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 PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: A group of addicts in a dingy apartment await the arrival of their "connection," to bring them heroin, while a documentary film maker struggles to film them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIGilbers, Harald
Summary: "From international bestselling author Harald Gilbers comes the heart-pounding story of Jewish detective Richard Oppenheimer as he hunts for a serial killer through war-torn Nazi Berlin in Germania. Berlin 1944: a serial killer stalks the bombed-out capital of the Reich, preying on women and laying their mutilated bodies in front of war memorials. All of the victims are linked to the Nazi...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILSummary: 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 GOLLackey, Mercedes
Summary: The threat of Moriarty is gone - but so is Sherlock Holmes. Even as they mourn the loss of their colleague, psychic Nan Killian, medium Sarah Lyon-White, and Elemental Masters John and Mary Watson must be vigilant, for members of Moriarty?s network are still at large. And their troubles are far from over- in a matter of weeks, two headless bodies of young brides wash up in major waterways. A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes
Summary: As Vieliessar confronts the first waves of the forces of Darkness, her destined bondmate, Runacar, leads a rag-tag group to war. For centuries, the Elves have hunted the Otherfolk, minotaurs, gryphons, dryads, and more, considering them beasts. But they have a complex society, Runacar discovers, and though he is an Elf, takes it as his mission to help them reclaim their lands from his former...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fantasy Lackey 2017Lackey, Mercedes
Summary: "Mags was a Herald of Valdemar. But he had once lived the brutal life of a child slave. When he was Chosen by his Companion Dallen, his young life was saved, and he slowly adjusted to being well fed, educated, and treasured as a trainee in the Herald's Collegium at Haven. Singled out by the King's Own Herald, Mags would thrive in his secret training as a spy. His unusually strong Gift--an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes
Summary: Baron Valdemar and his people have found a temporary haven, but it cannot hold all of them, or for long. Trouble could follow on their heels at any moment, and there are too many people for Crescent Lake to support. Those who are willing to make a further trek by barge on into the West will follow him into a wilderness depopulated by war and scarred by the terrible magics of a thousand years...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes.
Summary: Kiron and his friends, established in a desert cliff dwelling seemingly made for dragons, must not only bring order to the new society, but be on guard against Magi who might try to achieve conquest surreptitiously after failing to win with violence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes.
Summary: Once a heroic Captain in the army of Karse, a kingdom at war with Valdemar, Alberich becomes one of Valdemar's Heralds. Despite prejudice against him, he becomes the personal protector of young Queen Selenay. But can he protect her from the dangers of her own heart?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes.
Summary: Kellen Tawadon, son the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way the world worked. His father, leading the wise and benevolent Council of Mages, protected and guided the citizens of the Golden City of the Bells. Young Mages in training-all men, for women were unfit to practice magic-memorized the intricate details of High Magic and aspired to seats on the council. Then he found the forbidden...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes.
Summary: In gaining entry to Altan noble society, Kiron had come to learn many distressing things about who really controlled Alta. The Magi were plotting to replace the royal Great Ones and rule Alta, and had built a terrible weapon, the Eye of Light, which could kill from afar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes.
Summary: In the fantasy city of White Gryphon, the rulers have created a new elite force to protect the city, the Silver Gryphons. Two of its members, Tad and Blade, are assigned to a remote outpost, but to get there they must cross unexplored and dangerous territory. By the author of The White Gryphon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fantasy Lackey 1996Lackey, Mercedes
Summary: "Joy must uncover a deadly conspiracy at the heart of Apex City--and lead her fellow Hunters to victory in the final confrontation with the dangerous Othersiders"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LACLackey, Mercedes
Summary: "Set in the beloved and bestselling world of Valdemar, this first book in a new trilogy returns to the tales of the majestic gryphons. On the border between Valdemar and the deadly Pelagirs Forest, the gryphon hero Kelvren returns from a near-fatal self-sacrifice that won him the approval of Valdemar's ground troops, but caused a diplomatic crisis. Frustrated by his lack of a hero's welcome,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes
Summary: "Anna May Jones is the daughter of a coal miner, but a sickly constitution has kept her confined to the house for most of her life. Hoping to improve her daughter's health - and lessen the burden on their family - Anna's mother sends her to live with her Aunt Jinny, a witchy-woman and an Elemental Master, in a holler outside of Ducktown. As she settles into her new life, Anna learns new skills...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes
Summary: While enjoying the Christmas season, Nan and Sarah, along with Dr. Watson and his wife Mary, are called to investigate when missing women reappear and their experiences while gone have driven them mad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes
Summary: "Deeply depressed Olivia, whose parents are divorcing, is ripe for manipulation. And swimming star Blake is looking for someone just like her. Although her friend tries to warn her, Olivia falls for his ploys and accepts an invitation to go to the Adirondack resort camp of Lake Endor with him and his family. But all is not as it seems at the hundred year old resort. Not only does Olivia...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes.
Summary: Magpie, Lena, and Bear continue on their individual quests as they work to attain the status of full Heralds, Bards, and Healers of Valdemar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes.
Summary: While fighting monsters that break through the barriers surrounding Apex City, Joy and her pack of magical hounds begin finding dead Psimons, and reporting the incidents only causes more trouble.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LACLackey, Mercedes.
Summary: A former captain in the Army of Karse, Alberich must take a perilous stand when his long-hidden psychic talents are revealed, and he is rescued from certain death and chosen to serve the queen of Valdemar, Karse's archenemy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Luna 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACLackey, Mercedes.
Summary: "A teenage girl leaves home to join the legendary Hunters, who protect the people from the terrifying monsters that have overrun their world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2015