Whitman, James Q.

Summary: Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 WHI

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 RAN

Weisman, Jamie

Summary: "For readers of Maggie Shipstead and Maria Semple, a tender and funny debut that tells the story of an interfaith wedding in Atlanta -- from the perspectives of its (adoring, envious, resentful, hilarious) guests...One afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia. Two people heading to the altar. One hundred fifty guests. The bride, Elizabeth Gottlieb, proud graduate of the University of Virginia and of Emory...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEI

Reitman, Janet.

Summary: Reitman offers the first full, journalistic history of the Church of Scientology, in an even-handed account that at last establishes the astonishing truth about the controversial religion. She traces Scientology's development from the birth of Dianetics through to the present day.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.936 REI

Bach, P. D. Q.

Contents: Opening & introduction (4:50) -- Short-tempered clavier : preludes and fugues in all the major and minor keys except for the really hard ones : S. easy as 3.14159265 (31:47) -- Introduction (3:16) -- Little pickle book (9:59) -- Introduction (1:16) -- Sonata da circo = Circus sonata : S. 3 ring (8:43) -- Calliope frustration (:42) -- Introduction (1:07) -- Three chorale-based piecelets : S. III...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1995

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BAC

Shipman, James D

Summary: "Based on the true story of General Patton's clandestine unauthorized raid on a World War II POW camp. March, 1945. Allied forces are battle-worn but wearily optimistic. Russia's Red Army is advancing hard on Germany from the east, bolstering Allied troops moving in from the west and north. Soon, surely, Axis forces must accept defeat. Yet for Captain Jim Curtis, each day is a reminder of how...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHI

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Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLI

Contents: Disc 1. Freight train boogie (Captain Luke) -- A living past (Guitar Gabriel) -- Railroad Bill (Etta Baker) -- Going away (John Lee Ziegler) -- High yellow (Cootie Stark) -- Chapel Hill boogie (John Dee Holeman) -- Shortnin' bread (Neal Pattman) -- Old rugged cross (Carl Rutherford) -- No hidin' place (Cool John Ferguson) -- Feel like my time ain't long (Essie Mae Brooks) -- Old time religion...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Smith, Arthur Q.

Contents: Disc 1. The Commercial Recordings : My tears don't show / performed by Roy Acuff -- You can't conceal a broken heart / performed by Kitty Wells -- Rainbow at midnight / performed by Carlisle Brothers -- Wedding bells / performed by Hank Williams -- Somebody lied / performed by Hawkshaw Hawkins -- Save a little dream for me / performed by Moon Mullican -- I overlooked an orchid / performed by...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY SMI

Summary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAM

Summary: A chess game using tiles to represent each chess piece: as players place the tiles, they create the chess board.

Format: three dimensional object

Publisher / Publication Date: Steve Jackson Games 2014

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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME TIL

Summary: Powers of ten ... illustrates a picnic in Chicago and then begins moving ten times farther out every ten seconds, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light. Then, we move inward into the hand of a sleeping picnicker with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. A rough sketch ... is an earlier version of the same concept illustrated in Powers of ten. 901, after 45 years of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Film & Video 2000

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FIL

Summary: The new woman owner of the Cleveland Indians wants to move the franchise to Florida, and her only chance is a losing year. So she signs a bunch of screwballs in hopes that they'll blow the season.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAJ

Summary: Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.

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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HAN

Summary: "When a strange message pod turns up at UNIT HQ, the Doctor and his assistant Jo suddenly involved in another dangerous mission for the Time Lords. The TARDIS takes them to Skybase One above the inhospitable Solos. It is the 30th century and the planet is about to gain independence from Earth's glorious empire. But someone on Solos has other plans and, alarmingly, the natives are slowly...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2011

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOC

Summary: Originally based on a short story from science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, this is an epic tale of a boy, Vic, and his telepathic dog, Blood, as they trudge through a post-apocalyptic world. The pair travels together on a search for food and other pleasures that leads them to an underground society where life has been preserved! While Vic finds that he has escaped the devastation of the war,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI BOY

Summary: Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM RATED R

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Homeland

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Summary: Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Fa

Summary: Meet the Silver Belles, five tap dancers who performed in 1930's Harlem at the famed Apollo and Cotton Club. Together again, they're dancing to standing ovations and sharing stories of the Harlem Renaissance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2006

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEE

Byron, Don.

Contents: Theme from "Hatari" -- You are #6 -- Klang -- B-setting -- A whisper in my ear -- Dub-ya -- Belmondo's lip -- Shake 'em up -- You are #6.5 -- No whine -- Dark room -- Belmondo's lip : DJ Spooky Mix.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ Byron