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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Schwartz, E. J.
Summary: At a treatment center for girls with eating disorders, two seventeen-year-olds--headstrong rebel Rowan and Shoshana, who is a cheerleader on a reality television show--develop an intense bond, ultimately forcing them to decide between recovery and their relationship. Includes author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flux 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCHSummary: A successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife and children and neighbors. Wakefield becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAK NOT RATEDSummary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: It is the headline-making true story about the deceptions, lies and betrayals of Bernie Madoff, the man who masterminded the most heinous financial swindle of our generation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WIZFeather, Jane.
Summary: Hugh de Beaucaire is sent to investigate Lady Guinevere Mallory, a beautiful young widow who, at age twenty-eight, has married and buried four wealthy husbands under suspicious circumstances, to determine whether or not she is guilty of murder. .
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FEASchwarz, Liesel.
Summary: Set during the Belle Époque in a Europe where mythological beings interact with modern scientists and aviators, spunky dirigible pilot Elle Chance and handsome warlock Marsh face off against a shadowy band of alchemists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHFeather, Jane.
Summary: With a brief touch of his hand and one glance of his knowing gray eyes, Lady Philippa Nielson felt a connection to the dark stranger who should have been her greatest enemy, the man who had been appointed guardian of both Pippa and the secret she unknowingly bore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: Livia Lacey accepts Prince Alex Prokov's marriage proposal, but once she learns his reason for marrying her, will she feel wickedly betrayed?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: In the "Brides" trilogy, three unconventional women vow never to marry, only to find themselves overtaken by destiny. The least likely bride is shy, bespectacled scholarly Olivia Granville, who is abducted by a ruthless privateer--and discovers love, adventure, and passion in his arms during the tense reign of Charles I of England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEAFeather, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FEAFeather, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FEAFeather, Jane.
Summary: Rosamund has two loves--sketching and the theater--and is happy to have a brother who indulges her in both. Her idyllic days draw to a close, however, when her cousin, Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth, deems it time to prepare herself for marriage, and suspects that her eye for art could make her a uniquely valuable spy. Once in the queen's court in the role of a lifetime, Rosamund finds...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: Aurelia Farnham believes she is happy living in London's stylish Cavendish Square. But with her friends Livia and Cornelia both married now, Aurelia is the only one still husbandless, and sometimes she longs for more. Then Colonel Sir Greville Falconer storms into her life, delivering a letter from her late husband, a war hero, which reveals he was a spy -- the colonel's spy. Now Greville needs...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FEASchwarz, Christina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: After his mother mends his favorite pajamas, Timothy finds that he has super strength and decides to use it to help others, but when the pajamas rip again, he loses his strength just when he needs it most.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHSchwarz, Christina.
Summary: Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut. Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Finding herself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2008
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Schwarz, Viviane.
Summary: The reader is invited to lift the flaps and follow the cats as they play with yarn, boxes, pillows, and fish.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E SchHensher, Philip.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HENLeathers, Philippa
Summary: A confident but inexperienced cat is certain she has scared all the mice out of her house, but things are not always as they seem. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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Summary: Collects advice and rules for life from Jack Reacher, the maverick former army cop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2012