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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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO 1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Green, Robson

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Summary: A clergyman investigates a series of crimes in the small village of Grantchester.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2023

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Summary: An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last perfect heist.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004

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Summary: It's the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. As the Reverend Will Davenport unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating finds himself trying to repair his own marriage to estranged wife Cathy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: The star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. As conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship, Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, whose memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015

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

Summary: The whiskey-drinking and jazz-loving vicar Sidney Chambers returns alongside his friend and veteran cop Inspector Geordie Keating for a second season of crime solving in the small country parish.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2016

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

Summary: Sidney Chambers (James Norton, Happy Valley) is a handsome, jazz-loving village vicar haunted by his past. Geordie Keating (Robson Green, Wires in the Blood, Touching Evil) is a hard-boiled police detective, overworked and weary. Together they solve crimes and right wrongs in picturesque 1950s Cambridge. Based on a novel by James Runcie, the hit British series returns with Chambers having...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

Summary: It's 1956 -- a year since Amanda left Grantchester, and the post-war rulebook is being torn up. Sidney Chambers (James Norton) is feeling adrift, a man without a cause -- until American civil rights activist Violet Todd arrives and fires up his need for social justice. But with a cause this dangerous, Sidney might not be around forever. Soon there's a new Vicar of Grantchester, firebrand Will...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: The year is 1958: Rev. Will Davenport is at odds with his own ideals when Leonard Finch is caught up in a scandal. It will take all of Will's skill and empathy to navigate the choppy waters and help the ones he loves.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GRA

Summary: Widely hailed as the greatest film of the 1980s, this searing story charts the tortured rise and fall of middleweight boxing champion Jake 'The Bronx Bull' La Motta.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RAG

de la Peña, Matt

Summary: "Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty and fun in their routine and the world around...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Corimbo 2016

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH DEL

Roberson, Chris

Summary: "Izzie Lefevre was the newest investigator for the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit when she first came to Recondito, a coastal city that's been shrouded in mystery and legend for centuries. Local law enforcement had requested the Bureau's assistance in hunting a sword-wielding serial killer who'd left a dozen mutilated bodies in his wake. Patrick Tevake was a local homicide detective assigned to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Svoboda, Terese.

Summary: A young girl named Harriet is sold into slavery by her father to settle his gambling debt, and when she escapes and embarks on a journey to find her father, Harriet encounters a series of adventures in the American West.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SVO

Roberson, Jennifer

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Roberson, Chris

Summary: An epic fantasy in the tradition of Game of Thrones, Sovereign is set in a world which once knew gods, demons, and magic, and to which all three are returning. New York Times bestseller Chris Roberson joins artist Paul Maybury to tell the story of masked undertakers facing the undead with swords, of civil wars and cultures in collision, and of ancient threats emerging from the ashes of history...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2014

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SOV

Robison, Mary.

Summary: "After a ten-year silence, Robison has emerged with a novel so beguiling and funny that it has brought critics and her live-reading audiences to their feet. 'Why Did I Ever" takes US along on the darkest of private journeys. The story, told by a woman named Money Breton, is submitted like a furious and persuasive diary--a tale as fierce and taut as Money herself." -- Book cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Robson, Jennifer

Summary: From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson--author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France--comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War, and to start a new life an ocean away from her past. In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Bateman, Teresa.

Summary: A clever woman named Fiona must pass the leprechaun king's tests when she tries to get back all the luck he has locked away from humans.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007

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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE FIO

Bateman, Teresa.

Summary: A sad piglet named Polly searches the pasture, forest, and barnyard for someone to love her, only to discover that her valenswine has been there all along.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2005

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2 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE BAT

Dovalpage, Teresa

Summary: "Padrino, a former detective on the Cuban police force, has retired and found a new, happy life as a Santería priest. But he is drawn back in for a murder investigation when his goddaughter, Rosita, who works at the local cemetery, recognizes one of the bodies that crosses her embalming table. Meanwhile, an old flame of Rosita's, Juan, has returned to Cuba after fleeing by raft twenty years...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOV 1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Medeiros, Teresa

Summary: Pamela Darby decides she needs a man who will pose as a duke's long-lost heir, so she can collect the reward and save her sister from "selling her virtue." When Connor Kincaid tries to hold up their stagecoach, Pamela offers him the opportunity and Connor, having nothing to lose agrees.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MED

Terese, Ali

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Summary: "Forced to join the school's Community Action Club, troublemaking best friends Helen and Gracie take over the club's campaign for maxi pads in bathrooms and soon find themselves closer to change and deeper in trouble than ever before, forcing them to make a difficult decision"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024

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Greene, Kerisa

Summary: For Hương, life in Saigon, Vietnam is mostly normal--at least, as normal as it can be while a war is going on. But when her family decides to take the last flight out of the country to build a new life in America, Hương worries about missing her home. Through new friends and old traditions, Hương learns that no matter where we go, the smell of home and the taste of love can be found anywhere,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRE

Perera, Anna.

Summary: Innocent until proven guilty? Not here, you're not. He's fifteen. He's hasn't done anything wrong. It was supposed to be just a trip to visit his mum's family in Pakistan. But for Khalid Ahmed, it was the beginning of a living nightmare. He's kidnapped—then taken to a place thousands of miles from his home in the UK. A place where torture and terror are the daily routine. A place he may never...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2011

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