Warren, Robert Penn

Summary: Amantha Starr, who was sent to Ohio at age nine to receive an education, does not return to her father's Kentucky plantation until she learns of his death. At his graveside she is shocked to learn that her mother had been a plantation slave, and now she, Amantha, is being sold by her father's creditors. This is her story for a search of freedom.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1955

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAR

Summary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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

Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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

Summary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLI

Clarke, Arthur C. 1917-

Summary: The paradise of Thalassa is threatened by an evolutionary event brewing beneath the calm seas and by a spacecraft of refugees hovering in orbit above the planet. The arrival of a spaceship from Earth--destroyed when its sun went nova--carrying five million Earthlings in suspended animation, as well as an uncensored cultural record of Earth, threatens to destroy the paradisiacal plkanet of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1986

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Clarke, Arthur C. 1917-

Summary: "Allegory about humanity's exploration of the universe, and the universe's reaction to humanity."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Clarke, Arthur C. 1917-

Summary: Sequel to: Rama II. During the 23rd century, three human cosmonauts learn of their destination and their challenge in a rendezvous with a Raman base.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1991

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Clarke, Arthur C. 1917-

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Messner, Kate

Summary: Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MES

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MES

Summary: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WIN

Summary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRA

Summary: Best friends Mia and Mel are living their best lives running their own cosmetics company they've built from the ground up. Unfortunately, they're in over their heads financially, and the prospect of a big buyout offer from a notorious titan of the cosmetics industry Claire Luna proves too tempting to pass up, putting Mel and Mia's lifelong friendship in jeopardy. The beauty business is about to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIK

Summary: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in a "whites only" section of a public bus, thus starting a boycott of the city buses. This single act is considered the beginning of the civil rights movement in the United States.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOY

Summary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

Summary: The realities of submarine warfare during World War II in the Pacific is centered around two submarine officers who are destined to clash with each other from the first moment they meet.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Run 1999

Summary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV I

Mowat, Farley.

Summary: The story of Wol and Weeps, two great horned owls, who turn a household upside down, outwit the wittiest of dogs and terrorize an entire neighborhood

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1961

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.6 MOW
2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOW

Summary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MY

Summary: In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt, a lady who throws a party for any occasion or non-occasion that comes to mind.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AUN

Babelʹ, I. (Isaak)

Summary: "The brutalities and dualities of war and religion unflinchingly depicted by this major Russian-Jewish writer War's mess and muddle, the brutality and the inanity of fighting-few have better captured this than Isaac Babel, who was a journalist with the Soviet First Cavalry Army. His unflinching portrayal of the murderous havoc of battle is offset by an unexpected and wry humour: having seen the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pushkin 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAB

Summary: Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DAR

Summary: Collects four classic horror films, including "House of Wax," in which a wax sculptor devises a murderous plan to restock his museum; "The Haunting," in which four individuals travel to a haunted house to study its supernatural phenomena; "Freaks," featuring a group of carnival performers who inflict revenge on a trapeze artist who mocks them; and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," the classic tale of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR GRE

Summary: A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane down safely. Based on an Ernest K. Gann bestseller.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HIG

Summary: Four suburban women find their lives shaken and their wealthy community's facade of smug respectability shattered after they allow themselves to become part of a scientific survey that examines their sex lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHA