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Silver series (ClassicFlix) ; 19West, Geoffrey B.
Summary: "From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in. The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term "complexity" can be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 WESSummary: Tells the story of former FBI Dir. James Comey and President Donald J. Trump, two powerful men whose strikingly different ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COMSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE THRSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 300Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THRLent, Jeffrey.
Summary: "The powerful new work from one of our greatest historical novelists, A Slant of Light deals with profoundly seminal American moments: the end of the Civil War, the religious freedom that was manifested in the Second Great Awakening, the last gasps of the Jeffersonian ideal of American yeomanry, the shadow on the horizon of the Industrial Revolution. At the heart of the novel are two men: one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LENLent, Jeffrey
Summary: The sweeping, intergenerational story of a Vermont family, from WWII to the dawning of the '60s--the most magisterial and moving novel of acclaimed author Jeffrey Lent's career. Katey Snow, seventeen, slips the pickup into neutral and rolls silently out of the driveway of her Vermont home, her parents, Oliver and Ruth, still asleep. She isn't so much running away as on a journey of discovery....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LENLent, Jeffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LENLent, Jeffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LENLent, Jeffrey.
Summary: Set in the art scene of postwar New York, a commune in the early 1970s, and contemporary small-town New England, A Peculiar Grace is an insightful portrait of family secrets, with an unforgettable cast of characters who have learned to survive by giving shape to their losses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LENLent, Jeffrey.
Summary: Set in the art scene of postwar New York, a commune in the early 1970s, and contemporary small-town New England, A Peculiar Grace is an insightful portrait of family secrets, with an unforgettable cast of characters who have learned to survive by giving shape to their losses.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LENSummary: Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CHASummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV USB Rose H Akst
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Milton Weil 1926
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMB Davis H Akst
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Remick 1926
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMB Davis H Akst
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Irving Berlin 1922
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMB Davis H Akst
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Forster Music Pub. 1925
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMB Davis H Akst
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Waterson Inc. 1926
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Following the bloodbath that ended the prison riot, life is returning to far from normal for those who survive in the experimental unit of OZ. The warden struggles to do the right thing for his prisoners, facing adversity at every turn. Safety at OZ is not an option.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2002
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OZB Davis H Akst
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Jerome H.Remick 1926
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMB Davis H Akst
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Jerome H. Remick 1927
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMB Davis H Akst
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Waterson Berlin & Snyder 1923