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(Biblical leader) Moses Drama Cold War Fiction Intelligence officers United States Fiction International relations Fiction Spy stories Undercover operations Fiction United States. Army. Delta Force Fiction United States. Central Intelligence Agency Fiction United States. Office of Strategic Services Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Secret service FictionSummary: 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
Summary: Basil Rathbone portrays the deductive genius, Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce his mystified colleague, Dr. Watson in these fourteen classic films.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY COMSummary: Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as 'Grimms', charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study rare mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GORSummary: On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was killed in Dallas and the world changed forever. But what if it could be changed back? James Franco stars as Jake Epping, an English teacher who accepts the monumental mission of trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. Luckily, he has the help of Sadie Dunhill (Sarah Gadon), a resourceful librarian who's trying to reconcile secrets of her own....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ELESummary: To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TENSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: From the author of Awakenings comes a heartwarming tale of a father and son, who find a connection through the music that embodied the generation gap of the 1960s. An unforgettable soundtrack features the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills and Nash, and many more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Films 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Griffin, W. E. B.
Summary: There's an uneasy and unholy alliance building across the Caribbean. Few in the U.S. government want to believe that a Third World country and its chest-thumping leader could pose a credible threat-but then why are the Chinese helping to train its special forces? Why are the Russians helping to build a nuclear power plant?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIThornton, I. W. B. (Ian W. B.)
Summary: Johan Thoms (pronounced Yo-han Tomes) was born in Argona, a small town twenty-three miles south of Sarajevo, during the hellish depths of winter 1894. Little did he know that his inability to reverse a car would change the course of 20th Century History forever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Friday Project 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOSummary: Film noir semi-documentary style treatment based on an actual Los Angeles Police Department case. A cop killer manages to elude detection by intercepting police radio calls and by altering his appearance. Evidence points to an alienated electronics expert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HEBelcher, W. B. (William B.)
Summary: "A ghostwriter of the memoirs of a reclusive folk music icon--part Woody Guthrie, part Bob Dylan--attempts to glean fact from fiction, only to discover the deeper he digs into the musician's past, the more his own past rises to the surface"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELGottfred, B. T.
Summary: Everyone, including Zee's classmates, gym buddies, and even her so-called best friend assume that she is a lesbian. Everyone who takes a look at Art's nice clothes and pretty face assume that he is gay. But there is more to Zee and Art than anyone realizes. What develops is a powerful connection between two people who are beautiful in all the ways they've been told are strange. As they explore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOTFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAMGriffin, W. E. B
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Publishing Group 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: The Russian bear is stirring--and it's hungry. Could sabers be rattling for a new Cold War--or worse? Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo is about to find out as the Delta Force operative investigates the disappearances and deaths of covert U.S. intelligence assets working for a variety of agencies. A series of Christmas assassinations leaves Charley and his group of troubleshooters wondering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: Fic GriGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: At an airfield in Angola, two men board a leased Boeing 727; then, once it is in the air, slit the pilot's throat and fly to parts unknown. The consternation is immediate, as the CIA, FBI, FAA, and other agencies race to find out what has happened, in the process elbowing each other in the sides a little too vigorously. Army intelligence officer Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo is sent by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: "A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged Austrian police in his wake. He's been lying low ever since, but that little vacation is about to end. Somebody - Odessa, the NKGB, the Hungarian Secret Police - has broken the criminals out of jail, and he must track them down again. But there's more to it than that....
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Griffin 2018Griffin, W. E. B.
Summary: A novel following the struggles of fighting men in the Philippines, Budapest, Washington, and Cairo in 1943.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: With World War II in full swing, a German general conspires to kill Hitler while his son living in Buenos Aires falls under SS suspicion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: When Charley Castillo learns that a DEA agent has disappeared while trying to interdict drugs and that his help is needed in getting the agent back, Castillo quickly finds out that elements of the intelligence and military communities ordered to support him are willing to kill him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Tapped by FDR to assist the Allies' efforts to secure France and build an atomic bomb, OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan and top agent Dick Canidy coordinate a sabotage mission in Germany while countering a mole who is leaking Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Griffin 2012Griffin, W. E. B.
Summary: There's a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much, because the victims are street thugs and lowlifes. But as Homicide sergeant Matt Payne starts looking under the right rocks, he gets a feeling there's more going on than just bad guys burning one another. In fact, he starts seeing signs that these guys are maybe getting whacked by professionals, from out of state,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnams Sons 2010