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Heine, Helme. Hesse, Hermann Hesse, Karen. Hesse, Monica Hesse, Monica. Tyson, WendySummary: Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. C.P....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BESCopies Available at Kingsley
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BESSummary: When Air Force One is shot down by terrorists leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness, there is only one person around who can save him, a thirteen-year old boy called Oskari. In the forest on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his family, Oskari had been planning to track down a deer, but instead discovers the most powerful man on the planet in an escape pod.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Relativity 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BiSummary: A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features, Universal Studios 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: 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
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: Presents the Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROMHeine, Helme.
Summary: To settle a quarrel between three hens, the king must choose which one lays the most beautiful egg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1987
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Summary: Three friends who love to be together come to the realization that sometimes it's just not possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1986
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: American History X: "Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists in Los Angeles, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A small-town police chief concealing an explosive secret. A pair of ruthless drug dealers leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. And an enigmatic woman caught in the middle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY ONEHesse, Monica
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: -- Girl in the Blue Coat.Germany, 1945.Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam, desperately searching for the twin...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When the CEO tries to close her hard-partying brother's branch, he and his Chief Technical Officer must rally their co-workers and host an epic office Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and close a sale that will save their jobs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE OFFSummary: The Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon comes to the big screen. Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim part of herself. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well-baked pie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUSICALS WAI1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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Summary: Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover ultimate spiritual truths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buccaneer Books 1976
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Summary: "In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Years after he fought his way out of prison, Ray Breslin must return to the hell he once escaped from to save his friend from the prison's brutal human battleground, known as Hades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EsSummary: When a billionaire tech CEO hires a team of mercenaries to protect a lethal piece of technology, the security expert and his team must race against the clock to protect the fate of the human race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HaTyson, Wendy
Summary: When Megan Sawyer gives up her big-city law career to care for her grandmother and run the family's organic farm and cafe, she expects to find peace and tranquility in her scenic hometown of Winsome, Pennsylvania. Instead, her goat goes missing, rain muddies her fields, the town denies her business permits, and her family's Colonial-era farm sucks up the remains of her savings. Just when she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TYSTyson, Wendy
Summary: "It's late spring in Winsome, and Washington Acres is alive with the sights and sounds of farm life. The flowers are blossoming, the vegetable gardens are thriving, the pollinators are buzzing, and the Pennsylvania countryside has fully awakened from its deep winter slumber. Only this season, rebirth comes with a price. College friends of Megan's beau, the handsome veterinarian Dr. Denver Finn,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TYSHesse, Hermann
Summary: Dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair's descent, led by precocious schoolmate Max Demian, into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention and eventual awakening to selfhood. mike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC HESHesse, Hermann
Summary: Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover spiritual truths.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESHesse, Monica
Summary: Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a 'family internment camp' for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESHesse, Hermann
Summary: A classic of modern literature, The Journey to the East is a profound rendering of the struggle between faith and despair. The hero, identified only as H.H., recounts a fantastic spiritual and geographic pilgrimage he took years ago with the League, a secret society whose members include the likes of Paul Klee, Mozart, and Baudelaire. Traversing both time and space, the pilgrims come across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003