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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Families Fiction Family secrets Fiction Parent and child Fiction Parenting Fiction Parents of transgender children Fiction Schools Juvenile fiction Self-esteem Juvenile fiction Transgender children FictionSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bernie is extremely unlucky at gambling and he owes the Shangri-La casino's mob boss Shelly Kaplow over $100,000. He is so unlucky that he is hired as a "cooler". He gambles next to high rollers and gives them some of his bad luck to stop them from winning. This arrangement works out for awhile, but when Bernie has almost paid off his debt, he meets cocktail waitress, Natalie. The two start to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COOSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELSummary: Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu Movie MisfitsSummary: In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie To Kill 2012Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TO NOT RATEDSummary: From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction VandriverCondra, Estelle
Summary: Driving through mountain fog to the beach, two young brothers compete to see who will catch the first glimpse of the ocean, but it is their blind sister Nellie who senses it first.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eager Minds Press 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CONLaure, Estelle
Summary: When Blue Owens wakes up with the overwhelming feeling that something is wrong with her memory, she meets Adam Mendoza, who explains that she paid to have her unpleasant memories erased in order to "start over"--and that begins Blue's journey to recover her memories and understand the truth of why she felt the need to lose them in the first place.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAUFeldman, Estelle
Summary: Rhyming text describes some of the ways to play outside on a snowy day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FELLaure, Estelle
Summary: "Teen detective Mary Elizabeth continues to unravel a dark conspiracy that has turned her best friend and boyfriend into villainous monsters--all while battling her own inner demons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAUFrankel, Bethenny
Summary: A tale loosely based on the author's early adulthood follows the experiences of a struggling actress and outspoken businesswoman whose ambitions lead her through several high-profile relationships.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Frankel 2012Frankel, Valerie.
Summary: "Once a month, four New York City moms forget about shaky marriages, rebellious children, and rocky careers--and place a bet on friendship. Besides the fact that their kids all attend the same fashionable Brooklyn Heights private school, Bess, Robin, Carla, and Alicia have little in common. Thrown together on the tony school's Diversity Committee, the women impulsively turn their awkward first...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRALaure, Estelle
Summary: High school senior by day, intern at the Monarch City police department by night, Mary Elizabeth Heart watches with envy from behind a desk as detectives come and go, trying to contain the city's growing crime rate. The city's wealthy elite plan to gentrify the decaying neighborhood called the Scar, once upon a time the epicenter of all things magic. When the daughter of a powerful businessmen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAULaure, Estelle
Summary: At a party, Jo Beckett finds out that the boys on the wrestling team she manages consider her a "practice girl": good enough to hook up with but not to date. Now Jo feels , ashamed, betrayed, and angry, but refuses to let that label define her. In piecing her life back together, she must face uncomfortable truths about all her relationships-- from her best friend to the boy she likes-- that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAUSummary: 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
Frankel, Laurie
Summary: When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like his brothers. One day he puts on a dress and refuses to take it off. He wants to bring a purse to kindergarten. He wants hair long enough to sit on. When he grows up, Claude says,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Frankel, Laurie
Summary: "This is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after ... until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change ... and then change the world. When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC FRAFrankel, Lauren
Summary: When her thirteen-year-old daughter Callie begins receiving suicidal notes from Robyn, the girl she supposedly bullied, Rebecca is determined to save the unbalanced Robyn, but in doing so, unknowingly places her own daughter's life in great danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAFrankel, Laurie
Summary: "This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change...and then change the world. When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Frankel, Valerie.
Summary: Once a month, four New York City moms forget about shaky marriages, rebellious children, and rocky careers--and place a bet on friendship. Besides the fact that their kids all attend the same fashionable Brooklyn Heights private school, Bess, Robin, Carla, and Alicia have little in common. Thrown together on the tony school's Diversity Committee, the women impulsively turn their awkward...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012
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Frankel, Erin
Summary: In school Kyle's persistent bullying is making Thomas feel like a nobody, and he needs help from his classmates and adults to understand and recapture his self-esteem--but Kyle needs help too. Includes activities for children and information on recognizing and preventing bullying for adults.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAFrankel, Laurie
Summary: "India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption, India does what you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Like so many movies about adoption, it tells only one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FRA1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE