Summary: 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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Summary: A fifteen year old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. On the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIRChen, Shan Shan
Summary: On her sixth birthday, Mei Mei puts on a special new dress and helps her adoptive mother make a traditional birthday dish from Mei Mei's home country, China, to share with her loving family. Includes recipe for Lucky Birthday Noodles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHESvoboda, Terese.
Summary: A young girl named Harriet is sold into slavery by her father to settle his gambling debt, and when she escapes and embarks on a journey to find her father, Harriet encounters a series of adventures in the American West.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SVOTerese, Ali
Summary: "Forced to join the school's Community Action Club, troublemaking best friends Helen and Gracie take over the club's campaign for maxi pads in bathrooms and soon find themselves closer to change and deeper in trouble than ever before, forcing them to make a difficult decision"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC TERWolas, Cherise
Summary: Harry Tabor is about to be named Man of the Decade, a distinction that feels like the culmination of a life well lived. Gathering together in Palm Springs for the celebration are his wife, Roma, a distinguished child psychologist, and their children: Phoebe, a high-powered attorney; Camille, a brilliant social anthropologist; and Simon, a big-firm lawyer, who brings his glamorous wife and two...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLFowler, Therese
Summary: With little in common except a property line, two very different families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over an historic oak tree, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOWFowler, Therese
Summary: "In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. Xavier is headed to college in the fall, and after years of single parenting, Valerie is facing the prospect of an empty nest. All is well until the Whitmans move in next door -- an apparently traditional family with new money,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FOWFowler, Therese.
Summary: The envy of women across the country, successful and wealthy talk-show host Blue Reynolds is secretly lonely, but when an unexpected reunion with the love of her life, Mitch, gives Blue the opportunity to redeem her past, she seizes her chance at love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWWolas, Cherise
Summary: ""A stunning debut...Reminds me of my most favorite authors: J.D. Salinger, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Joan Didion." --A.M. Homes I viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just married believes as I do--work is paramount, absolutely no children--and now love seems to me quite marvelous. These words are spoken to a rapturous audience by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLLee, Sher
Summary: Dylan Tang wants to win a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake-making competition for teen chefs--in memory of his mom, and to bring much-needed publicity to his aunt's struggling Chinese takeout in Brooklyn. Enter Theo Somers: charming, wealthy, with a smile that makes Dylan's stomach do backflips. AKA a distraction. Their worlds are sun-and-moon apart, but Theo keeps showing up. He even convinces...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Underlined 2023
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Summary: A gentle tale told entirely through sticky notes between a mother and daughter as the girl's departure for her first summer camp draws near demonstrates how love can be found even in scribbled messages and other unlikely places.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SHEFowler, Therese
Summary: Marrying into the newly rich but socially scorned Vanderbilt clan, Alva navigates society snubs and dark undercurrents in the lives of her in-laws and friends while testing the limits of her ambitious rule-breaking.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOWRoddie, Shen.
Summary: Tad the mouse is discouraged when his friends say he is too small, but he proves to them that he is just right.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION RoddieFontana, Shea
Summary: Super Hero High is out for summer, which means Wonder Woman has to take her annual trip to visit her dad, Zeus. This time she's bringing a few of her super-friends along. When the girls arrive at Olympus, it's not long before the family reunion devolves into a family competition. The gods offer Wonder Woman the ability to become "full goddess" to increase her powers, but at the cost of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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Summary: "Kenzie hates that her family moved to a castle to start a Medieval-themed resort, but all that changes when a time-traveling squire needs Kenzie's help to get back home to the past"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC FON (Graphic Novel)Shea, Bob
Summary: Ballet Cat and her cousin, Goat, try to outdo one another while putting on show for their grandmother.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE BALShea, Bob
Summary: Envy turns to admiration and finally to friendship for Goat and Unicorn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SheaBohman, Therese.
Summary: Drowned, set in the idyllic countryside during a short-lived Swedish summer, gets under one's skin from the first page, creating an atmosphere of foreboding in which even the perfume of freshly picked vegetables roasting in the kitchen becomes ominous. On the surface, the story couldn't be simpler. A single young woman visits her older sister, who is married to a writer as charismatic as he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2012
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Summary: In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. Xavier is headed to college in the fall, and after years of single parenting, Valerie is facing the prospect of an empty nest. All is well until the Whitmans move in next door - an apparently traditional family with new money,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FOWFowler, Therese
Summary: Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York's old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built 9 mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOWKohan, Rhea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1979
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOHShem, Samuel
Summary: The sequel to the bestselling and highly acclaimed The House of God One of the most prominent and enduring titles in medical fiction is the bitingly funny House of God, which has sold more than 2 million copies, becoming required reading for generations of medical students and health care professionals. With Man's 4th Best Hospital, Samuel Shem "the comic genius and holy terror of medicine"*...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEFowler, Therese
Summary: "A gripping contemporary novel that examines the American dream through the lens of two families living side by side in an idyllic neighborhood, and the one summer that changes their lives irrevocably"-- Oak Knoll, a tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood. Professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who is headed to college in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020