Summary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the 1940s, the Third Reich has joined forces with the evil Grigori Rasputin, who has used his occult powers to summon up a demon from the depths of Hell. However, the demonic creature is captured by American forces, and put in the care of Professor Broom. Under Broom's care, Hellboy develops the desire to do good. Sixty years later he takes action as part of an elite secret defense team...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HELSummary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROSummary: When a college student starts having a reoccurring nightmare, she begins to believe that it's a suppressed memory. Her search to find the answers forces her to confront her past traumas, while at the same time, helps her unlock a mystery that may bring a killer to justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wildflower 2016Condra, Estelle
Summary: Driving through mountain fog to the beach, two young brothers compete to see who will catch the first glimpse of the ocean, but it is their blind sister Nellie who senses it first.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eager Minds Press 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Laure, Estelle
Summary: High school senior by day, intern at the Monarch City police department by night, Mary Elizabeth Heart watches with envy from behind a desk as detectives come and go, trying to contain the city's growing crime rate. The city's wealthy elite plan to gentrify the decaying neighborhood called the Scar, once upon a time the epicenter of all things magic. When the daughter of a powerful businessmen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAUFeldman, Estelle
Summary: Rhyming text describes some of the ways to play outside on a snowy day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN FELLaure, Estelle
Summary: "Teen detective Mary Elizabeth continues to unravel a dark conspiracy that has turned her best friend and boyfriend into villainous monsters--all while battling her own inner demons"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAUKaram, Adel
Summary: After an insult leads to a heated exchange between two men in Beirut, the men find themselves in the middle of a socially charged court case.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSSummary: Northern England, the early 1960's. Frank Machin is a coal miner who is mean, tough and ambitious enough to rise up and become an immediate professional rugby star. The rugby league team is run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: 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: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRCadell, Elizabeth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CADDaoud, Kamel.
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAOHader, Berta.
Summary: Winter comes to the woodland as the busy animals make their preparations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1976
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HADCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HADHayes, Karel
Summary: During the summer a family of bears enjoys the comforts of life at a cottage by a lake, alongside the human visitors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Down East 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAYParrett, Favel
Summary: Isla is a lonely girl who moves to Hobart with her mother and brother to try and better their lives. It's not really working until they meet Bo, a crewman on an Antarctic supply ship, the Nella Dan, who shares stories about his adventures with them--his travels, bird watching, home in Denmark, and life on board the ship. Isla is struggling to learn what truly matters and who to trust; and this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARBrinkley, Jamel
Summary: In the nine expansive, searching stories of A lucky man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRIGabel, Aja
Summary: Brit is the second violinist, a beautiful and quiet orphan; the viola is Henry, a prodigy who’s always had it easy; the cellist is Daniel, the oldest, the angry skeptic who sleeps around; and on first violin is Jana, their flinty, resilient leader. Together, they are the Van Ness String Quartet. In The Ensemble, each character picks up the melody, from the group’s youthful rocky start through...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABGibson, Jayel
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Synergy Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FAN GibsonHader, Berta.
Summary: Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC HADHubbard, Ladee
Summary: "At seventy-two, Johnny Ribkins shouldn't have such problems: He's got one week to come up with the money he stole from his mobster boss or it's curtains for Johnny. What may or may not be useful to Johnny as he flees is that he comes from an African-American family that has been gifted with rather super powers that are rather sad, but superpowers nonetheless. For example, Johnny's father could...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUBNadin, Joanna.
Summary: My name is not actually Penny Dreadful. It is Penelope Jones. The 'Dreadful' bit is my dad's JOKE. But this time I really wasn't trying to be DREADFUL... No. I was just trying to DO MY BEST, so it is completely not my fault that right now I am sort of blueish all over and so is my sister Daisy's swan outfit. And I was also really TRYING TO HELP Joshua Bottomley fall in love with Daisy by doing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NADNobel, Julia
Summary: Before returning to Wellsworth, twelve-year-old Emmy receives a letter from her father telling her to trust no one, but the Order is up to no good and she will need help to stop them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2020