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
Summary: New York detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his family. As he waits for his estranged wife's office Christmas party to break up, German terrorists occupy the building, and McClane wages a one-man war to stop them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DIEAnderson, C. W. (Clarence William)
Summary: Billy and his pony Blaze discover the way to an abandoned quarry where they perform a brave deed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1994
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ANDAnderson, C. W. (Clarence William)
Summary: When Billy and his pony Blaze discover a small forest fire, they ride over a dangerous trail to give the alarm at the nearest farmhouse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1992
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ANDAnderson, C. W. (Clarence William)
Summary: While riding through the open country near his family's ranch house, Billy and his pony Blaze come across a dangerous mountain lion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ANDAnderson, C. W. (Clarence William)
Summary: Billy and his friend Tommy enter their ponies in the pair jumping contest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1994
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ANDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ANDSummary: Prince stars as "The Kid," a Minneapolis club musician, who struggles with both a tumultuous homelife and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sultry Apollonia Kotero. Semi-autobiographical.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Purple 1984Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PUR RATED RAnderson, C. W. (Clarence William)
Summary: A little boy who loves horses gets a special birthday present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ANDAnderson, C. W. (Clarence William)
Summary: A youngster outgrows carved ponies and stuffed ponies, and finally he wants a gray pony, with spots, please, and alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 1997
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ANDAnderson, C. W. (Clarence William)
Summary: Billy and his loyal pony Blaze attempt to tame the wild horse Thunderbolt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1993
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ANDAnderson, C. W. (Clarence William)
Summary: Billy and his pony Blaze get lost in the woods with a storm approaching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ANDSummary: When widower Mike Brady marries Carol, their two families become one. Their six children, including Carol's three daughters and Mike's three sons, as well as their quirky housekeeper Alice, and dog Tiger become the The Brady Bunch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Calcutta: Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILSummary: The final season continues the story of high-spirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, and her friend, Georgiana Lambe. What adventures, scandals, intrigue and above all else - romance - await them?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV SANSummary: Most commonly known as the principle screenwriter for director William Desmond Taylor, Julia Crawford Ivers was a filmmaker of diverse talents, working as director, scenarist, production supervisor, and editor at Paramount. This collection includes The Intrigue, directed by Frank Lloyd, screenplay by Ivers. The Majesty of the Law (reel 4 only), and A Son of Erin written and directed by Julia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTWalliams, David
Summary: This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth. When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster - a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole - she's determined to discover more. A chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, and sparks the adventure of a lifetime-- from London to the heart of the Arctic!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WALSummary: Rural England, 1865. Katherine is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family are cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband's estate, a force is unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LAD RATED RSummary: "Pete Cochran, "Linc" Hayes, and Julie Barnes are young people who were on the wrong side of the law. Taken in by Captain Adam Greer, they're assigned to a special task force working undercover for the police. Now these counterculture cops can infiltrate places that only kids know about."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MODSummary: Television series about kids in trouble with the law who become undercover detectives. The trio consists of rich, long-haired Pete Cochran, Lincoln "Linc" Hayes from Watts, and the beautiful flower child Julie Barnes. They're recruited by police captain Adam Greer for a covert unit that will help bridge the generation gap. These three young cops with love beads wrestle with criminals and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MODAlison, Lorence
Summary: Adri is on an all-expenses-paid trip to the exclusive Solstice Festival but suddenly it turns into a deadly nightmare when a dead body washes up on the beach and Adri must put together the clues to who-or what-is killing off the crowd one by one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALIWalliams, David
Summary: Soccer star Dennis hides the truth about his enthusiasm for fashion until his friend Lisa encourages him to dress in drag at school and embrace the persona of "Denise," a gag that has unexpected consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2009