Summary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOAmend, Allison.
Summary: Compelled by a tragic loss into a crisis that jeopardizes her family and elite career, Elmira converges with talented artist Gabriel, who embarks on a desperate scheme to advance himself in Parisian cultural circles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMEAmend, Allison.
Summary: "Inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is the dazzling story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, are sent to the Galápagos Islands at the brink of World War II."--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMESummary: Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COMRallison, James
Summary: "From the mind that brought us The Odd 1s Out, Oddballs creator James Rallison is back with five brand new stories from the popular Netflix animated show! Join James, Max, Echo, and all of your favorite Oddballs characters as they get into epic amounts of preventable trouble. In these five exclusive mini stories, James grows sentient bacteria in his mouth, sells his yard, turns the whole town...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: "Rare and delicious fungi spell trouble for an ambitious restaurateur in this sumptuously painted graphic novel from one of Scotland's most imaginative young cartoonists. Tulip and his brother Rowan have left the simple comforts of their remote Scottish island with a plan: to grow succulent, organic vegetables in an idyllic market garden, and to open a restaurant serving these wholesome...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC ALBSummary: We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMMadison, James
Summary: "... contains 197 essays, addresses, speeches, private memoranda, and letters written between 1772 and 1836. Includes are all 29 of Madison's contributions to the Federalist ..."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.51 MADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: SC MadisonLee, Sami.
Summary: His present love. His old flame. Can they slay his demons -- and build a future? Wild Crush, Book 3. Emily Irving has enjoyed two years of blissful happiness with Brandon Walker, a man as mysterious as he is compelling. She knows Brand has secrets, but she's never pushed him to reveal anything. All that changes when an old friend of his shows up and turns her assumptions about the man she loves...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Insatiable Press 2015
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Summary: The British Prime Minister and the U.S. President infer that they want to embark on a war in the Middle East. Simon Foster, the British Minister for International Development states, off the cuff, in a radio interview that 'war is unforeseeable.' He later tries to recant his statement to news reporters with another statement. Both remarks start a series of manoeuvrings on both sides by both the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IN
Summary: On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator and his beleaguered wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WoSummary: Volume 1 begins with a look at two of the many crises faced by George Washington during his term as America's first president. At a time when any conflict had the potential to dissolve the fragile union, Washington surrounded himself with brilliant men who were bound by their undying devotion to America, but who were often bitterly divided about how best to serve their common cause. Volume 2...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FOUSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRJAMISON, JAMES K.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1939
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4985 JAMCall number: MI 977.4985 JAM
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 977.49 JAMSummary: Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI WARKearse, Bettye
Summary: A descendant of a slave named Coreen, and-according to oral tradition-her owner, President James Madison, finally shares her family's story.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 KEASummary: Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HomelandCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: Ida Clayton has never met her rodeo-rider dad. In her search to find him, she encounters the Sweethearts of the Rodeo, a group of female trick riders led by fomer rodeo star Terence Parker. Despite her young age, Ida covinces Parker to let her train to become one of the risk-taking Sweethearts. If she succeeds, she just might find the family she's been looking for.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Cowgirls 2012Baker, James Addison
Summary: A memoir by the former Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff describes his experiences during his thirty-five-year career in politics, discussing the Iran-Contra scandal, the Reagan assassination attempt, and other important events.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAKContents: Disc one. Invitation to Jamaica / Lord Tanamo -- Fat man / Derrick Morgan -- Tell me darling / Jackie Edwards -- Running around / Owen Gray -- Miss Jamaica / Jimmy Cliff -- Housewife's choice / Derrick & Patsy -- Give me all your love / The Continentals -- Darling Patricia / Owen Gray -- Man to man / Kentrick Patrick -- Uno-dos-tres / Stranger & Ken -- Slow boat / Al T. Joe -- Rude boy / Duke...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TROSummary: "The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products ... But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life ... has been less widely understood. Narrated by James...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EAMSummary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023