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Adventure and adventurers Comic books, strips, etc Adventure stories African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Camps Comic books, strips, etc Camps Fiction Female friendship Comic books, strips, etc Grief Fiction Teenage girls Teenage girls Comic books, strips, etcSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: "The legend of Batman starts with Bruce Wayne ... but that's not where it ends. Featuring fan favorites like Terry McGinnis and Cassandra Cain--Batman: Urban Legends Vol. 2 is a can't-miss collection of the best ... and worst that Gotham has to offer! And who can solve the murder of Bruce Wayne?!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORohan, Ethel
Summary: "At four hundred pounds, Billy Brennan can always count on food. From his earliest memories, he has loved food's colors, textures and tastes. The way flavors go off in his mouth. How food keeps his mind still and his bad feelings quiet. Food has always made everything better, until the day Billy's beloved son Michael takes his own life. Billy determines to make a difference in Michael's memory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROHSummary: Distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists. Zia discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that Desiree has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WRISummary: "The Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPSummary: A working-class Irish family is torn between right and wrong when two brothers, Michael and Tommy, live out their destinies on opposite sides of the law. Includes 8 episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mandalay Television 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BROSummary: Sara, an imaginative, wealthy, good little girl retains her royal composure even when she is made a servant and banished to the attic as a charity pupil in an English boarding school after her father is reported killed in the Boer War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Platinum Disc Corporation 1999
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Little 1999Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Sh 14Thai, Thao
Summary: When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life: a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste. It all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC THACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC THASummary: Agent J must travel back in time to MIB's early years in the 1960s and save his partner, Agent K, from being assassinated by an alien. Along the way, Agent J teams up with young Agent K and learns that there are secrets to the universe that Agent K never told him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Men 2012Watters, Shannon
Summary: The Lumberjanes set out to help counselor Seafarin' Karen get her boat back from a group of renegade selkies, as the rest of the camp prepares for the oncoming storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Box 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC LUMSummary: A team of rugby players survive a plane crash deep in the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. Stranded there, they must overcome incredible odds to stay alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALIWaiters, Tyrell
Summary: "On the edge of burnout, Vern decides to return to his family in the Sunshine State to start over. Starting a new dead-end job as a custodian at Quasar -- a local science facility with a shady motive -- he shrugs on his uniform, grabs a mop and bucket, and trudges off to clean up... Black holes? Space-time anomalies? Galactic ooze? Things aren't entirely what they seem at Quasar, and when Vern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WAIThai, Thao
Summary: When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life--a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste--but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THASummary: Sally Adams has made it her business to know everyone worth knowing in Washington, D.C., and her penchant for parties pays off when she's appointed U.S. Ambassador to Lichtenburg. Once she is installed in her new position, shes falls in love with the sauve Foreign Minister Cosmo Constantine, while Princess Maria has her head turned by Sally's press attaché, Kenneth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CALSummary: An updated version of the 1961 Disney classic about separated identical twins. Hallie and Annie meet accidentally at camp and decide to reunite their divorced parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAR RATED PGSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILWoollvin, Bethan
Summary: A feisty little girl learns who the real monsters are in this brilliantly funny medieval adventure. Once, there lived a little girl called Bo. Bo wanted to be just like her brothers and capture a fearsome monster. Bo is small, too small to catch a monster--or so her brothers say. But Bo isn't one to take no for an answer, so she sets off on a quest to catch a monster of her own. Can she defeat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE WOOWatters, Shannon
Summary: "X MARKS THE SPOT...FOR TROUBLE! Ripley found a treasure map! The Roanoke scouts are eager to hunt down what they hope might be some kind of mystical hoard of gems and jewels, rad dinosaur bones, or maybe even more treasure maps (that you have to piece together to find an EVEN BIGGER prize, obviously)! What they end up finding is scattered pieces of an ancient Greek statue of a woman, who, when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC LUMWatters, Shannon
Summary: "When Counselor Jen takes the Roanoke scouts on a mission to find a Jackalope, they end up stumbling on a young cowgirl who's been living in the woods surrounding camp with her herd of unusual critters! In the aftermath of the time shenanigans set off by Jo's Mysterious Time Thingy, the Roanoke scouts are a little bit uneasy on their feet. It's up to Jen to cheer them up and help them get back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC LUMWatters, Shannon
Summary: "The woods surrounding Miss Qinzella Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady-Types are home to more incredible magical critters and beings than anyone could possibly imagine...unfortunately, on this particular day, it's pouring rain, and each and every 'Jane has been tasked with just one job: stay inside, stay dry, and DON'T get into trouble. Confined to the Mess Hall, Jo and Molly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Box 2019
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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...
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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
Watters, Shannon
Summary: Contains vols. 9-10. During Parents Day at camp, the girls and their parents participate in a scavenger hunt, but there's someone or something out in the woods sabotaging them, and delighting in pulling mean pranks!
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Box 2019