Carlson, Paul H
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.4 CARSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUContents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PROSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and Jack from the Beanstalk are all about to live happily ever after when the balance between good and evil gets thrown out of whack. It's up to Cinderella (a.k.a. Ella) to save the day by taking on her power-hungry stepmother. This time Ella will have to do all the work without her Prince Charming. She joins forces with an unlikely army of dwarves, fairies, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HAPSummary: The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VIC NOT RATEDLevine, Gail Carson.
Summary: In this humorous retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Pea," Lorelei must pass many difficult tests in order to prove that she is a true princess and win the hand of Prince Nicholas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LEVCarlton, H. D.
Summary: The manipulator. I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me. I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh. But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave. He's always there, watching and waiting. And I can never look away. Not when I want him to come closer. The shadow. I didn't mean to fall in love. But now that I have, I can't stay away....
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Woodcarver Geppetto has pets Figaro the cat and Cleo the fish. He has just made a little wooden puppet called Pinocchio. Wishing upon a star before he goes to bed, Geppetto wishes that Pinocchio would become a real boy. As Geppetto sleeps, the Blue Fairy arrives and partially grants his wish. Pinocchio can come to life, but he must prove himself worthy before becoming a real boy. He will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2017
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6 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PINCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PIN RATED GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD PinocchioBalson, Ronald H.
Summary: Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart investigate a German violin prodigy's handwritten records from Berlin's interwar period to resolve a land dispute between a powerful corporation and a woman facing the loss of her Tuscan hills home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALCarlton, H. D.
Summary: "The Diamond: Death walks alongside me, but the reaper is no match for me. I'm trapped in a world full of monsters dressed as men, and those who aren't as they seem. They won't keep me forever. I no longer recognize the person I've become, And I'm fighting to find my way back to the beast who hunts me in the night. They call me a diamond, But they've only created an angel of death. The Hunter:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Hooker, John Lee
Contents: Chill out (things gonna change) / John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson (4:45) -- Deep blue sea / Brook Benton, Clyde Otis (4:05) -- Kiddio (3:08) -- Medley: Serves me right to suffer ; Syndicator (6:23) -- One bourbon, one scotch, one beer (3:21) -- Tupelo (3:54) -- Woman on my mind (5:26) -- Annie Mae (5:16) -- Too young (4:42) -- Talkin' the blues (3:40) -- If you've never been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARBalson, Ronald H.
Summary: "From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award-Ronald H. Balson's An Affair of Spies tells of a spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb. Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a theoretical physicist. His idyllic childhood was soon marred by increasing levels of bigotry against his family and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALSummary: Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna is accused of killing him by witchcraft. Deserted by the cowardly son and reviled by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAYBalson, Ronald H
Summary: "Lena Woodward, an elderly woman, enlists the help of both lawyer Catherine Lockhart and private investigator Liam Taggart to appraise the story of her harrowing past in Nazi occupied Poland. At the same time, Lena's son Arthur presents her with a hefty lawsuit under the pretense of garnering her estate--and independence--for his own purposes. Where these stories intersect is through Lena's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALSummary: Featuring live action and animation, this movie examines the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIRSummary: Steven Universe: The coming-of-age story of Steven Universe, a young boy who lives with the Crystal Gems-- magical, mineral-based aliens named Garnet , Amethyst, and Pearl-- in the fictional town of Beach City. Steven, who is half-Gem, has adventures with his friends and helps the Gems protect the world from their own kind--adapted from Wikipedia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STEBalson, Ronald H.
Summary: "Jack Sommers was just an ordinary accountant from Chicago-that is, until his wife passed away, his young daughter was kidnapped, and he became the main suspect in an $88 million dollar embezzlement case. Now Jack is on the run, hoping to avoid the feds long enough to rescue his daughter, Sophie, from her maternal grandfather, a suspected terrorist in Palestine. With the help of investigative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BALBalson, Ronald H.
Summary: The newest novel from Ronald H. Balson, the international bestselling author of Once We Were Brothers , finds private investigator Liam Taggart returning to his childhood home for an uncle's funeral, only to discover his death might not have been natural. When his uncle dies, Liam Taggart reluctantly returns to his childhood home in Northern Ireland for the funeral--a home he left years ago...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BALSummary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Balson, Ronald H.
Summary: "A "fixer" in a Polish town during World War II, his betrayal of a Jewish family, and a search for justice 25 years later-by the winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Eli's Promise is a masterful work of historical fiction spanning three eras-Nazi-occupied Poland, the American Zone of post-war Germany, and Chicago at the height of the Vietnam War. Award-winning author Ronald H. Balson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBalson, Ronald H.
Summary: "The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust. Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, "the butcher of Zamosc." Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013