Summary: A collection of 9 films by emerging filmmakers from underrepresented communities around the world. Each of these stories is personal and distinctly told, but unified by themes of rebirth and growing as above, so below, growing into your future and your past rather than forgetfully forward. These films deny the idea of art for art's sake and do not exist in self-designed aesthetic vacuums. Their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHOClement, Jemaine
Summary: A folk music/comedy duo from New Zealand try to make it big in New York City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Nolen, Jerdine.
Summary: A farmer's young daughter shares numerous adventures with the dragon that she raises from infancy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Whistle 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Nolen 1998Nolen, Jerdine.
Summary: A farmer's young daughter shares numerous adventures with the dragon that she raises from infancy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Whistle 1998
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Summary: "Salem Hardesty was on the move. Ever since his boys had been attacked by the Sioux, Salem suspected Rafe Perrine of smuggling guns to the Indians. Now -- with Glenna's father gone -- he was sure. Salem wanted Perrine and his gang of rustlers -- and he wanted them dead."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Shortly before his father's death, Prince Akeem learns that he sired an illegitimate son during his last stay in the United States and now he has to return to Queens to retrieve him to ensure a male successor to the throne.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COMNolen, Jerdine.
Summary: In a series of letters a boy, his science teacher, and his parents discuss the progress of a very unusual, sometimes frightening, plant that becomes more human as the summer progresses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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Summary: In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NOLNolen, Jerdine.
Summary: A child ventures out in the middle of the night to see how Harvey Potter grows his wonderful balloons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c1994. 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC NOLNolen, Jerdine.
Summary: In a series of letters a boy, his science teacher, and his parents discuss the progress of a very unusual, sometimes frightening, plant that becomes more human as the summer progresses.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE PLANolen, Jerdine.
Summary: Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building fences, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NOLSummary: In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SORSummary: Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2008Summary: Aspiring stand-up comedian Will is forced to face the realities of relentless hecklers, drunk comedy groupies and hard-to-impress morning radio DJs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Enterainment 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OPESummary: The year is 1958: Rev. Will Davenport is at odds with his own ideals when Leonard Finch is caught up in a scandal. It will take all of Will's skill and empathy to navigate the choppy waters and help the ones he loves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Grantchester 2021Summary: Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora for her biggest challenge yet: High School. When her parents mysteriously disappear while searching for the Lost City of Gold, Dora must swing into action and lead a group of ill-equipped high schoolers on a quest to save them. It is a high stakes mission as Dora and her new friends navigate the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Dora 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DORSummary: Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE AVASummary: A small group of former classmates organize an elaborate, annual game of tag that requires some to travel all over the country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TaSummary: The Madrigals live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal, every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ENCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD EncantoSummary: "Robin Williams stars as Lance Clayton, a man who has learned to settle. He dreams of being a rich and famous writer, but has only managed to make it as an unpopular high school poetry teacher. His only son Kyle (Daryl Sabara) is an insufferable jackass and won't give his father the time of day. Lance is dating Claire (Alexie Gilmore), the school's adorable art teacher, but she doesn't want to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WORSummary: The film centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain't no motherf****** game. Directed by Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like a Man, Barbershop), this film skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLASummary: Tim is a guy on the verge of having it all. The only thing standing between him and total career success is finding the perfect guest to bring to his boss' annual Dinner for Extraordinary People, an event where the winner of the evening brings the most eccentric character as his guest. Enter Barry, a guy with a passion for dressing mice up in tiny outfits to recreate great works of art. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2011