Summary: Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. C.P....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BESSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: A 1950s housewife living with her husband in an idealistic experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding troubling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DONSummary: "A tight-knit spiritual community is thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY TCFF HIGHarr, John Ensor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSummary: 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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Summary: Rory, an ambitious entrepreneur, and former commodities broker persuades his American wife, Allison, and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the '80s. Sensing an opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison's horses and plans to build a stable. Soon the promise of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films/Shout Factory 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NeSummary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD MulanSummary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELMattick, Lindsay
Summary: A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Mattick 2016Summary: "This is a western like no other, combining the mythological scope of that most American of genres with the searing naturalism of a performance by Marlon Brando--all suffused with Freudian overtones and masculine anxiety. In his only directing stint, Brando captures rugged coastal and desert landscapes in gorgeous widescreen, Technicolor images, and elicits from his fellow actors (including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN ONESummary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Smuggled into Hamburg, Issa, a young Russian man carrying a large amount of cash, forms an alliance with Annabel, a civil rights lawyer, and Tommy Brue, scion of a failing British bank, as they become victims of rival intelligence operations in the War on Terror.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Summary: An English tailor working in Panama is hired by the British government as a spy because of his contacts at the highest level. He proceeds to tailor his reports the way he creates his suits, giving the client what he wants, and the result is tragicomedy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1996
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Summary: Brit Teddy Mundy and German Sasha are unlikely friends who become double agents in the 1980's. By the time the Berlin Wall crumbles, they've been pensioned off and forgotten, but they reunite in 2003 to fight America's Operation Iraqi Freedom. But how far will their opponents go to justify their war on terrorism?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LECLe Carré, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coward-McCann 1968
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Summary: Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction LeCarre 2017Le Carre, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers 1993
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Summary: Ted Mundy, former student radical and Cold War spy for the British, is living a quiet life as co-principal of an English-language school and tour guide in Germany when he is contacted by an old friend and colleague who tries to persuade Ted to accept a too-good-to-be-true offer from a mysterious philanthropist who is putting up $500,000 to turn the school into a vehicle for promoting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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Summary: Charlie, a young English actress, meets a man on a Greek beach who draws her into a world of espionage and terror in the Middle East.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1983