Summary: City-boy Ren McCormick finds he has been moved into an uptight Midwestern town where the local officials have banned dancing and rock 'n roll music. Ren revolts with his best friend Willard and the minister's daughter. A timeless struggle between innocent teenage pleasures and adults' need for rigid morality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Watts, Nic
Summary: "When C.L.R. James's play "Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History" opened in London featuring Paul Robeson in 1936, it marked the first time black actors starred on the British stage in a play written by a black playwright. But after this groundbreaking play ended its run, the script was lost for almost seventy years. Then a draft copy was found among...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 972.94 WAT(RAINE, NIC, COND.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC OUTSummary: It's a big year for welcomes on Walton's Mountain. Welcome back to John-Boy, visiting from New York; to Grandma, finally home from the hospital; and to Mary Ellen and Curt's baby boy, John Curtis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: Through tests, tears, and triumphs as a fire drives the Waltons from their home, John-Boy becomes a scriptwriter, Mary Ellen applies to nursing school, and Jim-Bob discovers a fact about his birth, all while Hitler and Mussolini threaten the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELWeitz, Eric D.
Contents: A troubled beginning -- Walking the city -- Political worlds -- A turbulent economy and an anxious society -- Building a new Germany -- Sound and image -- Culture and mass society -- Bodies and sex -- Revolution and counterrevolution from the Right.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.085 WEISummary: It's 1968 and Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech creates serious tension in Poplar, especially when a group of dockers march in support of Powell. The midwives welcome a new nun, Sister Veronica, who's an instant hit with everyone, except Nurse Crane. Meanwhile, Trixie's relationship with Matthew goes from strength to strength, while Nurse Crane helps Nancy with her financial...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CALContents: Jazz Fest: the first 50 years / by Keith Spera -- Heritage, craft, and culture / by Rachel Lyons -- Quint Davis and Jazz Fest / by Karen Celestan -- Food fête / by Rachel Lyons -- The music and musicians of the New Orleans Jazz Festival / by Robert H. Cataliotti -- Off the stage, around the grounds / by Rachel Lyons.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAZWarde, Erin Jean
Summary: "A priest, spiritual director, and sobriety coach invites us to bring mindfulness into our relationships with alcohol as a way to be awakened to the beauty of our lives in mind, body, and soul"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.8 WARSummary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1. Penny reel / Lord Power & Calypso Quintet -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & his Group -- Judgment Day / Laurel Aitken with Ken Richards & his Harmonisers -- In and out the window / Monty & Roy with Drumbago's Orchestra -- Feel so fine (aka feel so good) / Derrick & Patsy with Drumbago's Band -- River bank part 1 (aka bank to bank) / Baba Brooks & his Band -- Rough...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TRESummary: Richard Thomas plays the key role of John-Boy Walton, a youth on the verge of manhood during the Great Depression and a fledgling writer whose observations are filled with the growing-up lessons and love he receives from his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: "The struggle between the strictures of religion and humankind's brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pl̀mason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas made the perilous trek to Iceland's Southeastern coast to establish a church. There, the arrogant man of God finds his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Hersch, Fred
Contents: v. 1. Songs without words. Songs without words. Aria (7:02) ; Ballad (5:59) ; Tango (5:40) ; Duet (5:55) ; g The moon's lullaby (6:44) ; Waltz (3:18) -- Child's song (10:24) -- Up in the air (5:50) -- Heartsong (5:37) -- Sarabande (6:41).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HERBarry, John
Contents: Zulu. Main theme/First Zulu appearance and assault (7:43) -- From Russia with love. Main theme (2:15) ; 007 (3:09) -- Goldfinger. Main theme (2:28) -- The Ipcress file. A man alone (4:01) -- The knack. Main theme (1:45) -- Mister Moses. Suite (7:52) -- Thunderball. Main theme (2:17) -- The wrong box. Main theme (2:46) -- Born free. Main theme/The lions at play (5:49) -- The Quiller memorandum....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Silva Screen Records 2001
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BARBernard, James.
Contents: Overture-Omens of Nosferatur -- Hutter and Ellen -- Ellen's disquiet -- Journey to Orlok's castle -- In the castle -- Ellen sleep-walks -- Hutter's discovery -- Loading the coffins -- Ellen by the seashore -- The ship of doom -- Orlok's lair -- The plague -- The pursuit of knock -- The power of Orlok ; The death of Ellen.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Silva Screen 1997
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC NOSSummary: A comic series of short vignettes that build on one another to create a cumulative effect as the characters discuss things as diverse as caffeine popsicles, Paris in the twenties, and the use of nicotine as an insecticide all the while sitting around sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COFWilliams, John
Contents: The Sugarland Express (3:40) -- Jaws (2:17) -- Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - The Conversation Begins / Main Title / Resolution And Finale (8:13) -- Raiders Of The Lost Ark - Raiders Of The Lost Ark (5:26) -- Raiders Of The Lost Ark - The Map Room / Dawn (4:09) -- E.T.-the Extraterrestrial - Adventures On Earth (10:58) -- Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom - The Mine Car Chase (5:32) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Silva Screen Records 2003
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Summary: Created by Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, Master of None became an immediate global hit on Netflix, was named "the year s best comedy" by the New York Times and has won a Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series. Ansari has been nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as Dev Shah, a 30-year-old trying to jump-start his acting career and elevate his dating game with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MASSummary: Sonic is on the run with his faithful sidekick Tails, and together they're racing to outpace the despicable Dr. Robotnik, foiling his plans to 'robotize' and enslave the population of Planet Mobius. Sonic and friends always save the day. It's quick wit at supersonic speed in a fight for freedom and family fun!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADVContents: Accidentally in love (Counting Crows) -- Holding out for a hero (Frou Frou) -- Changes (Butterfly Boucher featuring David Bowie) -- As lovers go (Ron Fair remix) (Dashboard Confessional) -- Funkytown (Lipps, Inc.) -- I'm on my way (Rich Price) -- I need some sleep (Eels) -- Ever fallen in love (Peter Yorn) -- Little drop of poison (Tom Waits) -- You're so true (Joseph Arthur) -- People ain't no...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC SHRSturm, James
Summary: Presents a fictionalized version of the life of Satchel Paige, who began his baseball career in the Negro Leagues in Alabama in the 1920s and who, although kept out of the major leagues for years by Jim Crow laws, went on to become a world-class athlete.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Jump at the Sun 2019