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
Myra, Harold Lawrence
Summary: As they prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, Todd and his family discuss the meaning of the holiday and its relationship to their Christian beliefs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tommy Nelson 2002
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E MyrSummary: Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A group of men discover the body of an Aborigine girl in an Australian fishing hole. Instead of reporting the murder right away, they wait until they've filled their coolers with fish. Their inaction sets off a scandal that threatens to tear them apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JINSummary: This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios 2011
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3 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY MUSICALS WESSummary: Presents the Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROMSummary: This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS WESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie West 2003Laurence, Margaret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUSummary: Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty as a super-spy in order to train new IMF agents. He is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he has ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team - his old friend Luther Strickell, transportation expert Declan, and background operative Zhen, in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISHarwood, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarwood, John
Summary: "Confused and disoriented, Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The doctor, Maynard Straker, tells her that she admitted herself under the name Lucy Ashton the day before, then suffered a seizure. When she insists he has mistaken her for someone else, Dr. Straker sends a telegram to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarwood, Clarissa
Summary: Beaten and left for dead in the English countryside, clergyman and reformer Tom Cross is rescued and nursed back to health by Miranda and Simon Thorne, reclusive siblings who seem to have as many secrets as he does. Tom has spent years helping the downtrodden in London while lying to everyone he meets, but now he’s forced to slow down and confront his unexamined life. Miranda, a skilled...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSummary: Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks, advised by his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AnCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ANNMarwood, Alex
Summary: Where Romy grew up, if someone died you never spoke of them again. Now 22, she has recently escaped the toxic confines of the cult she was raised in. But Romy is young, pregnant and completely alone - and if she is to keep herself safe in this new world, she has some important lessons to learn. Like how there are some people you can trust, and some you must fear. And about who her family really...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Marwood 2019Haywood, Eliza Fowler
Contents: The Injur'd Husband -- Lasselia -- Notes to the Novels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 1999
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM FIC HAYSala, Laurenne
Summary: In this bilingual picture book celebration of family life, young readers are invited into Lucia's home where she takes them on a tour of her busy and cozy casa and introduces them to her beautiful familia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SALHarwood, Beth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Dolphin Books 2005
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE HARHarwood, Michael
Summary: After his work as a gay escort at a London hotel results in a scandal, Anthony Gowers becomes a butler and companion to Lord Shanderson, but when Lady Shanderson returns to the castle, Anthony's relationship with the lord results in complications for everyone.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSala, Laurenne
Summary: Laurenne Sala's heartworming text, accompanied by Robin Preiss Glasser's charming illustrations, creates a firsthand look at the powerful bond between mother and child from pregnancy to birth and beyond.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: E SALMarwood, Alex
Summary: "A taut new psychological thriller from the Edgar Award-nominated author of The Wicked Girls Alex Marwood's debut novel, The Wicked Girls, earned her lavish praise from the likes of Stephen King, Laura Lippman, and Erin Kelly, and was shortlisted for an Edgar Award. Now Marwood's back with a brilliant, tightly paced thriller that will keep you up at night and make you ask yourself: just how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MARSala, Laurenne
Summary: A father tells his child about his love, fear, and joy in being her parent.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Sala, Laurenne
Summary: "In this beautiful celebration of motherhood, the universal message of unconditional love for a child shines through. Laurenne Sala's heartworming text, accompanied by Robin Preiss Glasser's charming illustrations, creates a firsthand look at the powerful bond between mother and child from pregnancy to birth and beyond." --
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Larwood, Kieran
Summary: "The young rabbit Podkin One-Ear and his allies battle to save their land from the evil Gorm tribe"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019