Summary: Words from a Bear gives a thorough survey of Momaday's most prolific years as a doctorate fellow at Stanford University, his achievement of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1969, and his later works that solidified his place as the founding member of the 'Native American Renaissance' in art and literature, influencing a generation of Native American artists, scholars, and political activists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV N.SCSummary: Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Vivian's strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photos, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FIN
Summary: On the eve of World War II, Roy, a British officer, revisits Waterloo Bridge where he and Myra met and fell in love during an air raid at the beginning of World War I. Heartbroken after Roy was reportedly killed in action, Myra turned to prostitution to make her way. The report, however, was false, and when Roy returns from a POW camp, Myra's shattered spirit may no longer hold any room for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WATVision & Revision
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK VISVivien Grey(Miss Mabel McKinley)
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist 1903
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMRussell-Brown, Katheryn
Summary: "A biography of African American musician Melba Doretta Liston, a virtuoso musician who played the trombone and composed and arranged music for many of the great jazz musicians of the twentieth century. Includes afterword, discography, and sources"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LISTON RUSSummary: Going wrong: As wild teenagers, Guy Curran and Leonora Chisholm believed that they were soulmates. When they meet again eight years later, Guy aims to reclaim her, no matter who stands in his way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.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 TRUSummary: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIMSummary: A character-driven documentary and cooking series that takes viewers inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard, who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city to open a fine dining restaurant in small-town Eastern North Carolina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHEMaker
Contents: Say I won't -- Sangria -- New Jack shake -- Monument -- Fly high -- What a day -- Sleepy eyes -- The elevens -- Baby -- Look of love, pt. 1 -- Look of love, pt. 2 -- Africumbia -- Things cannot stop forever remix -- Sundancer -- Body bash -- Break bread -- Drop dead -- The backroads -- Sleep walk.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now-Again Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MAKMaker
Contents: A new breed -- King fortune -- Stones -- Aquatic -- Good woman -- Savage fuzz-- Kush -- Love is moving -- Gangster world -- Life lesson -- Burning on -- Dead or alive -- Survivor -- Mercy -- Circle of success -- Hot box
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now-Again Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MAKSummary: The Great Lakes and connecting waterways, have been at the center of the traditional and contemporary economics for centuries. Meet the Ojibwe and a Tribe that was relocated to this region-the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin who care for these lands. Natural resources have been the Tribes' main economy-the famous Red Lake walleye and wild rice lakes. Growing Native Host Stacey Thunder (Red Lake and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Maker
Contents: Walk away son -- Shout -- The love we have -- Everyone else -- Realization -- Happenings -- Everything is beautiful -- The fire that burns -- Hold 'em -- Organ prelude dub -- Colors -- Summer times -- Free -- Southside phantom -- Forge your own chains -- Come home with me -- Sneak into my bedroom -- Snake bite -- Summer times prt 2 -- Ashtray.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now-Again Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MAKSummary: In the late 1980s, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian launched a crusade to provide what he considered a humane and dignified option for the terminally ill--assisted suicide. Aided by his loyal friend Neal Nicol, and his older sister Margo Janus, Kevorkian begins offering his "death counseling" services to a grateful and burgeoning clientele. He earns the support of Hemlock...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Films 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie You 2010Lottridge, Celia Barker.
Summary: When the other animals fail at the task, the slow but wise turtle finds a way to obtain the bountiful fruits of a magic tree.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: M.K. McElderry Books 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 LOTSummary: The honorable citizen Nils plows snow in the wild winter mountains of Norway, but when his son is mistakenly murdered, Nils takes action, which ignites a war between the vegan gangster "the Count" and the Serbian mafia boss Papa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INWeston, Randy.
Contents: African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 1 (3:16) -- The healers (10:44) -- African cookbook (17:13) -- La Elaha-Ella Allah/Morad Allah (6:39) -- The call (6:12) -- African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 2 (8:26) -- The seventh queen (16:35) -- Blue Moses (11:57) -- African sunrise (19:50) -- A prayer for us all (5:16).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Antilles 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ WESSummary: Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MERSummary: She wore a yellow ribbon : Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled. 3 Godfathers: Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Weston, Randy
Contents: Hi fly. -- In memory of. -- Sweet meat. -- Jamaica east. -- Tanjah. -- The last day. -- Little iles.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 1973
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 323.1196 MLKCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MLKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MLKSummary: "Emily Ridley, a feisty Salvation Army captain, refuses to go gently into retirement. Realizing that modern-day sinners no longer respond to her hellfire-and-brimstone brand of evangelism, Emily's superiors give her one last chance. So Emily and eager new recruit Sister Alice head for Brigthorpe and Blackwick -- quiet, working-class Yorkshire towns that the good captain envisions as Sodom and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [DDistributed by] Acorn Media 2009