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Adams, Abigail Doering, Amanda F. Kossek, Ellen Ernst. Quealy, Gerit Weintraub, Aileen YeuleSummary: Summiting Mount Everest is a grueling and dangerous endeavor, known to torture the mind, body, and soul of those who even dare. When a 68-year-old great grandfather attempts this feat, what ensued was the worst disaster in mountaineering history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vision films 2020
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ACCSummary: Portrait of the relationship between two eccentric recluses, Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and talk about their past behind the walls of their East Hampton mansion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC GREAdams, Abigail
Summary: Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 ADASummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Summary: Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once and aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRESummary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009Summary: When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not what it seems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR WICSummary: Told through his own words, the documentary reflects on his traumatic childhood, his difficult struggle with drugs and alcohol, the loss of his son, and how he always found his inner strength and healing in music. It features extensive interviews with Clapton himself, along with his family, friends, musical collaborators, contemporaries and heroes, including late music icons B.B. King, Jimi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Rock Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ERIWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Missie's adopted daughter Belinda is determined to become a doctor, but despite her dedication and ability, Doc Jackson believes women should stay at home-- and so does Belinda's suitor, Drew Simpson. But with faith and hard work, Belinda begins winning the hearts and minds of everyone around her, including a wealthy dowager, who just might help make Belinda's dreams come true.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Kossek, Ellen Ernst.
Contents: Are you the CEO of your working life? -- Knowing your flexstyle -- Weighing the trade-offs -- Trade-offs of using flexibility for higher work-life integration -- Tradeoffs of compartmentalizing work and personal life -- Trade-offs of volleying between work and family -- Changes everyone can make to improve quality of life -- Tailoring change to your particular flexstyle -- Negotiating a new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wharton School Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 KOSSummary: "A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRISummary: Sarah Moss is an ambitious new recruit at an elite private intelligence firm. Her first undercover assignment is to infiltrate 'The East,' an elusive activist collective that terrorizes corporate leaders who commit crimes against humanity. The more involved she gets, the more Sarah's life is in danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EASSummary: This sixth season offers viewers an aggressive, humorous expose of taboo topics, using the duo's trademark humor, knowledge of carnival tricks as well as hidden cameras and blatant confrontation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PENSummary: 1922. Six months after Matthew's tragic death, his loss is still felt throughout Downton Abbey. Mary struggles to face a new future with her fatherless child, and is encouraged by the family to pick up the pieces. Accepting a new role on the estate, the now-eligible Mary also finds herself the reluctant object of attention from a number of eager suitors. With the twenties in full swing and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOW1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOW RATED NR
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Downton 2013Summary: This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE BRAQuealy, Gerit
Summary: A captivating, beautifully illustrated, one-of-a-kind color compendium of the flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seeds, and grasses cited in the works of the world's greatest playwright, William Shakespeare, accompanied by their companion quotes from all of his plays and poems. With a foreword by Dame Helen Mirren--the first foreword she has ever contributed. In this striking compilation,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word QuealySummary: While spending summer vacation with her family on the idyllic southeast coast of Brazil, fourteen-year-old Filipa discovers that her father, a famous author, is betraying her mother by dallying with a beautiful young American woman. Wrestling with the truth, Filipa will soon discover that her father's infidelity is only the first of many dark secrets that lurk beneath the surface of her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRSummary: This is the story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Xenon Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOMSummary: In 1972, before the Internet, Deep Throat was a phenomenon: the first scripted pornographic theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes, and Linda Lovelace. Escaping a strict family, she discovered freedom and married Chuck Traynor. As Linda Lovelace she became an international sensation, fully inhabiting her new identity and a enthusiastic spokesperson for sexual freedom. Later she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LOVSummary: Jarrod, an acclaimed wax sculptor goes from slightly wacko to completely deranged when he loses both his art showcase and the use of his hands in an arsonist's inferno. The flame scarred Jarrod rebuilds his house of wax by dipping his victims in wax! Both critics and the public praise his new works. But a lone voice cries murder when heroine Sue Allen discovers a wax figure with an uncanny...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HOUDoering, Amanda F.
Summary: Where is Brown? What brown things can you find? Hunt for this wild color as you Sing Your Colors! Includes online music access.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cantata Learning 2018
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J WHITE BROYeule
Contents: My name is Nat Ćmiel -- Electric -- Flowers are dead -- Eyes -- Perfect blue -- Don't be so hard on your own beauty -- Fragments -- Too dead inside -- Bites on my neck -- I <3 U -- Friendly machine -- Mandy.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022