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: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MANSummary: Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come, and Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. These two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other's stuff.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tomorrow 2019Schaub, Christine.
Summary: "An historical drama based on the story behind the hymn 'It Is Well With My Soul.' When tragedy strikes, Horatio Spafford writes a poem on the back of a telegram--words that have become a hymn of hope for millions facing sorrow"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SCHSummary: "Novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIRSummary: The gruffalo: Forced to rely on his wits for survival, Mouse invents an imaginary monster ... but what happens when he becomes face-to-face with his own creation?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: NCircle Entertainment, a division of Alliance Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents' matchmaking by announcing that he's engaged. What he doesn't count on is that they'll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WEDSummary: Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ICESummary: In 1862, during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Jake and Jack Bull join the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack's father is killed by marauding members of the abolitionist Jayhawkers. They are aided by unusual ally, Holt, who's fighting for the South despite being a former slave.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RIDSchaub, Michelle
Summary: This engaging and educational picture book about protecting our waterways follows a classroom as they build a rain garden, empowering readers with the tools to reduce pollution, diminish flooding and create a habitat for wildlife.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHSummary: When trouble strikes at the Blue Mountain Quarry, Thomas is sent to help his Narrow Gauge engine friends. While shunting and hauling, he discovers a little green engine hiding in the tunnels. Thomas is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery but discovering the truth is harder than he imagined! Will Thomas be able to help his new friend? or will the little engine be sent away from Sodor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD ThomasSummary: Based on the true story of Mother Teresa, the film explores the life's work of the Nobel Peace Prize recipient and one of the greatest humanitarians of all time. Her selfless devotion to helping the poor changed hearts, transformed lives and inspired millions throughout the world. Told through a series of personal letters written to her longtime friend and spiritual advisor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LETCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LET RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LePapp, Lisa
Summary: When Madeline Finn attends the Blessing of the Animals with Bonnie and Star, she finds herself thinking about the gifts each of us have to offer, and looks for an opportunity to share hers with the animals at her local shelter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAPTopp, Elizabeth
Summary: "Anna's job is simple: prevent the unexpected from happening and do everything better than perfectly. An artist at heart, Anna works a day job as a private assistant for Bambi Von Bizmark, a megarich Upper East Side matriarch who's about to be honored at the illustrious Opera Ball. Caught between the staid world of great wealth and her unconventional life as an artist, Anna struggles with her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOPNelson, Theresa
Summary: In St. Louis, Missouri, in 1911, orphaned eleven-year-old Julia Delaney rails against countless disappointments and the nun's strict rules at the House of Mercy, especially after her sister Mary turns fourteen and must leave, but she, her family, and best friend get tangled up with a gangster and a decade-old mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Rebeck, Theresa.
Summary: Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Because no matter how you look at it, it is piss-poor luck to meet the love of your life before your life has even started. Fierce and ambitious, Alison is determined to shed her Midwestern roots and emerge an actress. Kyle, all heart and spiritual yearning, believes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REBSummary: A young married couple moves back to their childhood village to start a family, but a surprise visit from the husband's brother turns their lives completely upside down. She can't get pregnant so the brother offers to help and the couple's marriage is tested.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WRERizzo, Theresa
Summary: How far would you go to save the one you love? Reporter Skylar Kendall has run from commitment all her life, pushing people away before they leave her, until her niece worms her way into Skye’s heart and settles in tight. Skye relaxes into a career she enjoys and relishes being a doting aunt. Then her niece becomes gravely ill. Unable to bear yet another loss, Skye is determined to find a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzo Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIZSchwegel, Theresa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchwegel, Theresa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSummary: The production of a play is frought with drama and romance in and of itself, from its writing and casting to rehearsals and staging. Onstage, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events while each attendee and their family members deal with their own interpersonal issues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ASTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ASTTrinder, Theresa
Summary: In a time of pandemic, two children try to navigate social distancing, distance learning, and the other challenges of 2020, with the help of family, friends, and the rainbow that unites them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TRIPapp, Lisa
Summary: Reluctant reader Madeline really wants to earn a star at school, so when Mrs. Dimple, the librarian, suggests she read to a dog Madeline gives it a try.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 2016