Walker, Jerald
Summary: "Personal essays exploring identity, family, and community through the prism of race and black culture. Confronts the medical profession's racial biases, shopping while black at Whole Foods, the legacy of Michael Jackson, raising black boys, haircuts that scare white people, racial profiling, and growing up in Southside Chicago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 WALBaker, Gerard
Summary: American breakdown dissects how, in the space of a generation, the pillars that sustained the once-dominant superpower have been dangerously eroded. From government to business, from media to medicine—the strength and security of the American experiment have been weakened by a widening gap between the elites who control these institutions and the public. At the root of this breakdown is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BAKSummary: An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RANWagner, Richard
Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RINSummary: Scooby-Doo! and the legend of the vampire: While on vacation in Australia, Scooby and the gang attend a music festival at Vampire Rock. When a legendary creature called Yowie Yahoo begins kidnapping the acts and turning them into vampires Scooby and crew help crack the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOContents: [Set 1]. Crucible of horror / Michael Gough (1970) -- Double exposure / Michael Callan, Joanna Pettet, Cleavon Little (1983) -- Horror rises from the tomb / Paul Naschy (1973) -- The dungeon of Harrow / Russ Harvey (1962) -- The werewolf of Washington / Dean Stockwell (1973) -- They saved Hitler's brain / Walter Stocker (1963) -- The thirsty dead / Jennifer Billingsley (1974) -- The amazing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFSummary: The Valachi papers: Former mob "button man" Joe Valachi turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese has put a contract out on his life. From thievery add extortion to vengeance and murder, Valachi spills the innermost workings of the Cosa Nostra, culminating in his riveting testimony before a Senate subcommittee.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CHASummary: The future's looking bright for the eccentric Durrells; catch up with their lives on the beautiful island of Corfu in the fourth and final season. Most of the family struggles with individual business ventures from running a guest house, attempting to get published, starting a beauty salon, and opening a zoo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Du 4Summary: Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the well respected current events and policy magazine 'The new republic'. He was also a freelance writer featured in 'Rolling Stone', 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'George'. By the mid 1990's, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington. That is until a bizarre chain of events suddenly stopped his career right in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHAContents: Wayfaring pilgrim / Ola Belle Reed (4:29) -- Free a little bird / Bascom Lamar Lunsford (2:42) -- Cripple creek / Mike Seeger with Etta Baker (1:54) -- Cindy / George Pegram and Red Parham (1:55) -- And am I born to die / Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton (3:30) -- Poor soldier / Ginny Hawker (2:45) -- Wild rose of the mountain / J.P. Fraley (2:11) -- Times are not what they used to be / Ginny...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MOUSummary: Basil Rathbone portrays the deductive genius, Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce his mystified colleague, Dr. Watson in these fourteen classic films.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Standing by the bedside of a neighbor (Cox Family) -- My warfare will soon be over (Ginny Hawker) -- Memories that bless and burn (Dry Branch Fire Squad) -- Count your blessings (Kathy Kallick and Laurie Lewis) -- Keep your feet on the ground (Rhonda Vincent) -- Paul and Peter walked (Claire Lynch) -- When I get home (L. Lewis) -- In my time of dying (Stevens Sisters) -- Faded pressed rose...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ANGContents: If wishes were horses (Claire Lynch) -- Silver tongue and gold plated lies (Suzanne Thomas) -- Sad situation (Delia Bell) -- True life blues (Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard) -- Lonesome wind blues (Rhonda Vincent) -- Pardon me (Cox Family) -- Old river (Hazel Dickens & Ginny Hawker) -- You tried to ruin my name (Wilma Lee Cooper) -- I can't find your love any more (Hazel Dickens) -- Just like...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2001
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY OContents: Tall pines / Laurie Lewis -- It rains everywhere I go / Lynn Morris -- I'll stay around / Alecia McRight -- I wonder where you are tonight / Jeannie Kendall -- Leaving the land / Suzanne Thomas -- Pretending I don't care / Rhonda Vincent -- Don't neglect the rose / Ginny Hawker -- Love me or leave me alone / Hazel Dickens -- Hideaway / Kathy Kallick with Laurie Lewis -- Who's crying for you now...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY OSISummary: Centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude, and bravery to overcome the odds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MIDCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Midway 2020Summary: A geophysical team, who are investigating the effect radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth, learn that the core of the Earth is heating up and warn the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build 'arks' to escape the impending doom, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc all over the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 201Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TWESummary: A geophysical team, who are investigating the effect radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth, learn that the core of the Earth is heating up and warn the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build 'arks' to escape the impending doom, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc all over the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie 2012Summary: At New York's hottest restaurant, things are really heating up. Owner and bookie Louis Cropa lost a friend to a mob hit and now his chef's gambling problem has brought the unwelcome mobsters into their restaurant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DINSummary: The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Victoria 2018Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Vi 2Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VIC NOT RATEDTatum, Channing
Summary: While John Cale, a Capitol Policeman, is taking his daughter on a tour of the White House it is taken over by a paramilitary group, and it is up to John to save the president and his country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHISummary: Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare people for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring the world back from the brink of extinction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016