Summary: Explores the worlds of identical twins, Joel-Peter, a world famous photographer and Jerome, a painter and lifelong educator. An intensely human film that addresses the philosophy of their practices, their art and personal relationship. A film about perception and growing older, two artists who shared a childhood but whose lives took very different directions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WITSummary: 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 RANKotkin, Joel.
Summary: Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper. In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 KOTSummary: Set in the '90s, Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on an action-packed, globetrotting adventure as the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorons join the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth. Noah, a sharp young guy from Brooklyn, and Elena, an ambitious, talented artifact researcher, are swept up in the conflict as Optimus Prime and the Autobots face a terrifying new nemesis bent...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD TRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: After twenty months in a Chinese prison, Jack Bauer is suddenly returned to the United States. But instead of being free, Jack's release is part of a secret deal: his life in return for the location of Hamri Al-Assad, the leader of a terrorist organization that has unleashed a wave of terror across the country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWESummary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RACHoeg, Peter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Large Print 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOESummary: For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended -- far more than were anticipated, far more than paid, far more than could be fed or sheltered or cared for after injuries or drug overdoses. It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. "Woodstock Nation" existed for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD WOOContents: Ain't nobody here but me / Little Brother Montgomery (Little Brother Montgomery) (3:15) -- Bumble bee / Memphis Minnie (John Lee Granderson) (2:35) -- Murderin' blues / Robert Nighthawk (Robert Nighthawk) (4:55) -- Hotel Lorraine / Otis Spann (Otis Spann) (3:45) -- Sinkin' blues / Joe Lee Williams (Big Joe Williams) (2:25) -- Worried life blues / Maceo Merriweather (Johnnie Jones) (2:10) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES RARHoeg, Peter
Summary: Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johan Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities in return for his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION HoegHoeg, Peter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOEHoeg, Peter
Summary: A novel that challenges ideas about education and childhood relates the tale of a boy who grows up in institutions and becomes drawn to outsiders at an elite private school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOESummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSGoes, Peter
Summary: An ideal introduction to history for young and old, this illustrated journey through our world's culture and events travels from the Big Bang to the iPod and into the future. This is a trip through time, past dinosaurs, Vikings, Aztecs and spaceships. It looks at wars and disasters; introduces artists, explorers and leaders; shows us living in castles, yurts, and skyscrapers. And it does not...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J 909 GOEHoeg, Peter
Summary: Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen investigates the mysterious death of a six year old Inuit neighbor in Copenhagen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOEHoeg, Peter.
Summary: From the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow , an epic novel about faith and the magic of everyday life. Told from the precocious perspective of fourteen-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers' Children is about three siblings and how they deal with their eccentric parents. Peter's father is a vicar, his mother is an artisan, and both are equally and profoundly devout. The family lives on the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2012
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Summary: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BABPipkin, John
Summary: In late-eighteenth-century Ireland, accidental stargazer Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her father, Arthur, throws himself from his rooftop observatory. Caroline had often assisted her father with his observations, in pursuit of an unknown planet; when astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus, Caroline could only watch helplessly as unremitting jealousy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIPSummary: After an accident in the lab of the maniacal Dr. Barsinister, an ordinary beagle named Shoeshine finds he has some unimaginable powers, along with the ability to speak. Underdog vows to protect the citizens of Capitol City, and one beautiful spaniel named Polly Purebred.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY UNDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Underdog 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UND RATED PGSummary: All Batman favorites on two discs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BATSummary: Cry macho: When an aging rodeo star takes a job of bringing the teenage son of his former boss from Mexico, where he lives with his alcoholic mother, to his father's ranch in Texas, he connects with the boy and finds redemption through teaching the boy what it meansto be a man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CRYSummary: Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Bennett (Lawrence) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin, whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched off an underground war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BADSummary: This heart-warming film is based on the true story of a young boy who is a chess prodigy and his father, who attempts to walk the fine line between encouraging his son's talent, and preserving the love they have for each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000