Michael Murphy
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[1971] | Oxford Univ. Press | 632 p. ; cm. | On Shelf
Southside 821.1 Cha | ||
2003 | Penguin Books | xvii, 504 p. ; 20 cm. | On Shelf
Southside 821.1 Cha | ||
2008 | 2008 Modern Library ed. | Modern Library | xxxvii, 626 p. ; 25 cm. |
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p2008 | BBC Audiobooks America | 18 sound discs (22 hrs., 33 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
Main Media CD spoken 821.1 Cha | |
[2014]. | Published by Brillance Audio | 8 audio discs (approximately 9 hrs., 11 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 12 cm. | On Shelf
La Farge AV CD spoken 821.1 Cha | |
p1992 | Recorded Books | 12 sound discs (13 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
Southside AV CD spoken 821.1 Cha |
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A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth...
2) Tesla
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[2016]. | Distributed by PBS Distribution | 1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
La Farge AV DVD 621.3092 Tes Main Media DVD 621.3092 Tes |
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"Nikola Tesla has come to be seen by many as a tragic figure, a visionary engineer who died impoverished and largely forgotten--eclipsed by names such as Edison and Marconi. A tireless inventor who registered numerous patents and developed many working prototypes, Tesla would become most famous for his dazzling demonstrations. Audiences flocked to see him send thousands of volts of electricity pulsing through his body, dazzled by the spectacle of...
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2007, c1992 | Widescreen and standard formats. | 1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
Main Media DVD Batman | |
[2005] | Two-disc special ed. | 2 videodiscs (ca. 126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
Southside AV DVD Batman |
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Batman battles against the villains Catwoman and Penguin and crooked businessman-turned-mayoral candidate Max Schreck in Gotham City.
4) Manhattan
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c2000 | MGM Home Entertainment Inc | 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD Manhattan Southside AV DVD Manhattan |
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Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.
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[2007], ©2006 | Lionsgate | 1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
La Farge AV DVD Away Main Media DVD Away |
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Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. During the twilight of their years, Grant is forced to face the fact that Fiona's "forgetfulness" actually is Alzheimer's. After Fiona wanders away and is found, the decision is made for her to go into a nursing home. For the first time in their relationship, they are forced to undergo a separation since the nursing home has a "no-visitors" policy for the first 30 days...
6) Kit Carson
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c2008 | Widescreen. | PBS Home Video | 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w segments ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD 978.02 Kit Southside AV DVD 978.02 Kit |
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"This film draws upon rich archival materials, original recreations, and interviews with authors and historians to bring the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier to vivid life, and provide a lens on a pivotal but little-understood era in American history"--Container.
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c2003 | Docurama : | 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
La Farge AV DVD 780.976 Dan |
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Gives viewers a look at what makes Louisiana's rich musical heritage unique. Journeying from Shreveport through Baton Rouge to Acadiana and ending up in New Orleans, the film looks at how the people, culture and the land have nurtured music.
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[2016] | PBS Distribution | 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD 364.1552 Bon |
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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were the most famous criminal couple in U.S. history. Newsreels in movie theaters across the country flashed images of a pixyish Bonnie and handsome Clyde, turning them into the underworld's dark prince and princess of crime. In reality, as this film reveals, Bonnie and Clyde grew up in the slums of West Dallas and had little in common with their glamorous media images.
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[2016] | Widescreen. | PBS Distribution | 1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
La Farge AV DVD 622.334 Min |
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At the beginning of the 20th century, coal was the engine of American industrial progress. Nearly three quarters of a million men across the country spent ten or twelve hours a day underground in coal mines. The Mine Wars brings to life the struggle that turned the coalfields of southern West Virginia into a blood-soaked war zone where basic constitutional rights and freedoms were violently contested.
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[2016] | Two-DVD special edition. | The Criterion Collection | 2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert. | English | On Shelf
Southside AV DVD McCabe |
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An enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.
11) The gold rush
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2006 | PBS Home Video | 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Southside AV DVD 622.184 Gol |
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At the end of 1853, San Francisco was a city on the move. It had twelve daily newspapers, nine insurance companies, consulates of twenty-seven foreign governments, and six-story buildings where sand dunes once stood. A few years earlier, San Francisco was just a sleepy little town. But the sight of gold in the rushing waters of the American River sent a ripple around the world and set the stage for an event that would forever change a city, a fledgling...
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c2011 | Distributed by PBS Distribution | 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
La Farge AV DVD 998 Ame |
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In 1881, 25 men led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely sailed from the harbor of St. John's, Newfoundland. Their destination was Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world's surface that had been described by a British admiral as a 'sheer blank.' Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny, and cannibalism.
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[2010] | Anchor Bay Entertainment | 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD According |
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A rebellious 17-year-old, who is contemplating suicide, is sent to her grandparents house for the summer. She soon begins a interracial romance with a young cook who has a criminal past, confronts a tragic family secret, and just may discover the promising young woman hidden beneath her sarcastic shell. Just when she is looking for a way out, she just may find her way back in.
A suicidal teen is sent to stay with her grandparents at the Jersey shore...
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[2014] | PBS | 1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
La Farge AV DVD 725.31 Ris |
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In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad, led by the company's president, Alexander Cassatt, successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and eventually, via the Hell Gate Bridge, to New England, knitting together the entire eastern half of the United States. But just fifty-three years after the station's opening, the unthinkable happened: the...
15) White House down
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[2013] | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
1 copy. Additional copies on order.
Main Media DVD White |
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While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.
16) Triangle fire
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c2011 | Distributed by PBS Distribution | 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD 974.71 Tri |
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The fire that tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the gruesome culmination of years of unrest in America's most profitable manufacturing industry. Two years earlier, led by a spontaneous walkout in the same factory, twenty thousand garment workers, in the largest women's strike in American history, took to the streets of New York to protest working conditions. They gained the support of both progressives...
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c2008 | PBS Home Video | 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd.,col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Southside AV DVD 616.85 Dep |
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"Depression: out of the Shadows tells the dramatic stories of people of different ages, from diverse backgrounds, who live with various forms of depression. Leading mental health experts highlight the latest scientific research and innovative treatments, offering greater understanding and hope for the millions of people living with this complex, but treatable, disease." From container.
18) Mount Rushmore
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2005 | Widescreen. | PBS Home Video | 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD 978.39 Mou |
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Using home movies owned by the sculptor's family, long-forgotten archival footage and still photographs, and beautiful original photography, Mount Rushmore tells a story that is as bizarre and wonderful as the monument itself.
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2017 | 1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black & white; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Southside AV DVD 951.9042 Bat |
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On Thanksgiving Day, 1950, US Army troops pushed north through the Korean peninsula to drive North Korea's Communist army out of democratically held South Korea. Within days, they were surrounded by more than 85,000 Chinese soldiers in the mountains by the Chosin Reservoir. View the intense battle in intimate detail in this vivid narrative of combat and survival in the first major military clash of the Cold War.
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[2016] | PBS Distribution | 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
La Farge AV DVD 973.84 Ame |
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Recounts the assassination and excruciating final months of President James Garfield's life. A brilliant scholar, courageous general, and fervent abolitionist, Garfield never wanted the job of president. But once in office, he worked tirelessly to reunite a nation still divided 15 years after the Civil War. As he lay dying, the North and South came together to pray for his recovery.
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