Summary: Powell and Pressburger merge film with opera and dance to tell the tale of a poet who dreams of three women who all break his heart. He tells "the three tales of my folly of love"--In Paris, when he fancied himself in love with Olympia, who turned out to be a life-sized doll; in Venice, when bewitched by a beautiful courtesan; and on a Grecian isle, in love with daughter of a singer and conductor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TALSummary: 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
Dingee, A. E.
Summary: Gnomeo and Juliet enlist the help of Sherlock Gnomes to solve the mysterious disappearance of London's garden gnomes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DINAllen, E. A.
Summary: An unbreakable cipher, a dead priest with expensive shoes, a hermit who converses with saints, an angry French girl, and much more might stop an ordinary fifteen-year-old safe-cracking genius, but not Percy St.-John. He's out to prove he did not steal a mysterious ancient book that may hold the key to mankind's greatest hope and greatest danger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Histria Kids 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALLBarres, E. A.
Summary: "Two men from vastly different backgrounds are murdered one after another on the same night, in the same fashion with two bullet wounds: one in the head, another in the heart. The two slayings sends their wives on a desperate search for answers - and a desperate attempt to save their families' lives. Grief takes a heavy toll on northern Virginia freelance editor Deb Linh Thomas when she learns...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARKaplan, A. E.
Summary: When high-achiever Mischa is rejected from every college she applies to, she teams up with a group of hacker girls to find who altered her transcript and set things right. Mischa Abramavicius is a walking, talking, top-scoring, perfectly well-rounded college application in human form. When all of her college applications are rejected-- even her safety school-- she is shocked and devastated....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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Summary: The author of Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter presents a creative lycanthrope re-imagining of the infamous Tudor king's life, in a gruesomely uproarious tale that puts a supernatural twist on historical events.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOOsworth, A. E.
Summary: "Eliza Bright was living the dream as an elite video game coder at Fancy Dog Games when her private life suddenly became public. But is Eliza Bright a brilliant, self-taught coder bravely calling out the toxic masculinity and chauvinism that pervades her workplace and industry? Or, is Eliza Bright a woman who needs to be destroyed to protect "the sanctity of gaming culture"? It depends on who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSWAymar, E. A.
Summary: When their estranged brother, jazz musician and social activist Markus Peña, is found murdered, sisters Melinda and Emily Peña seek to unravel the truth, but must first face their own demons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AYMHotchner, A. E
Summary: In Depression-era St. Louis, almost-thirteen-year-old Aaron Broom witnesses a robbery gone wrong and teams up with an unlikely band of friends and helpful adults to clear suspicion from his father's name.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOTKaplan, A. E.
Summary: When a local bully upsets the senior community by throwing wild parties, an effort that is complicated by Aaron's PTSD and Tom's unrequited feelings for the bully's sister, misfit Tom and his friend Ed take matters into their own hands. Tom Grendel writes in his notebooks, mows lawns for his elderly neighbors, and pines for Willow, a girl next door. When Willow's brother, Rex starts throwing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KAPAli, A. E.
Summary: Four kindergartners who think they have nothing in common become friends after sharing traditions of their holidays, including Eid-ul-Fitr, Rosh Hashanah, Christmas, and Pi Day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALIDingee, A. E.
Summary: When the Penguin escapes Arkham Asylum, Batman follows the clues to find the runaway villain before he causes trouble.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE DINDingee, A. E.
Summary: Invites young readers to join Olivia in the kitchen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE DINSummary: A stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and Thomas Wolfe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GEN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Genius 2016Summary: Adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's classic 1902 adventure novel about the British Empires exploits in Africa, and a crowning achievement of Alexander Kordas legendary production company, London Films. Set at the end of the nineteenth century, follows the travails of a young officer accused of cowardice after he resigns his post on the eve of a major deployment to Khartoum; he must fight to redeem...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FOUWhitehead, Colson
Summary: "As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone"... Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHISummary: 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 MYWhitehead, Colson
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: "It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown, furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHICannon, A. E. (Ann Edwards)
Summary: Pirate Pete and Pirate Joe go out for seafood with their cat Studley and their dog Dudley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CANCannon, A. E. (Ann Edwards)
Summary: Jake starts to worry about everything that could go wrong when he agrees to take care of his friend Sophie's fish for the weekend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E CANNeeves, E. A. (Emily Angela)
Summary: "SADIE meets WE WERE LIARS in this heartfelt mystery, in which one girl desperately searches to find out what happened to her missing sister. Teddy’s favorite place is Bottomrock Lake, where sunfish swim in their little saucer nests and lilypads edge the shore. She’s worked there as a lifeguard every summer, including last year, when her twin sister Izzy waded into the lake for a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023