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African Americans Civil rights Poetry California Napa Valley Children's stories, American Emperor of Rome Augustus 63 B.C.-14 A.D Drama France Graphic novels Robeson, Paul 1898-1976 Rome History Civil War, 43-31 B.C Drama Rome History, Military 265-30 B.C Drama Rome Politics and government 265-30 B.C DramaAckerman, Marc J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 ACKSummary: 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"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: Follows Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORASummary: When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHIMarc & Dede
Contents: Funkatanic -- Samba de uma nota só -- Saharavan -- Irish medley: Ten penny bit ; The kesh ; Smashing the windows -- Who by fire -- Aklung interlude -- The jolly beggar -- Wading in the velvet sea -- Caterpillar -- Song for a sunny afternoon.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Marc & Dede 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL MARAckerman, Forrest J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: General Pub. Group 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 AckermanAckerman, Lowell J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: T.F.H. Publications 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.752 ACKSummary: "Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MARS Marco J Erickson
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadcast Music, Inc. 1940
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMS Marco J Erickson
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadcast Music 1940
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Pilot Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. To rescue the passengers,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PLALewis, J. Patrick
Summary: The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963. From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, "Don't you dare go to that march," to the young child riding above the crowd on her father's shoulders, each voice brings a unique...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LEWMarch, J. D.
Summary: When gunfighter Johnny Fierro finally meets his father and brother, he realizes that his mother didn't tell him the whole story about the past. He doesn't know what to believe, but he must choose a side when the bullets start flying.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2014
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1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western Brooks 2014Summary: A sharp comedy centered on a group of 20-something New Yorkers struggling to figure out themselves, their lives, and their loves. Captures the uncertainty and angst of what it is to be young, vulnerable, and desperate to find out who you are - or, perhaps more importantly, who you want to be.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAPStevens, Cara J.
Summary: This compilation of three installments (4-6) of the Redstone Junior High series follows the adventures of Pixel at Redstone Junior High.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: Charlie, who has recently lost control over his life, searches New York City for a mysterious stranger who holds the key to his recovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA URBSummary: From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY NIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIGDunkelman, Marc J.
Summary: "Identifies [what the author sees as] an epochal shift in the structure of American life--a shift unnoticed by many. Routines that once put doctors and lawyers in touch with grocers and plumbers--interactions that encouraged debate and cultivated compromise--have changed dramatically since the postwar era. Both technology and the new routines of everyday life connect tight-knit circles and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307 DUNSummary: Planning to retire and begin a new life, Mr. X is a successful West End drug dealer who has been asked for one last favor: to negotiate the sale of one million hits of Ecstasy. Unfortunately for Mr. X, the pills were stolen from a Serbian drug lord who'll cut off his head if he sells them. And with a London crime czar promising to retire him permanently if he doesn't, Mr. X may be rightfully...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LAYSummary: Napa Valley, 1976. For connoisseur Steven Spurrier, there is no finer art than French wine. But rumors bandy about of a new California wine country that holds the future of the vine. Positive the small Napa wineries are no match for established French vintages, Spurrier challenges the Americans to a blind taste test. He finds the valley full of ambitious, and talented, novice vintners like Jim...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BOTSummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMGregson, Marc J.
Summary: "Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRESeifer, Marc J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Page Books 2009