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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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRESummary: Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs, along with psychoanalysis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SNASummary: Digitally remastered Doctor Who classic The Green Death Special Edition! When a man is found dead with his skin glowing green in an abandoned mine, it's not long before the Doctor, Jo Grant and UNIT head to Wales to investigate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANAAlary, Laura
Summary: "In simple but expressive free verse, a mother describes to her young daughter how the sun's light becomes the energy in her body through the oats, blueberries, and milk in her home-cooked breakfast. Includes an Author's Note with more age-appropriate detail about photosynthesis."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 572 ALASummary: 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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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISolomons, Natasha
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who will be forced to choose between the family she's made and the family that made her at the outbreak of World War I. Vienna, 1911. Twenty-one-year-old Greta Goldbaum has always hungered after what's forbidden: secret university lectures, unseemly trumpet lessons, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Solomons 2018Solomons, Natasha.
Summary: After escaping Germany during WWII, Jack and Sadie Rosenblum, together with their baby daughter, settle into a life of acting "English." In post-war England, however, no golf club will admit a Rosenblum. So Jack hatches a wild idea: he'll build his own. It's an obsession Sadie does not share, particularly when Jack relocates them to a thatched roof cottage in Dorset to embark on his project.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLSolomons, Natasha.
Summary: "A captivating novel that evokes the author's New York Times bestseller The House at Tyneford Natasha Solomons's breathtaking new novel has it all: a love triangle, family obligations, and rediscovering joy in the face of grief, all set against the alluring backdrop of an English country estate perfect for fans of Downton Abbey It's a terrible thing to covet your brother's girl New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Plume Book 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOL1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Solomons, David
Summary: Eleven-year-old Luke, a hardcore fan of comics and superheroes, is jealous when his undeserving older brother Zack is zapped by an alien and turned into a superhero, until a plot to destroy the Earth incapacitates Zack, and Luke, accompanied by Lara, the nosey girl next door, must come to the rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION SOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SOLSolomons, Natasha.
Summary: " A stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford London, 1958. It's the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague's conservative Jewish community where only men can divorce women, shefinds herself a living widow, invisible. Ever since her husband disappeared seven years ago, Juliet has been a hardworking single mother of two and unnaturally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLSolomons, Natasha.
Summary: "It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau realizes her only means of escape is to advertise her services as a domestic servant in England. Fate brings her ad to the attention of Christopher Rivers, handsome scion of the aristocratic Rivers family and master of Tyneford. An anxious Elise arrives at Tyneford and immediately falls under its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLWoloson, Eliza.
Summary: A young boy named Charlie describes the activities he shares with his friend Isabelle, a girl with Down Syndrome.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WOLButler, Emily
Summary: Freya, a penguin, and Zoose, a mouse, become friends while stowaways on Salomon August Andreé's 1897 hot air balloon expedition to the North Pole.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BUTJones, Solomon
Summary: Awakening in the night covered in her murdered husband's blood with no knowledge of what happened, defense lawyer Andrea Wilson flees the police and turns for help to detective Mike Coletti, a man from her past who she entreats to help prove her innocence. By the author of The Gravedigger's Ball.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONSolomon, Anna
Summary: "Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment, she's grappling with her sexual and intellectual desires while also trying to manage her roles as a mother and a wife. Vivian Barr seems to be the perfect political wife, dedicated to helping her charismatic and ambitious husband find...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLSolomon, Anna
Summary: Inadvertently reunited with the daughter she secretly abandoned and the girl's Irish Catholic adoptive mother during the height of the Prohibition era, the adult daughter of a Jewish industrialist finds her life turned upside down by her daughter's bold and unconventional personality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLSolomon, Anna
Summary: "A novel about the entangled lives of two women in 1920s New England, both mothers to the same unforgettable girl"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SOLDisher, Garry.
Summary: Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his crew, searching for a serial killer operating in a beachside town outside Melbourne, Australia, feel a new sense of urgency when the daughter of one of the police sergeants is abducted.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DISSolomon, Asali
Summary: "Inspired by Mrs. Dalloway and Sula, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel about two Philadelphia women at midlife who rediscover themselves-and perhaps each other"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLSolomon, Burt
Summary: "Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln's will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White House as Willie Lincoln, the love and shining light in the president's heart, is taken by typhoid fever. But was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLSolomon, Rivers
Summary: "Vern gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong-not with them, but with her own body...A genre-bending work of Gothic fiction that wrestles with the history of American racism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLSalmon, Caspar
Summary: "Get ready to show off your skills in this fun new counting book! But not everything is as it seems . . . is this book really only about counting to "ONE?" Because there are SO MANY fun things that you could count. But wait --maybe there's a way to outsmart the book . . . and count all the way up to 100!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow 2023