Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: "Set in the 1890s, West plays a brash barroom entertainer with a soft spot for men in trouble, especially the mission director, young Cary Grant. She unknowingly gets caught up in a murder, as well as a white slavery ring, and sets about clearing things up as only Mae can. In between rescues she manages to perform some of her heated, hip-swinging classics including a steamy belting of 'Frankie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SHECleverly, Barbara.
Summary: Returning to England only to discover that his role at the Metropolitan Police has expanded to include the Special Irish Branch, Joe Sandilands struggles with regional terrorism while clashing with a Russian princess who is running a spy network out of Kensington.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Constable 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEGreiman, Lois.
Summary: Welcome to the Lazy Windmill, where guests find that life is what you make it, love is priceless, and family is determined by far more than DNA. Casie Carmichael's accidental dude ranch is well on its way, but the residents of her Hope Springs haven are running wild. With an unwed mother-to-be, a turbulent teen romance, and a bronc-riding grandmother to contend with, the last thing Casie has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREBeverley, Jo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEVSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATBeverley, Jo.
Summary: Orphaned and desperate, Imogen of Carrisford flees when a brutal lord invades and takes possesion of her castle. Only one man, rumored to be a ruthless champion in battle, can defend and protect her: Fitzroger of Cleeve.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEVBeverley, Jo.
Summary: In 18th century England, at the age of seventeen, Lt. Christian Hill impulsively defends young Dorcas Froggatt's honor - and finds himself forced into marriage. That doesn't stop him from pursuing his military career abroad, where he swiftly puts his young bride out of his mind - until the past comes back to haunt him. Not long after her traumatic marriage, Dorcas heard that her new husband...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEVCherian, Anne.
Summary: Vikram, a successful first-generation Indian immigrant, invites three of his college friends to his son's graduation from MIT--an event where real life collides with unmet expectations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEBeverley, Jo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEVBeverley, Jo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEVGooding, Beverley
Summary: Max the Zebra is too shy to tell Tallulah how much he loves her. He tries a variety of ways to get her attention, but each time, something goes wrong! Finally, Max has the best idea of all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Parragon 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOOCleverly, Barbara.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEThurman, Brittany
Summary: Exploring the day-to-day life of a young Black child and her family, this lyrical picture book centers around Olivia, who, worrying about her father while he's at work, anxiously awaits his return, knowing that when he gets home, the evening will be full of love and fun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THUHesse, Hermann
Summary: A classic of modern literature, The Journey to the East is a profound rendering of the struggle between faith and despair. The hero, identified only as H.H., recounts a fantastic spiritual and geographic pilgrimage he took years ago with the League, a secret society whose members include the likes of Paul Klee, Mozart, and Baudelaire. Traversing both time and space, the pilgrims come across...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESZullo, Germano.
Summary: "A man drives his truck up to a cliff's edge. Unable to go any further, he opens the back door of his truck and a flock of birds flies out, but, as the man soon discovers, a small timid bird remains. Surprised and delighted, the man acts kindly towards the bird and an intimacy develops. After lunch, the man tries to show the bird that he should fly off and join his friends. The man's comic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ZULSummary: As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISBeverley, Jo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEVBeverley, Jo.
Summary: A pretty Sandiford heiress is betrothed to Lord Wraybourne. Though she knows he is only marrying her for her fortune, she comes to love him. Unfortunately, as she begins to enjoy London society, she falls victim to a stalker. Jane, in her upset state, is conflicted about where to turn for help.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEVBeverley, Jo.
Summary: Simon St. Bride has been in Canada fighting the War of 1812--but the war is over now, and Simon is ready to come home. Before he leaves, however, Simon must defend a young woman's honor. What does her past hide?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEVBeverley, Jo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEVCharman, Katrina
Summary: Skull, the Shadow, and a few of the rat army escaped into Perodia, and now Tag and the other defenders must locate them, and also find their friend, Bod, who is still trapped in the Underland with the rest of the rat army.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CHACharman, Katrina
Summary: When Blaze is captured by giant birds, Tag and Skyla search the Cloud Kingdom for her, including the dangerous Silver Swamp, with only their magical map as a guide.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2020