Summary: 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: 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: 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 OSummary: "A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anthing to achieve success"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWEHayes, Hazel
Summary: "Out of Love begins at the end. Angel and Theo call it quits after nearly five years, and while holding a box of her ex-boyfriend's belongings, Angel wonders: How could they have spent so long together? When did they fall out of love? Were there good times before the bad? These are the questions we obsess over when a relationship ends, even when obsessing can do no good. But instead of moving...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYSummary: The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Chéri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHESummary: An adventure story set in the world of a modern Mark Twain that begins when Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from a nursing home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler and attending the wrestling school of The Salt Water Redneck, his idol. Through circumstances beyond their control, Tyler, a small-time outlaw on the run, becomes Zak's unlikely coach...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PEA1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PEA
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Peanut 2019Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PEAHawes, Louise
Summary: "Life on the road with Daddy is as good as gets for Hazmat. Together, they've been taking jobs and crisscrossing the US for years. Now Daddy's talking about putting down roots--somewhere Hazmat can go to a real school and make friends. Somewhere Daddy doesn't have to mail-order textbooks about 'nature's promise to all women.' Somewhere Mom's ashes can rest on a mantel and not on a dashboard . ....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAWHampson, Anne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1990
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAMQuartey, Kwei
Summary: "Hard-hitting talk show host Augustus Seeza has become a household name in Ghana, though plagued by rumors of lavish overspending, alcoholism, and womanizing. He's dating the imposing, beautiful Lady Araba, who leads a self-made fashion empire. Araba's religious family believes Augustus is after her money and intervenes to break them up. A few days later, just before a major runway show, Araba...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUAQuartey, Kwei
Summary: "Just as things at work are slowing down for PI Emma Djan, an old friend of her boss's asks for help locating his missing daughter. According to her father, Ngozi was just months shy of graduating high school when she became secretive and withdrawn. Suddenly, all she wanted to do was be with her handsome new beau, Femi, instead of attending law school in the fall. So when she disappears from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUAHampson, Randi
Summary: "Based on the classic folk song made famous by a beloved trio of children's entertainers, this picture book is best sung aloud! "Skinnamarink" is a timeless anthem of love and inclusion. What does "skinnamarink" mean? You may not find its definition in a dictionary, but the meaning is clear to the generations of children who sang along: friendship, happiness, sharing, community and, ultimately,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRDHamilton-Paterson, James.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMQuartey, Kwei
Summary: "When her dreams of rising through the police ranks like her late father crash around her, 26-year-old Emma Djan is unsure what will become of her life in Accra. Through a sympathetic former colleague, Emma gets an interview with a private detective agency tracking down missing persons, thefts, and marital infidelities. It's not the future she imagined, but it's her best option. Meanwhile,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Quartey 2020Quartey, Kwei.
Summary: Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service--the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn't have long to celebrate, because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana's capital, out to remote Obuasi, in the Ashanti region, an area now notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines. The assignment will last at...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUAHawkes, Kevin.
Summary: A down-on-his-luck painter with poor eyesight teams up with a dog with a knack for painting portraits.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAWSummary: Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study rare mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GORSummary: Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2023
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MIS1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: One evening everyone in a part of the English town of Midwich falls unconscious, and upon waking, every woman has fallen pregnant. The spawn of these pregnancies are The Midwich Cuckoos, a group of strange "children" who will change the town forever. Based on the iconic novel by John Wyndham comes the spine-chilling first season of The Midwich Cuckoos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDKimpton, Diana
Summary: When Princess Ellie and her friend Kate go to visit Prince John at his mountain palace, they get lost while riding their ponies in the snow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE KIMSummary: The story of the aerial combat of WWI, in which the Royal Air Force held off the German Luftwaffe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BattleQuartey, Kwei J.
Summary: Investigating the murder of an AIDS worker in an African community from which his mother went missing years earlier, Detective Inspector Darko Dawson collects details about the killing and realizes that he is close to solving the truth about his mother'sdisappearance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor 2010