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Asma, Stephen T

Summary: Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases all on the fly. Or think of a comedy troupe riffing on a couple of cues from the audience until the whole room is erupting with laughter. Or maybe it's a team of software engineers brainstorming their way to the next Google, or the Einsteins of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153 ASM

Asma, Stephen T.

Summary: "Monsters. Real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, they have exerted a dread fascination on the human mind for many centuries. They attract and repel us, intrigue and terrify us, and in the process reveal something deeply important about the darker recesses of our collective psyche. Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.24 ASM

Summary: Inspired by true events, it is a feel-good story about Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself, even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

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

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

Layton, Edwin T.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1985

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 LAY

Contents: Dunya salam / Baaba Maal. -- My culture / Robie Williams & Maxi Jazz. -- The way you dream / Michael Stipe & Asha Bhosle. -- Ma' Africa / Mahotella Queens & Ulali. -- Braided hair / Speech & Neneh Cherry. -- Ta moko / Whiri Mako Black. -- Bushes / Baaba Maal. -- Passion / Michael Franti. -- Daphne / Eddi Reader, the Mahotella Queens & Revetti Sakalar. -- All aloned / On Eilean Shona. -- Racing...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Palm 2002

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

Summary: Surreal, sketch based TV comedy series. Two series were produced in 1967 by the commercial company Associated Rediffusion. In style and content, a forerunner of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', which shared some members of the cast.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tango Entertainment 2005

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

Lewis, John

Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling, graphic novel series March comes the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the Civil Rights Movement. For John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement as he knew it ended with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, but his struggle in the following years echo many of the same questions of civil...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 LEW

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, JOHN LEW

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEWIS LEW

Contents: Match box blues (Larry Hensley) -- Black snake moan (Cobb & Underwood) -- Johnson City blues (Clarence Green) -- Franklin County blues (Dixie Ramblers) -- Blue grass twist ; Bibb County grind (South Georgia Highballers) -- Barber's blues ; Dust pan blues (Frankie Marvin) -- I'm blue and lonesome (Gene Autry & Frankie Marvin) -- Do right daddy blues ; Black bottom blues ; The rheumatism blues ;...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2005

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Summary: Don't know who Tom Shadyac is? As a writer and a director, Shadyac first unleashed Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor remake on the world, and then a string of film fiascoes, but that's all behind him now. A bike accident left him with a host of debilitating maladies and brought him to the verge of suicide, so he took stock of his life and set out on a quest to answer some of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shady Acres, Inc. 2011

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc I

Khan, Asma

Summary: "A new cookbook from the star of Netflix's Chef's Table and one of the world's most prominent female chefs. Ammu is a heart-warming cookbook of comforting aromatic Indian flavors: Indian food from home, cooked with heart. Ammu is a collection of recipes from Asma Khan's childhood, from her Indian family kitchen. It is a celebration of where she comes from, of home cooking, and the inextricable...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5954 KHA

Summary: Travel back in time, from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools, with a pioneering group of scientists who make surprising discoveries that transform human understanding of nature and ecology.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SER

Eisenhower, John S. D.

Summary: Eisenhower offers a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as "the first modern general." Yet behind his reputation as a fierce warrior was a sympathetic man of complex character.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SHERMAN, WILLIAM T EIS

Summary: In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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Summary: The story centers on the friendship of two adventurers, Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein, as they travel North West during the Klondike Gold Rush. Along the way they must navigate harsh conditions, unpredictable weather and desperate, dangerous characters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: With reality fraying at the edges, Aubrey finds herself following a string of mixtapes left by her dead friend. The clues unravel the secrets of a mysterious signal: one that could either save the world--or condemn it.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Starfish Pictures, LLC 2019

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STA

Summary: Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former rock star in his native Pakistan, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. Every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: Meet Walter Tull, the Jackie Robinson of professional English football before World War I, and survivor of the worst racial slurs his opponents can hurl at him. When the game turns to war in 1914 and the playing field to the Battle of Somme, Tull makes history again as the first mixed-race officer in the British Army.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LAW

Newman, Joe.

Contents: Makin' whoopee -- Three little words -- Scotty -- There's a small hotel -- I let a song go out of my heart -- Moonglow -- Organ grinder's swing -- Rosetta -- Too marvelous for words -- The farmer's daughter -- Save your love for me -- The happy cats -- Cocktails for two -- Later for the happenings -- Buttercup -- Robbin's nest -- They can't take that away from me -- Feather's nest -- Mean to me...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Lonehill Jazz 2005

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Summary: The story of the 'Fighting 99th' - the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. It is 1943 and the U.S. is suffering huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when black flyers were not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, the "Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tuskegee

Contents: Disc one: Stax writers, Stax releases (part one). Comfort me / Carla Thomas -- You make a strong girl weak / Jeanne & The Darlings -- What did I do wrong / William Bell -- Another night without my man / Carla Thomas -- I got everything you need ; Mister fix it ; I'll always have faith in you ; Got to make a comeback / Eddie Floyd -- I've seen what loneliness can do / Homer Banks -- Slow train /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WRI

Summary: "The story of a Manhattan teenager whose life is profoundly altered after witnessing a terrible accident. Experience an emotional teen's extraordinary journey to set things right as her innocent ideals come crashing against the harsh realities of the adult world"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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

Sewell, Anna

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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector's Library 2008

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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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