Frasier, Crystal
Summary: "Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend BeBe is a people-pleaser, a trans girl who must keepher parents happy with her grades and social life to keep their support of her transition. Through the rigors of squad training and amped up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA GRAPHIC FRAVan Sise, B. A.
Summary: "With this fascinating synthesis of word and image, internationally renowned photographer B.A. Van Sise offers a visually stimulating anthology that will enchant lovers of both poetry and photography. At times whimsical, surreal, challenging, enigmatic, joyful and sobering, these portraits--running adjacent to poems by each of their subjects--highlight some of the most influential poets of our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schaffner Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 779.2 VANSummary: 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: I walked with a zombie (69 mins.): A young Canadian nurse comes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager, who seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis. -- The body snatcher (77 mins.): A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR ISummary: On a December night in 1963, 13-year-old Alison Carter took her dog for a walk, and was never seen again. For newly-promoted Detective Inspector George Bennett, the case launched a superstar career. Bennett's obsession with the case turned up enough evidence to hang his suspect even though her body was never found. Filmmaker Catherine Heathcote turns her camera to Bennett and struggles to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Distribution 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLAWire
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WIRVan der Kiste, John.
Summary: It was said of both Teddy Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhelm II that each wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. Show-offs are more tolerable to read about than be around, and history buffs will certainly enjoy this new biography of the ruler who, as Kaiser Bill, American doughboys went off to fight in World War I. Of course, with someone so flamboyant and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sutton 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILVan der Merwe, Ilse
Summary: Cape Mediterranean - the way we love to eat is a celebration of exceptional local Mediterranean-style produce and Mediterranean-inspired recipes within a contemporary South African foodscape, set in the natural Mediterranean climate of the Western Cape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Struik Lifestyle 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5968 VANSummary: Cat people (73 mins.): A young woman becomes obsessed with the notion that she's a Cat Woman - a member of an ancient Serbian tribe that metamorphoses into panthers whenever aroused by jealousy. -- The curse of the cat people (70 mins.): A girl's vivid imagination and inability to get along with her schoolmates leads her father to worry that the she will start exhibiting the psychopathic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Van Dine, Alan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 690 VANRise.
Contents: Don't stop the world -- The way things are -- The gallows -- Both sides the tweed -- Get away -- Green grow the rashes -- I will love you always -- Fading fast -- Posing as human -- I will see my love again -- Welcome to the real world -- Love at the five and dime -- Woe to live on -- Trust me.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Orissor Productions 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK RiseSummary: Features a selection of songs specific to the 1950s, carefully curated by Martin Scorsese and music supervisor Randall Poster as a sonic companion to the film's enthralling narrative of organized crime in postwar America.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC IRISummary: "For over a quarter of a century, Great Scenic Railway Journeys and its creator, Robert Van Camp, have captured some of the worlds best Railway Adventures. In this Anniversary Special Robert has selected some of his favorite trips in North America. More than just a tour, his stories capture the spirit of North America's Tourist Railways and the people that keep them running. Hosted by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.22 GRESummary: Chronicles the showbiz career of Rose Marie, from her start at the age of 4 on her NBC radio show, through Vaudeville, Vegas and several television shows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2018
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAISummary: Today, Europe's fastest growing Jewish population is in Berlin. Germany is considered one of the most democratic societies in the world, assuming the position of moral leader of Europe as they embrace hundreds of thousands of refugees. This development couldn't have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories Germans & Jews explores Germany's transformation as a society, from silence about...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GERWire
Contents: I should have known better -- Two people in a room -- The 15th -- The other window -- Single K.O. -- A touching display -- On returning -- A mutual friend -- Blessed state -- Once is enough -- Map ref. 41 N 93 W -- Indirect enquiries -- 40 versions.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Revolver USA 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WIREWire
Contents: Be like them -- Cactused -- Primed and ready -- Off the beach -- Unrepentant -- Shadows -- Oklahoma -- Hung -- Humming.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WIRSummary: While rival drug cartels warred in the streets, the Columbian national soccer team took a rapid rise to glory, with Andres Escobar its inspirational captain. Meanwhile the infamous drug baron, Pablo Escobar, pioneered "Narco-soccer". After a mistake by Andres led to a loss at the 1994 World Cup, less than ten days later he was gunned down outside a bar, a tragedy documented in this thriller...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ESPN Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWOSummary: Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LAS RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE LASSummary: In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst-like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Diehard Packers fan, Ben 'Zagger' Zagowski, buys a house in the parking lot of Lambeau Field and is forced to choose between a superfan lifestyle and his fiance, Amy. Based on a true story, set during the 2009 football season.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDDire Straits (Musical group)
Contents: Once upon a time in the West. -- Expresso love. -- Romeo and Juliet. -- Love over gold. -- Private investigations. -- Sultans of swing.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1984