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
Summary: Fired from his telecom job, Adam Cassidy is forced by company CEO Nicolas Wyatt to infiltrate Wyatt's longtime rival's company to steal trade secrets. Soon, Adam realizes that he's caught between two ruthless players who will stop at nothing to win. But, desperate to win over an Ivy League beauty and help his blue-collar father, Adam risks everything in a dangerous race against time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PARSummary: Miss Phryne Fisher is a lady detective from Melbourne with a fabulous sense of fun and a flair for solving crimes.In a country reemerging from the shadow of World War I, Phryne takes life in her stride, and murder too. Detective Inspector Jack Robinson works alongside her, although she often outraces him to the crime scene. Season three includes eight all new episodes of the glamorous,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MIS NOT RATEDSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year's best offerings in short horror fiction. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Andy Davidson, Tananarive Due, Gemma Files, Jeffrey Ford, John Langan, Livia Llewellyn, Angela Slatter, and others. For more than four decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BESMacMahon, Kathleen.
Summary: While visiting Ireland in search of his family's roots, Bruno falls for Addie, an unemployed architect who is recovering from a nasty break-up and taking care of her ill father, but the pair's new romance is tested by an unexpected tragedy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMcMahon, Katharine.
Summary: In 1854, beautiful, adventurous Rosa Barr travels to the Crimean battlefield with Florence Nightingale's nursing corps--then disappears without a trace. When Mariella Lingwood, Rosa's cousin, leaves her surgeon husband's side to follow the trail of her elusive cousin to Sebastopol, she encounters Rosa's dashing stepbrother, a reckless cavalry officer whose complex past -- and future -- is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMLongo, Davide
Summary: In this dystopian, post-apocalyptic literary novel, Italy is on the brink of collapse: borders are closed, banks are refusing to distribute money to their clients, the postal service is shuttered, and food supplies are running short. Armed gangs of drug-fueled youth rampage through the countryside as the nation descends into chaos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MacLehose Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LONMacMahon, Kathleen
Summary: Distinguishing themselves through the sheer force of their personalities, an Irish family endures a series of misfortunes during a fateful summer marked by media scandals, the matriarch's eightieth birthday, and a shocking revelation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMcMahon, Bob
Summary: "Chatty Cookie and bashful Broccoli are best buddies, even if they're as different as peanut butter and cheese! Elementary school can be tough, but as long as they have each other, there's nothing they can't handle. Uh-oh, but what happens when Cool Cucumber and his loyal followers put Cookie's and Broccoli's coolness to the test, and Cookie's hokey pokey dance does NOT impress? And worse, when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MCMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MCMMcMahon, John
Summary: How can you solve a crime if you've killed the prime suspect? Detective P.T. Marsh was a rising star on the police force of Mason Falls, Georgia--until his wife and young son were killed in an accident. Since that night, caught in a spiral of grief and booze, he's lost the ability to see the line between smart moves and disastrous decisions. Such as when he decides to 'help out' an exotic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMcMahon, Neil.
Summary: Abducted by the followers of a paramilitary sociopath responsible for a series of bizarre, high-profile murders, Dr. Carroll Monks is ensconced within a backwoods community and forced to care for his captor's dangerously ill son.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMcMahon, Jennifer
Summary: "Ashford, Vermont, might look like your typical sleepy New England college town, but to the shadowy residents who live among the remains of its abandoned mills and factories, it's known as "Burntown." Eva Sandeski, known as "Necco" on the street, has been a part of this underworld for years, ever since the night her father Miles drowned in a flood that left her and her mother Lily homeless. A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McMahon 2017Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY MCMMcMahon, Jennifer
Summary: "1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when's she home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she's just Gran-teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love. Then one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McMahonMcMahon, Jennifer
Summary: "Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison's estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. She wants to spend her remaining days with her daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters. But Alison grew...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMcMahon, John
Summary: A hard-nosed real estate baron is dead, and detectives P.T. Marsh and Remy Morgan learn there's a long list of suspects. Mason Falls, Georgia, may be a small town, but Ennis Fultz had filled it with professional rivals, angry neighbors, and a wronged ex-wife. And when Marsh realizes that this potential murder might be the least of his troubles, he begins to see what happens when ordinary people...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMcMahon, Katharine.
Summary: The daughter of an eccentric chemist, young Emilie Selden is a scientist in an eighteenth-century world that dismisses female accomplishment, until an encounter with the temptations of the outside world lures her away from her home and her work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMcMahon, Bob
Summary: "New best friends Cookie and Broccoli are as different as peanut butter and cheese, but that doesn't stop them from taking on the first grade! Together they navigate the first day of school: finding the classroom, making new friends (all various fruits, veggies, and desserts), and silly secret greetings. When Broccoli discovers that Cookie also has shy moments, the two of them come up with the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MCMMcMahon, Jennifer
Summary: "When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it's just another one of her sister's episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year. But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother's estate. When Jax arrives at the house to go through her sister's things, she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCMMcMahon, Jennifer
Summary: West Hall, Vermont, has always been a place of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house, just months after the tragic death of her daughter. Ruthie Washburne has never put much stock in West Hall's rumors. Having grown up in an isolated farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCMMcMahon, Jennifer
Summary: West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister, Fawn. Alice has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMcMahon, Jennifer.
Summary: For years 41-year-old Kate Cypher has avoided her childhood home, suppressing memories of her friend Del--dubbed Potato Girl by cruel classmates--whose murder 30 years prior has never been solved. Kate is certain that if she had done just two things differently on that fateful day, Del would still be alive. Now, Kate has returned to care for her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother, whose decent is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION McMMcMahon, Neil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMSummary: "Antonio, a successful but cash-poor merchant, approaches Shylock, a wealthy moneylender, for a loan to help his young friend Bassanio woo the fair Portia. Despite being longtime enemies, Shylock grants the request, but demands one pound of Antonio's flesh if the debt is not repaid on time. When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock seeks what is legally owed him but soon learns that those to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2005