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Beckmann, Petr. Horacek, Petr. Horáček, Petr Horáček, Petr. Leier, Ray. Peer, Ralph SylvesterSummary: Guy Hamilton, an ambitious Australian reporter on his first overseas assignment, is befriended by a Eurasian cameraman, Billy Kwan, with connections in high places. Hamilton soon gains an entree to Indonesian Communist Party leaders, as well as insight into Jakarta's grim realities on the eve of a major political upheaval.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video and Turner Entertainment Co. 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YEASummary: Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After a sneak attack by a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his vessel, Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey is torn between duty and friendship as he embarks on a thrilling, high-stakes chase across two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy at any cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu-ray Movie Master 2003Summary: A young man who survived a plane crash becomes more wildly alive and takes more risks when he discovers that the crash transformed him into a man without fear of death. Meanwhile, his wife struggles to find within him the man she married, and another survivor of the crash believes nothing and no one can heal her pain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FEASummary: The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: On Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEASummary: Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915. They are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GallipoliSummary: Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MosquitoSummary: Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAYSummary: An Amish boy witnesses a murder, and the cop on the case discovers it's part of a conspiracy in his department. Includes all-new special features including a five part documentary and much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER WITSummary: During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. The ship's surgeon balances the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Master 2004Summary: Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the film concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine's Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PICHoráček, Petr.
Summary: A little girl sees a beautiful butterfly in the garden one day and while searching for the butterfly the next day she is amazed by all of the other colors in the garden.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Reference Office, Call number: STO HorBeckmann, Petr.
Contents: Dawn -- Belt -- Early Greeks -- Euclid -- Roman pest -- Archimedes of Syracuse -- Dusk -- Night -- Awakening -- Digit hunters -- Last Archimedeans -- Prelude to breakthrough -- Newton -- Euler -- Monte Carlo method -- Transcendence of [pi] -- Modern circle squarers -- Computer age -- Chronological table.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 512.709 BECHoráček, Petr.
Summary: When Mouse discovers that the big juicy apple she finds is too big to fit into her tiny home, she sets out to find a larger house.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Leier, Ray.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: GUILD Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.41 LEIHoráček, Petr
Summary: "The tiger is the most fearless animal in the jungle, but when hunters take him to a cage in the city he discovers there is something much more valuable than strength or power"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Horáček, Petr.
Summary: Suzy Goose tries again and again to get a star for the Christmas tree.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HORPeer, Ralph Sylvester
Summary: Three Album, 45 page booklet boxset that takes you on a journey through the life of Ralph S. Peer and the influence he had on the entire music industry. Includes timeless country, blues, jazz, gospel and Latin music tracks. Country music hall of fame member, Ralph Peer was a visionary who designed, molded and cultivated the music industry as we know it today. Peer is credited with both making...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PEEHoracek, Petr.
Summary: A family drives their noisy car to Grandma's house.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Horáček, Petr
Summary: Rejected by his fellow penguins because of his unusual color, minimal diving, and jumping skills, Blue Penguin begins to sing in his loneliness and wonders if he will be able to convince the others that he is one of them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016