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Harris, C. S Harris, C. S. Jarvis Jarvis. Payne, C. D. (C. Douglas) Pierre, D. B. C. Pierson, D. C.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...
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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
Jarvis
Summary: One little piggy went to market. Two little piggies had a car but couldn't park it. Count from one to ten while wiggling your toes in this hilarious twist on the classic nursury rhyme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD JARJarvis
Summary: Bear and Bird are best friends, and they spend a lot of time together. They don't always understand each other, but both agree that all they want is for their friend to be happy. So when Bear forgets the most important thing to pack for a picnic (but pretends that he didn't), Bird doesn't let on that she knew all along. And when Bird is upset to discover her friend has more of a certain talent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JARJarvis
Summary: "Everyone likes David, the boy with flowers in his hair...David and his best friend have a great time together..But one day David comes to school wearing a hat, and he is quiet...Now, where his flowers were looks twiggy and prickly, causing the other children to stay away. But David's best friend has an idea--a way to help David get his color back, wielding paintbrushes and plenty of love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JARJarvis
Summary: When Morris Mole loses his glasses, he decides to try to find his way home from work without them, but he soon finds that he didn't know his way as well as he had thought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JARJarvis
Summary: Jarvis offers a moving tale of friendship, kindness, and acceptance, softly touching on the subjects of illness or hardship in a way that young children can understand. Everyone likes David, the boy with flowers in his hair. He's sweet and gentle, just like his colorful petals. David and his best friend have a great time together, finding the good puddles, making up songs, and running away from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: "Bear and Bird are the best of friends, but yesterday they had a falling out. And although they can't quite remember why, each is sure that a new best friend is now in order. If Bear sends an anonymous letter floating down the river, will it be found by someone nice--someone with whom he has as much in common as he did with Bird? In this quartet of tales, the endearing duo is back to show that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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Summary: Flo the duckling follows Daddy Duck to visit a relative's new nest but she gets distracted along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JARJarvis.
Summary: Meet Alan, an alligator with a secret. Famed for his big, scary teeth, he sneaks into the jungle every day to scare the jungle animals ..."I'm big, scary Alan! Fear my razor-sharp teeth!" But after a long day of scaring, Alan likes nothing better than to run a warm mud bath and take out his false teeth, which nobody knows about! That is, until his teeth go missing. What will Alan do now?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JARSummary: When the government teams up a group of supervillains with the code name Suicide Squad and forces them to break into Arkham Asylum to bring back top secret information the Riddler has stolen, Batman soon becomes involved. But things go from bad to worse when one of the Squad (Harley Quinn) frees the Joker, who has the means to not only blow up the asylum, but most of Gotham City as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BATPayne, C. D. (C. Douglas)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aivia Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAYSummary: When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there₂s enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GIR RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIRSummary: Presents a collection of short stories, essays, and poems from throughout the year, culled from small presses and literary journals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSPayne, C. D. (C. Douglas)
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Publisher / Publication Date: AIVIA Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAYSummary: Macbeth is the chef in a 3-star restaurant; Beatrice and Benedict are rival co-anchors; Titania and Bottom carouse in a tawdry theme resort; and Petruchio sets out to tame the conservative Kate in a politically incorrect marriage of convenience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHAHarris, C. S
Summary: "In the newest mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie, a brutal murder draws Sebastian St. Cyr into the web of the royal court, where intrigue abounds and betrayal awaits. London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful young musician is found half-buried in a snowdrift. Jane Ambrose's ties to Princess Charlotte, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M HARHarris, C. S.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Amrie St. Pierre is catching tadpoles with her friend Finn O'Reilly when the Federal fleet first steams up the Mississippi River in the spring of 1862. With the surrender of New Orleans, Amrie's sleepy little village of St. Francisville-strategically located between the last river outposts of Vicksburg and Port Hudson-is now frighteningly vulnerable. As the roar of canons inches...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARHarris, C. S.
Summary: "It's October 1814. The war with France is finally over, Europe's diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back together, and London finds itself in the grip of a series of terrifying murders eerily similar to the shocking Ratcliffe Highway murders of three years before. In 1811, two entire families were brutally murdered in their homes. A suspect--a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HARHarris, C. S.
Summary: London, 1812. The brutal slaughter of eight young prostitutes in a house of refuge near Covent Garden leaves only one survivor -- and one witness: Hero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the Prince Regent's cousin, Lord Jarvis. When the Machiavellian power broker quashes any official inquiry that might reveal his daughter's unorthodox presence, Hero launches an investigation of her own and turns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HARHarris, C. S.
Summary: "In the latest mystery from the national bestselling author of When Falcons Fall, the horrific murder of a young boy takes Sebastian St. Cyr from the gritty streets of London to the lush drawing rooms of the aristocracy."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARPierre, D. B. C.
Summary: When sixteen kids are shot on high school grounds, everyone looks for someone to blame. Meet Vernon Little, under arrest at the sheriff's office, a teenager wearing nothing but yesterday's underwear and his prized logo sneakers. Moments after the shooter, his best buddy, turns the gun on himself, Vernon is pinned as an accomplice. Out for revenge are the townspeople, the cable news networks,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIEPierson, D. C.
Summary: Tenth-grader Tom Parking's dream of being swept away to a fantasy land where he becomes a hero nearly comes true when he finds himself the Chosen One of a nameless world, the most annoying, least "cool" place in the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022