Summary: An American merchant marine captain ferries a group of Chinese refugees down the Yangtze River to escape the Communists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BLOSummary: 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: Chronicling the extraordinary life of Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Biggie transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to a pregnant woman) to superstardom. He has to juggle the increasing demands of fatherhood, marriage, and a music career that is strife with chaos and controversy. On March 8, 1997, in Los...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOTSummary: In Season 2, Lyra follows Lord Asriel into the mysterious abandoned city Cittagazze while Mrs. Coulter continues to search for her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HISCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series His 2021Sharp, Sid
Summary: "Bellwether Riggwelter is out of blackberries. While he loves gathering treats and roaming the forest, he dreads running into the very dangerous wolves. To protect himself, he builds the ultimate disguise: a wolf suit. And it works...sort of."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHASummary: A driver and mechanic join a drag racing from L.A. east in a souped up '55 Chevy, where they challenge another driver to a cross country race, with their pink slips as the prize. Includes commentaries; interviews; rare screen test outtakes; and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWOFleischman, Sid
Summary: A collection of three previously published stories about the farmer who'd rather sit on a porcupine than tell a lie. Includes "McBroom the Rainmaker," "McBroom's Zoo," and "McBroom's Ghost."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1992
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FLEFleischman, Sid
Summary: A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1986
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FLECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC FLECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC FLEHilleman, Andrew
Summary: Once the most wanted man in America, Pat Crowe is a forgotten folk hero who captivated the nation as an outlaw for economic justice. World, Chase Me Down resurrects him, telling the electrifying story of the first great crime of the last century: how in 1900 the out-of-work former butcher kidnapped the teenage son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon for a ransom of $25,000 in gold, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILMillman, Isaac.
Summary: Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign language and a page showing the manual alphabet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MILSummary: When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY HORROR TALHilleman, Andrew
Summary: "Resurrecting a forgotten American folk hero who captivated the nation as an outlaw for economic justice, World, Chase Me Down is a debut novel of adrenaline-fueled, page-turning suspense based on the first great crime of the last century: the revenge kidnapping by out-of-work former butcher Pat Crowe of the sixteen-year-old son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon--the man who forced him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILFleischman, Sid
Summary: Three humorous adventures on McBroom's wonderful one-acre prairie farm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1992
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FLESummary: Regina Giddens is a woman who will stop at nothing to outwit her brothers in running the family business, even if it means sacrificing the health of her husband or the love of her young daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A superstar singer and her overworked personal assistant are presented with a choice that could alter the course of their respective careers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HIGHellman, Matthew
Summary: In 1842, every resident of Copper Harbor, MI disappeared without a trace. In 2019, Bill Hitze and his son Brandon make a gruesome discovery while fishing on Lake Superior that starts to shed light on the old mystery. According to Professor Stephanie Crowe, an Ojibwa legend predicts that the town's residents will be lost again. Together, Bill and Stephanie strive to discover the truth about what...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHillman, Jonathan
Summary: On their last trip to the laundromat before moving, a mom invites her child to make a wish on a washing machine, which spurs everyone else in the laundromat to share their wishes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE HILGillman, Melanie
Summary: In this new feminist, queer fairy tale collection, the princesses, mermaids, barmaids, children, and wise old women who have been forced to sit on the sidelines in classic stories take center stage to fulfill their own dreams and find the love, power, and happiness they deserve.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Graphic 2022
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Summary: A gorgeously written, tender, and wise novel about love and forgiveness in 1960s Australia, in which a lonely farmer finds his life turned upside down by the arrival of a vibrant librarian.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HILKillian, Alex
Summary: "This moving picture book traces a table and its transformation: from a seed to a tree to a treasured object in a home. Strong and stable through the years, the table becomes a space for being together: for birthday parties and science projects, and meals big and small. With captivating text and lush illustrations, This Table will inspire conversations about the everyday, ordinary objects in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2024
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Summary: Traces the life of the mentor gas attendant of "Way of the Peaceful Warrior," discussing his origins as an orphan with both Jewish and Cossack ties, his journey from a military academy to America, and his discovery of how to live a peaceful life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILHoleman, Linda
Summary: Moving swiftly between the tents of the Afghan plains to the tropical mansions of India to the dirty streets of London, this is a beautifully written novel about a 19th-century woman who, cursed by a jealous tribeswoman, travels to Victorian England in her desperate quest for survival.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2006