Summary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIOSummary: Another supernatural force has come to light in Bon Temps, witchcraft, and life for its residents will never be the same. Sookie finds herself entangled in a love triangle, torn between a vengeful Bill, the new Vampire King of Mississippi, and Eric, who's not the former Viking he once was. Led by a charismatic witch named Marnie, who threatens to let no one living or dead stand in her way, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment, [2012] 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUWood, Kevin
Summary: Imagine you're on your way to visit an artist's studio, excited to see new work. But once you're inside, the door shuts-and locks you in! A frantic note advises you to leave, however, a number of puzzles need to be completed before that's possible. This book is a must-have, with content encouraging a unique combination of problem-solving, critical thinking, and reading comprehension. Art...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793.73 WOOWood, Alice (Alice M.)
Summary: Presents the Wealth Watchers program and the principles behind it for the first time. Discover the tools you need to organize your finances, complete your monthly budget, determine your disposable income, and understand which spending patterns are knocking you off-track.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 WOOSummary: A live performance of the tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare. Set in Roman times, the play deals with Mark Antony's obsessive passion for Egypt's Queen Cleopatra, and how it leads to the tragic downfall of both.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ANTContents: Disc one: Let no man steal your thyme / The Pentangle -- Willow's song (from The Wicker Man) / Magnet -- Come all your travellers / Wight -- Love is a funny thing / Spirogyra -- Images of passing clouds / Garry Farr -- Peek strangely and worried evening / Synanthesia -- Glass of water / Bob and Carole Pegg -- Winter is blue / Vashti Bunyan -- Winter is a coloured bird / Comus -- The Seagulls...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK DUSSummary: V.3 Goldfinger : From the opening bomb blast outside a steamy nightclub to a last-minute escape from the president's personal jet, James Bond's third screen adventure is an exhilarating, pulse-pounding thrill-ride! Sean Connery returns as Agent 007 and faces off with a maniacal villain bent on destroying all the gold in Fort Knox - and obliterating the world economy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Danjaq LLC, and United Artists 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAMW Wood J H Ellis
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Will Wood 1910
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: The Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut. They soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history. The house was once a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred. The owner's clairvoyant son, Jonah, served as a demonic messenger. He provided a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits when Jonah, the boy who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAU RATED PG-13Macgregor, Eloise
Summary: COVID-19 has increased our awareness of the spread of illnesses and how to prevent them. However, we still live in a time when so many falsehoods about vaccines are spread, and young readers need a health guide like this one to truly understand the importance of vaccines to individual as well as global health. The manageable text introduces readers to the concept of vaccines, how they are made,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 615.3 MACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 615.3 MACMacgregor, Eloise
Summary: As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread around the world, it's left many adults and children searching for answers about how they can stay safe. By focusing on facts presented in a relatable way rather than fear, this illustrated guide to health and safety gives children the tools they need to understand what's happening in the world and to discover how they can become a virus warrior. Facts about...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 579.2 MACSummary: Blazing saddles: A railroad needs to be built, but the land necessary is already owned. Needing to drive out the town folk, you appoint a new sheriff you figure will last about 24 hours. High anxiety: Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Richard Thorndyke is a nut-job with a paralyzing fear of heights. He had just become head of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very Very Nervous. History of the world...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MELSummary: After a two year stint in a state home, the shy and neurotic Elling and his sex-obsessed best friend, Kjell, are released and forced to enter the real world. They find themselves in a state funded apartment in the center of Oslo, told to behave responsibly and act like normal members of society. In time, the two adjust and find oddball ways of coping with society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELLWebber, Andrew Lloyd
Summary: Musical about a gathering of cats to decide who will be chosen to go to the "Heavyside Layer" and be reborn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD CATCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CATSummary: FBI agent Paul Smecker (Dafoe) is on the trail of two vigilante brothers (Flanery and Reedus) whose spiritual sense of right and wrong has turned Boston's streets red with blood. The victims: villains and mob bosses whom the authorities have been powerless to stop. Now, Smecker finds himself torn between whether he should catch the killers ... or join them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BOOMacgregor, Eloise
Summary: A medida que la pandemia de COVID-19 se ha extendido por todo el mundo, ha dejado a muchos adultos y niños buscando respuestas sobre cómo pueden mantenerse a salvo. Al centrarse en los hechos presentados de una manera identificable en lugar del miedo, esta guía ilustrada de salud y seguridad brinda a los niños las herramientas que necesitan para comprender lo que está sucediendo en el mundo y...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 579.2 MACSummary: 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 BEEMoon, Elaine Latzman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.434 MOOSummary: A talented veteran driver confronts his past when he is asked to come out of retirement to help with an unfocused, but talented, rookie contender, whose dangerous activities and behavior includes pursuing the girlfriend of his primary racing rival. Shot on location at championship races around the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Driven 2001Summary: Barbie stars as Merliah, a surfing champion from Malibu. One minute she's a normal teenager and the next she learns a shocking family secret: she's a mermaid. Merliah and her dolphin friend Zuma set off on an undersea adventure to rescue her mother, the queen of Oceana. With help from her new mermaid friends, Merliah saves the ocean kingdom. In the end, she discovers what makes you different...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Barbie Mermaid 2010Summary: Selected, annotated and produced by Stephen Wade, the 30 tracks on this release were all recorded during 1933 and 1946. There are recordings from Kentucky, Arkansas, Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Kansas, Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and New York.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK TREElias, Eliane
Contents: Brasil = Aquarela do Brasil (4:42) -- Você (5:19) -- Águas de março = Waters of March (5:53) -- Searching (4:52) -- Some enchanted place (5:04) -- Incendiando (4:50) -- Vida = If not you (4:40) -- Este seu olhar ; Promessas (3:30) -- Driving ambition (5:33) -- Rio (4:51) -- A sorte do amor = The luck of love (3:47) -- No tabuleiro da Baiana (4:52).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ELIElias, Eliane.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ELISummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015