Hallie, Philip Paul.
Summary: "Le Chambon's villagers and their clergy organized to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from certain death."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.813 HALSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIPhillips, Allie
Contents: Animal welfare and animal rights : where do you stand? -- Becoming an animal advocate : where to start -- Staying strong and resilient : overcoming conflict and compassion fatigue -- Humane education : kids helping animals -- Advocating for shelter animals : ending outdated and questionable shelter practices -- Models for thriving animal organizations : saving more lives through innovation --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.3 PHISummary: When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family SavingCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAVCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SaHalley, Paul.
Contents: Pianosong (3:16) -- Kites in the wind (3:53) -- September nocturne (5:36) -- Meadows of loose horses (4:38) -- Moons of Jupiter (4:42) -- Fishermen (3:39) -- St. Leonid (3:50) -- The road taken (3:59) -- Within the mind of Thomas (5:59) -- Anthem (3:47).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Living Music 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE HALSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA CASHarline, Paula Kelly.
Summary: The author delves deep into the diaries and autobiographies of twenty-nine polygamous women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, providing a rare window into the lives they led and revealing their views and experiences of polygamy, including their well-founded belief that their domestic contributions would help to build a foundation for generations of future Mormons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.835 HARContents: Just who is the five o'clock hero (The Jam) -- You're a better man than I (The Yardbirds) -- Ride your pony (Lee Dorsey) -- Bad minded woman (Laurel Aitken) -- Twist and crawl (The Beat) -- And the beat goes on dub (Prince Fatty & Hollie Cook) -- (Love is) Alive in my heart (Andy Lewis feat. Keni Burke) -- Move on up (Curtis Mayfield) -- Hercules (Aaron Neville) -- Brother to brother (Terry...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: Charlie tries to catch a killer in "The secret service"; "The Chinese cat" has Charlie trailing diamond thieves; and "The jade mask" has Charlie at odds with the family of a murdered scientist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by TGG Direct 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In partnership with Second Sight Publishing, Dark Horse Comics is proud to present, Shook! A Black Horror Anthology. With over 190 pages of terrorizing material, the anthology is filled with stories from a range of award-winning Black writers and artists. Stemming from a love of Southern gothic horror, this anthology boasts a cadre of award winning or nominated writers representing awards...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SHOAult, Phillip H.
Summary: Traces the history of the Great Lakes and their environs, examines man's responsibility for upsetting and correcting the ecological balance in the lakes, and discusses their present pollution crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dodd, Mead 1972
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977 AULJaswal, Balli Kaur
Summary: The wealthy island nation of Singapore seems like an oasis of luxury and order, but it owes everything to the immigrant women no one sees. Corazon, Donita, and Angel are Filipina domestic workers--part of the wave of women sent to Singapore to be cleaners, maids, and caregivers in its decadent homes. A veteran domestic worker, Corazon had retired back to the Philippines for good, but she has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M JASJaswal, Balli Kaur
Summary: After her father's death, Nikki, who has spent most of her life distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community, takes a job teaching a creative writing course in the heart of the Punjabi community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: Takes us on a journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the country and its people. Water is a key that unlocks much of Chinese history and thought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951 BALBall, Philip
Summary: If offered the chance--by cloak, spell or superpower--to be invisible, who wouldn't want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical phenomenon, but a condition full of ethical questions. As esteemed science writer Philip Ball reveals in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 535 BALSummary: Woodcarver Geppetto has pets Figaro the cat and Cleo the fish. He has just made a little wooden puppet called Pinocchio. Wishing upon a star before he goes to bed, Geppetto wishes that Pinocchio would become a real boy. As Geppetto sleeps, the Blue Fairy arrives and partially grants his wish. Pinocchio can come to life, but he must prove himself worthy before becoming a real boy. He will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2017
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6 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PINCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD PinocchioBall, Philip
Contents: [pt. 1.] Shapes -- [pt. 2.] Flow. -- [pt. 3.] Branches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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Ball, Philip
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 571.3 BALSummary: A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain: they live at the same address, have the same names, and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed, and highly modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010