Hooks, William H.
Summary: When a young pioneer girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be the best thing she could have done.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1988
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.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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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about the 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli. They can only get financing if he can cast a well-known action star. However, production is halted when the lead actor is kidnapped from the European film set. The producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Peace Arch Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Deal 2007Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DEASummary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSummary: Tough, restless Jack Malone heads the Missing Persons unit of the FBI. And this season, the dedicated investigators of the MPU have a particularly important person to locate: Jack Malone, who disappears after going solo on a perilous case. The search for Malone is only one of many high-impact cases involving the mysteriously vanished, from a waitress who won 32 million in the lottery to an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WITSummary: Donna Stern is a Brooklyn comedian who gets heartlessly dumped by her two-timing boyfriend. While trying to drown her troubles at the stand-up comedy club, she has a drunken one night stand with a cute young professional named Max (who's not even remotely her type) and ends up pregnant. Donna has to do what is expected of a "responsible adult" just in time for the best/worst Valentine's Day of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OBVCroke, Vicki.
Summary: The story of James Howard "Billy" Williams, whose uncanny rapport with elephants in 1920's Burma transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic World War II hero known as Elephant Bill.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 CROBartholomew, Dave
Contents: Disc 1. Ain't gonna do it / (Dave Bartholomew) -- Don't marry too soon / (Jewel King) -- Shrewsbury blues / (Tommy Ridgely) -- Stack-a-lee / (Archibald) -- The blues jumped over the rabbit / (Joe Turner) -- Blow your top / (Rodney Harris & Dave Bartholomew) -- 3 x 7 = 21 / (Jewel King) -- Little girl sing ding a ling / (Dave Bartholomew) -- I'm gone / (Shirley & Lee) -- Pony tail / (T-Bone...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Records 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BARSummary: Season four of this procedural drama about the Missing Persons Squad, a unique New York based FBI task force, finds Martin gravely injured in the line of fire and going through rehabilitation. Jack, Samantha, and Danny try not to let their concern for Martin hinder their efforts. Vivian's heart surgery appears to have been a success. Rookie, Elena Delgado, formerly of the NYPD, has joined the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WITSummary: In Curious George Rides a Bike, George the monkey goes riding on his new bicycle and runs into unexpected adventure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the true story of Bill Porter, a man with cerebal palsy. With little hope of getting a real job, Bill asks to take on the position of salesman in the most unwanted and difficult territory. He gets the job and makes his rounds, impacting the lives of his customers during his nearly 50-year career that often found him at the top of his company's sales charts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOOSummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSummary: Evil banker Rachel Bitterman forecloses on the Muppets' famous variety theater. But Bitterman's machinations take a back seat when apprentice guardian angel Daniel shows Kermit what conditions would have been had Kermit never existed. A Kermit-less world would have found Miss Piggy running a fraudulent psychic hotline, Fozzie Bear as a homeless derelict, and Sam the Eagle as a caged "rave"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ITSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD MOVIE ITContents: I Smile (5:11) -- Every Praise (4:50) -- I Can Only Imagine (6:04) -- I Believe (5:38) -- Nobody Greater (6:11) -- I Want To Say Thank You (4:32) -- I Need Your Glory (5:01) -- In The Middle (3:48) -- Still Able (5:20) -- I Won't Go Back (6:10) -- The Gift (5:13) -- The Best In Me (4:20) -- Let The Church Say Amen (7:51) -- Awesome (5:50) -- I Feel Good (4:16) -- 1 On 1 (5:22) -- It's Not Over...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: eOne Music 2015
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McRaven, William H. (William Harry)
Summary: "Skipper the seal heads to Navy SEAL training and learns ten life lessons (based on the precepts of Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World) from his instructors and with friends"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Somewhere in the wilds of northwest Canada in the early 1800s, Logan and Victor, two half-brothers with special powers grow up amid violence. Eventually they will become the near-indestructible warriors known as Wolverine and Sabretooth. William Stryker is a sinister government operative whose Weapon X program experiments keep pulling Wolverine back in. Kayla Silverfox shares a peaceful...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE XMENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD XCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD XMEWagner, Willis H.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Goodheart-Willcox Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.08 WAGHooker, Thomas H.
Summary: Have you ever marveled at the beautiful scenery on the Leelanau Peninsula and wondered what events helped fashion the dunes, the water, and the topography? Imagine a mile-high mountain of ice, rising in the foreground along the horizon; it is majestic and alive with movement and activity in it and all around it. During the last Ice Age, early man was certainly alive and evolving. Pleistocene’s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dog Ear Publishing 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Mouse on the hill (Warner Williams) (3:44) -- Casey Jones (K.C. Douglas) (1:23) -- John Hardy (Lead Belly) (2:43) -- Railroad Bill (John Jackson) (3:33) -- Stewball (Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon) (3:33) -- John Henry (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) (4:04) -- St. James Infirmary (Snooks Eaglin) (2:20) -- Staggerlee (Stackolee) (John Cephas and Phil Wiggins) (5:03) -- Lost John (convicts at the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES CLAContents: Disc 1. Freight train boogie (Captain Luke) -- A living past (Guitar Gabriel) -- Railroad Bill (Etta Baker) -- Going away (John Lee Ziegler) -- High yellow (Cootie Stark) -- Chapel Hill boogie (John Dee Holeman) -- Shortnin' bread (Neal Pattman) -- Old rugged cross (Carl Rutherford) -- No hidin' place (Cool John Ferguson) -- Feel like my time ain't long (Essie Mae Brooks) -- Old time religion...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WEContents: Dracula's theme (The Ghouls) (2:40) -- 'Til the following night (Screaming Lord Sutch with the Savages) (3:41) -- Do the zombie (The Symbols) (2:19) -- Haunted house (Jumpin' Gene Simmons) (2:31) -- Dinner with Drac (part 1) (John Zacherle) (2:56) -- The goo goo muck (Ronnie Cook & the Gaylads) (2:34) -- The mad scientist (The Zanies) (1:57) -- The cave (Chuck Holden) (2:49) -- Spooky movies...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010