Summary: A wonderful collection of essays written by today's queer heroes, featuring contributions from Elton John, Tan France, Gus Kenworthy, Paris Lees, Russell Tovey, Munroe Bergdorf, and many others. In 2016, model and queer activist Jack Guinness decided that the LGBTQ+ community desperately needed to be reminded of its long and glorious history of stardom, and he was spurred to action. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 QUESummary: A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LINSummary: Inspired by the real life heroics of Nicholas Winton who saved hundreds of Czech Jewish children from the Nazis. The Silberstein's are a large and close knit extended family living in Czechoslovakia. Believing in the decency of mankind, they don't pay heed to the Nazi threat. They finally realize the true horror of what is coming, but it is too late. Making the toughest possible decision, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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Contents: Sunrise State (Of Mind)(4:27 min) -- Mañana (3:38 min) -- Sultan (3:25 min) -- Monte Carlo (3:44 min) -- La Estampida (2:33 min) -- Hourglass (2:20 min) -- Prismatic (4:05 min) -- Yes (3:59 min) -- Golden (3:10 min) -- Fuji (3:11 min) -- Shapeshifter (3:34 min) -- Göbekli Tepe (4:15 min)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Suicide Squeeze 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ABRSummary: Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEASummary: The castle of Gormenghast is home to the ancient family of Groan, where nothing has changed in thousands of years. The dynasty is threatened by the charming and evil kitchen-boy, Steerpike. With the birth of a new heir, Titus Groan, Steerpike begins his ruthless ascent to power. As he charms, outwits and terrorizes the castle's inhabitants, only Titus, the young timid Earl of Groan, stands in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GORSummary: Death's shadow: A successful theatrical director, Simon Fletcher, returns to Badger's Drift, his head filled with disturbing childhood memories. Soon after, a local property developer becomes the first in a string of baffling murders. Strangler's wood: When a beautiful Brazilian woman is found strangled with a striped necktie in Raven's Wood, Barnaby experiences a disturbing sense of déjà vu....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2000
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Summary: Elia Suleiman's critically-acclaimed satire chronicles the absurdities of life and love on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment 2005
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Summary: Presents the channeled spirit communications of "Abraham" on how to achieve balance in life and enjoy the journey with joy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.93 HicksThomas-Graham, Pamela.
Summary: Harvard economics instructor Nikki Chase is horrified when she discovers that the Princeton University professor who mentored her, who had written a controversial bestseller on race, has died suspiciously in a fire at the university.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOSummary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM AmericaSummary: On March 4, 1865, at the United States Capitol, a crowd of fifty thousand listened as President Lincoln delivered his classic second inaugural address, urging charity and forgiveness to a nation in the final throes of war. Just two months later, a train, nine cars long and draped in black bunting, pulled slowly out of a station in Washington, D.C. Dignitaries and government officials crowded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ASSSummary: The Great War, March 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope. With a German offensive imminently approaching, the company anxiously awaits their unknown fate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JOUSummary: The famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table. Home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.Summary: Now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, Hiccup has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they've known, and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth. As their true destines are revealed, dragon and rider will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOWSummary: Pamela B. Green's energetic film about the pioneer filmmaker is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEZilkha, Avraham.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 ZILSummary: As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEC RATED PGGrey, Amelia.
Summary: He's determined not to be a hero... Lord Morgandale is as notorious as he is dashing, and he's determined no woman will tie him down. But from the moment Arianna Sweet appears on his doorstep, he cannot resist the lure of her fascinating personality, exotic wardrobe, and tempting green eyes... She has a deadly secret... Arianna Sweet never imagined the significance of her father's research...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2010
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Summary: Told in alternating voices, childhood friends Syd, Rain, and Brie's final weeks of high school ends tragically when one dies in a fire, another goes missing, and the third is left to pick up the pieces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAHSaunders, Adelia
Summary: "Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees the truth about people written on their skin--names, dates, details both banal and profound--and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully, her own skin is blank. When she meets Neil, she is intrigued to see her name on his cheek. He's in Paris for the summer, studying a medieval...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAUSchaub, Emelia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Myers Printing Service 1986
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.2 SCHLustgarten, Abrahm.
Summary: Discusses how the CEO of British Petroleum, John Browne, helmed one of the greatest corporate comebacks in history only to have it fall apart due to deadly accidents and environmental crimes, culminating in the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2012