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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures City and town life Fiction Family life Fiction Hanukkah Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Jews United States Fiction Missouri Romans, nouvelles, etc Stories in rhyme Television playsMoran, Alex.
Summary: Illustrations and rhythmic, rhyming text show what happens when popping popcorn gets out of hand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Light Readers/Harcourt Brace 1999
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE MORSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLBeeby, Betty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pearl Press 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 BEECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 Beeby1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 BEE
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Hist BeebySummary: 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 PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Maxwell, Everina
Summary: "Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set in the same universe as Everina Maxwell's hit debut, Winter's Orbit. Rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster Tennalhin Halkana can read minds. Tennal, like all neuromodified "readers," is a security threat on his own. But when controlled, readers are a rare asset. Not only can...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXFranco, Betsy.
Summary: Throughout the day and into the night various birds sing their songs, beginning with the woodpecker who taps a pole ten times and counting down to the hummingbird who calls once.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FRAThornton, Betsy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOTobin, Betsy
Summary: Set in 17th century rural England, the story details the friendship of two women. The younger of the two is lead by circumstances to solve the mystery of the death of the other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOBMaxwell, Everina
Summary: "Summoned before the Emperor, Prince Kiem-a famously disappointing minor royal and the Emperor's least favorite grandchild-is commanded to renew the empire's bonds with its newest vassal planet. The prince must marry Count Jainan, the recent widower of another royal prince of the empire. But the Jainan suspects his late husband's death was no accident. And Prince Kiem discovers that Jainan is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAXBird, Betsy
Summary: Twelve-year-old Suzy Bowles dreams of life outside the small town of Burr Oak Michigan, but when she stumbles on the opportunity to learn ostrich-riding with the infamous Madame Marantette her obligations to her family on the farm threaten to derail her dreams of a bigger life. Includes photographs and information on Madame Marantette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BIRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: MI JT Fiction Bird 2021Carter, Betsy
Summary: "For readers of The Nightingale and, an exquisitely moving novel about friendship, love, and redemption in a circle of immigrants who flee Europe for 1930s-era New York City. On the eve of World War II Egon Schneider--a gallant and successful Jewish doctor, son of two world-famous naturalists--escapes Germany to an uncertain future across the sea. Settling into the unfamiliar rhythms of upper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARGroban, Betsy
Summary: Pia bravely informs her pizza-loving family that she wants something different to eat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN GROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN GROThornton, Betsy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ThornCornwell, Betsy
Summary: "A retelling of Cinderella about an indomitable inventor-mechanic who finds her prince but realizes she doesn't want a fairy tale happy ending after all"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION CORParkinson, Betsy
Summary: "Piper the piglet is a very picky eater, who will only eat food beginning with the letter "P"--and somehow her parents must break her of this strange quirk, and get her to eat other good foods."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019
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Summary: "In the third installment of the Jana Bibi series, Betsy Woodman takes us back to the Jolly Grant house for the arrival of Jana's son, Jack, from Scotland, and his Hungarian bride-to-be, Katarina Esterhazy. The whole gang is excited to welcome their international visitors-- and Jana is determined to repair the house to Jack's high standards and those of her grandfather, from whom she inherited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOAldredge, Betsy
Summary: New Yorker Hannah Levin is allergic to horses and tinsel. Unfortunately, she’s surrounded by both when she’s snowed in at her grandmother’s home in a small Texas town. Missing latkes and reliable Wi-Fi, Hannah wanders into an old deli where she meets the only other Jewish teen around: Noah, who happens to be equal parts adorable and full of annoying, over the top festival of lights spirit that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Underlined 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALDHearne, Betsy.
Summary: A young girl recounts the brave exploits of her female ancestors, including her great-great-great grandmother who came to America in a wooden sailboat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J FIC HEALewin, Betsy.
Summary: Although everyone can see how Tippy Toes, a mischievous cat, spends his days, only one knows where he goes after dark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEWEverett, Percival
Summary: A professor of mathematics who claims to be an expert at nothing partners with an aspiring villain who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal a shoebox containing nothing, with the help of a brainwashed astrophysicist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVEPetry, Ann
Summary: "The Street follows Lutie Johnson, a young, newly single mother, as she struggles to make a better life for her son, Bub. An intimate account of the aspirations and challenges of black, female, working-class life, much of it set on a single block in Harlem, the novel exposes structural inequalities in American society while telling a complex human story, as overpriced housing, lack of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETEverett, Percival
Summary: Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2001
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Summary: Percival Everett's long-awaited new collection of stories, his first since 2004's Damned If I Do, finds him traversing the West with characteristic restlessness. A deaf Native American girl wanders off into the desert and is found untouched in a den of rattlesnakes. A young boy copes with the death of his sister by angling for an unnaturally large trout in the creek where she drowned. An old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVEEverett, Wade.
Summary: Montana was a big territory in 1887, and the Broken T was one of its biggest spreads, sprawling over three counties--a good piece of Custer County, thirty-five sections of Power River County, and the middling chunk of Rosebud county. It was big enough that a man running from the law could hire on as a cowhand and be safe so long as he behaved himself--and as long as he never wanted to go back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011