Summary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC

Artist Not Provided

Summary: Based on true events, tells the story of Clemens Forell who escaped a Soviet prison in Siberia just after World War II and set out to trek 8,000 miles to return to his family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Cinema 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AS

Summary: An American widower in Paris, desolate at the unexplained suicide of his wife, plunges into a torrid sexual relationship with a stranger, a young French girl half his age.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998

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

Summary: Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2000

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAN

Simone, Gail

Summary: "Collecting the series that led into INFINITE CRISIS! Six of justice's deadliest enemies band together to start a revolution. Together, they want to take a stand to stop the super-heroic community from tampering with their minds and to prove how deadly they can be! But not everyone agrees to this agenda. Six rogues are recruited by the enigmatic Mockingbird, charged with opposing the Society...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2015

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

Summary: Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FUL

Gala, Marcial

Summary: "The story of an enormous cathedral constructed in a marginal, majority-black neighborhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, told by a chorus of narrators whose sometimes conflicting, overlapping accounts knit together to form a portrait of the neighborhood and the family of outsiders whose arrival in Cienfuegos sparks a series of dramatic events"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAL

Summary: A gripping true story of six elite ex-military operators assigned to protect the CIA who fought back against overwhelming odds when terrorists attacked in the U.S. diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012. When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2016

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 13 H

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 13 RATED R

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Th

Summary: Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FUL

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

Summary: Easy-going Father O'Malley and iron-willed Sister Benedict find themselves in a subtle battle of wits over how the children should be educated at St. Mary's parochial school. Meanwhile, the skinflint businessman next door wants the school condemned.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2003

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

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Bells 2003

Summary: Join the Portokalos family as they travel to a family reunion in Greece for a heartwarming and hilarious trip full of love, twists, and turns. Opa!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MY
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MY

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MY

Lakemeier, Martijn

Summary: After helping a wounded British paratrooper towards the end of World War II, a young teenage Dutch boy becomes involved in the Resistance and matures as he confronts the realities of war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN WIN

Summary: David is a 12-year-old boy who escapes from a Communist concentration camp. He has little more with him than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into a world free of Communism for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. For David, this is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where he slowly...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2005

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2005

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Summary: Shuri has returned, changed with mysterious supernatural powers, but Wakanda has changed too. She works to appease her restless countrymen, from conversing with philosophy professor Changamire whose teachings inspired rebel leader Tetu, and dealing with the rogue Dora Milaje, led by Ayo and Aneka, the Midnight Angels.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 0000

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC COA

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Summary: "T'Challa confronts a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman terrorist group calling itself The People sparks a violent uprising, the land famed for its incredible technology and proud warrior traditions will be thrown into turmoil. As suicide bombers terrorize the population, T'Challa struggles to unite his citizens,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 BLA

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC COA

Chau, Chan

Summary: Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BAB

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Summary: "The Midnight Angels face-off against War Dogs under Tetu and Zenzi's control; T'Challa seeks Tony Stark's advice on finding the man behind the city square attack; Shuri learns a lesson from a griot resembling Ramonda in the Djalia"--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC COA

Jungkunz, Mariel

Summary: It's eleven days after Christmas and Lucía yearns to be in lush Puerto Rico celebrating Día de los Reyes with family and friends. But this year, instead of dancing and singing in the parrandas of her Puerto Rican neighborhood, she is surrounded by cold and silence in snow-blanketed Ohio. How will she ever be able to guide the Three Kings to her new home in the frosty Midwest? This picture book...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JUN

Summary: Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STA

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Summary: T'Challa has revived his sister and helped Shuri return to the physical world with Wakanda's collective knowledge and new abilities, but their victory is short lived. A rebellion ravages the kingdom while T'Challa's attention has been worn thin, but the faction led by Tetu and Zenzi and the Midnight Angels struggle to make a formal alliance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 0000

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC COA

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Summary: In the aftermath of the attack on the Golden City, Wakanda must figure out how to move forward.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 0000

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC COA

Coates, Ta-Nehisi.

Summary: The full truth of the People's revolution - and the power players supporting it - has been revealed! Now, T'Challa must fight like never before for the fate of his nation - and one of his most trusted allies is back to stand by his side. As the final battle begins, the entirety of Wakanda's glorious history may be their most potent weapon. But even if the People fall, can the monarchy still...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 BLA

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC COA

Glass, Joe

Summary: "In The Pride, Fabman is sick of being seen as a joke. Tired of the LGBTQ+ community being seen as inferior to straight heroes, he thinks it's about damn time he did something about it. Bringing together some of the world's greatest LGBTQ+ superheroes, the Pride is born to protect the world and fight prejudice, misrepresentation, and injustice--not to mention a pesky supervillain or two. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2021

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