White, Michael
Summary: This concise, informative biography explores : Tolkien's experiences as a young teacher, lecturer, and storyteller in Britain ; The founding of the Inklings, the group of intellectuals centered on Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other Oxford University professors ; Tolkien's relationship with his publisher in releasing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and other books ; The continuing impact of his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOLKIEN, J.R.R. WHIWhite, Michael
Summary: Describes the life and scientific contributions of the famed English mathematician who changed our perception of the universe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackbirch Press 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB NEWTON WHIWhite, Michael C.
Summary: Struggling to forget a war-marked past and a future compromised by poor choices and debt, slave tracker Augustus Cain is hired by a plantation owner to retrieve a runaway slave named Rosetta.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIWhite, Michael D. (Michael Douglas)
Summary: No policing tactic has been more controversial than "stop and frisk," whereby police officers stop, question and frisk ordinary citizens, who they may view as potential suspects, on the streets. As Michael White and Hank Fradella show in Stop and Frisk, the first authoritative history and analysis of this tactic, there is a disconnect between our everyday understanding and the historical and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 WHIHammond, Johnny.
Contents: Tell me what to do (5:19) -- Los conquistadores chocolates (6:08) -- Lost on 23rd Street (5:55) -- Fantasy / Hammond ; L. Mizell (6:06) -- Shifting gears (5:16) -- Can't we smile? (4:35).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HAMContents: 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 JAZSummary: In this spoof of the legend of King Arthur, the king recruits the Knights of the Round Table. He is soon joined by Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Galahad the Chaste and the Pure, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot, and Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film. God sends them on a quest to find the Holy Grail. Along the way they encounter a plague-ridden community, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MONSummary: For his first studio picture, John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw. Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine turns to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY POLSummary: On Thanksgiving night, a group of disgruntled toy store employees begrudgingly arrive for work to open the store at midnight for the busiest shopping day of the year. Meanwhile, an alien parasite crashes to Earth in a meteor. This group of misfits led by store manager Jonathan and longtime employee Ken soon finds themselves battling against hordes of holiday shoppers who have been turned into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLAPatterson, James
Summary: With the best detectives in the business, cutting edge technology and offices around the globe, there is no investigation agency quite like Private. Now, at a glittering launch party overlooking the iconic Opera House, Private throws open its doors. Craig Gisto and his newly formed team have barely raised their glasses, however, when a young Asian man, blood-soaked and bullet-ridden, staggers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATSummary: This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend called Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House. Black Dynamite is ready to seek his revenge and take...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLAHenderson, Joe
Contents: Fire (11:07) -- Air (9:53) -- Water (7:27) -- Earth (13:07).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HENWebster, Christy
Summary: In "Marvelous Machinery" Thomas the Tank Engine and his engine friends help the Earl and his friend Ruth get ready for a fair featuring new inventions, and in "The Royal Engine" Thomas takes Sir Topham Hatt to London to meet the queen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A mixture of fantastical rock opera and horror movie spoof. A couple of ordinary kids have car trouble one dark and rainy night and knock on the door of a looming gothic mansion. They are stunned to learn that they have stumbled into an ongoing convention of kinky characters, hosted by Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a mad scientist from the planet Transsexual.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentienth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ROCCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROCKang, Eyvind.
Contents: Go in a good way to a better place -- I am the dead -- Doorway to the sun -- Occultum lapidem -- Harbour of the NADE -- Taksim -- Sidi bou said -- Virginal co-ordinates -- Innocent eye, crystal see -- Marriage of days.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ipecac Recordings 2004
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Patterson, James.
Summary: With the best detectives in the business, cutting-edge technology, and offices around the globe, there is no investigation company quite like Private. Now, at a glittering launch party overlooking the iconic Opera House, Private Sydney throws open its doors. Within days the agency's caseload is full, but it is a horrific murder in the wealthy Eastern Suburbs and the desperate search for a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Patterson 2014Summary: Max, just out of prison, plans to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. Lionel, back from five years at sea, wants to visit the child he's never seen. Meeting on the road, the 2 forge a touching friendship tempered through hard times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An uplifting drama with sorrow, sincerity, hope, and humor, a journey of recovery for Jake Bryant, a man who has to learn to love, how to smile, how to live again after he loses everything that matters to him. His inspiration to get off the sofa and go on living comes from somewhere Jake never would have expected: a lovable stray named Cooper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ANGSummary: When filthy-rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira and their two kids -- über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis -- suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to leave their pampered lives to regroup and rebuild their empire from within the rural city limits of their only remaining asset - Schitt's Creek, an armpit of a town they once bought as a joke.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SCHSummary: In 1980s Chicago, a 10-year-old sets out on a quest to get the Christmas gift of his generation: the latest and greatest video game system.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY EIGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD EIGSummary: Det. Vic Mackey's past actions have caught up with him and he finds himself working in a collapsing surveillance sting. Meanwhile Captain Monica Rawling prepares to take over the Barn and implement her controversial anti-gang policies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHIBryars, Gavin
Summary: This gorgeous archival release features a newly remastered version of Gavin Bryars' legendary cult classic album, which was the first release in Eno's Obscure Records series. This new album contains the two pieces that made up the two sides of the original vinyl release, emphasizing the second piece Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet; which achieved huge success in its later version on Point...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BRYSummary: New York detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his family. As he waits for his estranged wife's office Christmas party to break up, German terrorists occupy the building, and McClane wages a one-man war to stop them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013