -- Intoit -- No two words -- When I wake -- Casey's song -- Upswingin' -- Rehearsal medley: First Nassau band rehearsal/Second...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC WHI

Summary: Season one "follows three mothers whose seemingly perfect lives in Monterey, CA, unravel to the point of murder"--Container. In season two, "the 'Monterey Five'...look to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives, just as an outsider arrives looking for answers"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BIG

Ellington, Duke

Contents: Disc one. The star spangled banner -- Black and tan fantasy -- Rockin' in rhythm -- Moon mist -- Jumpin' punkins -- Portrait of Bert Williams -- (Portrait of) Bojangles -- Portrait of Florence Mills (Black Beauty) -- Ko-ko -- Dirge -- Stomp (Johnny come lately) -- Are you stickin'? -- Black (1st mov. of Black Brown and Beige)

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Prestige 1977

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ELL

Summary: Another supernatural force has come to light in Bon Temps, witchcraft, and life for its residents will never be the same. Sookie finds herself entangled in a love triangle, torn between a vengeful Bill, the new Vampire King of Mississippi, and Eric, who's not the former Viking he once was. Led by a charismatic witch named Marnie, who threatens to let no one living or dead stand in her way, a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment, [2012] 2012

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

Summary: Alex is just another nobody at school, picked on by bullies and struggling to get through the day. But all that changes when he finds a sword that turns out to be King Arthur's legendary weapon, Excalibur. Unfortunately for Alex, the sword also comes with an enemy -- the sinister Morgana, who has plans to conquer Britain. Alex's only chance is to assemble a new Round Table to fight Morgana and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Kid 2019

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KID

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

Bean, Sean

Summary: Follows the struggles of a priest with a troubled past in a northern English city and his parishoners, including a single, unemployed mother of three who keeps her mother's death a secret in order to continue collecting her pension.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018

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

Summary: Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and its a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever decided to bare its teeth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: Jacques Rivette's two-part historical epic telling the story of Joan of Arc, and her journey from ordinary teenager to legendary figure.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Contents: Disc one: Let no man steal your thyme / The Pentangle -- Willow's song (from The Wicker Man) / Magnet -- Come all your travellers / Wight -- Love is a funny thing / Spirogyra -- Images of passing clouds / Garry Farr -- Peek strangely and worried evening / Synanthesia -- Glass of water / Bob and Carole Pegg -- Winter is blue / Vashti Bunyan -- Winter is a coloured bird / Comus -- The Seagulls...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK DUS

Summary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: Establishes a diverse and dynamic range of relationships among long-time girlfriends, their spouses, and the way in which money (or lack of it) affects them all. The have-not of the group is Olivia. She is a teacher-turned pot-smoking house cleaner in the upscale neighborhoods of West Los Angeles. She's drifting on a sea of uncertainty, while her friends Franny, Christine, and Jane cope with...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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

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