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
Gibb, David
Summary: Determined to ride a bike with only two wheels through practice, patience and courage, a little boy discovers that his dream just might come true, in this delightful story that captures the magical moment when kids pedal off on their own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBSummary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NIGGipi
Summary: Dual graphic narratives by the acclaimed Italian cartoonist demonstrate how the choices our ancestors made dramatically affect generations to come. Silvano Landi is a successful writer who, at the age of 50, sees his family leave him and his life fall apart. Landi's great-grandfather, Mauro, is an anxious soldier being fed to the maw of carnage in the First World War. Alternating between past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GIPHaynes, Gibby
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Oscar Lester and his dog/supernatural companion, Mr. Cigar, eager to avoid nefarious forces that are after Mr. Cigar, speed to New York where Oscar's twenty-two-year-old sister, Carla, is being held hostage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HAYSummary: Tony is an undereducated Brooklyn teenager who is bored with his daytime job. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dance floor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony's attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SATGibby, Bayne.
Summary: A sweet rhyming story about a mother's love for her child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books 2013
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Summary: "Lose yourself in this enemies-to-lovers romance set on a sunny Malibu hillside Ivy Bauer is a young, bright environmental scientist, PhD candidate, and inventor of a game-changing organic irrigation system. She's on top of the world when, suddenly, her husband is killed in a biking accident. Needing space to grieve, she takes a summer job as a gardener in Malibu. Conrad Reed is a wealthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OBee Gees
Summary: Twenty years after his grandfather was a hit in World War I, the new Sgt. Pepper tries to carry on the tradition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SGTSummary: Twelve years afte the events in Frank Herbert's Dune, Maud'Dib--Arrakis emperor Paul Atreides--has become the unintended figurehead of a violent dictatorship, and his enemies are multiplying. Vanishing into the desert, he waits as destiny shapes his twin heirs Leto II and Ghanima, who must contend with their scheming aunt Alia while Princess Wensicia, of the enemy House Corrino, plots her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Great War, March 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope. With a German offensive imminently approaching, the company anxiously awaits their unknown fate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JOUGigl, Robyn
Summary: When a trans woman pleads guilty to killing her millionaire businessman father, transgender attorney Erin McCabe, determined to clear her name when the facts don't add up, becomes trapped in a web of human exploitation, unchecked greed and murder where her quest for justice turns into a struggle to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIGKoch, Gini.
Summary: Marketing manager Katherine "Kitty" Katt steps into the middle of a domestic dispute, but things get ugly when the man turns into a winged monster and goes on a killing spree. In the middle of the chaos a handsome hunk named Jeff Martini appears, sent by the "agency" to perform crowd control. He's Kitty's kind of guy, no matter what planet he's from.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOCRabb, Jonathan
Summary: "A moving novel about a Holocaust survivor's unconventional journey back to a new normal in 1940s Savannah, Georgia. In late summer 1947, thirty-one-year-old Yitzhak Goldah, a camp survivor, arrives in Savannah to live with his only remaining relatives. They are Abe and Pearl Jesler, older, childless, and an integral part of the thriving Jewish community that has been in Georgia since the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rabb 2016Gibbs, Edward.
Summary: "What can you spy on the farm? Look through the spy holes to discover some noisy animals in this take on the classic game."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Templar Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIBGibbs, Stuart
Summary: While visiting a ranch near Yellowstone National Park with his parents, Summer, and her parents, Teddy Fitzroy investigates the disappearances of bison and an irreplaceable necklace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIBGibbs, Stuart
Summary: Charlie Thorne is a genius. Charlie Thorne is fearless. Charlie Thorne may have finally met her match. Charlie Thorne is used to being on the run. Ever since she was recruited by the CIA to track down Einstein's most dangerous equation, Charlie - and former CIA agents Dante Garcia and Milana Moon - has traveled around the world to prevent history's greatest discoveries from falling into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: "Prinec Ruprecht is very upset that knights-in-training Tim and Belinda have thwarted his plans and ruined his chances with Princess Grace. So to get even, he has kidnapped the princess and trapped her in the most complicated...and scariest maze in all the world! Now it's up to Tim, Beinda, Ferkle, and Rover to...find their way through the labyrinth...and rescue the princess before time runs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIBGibbs, Stuart
Summary: As almost thirteen-year-old Ben, a student at the CIA's academy for future intelligence agents, prepares to go to spy summer camp, he receives a death threat from the evil organization SPYDER.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GIBGibbs, Stuart
Summary: "Follows the spies-in-training on a hunt to find the leader of the evil organization SPYDER and take them down once and for all"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019