Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSKearse, Bettye
Summary: A descendant of a slave named Coreen, and-according to oral tradition-her owner, President James Madison, finally shares her family's story.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 KEASummary: Set in rural England during the Second World War, the highly popular, award-winning drama returns for a third five-part series and continues to follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields in the Women's Land Army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LANSummary: Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LANSummary: Follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields for Britain during WWII in the Women's Land Army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LANSummary: The Frontline film is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab's life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FORWang, Daren
Summary: Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WANPrioleau, Betsy
Summary: "Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age--Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt--is a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For twenty years she ran the country's largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Publishing, which chronicled postbellum America in dozens of weeklies and monthlies. A pioneer in an all-male industry, she made a fortune and became a national celebrity and tastemaker in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LESLIE, FRANK, MRS. PRIBerto, Frank J.
Summary: "Unlike other bicycle history books, which cover only the first 100 years, this book deals extensively with the second century of bicycle development. It traces the development of the modern derailleur bicycle from its crude beginnings right up to the most modern mountain bikes and road racing bicycles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Van der Plas Publications/Cycle Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2272 BERSummary: Join orphan Hetty as she escapes the Foundling Hospital and the harsh Matron Bottomly. Thrill as she discovers the traveling circus, quake as she braves Victorian London and cheer as she overcomes all in her search to find true family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HETAlabed, Bana
Summary: Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALASummary: Corridors of blood: Set in the primitive hospitals of 19th century London, this recounts the story of the unfortunate Dr. Bolton, an early pioneer in anesthesiology, showing his gradual addiction to drugs and his dealings with grave robbers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HAUSummary: After having the emperor's minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim's children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRASewell, Anna
Summary: This classic story is told in the words of Black Beauty, a sleek, well-bred horse. He tells of his shock at leaving a pleasant meadow in the country for the dark streets of Victorian London, with little idea what is in store for him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: College student Nan Barlow is researching the history of witchcraft. Taunted by her brother and fiance, who have voiced their concern over her silly notions, Nan arms herself with resolve and drives into the small New England village of Whitewood. A bit anxious but consumed with curiosity, she will soon embark on the journey of her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR CITSummary: Instant Dreams brings viewers into the lives of Polaroid enthusiasts to create a portrait of Dr. Edwin Land, a pioneer in American technology. When Polaroid announced the end of instant film in 2008, a small group of enthusiasts bought the last operational factory in the Netherlands. Although they have the factory, a house fire destroyed all of Dr. Land's private notes, including the chemical...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INSSummary: The rollicking adventures of Tom Jones, as he romps across 18th century England. From bedrooms to rural inns to London's dangerous streets. Cast out from his home and forbidden his true love, Tom must overcome the charms of an older seductress and the sinister plot of a nefarious rival to win his lover's heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2002
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TOMWard, Catriona
Summary: "Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and the August Derleth Prize for best horror novel, Catriona Ward's Little Eve is a heart-pounding literary gothic with a devastating twist. Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, together day and night. They are raised among the Children, a clan ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. All they know is the gray Isle of Altnaharra,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARSummary: "An impassioned group of men and women risk everything for family, faith and the very future of their country--as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War--the daring people's revolt that rocked 20th century North America. ... General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife ......
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by ARC Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FoCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD/Blu Movie ForRodrik, Dani
Summary: An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today's global economy. Not so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is back with a vengeance, propelled by a groundswell of populists around the world. In Straight Talk on Trade, Dani Rodrik, an early and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 382 RODSummary: "With historic reenactments, expert interviews, and first-hand accounts, learn about the people, bloody wars, and undenieable truths that have brought us up from slavery to emancipation road on the march to freedom"--container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MARSummary: In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The nation was founded upon the idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The nation would pay a bloody...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011