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Comic books, strips, etc Comic books, strips, etc United States Emotions Drama Muslim women Comic books, strips, etc Pakistani Americans Comic books, strips, etc Police Drama Teenage girls Comic books, strips, etc Therapeutics Drama Women superheroes Women superheroes Comic books, strips, etcSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLWatson, Angus
Summary: When his settlement is massacred by a hostile empire, Finn and his clan make their escape across an unforgiving land, battling animals and monsters, determined assassins, powerful tribes, and each other to fulfill a prophecy that is their only hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATWaid, Mark
Summary: Explains the origin of the Justice League, a team of super heroes that includes Green Lantern, Black Canary, The Flash and Aquaman. Presented in comic book format.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 1999
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JLASummary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: After seeing a less-than-conventional psychiatrist for her problems at home who gives her too many prescriptions and bad advice, a mother ends her marriage and sends her young son to live with the doctor and his odd family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RUNSummary: Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PROScattergood, Augusta.
Summary: In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2012
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Scattergood 2012Wilson, G. Willow
Summary: From award-winning author G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King is an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. G. Willow Wilson's debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and it established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King , a stunning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wilson 2019Wilson, G. Willow
Summary: While CIVIL WAR II brews, the next generation of Avengers has bigger things to worry about - like a tri-state academic competition! As rival schools clash, Ms. Marvel's teammates Spider-Man and Nova are now her enemies! But when Kamala gets called to the real battle's front line, she faces a fight she can't embiggen her way out of. She's about to learn a valuable lesson: Never meet your idols!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Enterprises 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 MSWilson, G. Willow
Summary: "The explosive aftermath of their shocking discovery has pushed the now-renegade team of captain Grix and acolyte Vess to the furthest reaches of their solar system. They're all alone... but not for long. And when their crew encounters a group of ruthless spacefaring privateers, they might not be safe for long either."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berger Books, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WILWilson, G. Willow
Summary: "Wonder Woman survives her battle against young god Ares only to discover her mother and goddess of love, Aphrodite's son are missing! Wonder Woman's mother is missing, and so is the goddess of love, Aphrodite's son! Together, they'll turn the world upside down to find them ... but they must fight a pack of wayward Titans first and convince Diana's foe Dr. Doris Zuel, a.k.a. Giganta, to join...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WONAugust, John
Summary: When the mysterious Eldritch reveal their true agenda, Arlo Finch must choose whether to save his friends and family, or save the Long Woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AUGWilson, G. Willow
Summary: Forced underground when his ex-lover's new fianc b̌reaches his computer, putting him and his clients in jeopardy, young Arab-Indian hacker Alif discovers the secret book of the jinn and uses its insights to enable life-threatening developments in information technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wilson 2012Wilson, G. Willow
Summary: "She's your new favorite. She's everyone's new favorite. And now she's joining the big leagues. Look out world, Kamala Khan is an Avenger! But is she really cut out to be one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes? Saving the world is important, but Jersey City still needs its protector--and a development company that co-opted Ms. Marvel's face for its project has more in mind for gentrification than just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 MSAugust, John
Summary: When Arlo Finch moves to Pine Mountain, Colorado, he has no idea what's in store for him in this tiny town full of mystery and magic. When he joins the Rangers, Pine Mountain's version of the Boy Scouts, it leads him into adventures he never thought possible. Wilderness and magical powers collide throughout the beautiful, dense forest surrounding his new home, and as Arlo begins to learn the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AUGGold, August
Summary: As Daisy watches her parents thanking God everyday, she begins to look at everything around her and realizes she is also thankful for many things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOLDiehl, August
Summary: Follows the early lives of Karl Marx, his wife Jenny, and Friedrich Engels, as they roam between Paris, Brussels, and London, helping to lead the developing labor movement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF YOUThomas, August
Summary: Reminiscent of the work of John le Carre and Olen Steinhauser, this brilliant debut novel features a young State Department intern on the run in Turkey, trying to outwit and outmaneuver everyone from the Turkish president to Islamic extremists to the CIA. Racing to keep from being killed and to uncover the truth, Penny Kessler reluctantly partners with Connor Beauregard, a rookie CIA officer on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Thomas 2018Thompson, August
Summary: This remarkable first novel delves into the enduring impact of love and friendship between two young men throughout a memorable teenage summer in rural New England and how it continued to haunt them into adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "In a small solar system in a far-flung galaxy, two women -- one a young religious acolyte and the other a hard-bitten freighter pilot --uncover a conspiracy between the leaders of the most dominant religion and an all-consuming mega-corporation. On the run from reprisals on both sides, this unlikely pair must decide where their loyalties lie -- and risk plunging the world into anarchy if they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WILMacchetto, August
Summary: Tiana dreams of opening the finest restaurant in New Orleans, but when she meets a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again, her plans take a detour as a fateful kiss leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EQUSummary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI EQUWilson, G. Willow
Summary: "From the moment Kamala put on her costume, she's been challenged. But nothing has prepared her for this: the last days of the Marvel Universe. It's a very special guest appearance that fans have been clamoring for: Carol 'Captain Marvel' Danvers and Kamala 'Ms. Marvel' Khan face the end of the world side-by-side! Between teaming up with her personal hero to rescue her brother and trying to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2015