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: Follows the lives and comedic adventures of three older men living in the English town of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video. 2015

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LAS

Summary: A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in 'The French Dispatch.'

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: Sense and sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SEN

Contents: [Disc 1]: The solid gold cadillac (1956, 99 min.) -- We were strangers (1949, 106 min.) -- Angels over Broadway (1940, 79 min.) -- Music in my heart (1939, 70 min.). [Disc 2]: The marrying kind (1952, 92 min.) -- It should happen to you (1954, 86 min.) -- Adam had four sons (1941, 81 min.) -- Down to earth (1947, 101 min.).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE SIL

Summary: Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIG RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIG

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Tursten, Helene

Summary: With gang violence escaling in Goteborg, Sweden, the Organized Crimes Unit pairs with the Violent Crimes Unit to help defuse the situation. But could there be a mole on the force? In this final installment of the internationally bestselling Irene Huss investigations, the gang warfare that has been brewing in Goteborg is about to explode. A member of a notorious biker gang has been set on...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TUR

Alender, Katie

Summary: The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALE

Alender, Katie

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2015

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALE

Tursten, Helene

Summary: Two young kids are missing. A police officer is found dead. Detective Inspector Embla Nyström must quickly solve the mystery and find the children before the small town takes matters into their own hands.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUR

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Tursten, Helene

Summary: Goteborg, Sweden: A high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness a gruesome hit-and-run. When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the thieves, but they do uncover an entirely different horror: the half-naked corpse of a young girl in a nearby root cellar. As Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TUR

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Summary: Meet the unforgettable Janie Crawford, an articulate black woman in the 1930s. Traces Janie's quest for identity,through three marriages, on a journey to her roots.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HUR

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Summary: Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930's, journeys from being a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2000

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HUR

Tursten, Helene

Summary: "Just when things have finally cooled down for 88-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep, ruining a perfectly good afternoon. Though Maud deftly dodges their questions with the skill of an Olympic gymnast a fifth of her age, she wonders if suspicion has fallen on her, little old lady that she is....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tursten 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M TUR

Tursten, Helene

Summary: "One winter night, 28-year-old Detective Inspector Embla Nyström receives a phone call that sends her reeling. It's been fifteen years since Embla's best friend disappeared from a nightclub in Gothenburg, but Embla recognizes her voice immediately, though the call quickly disconnects. Lollo is still alive. But before Embla can dive into the case, she gets another phone call, this time from her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tur

Huston, Charlie.

Summary: "Skinner founded his career in "asset protection" on fear. To touch anyone under his protection was to invite destruction. A savagely effective methodology, until Skinner's CIA handlers began to fear him as much as his enemies did and banished him to thehinterlands of the intelligence community. Now, an ornate and evolving cyber-terrorist attack is about to end that long exile. His asset is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUS

Dumas, Alexandre

Summary: Edmund Dantes, unjustly accused and imprisoned for conspiring with Napoleon Bonaparte, eventually escapes from his unbearable captivity, uncovers a treasure and begins his long repressed vengeance against those who betrayed him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1981

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1 available in Adult, Call number: P DUM

Dumas, Alexandre

Summary: In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016

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Dumas, Alexandre

Summary: During the reign of France's King Louis XIV, D'Artagnan and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richeliu.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1999

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Dumas, Alexandre

Summary: Alexandre Dumas was one of the most prolific and celebrated writers in the nineteenth century. His best-known works are historical epics richly infused with romance, intrigue, passion, suspense, and swashbuckling adventure. This collection brings together three novels that are the cornerstones of his literary legacy - The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 2006

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Dumas, Alexandre

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1989

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Dumas, Alexandre

Summary: Edmund Dantes, unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after fourteen years of imprisonment and seeks revenge in Paris.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DUM

Dumas, Alexandre

Summary: Edmond Dantes, a young, energetic sailor, is falsely accused of treason on his wedding day and incarcerated until his escape years later when he exacts his revenge on those who wronged him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsworth Editions Limited 2002

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Dumas 2002