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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction Dublin (Ireland) Fiction Fathers and daughters Juvenile fiction Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Juvenile fiction Magic Juvenile fiction New York (State) History 20th century Fiction Police New York (State) Fiction White House (Washington, D.C.) Juvenile fictionSummary: Only a plea to President Lincoln can help when the father of a plantation girl is arrested and charged with espionage against the Yankees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Sh 9Chiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her sister Mary, widow of President Lincoln, has attempted suicide. If Mary's sisters can put past grievances aside, will their love be powerful enough to save her?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIHines, Gary.
Summary: Young Tad Lincoln is excited about the new national holiday until he learns that the cook plans to serve Jack the turkey as the main course for Thanksgiving dinner.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HINSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOIOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 47Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBSummary: 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: Behind the story you've always heard about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, comes the thrilling true story about the people accused of conspiring to take down a government. In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Conspirator 2011Osborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBGarey, Juliann.
Summary: In a look at mental illness that weaves togther three timelines, Greyson Todd leaves his successful Hollywood career and wife and young daughter to travel the world, giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he has been forced to keep hidden for almost twenty years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARPintoff, Stefanie
Summary: "An electrifying thriller featuring Eve Rossi, head of a covert division of the FBI made up of ex-criminals, and set against the backdrop of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. What at first looks like an assassination attempt on New York City's Police Commissioner might in fact be a smokescreen for the abduction of his teenage daughter. Or is it a larger conspiracy? As midtown Manhattan grinds to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINLainoff, Lillie
Summary: France, 1655. Tania, the daughter of a retired musketeer, is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls. When her father is murdered she learns that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris. It is no finishing school: it is an academy for female Musketeers, socialites on the surface but dangerous, well-trained women who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAIPintoff, Stefanie.
Summary: 1906. When a chorus girl is found dead on a Broadway stage, dressed in the leading lady's costume, Mulvaney knows that news of a possible serial killer would be potentially disastrous to the burgeoning theater world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINPintoff, Stefanie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINPintoff, Stefanie.
Summary: "The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele's jurisdiction in more ways than one. It's high profile enough to command the attention of the notorious new police commissioner, since Judge Jackson was presiding over the sensationalist trial of Al Drayson. Drayson, an anarchist, set off a bomb at a Carnegie wedding, but instead of killing millionaires, it killed passersby,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINDunn, Gaby
Summary: "Cub reporter Madison Jackson is young, scrappy, and hungry to prove that she deserves her coveted college internship at the premiere newspaper in town, The Boston Lede, where she fetches coffee for the night crew and dreams of her own byline. So when her police scanner mentions a brutal murder tied to a prominent Boston family, Madison races to the crime scene, looking for the scoop of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DUNGoldsack, Gaby.
Summary: This book shows Dad as a great do-it-yourself man, a terrific runner, and a great sport when playing soccer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bright Sparks 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: YA FIC GOLDGoldsack, Gaby.
Summary: This book shows Mom as she tackles monsters under the bed, rescues the cat from the roof, and gives magical hugs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bright Sparks 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC GOLDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOLSummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELGeary, Nancy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAGeary, Karl
Summary: Juno Loves Legs is the story of two teens labeled as delinquents. Juno and "Legs" grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, intelligent Juno is ostracized for her poverty and Legs is persecuted for his sexuality; they find safety only in each other. Set against the backdrop of Dublin in the 1980s, a place of political, social and religious change, the friends yearn for an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAGeary, Karl
Summary: As a gardener at the house on Montpelier Parade, Sonny is full of curiosity in his lonely life of dreams. Then the mysterious Vera comes around, and he falls in love for the first time. Casting off his life of solitude, Sonny longs to know Vera, even save her. But what is it that Vera isn't telling him?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAGeary, Rick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 GEAChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase, rose to prominence in the antebellum years and was appointed secretary of the treasury in Abraham Lincoln' s cabinet, while aspiring to even greater heights. Beautiful, intelligent, regal, and entrancing, young Kate Chase stepped into the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIDisher, Garry.
Summary: Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his crew, searching for a serial killer operating in a beachside town outside Melbourne, Australia, feel a new sense of urgency when the daughter of one of the police sergeants is abducted.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2004