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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans Drama African Americans in motion pictures Bannister, Liz Fleming, Jack (Fictitious character) Fiction France History 1789-1799, Revolution Drama Jackson, Joe 1888-1951 Fiction Robeson, Paul 1898-1976 Space and time Vampires FictionBarbellion, W. N. P.
Summary: "Published shortly before the author's death in 1919, this remarkable memoir addresses struggles with poverty, inadequate education, and the creeping paralysis of multiple sclerosis. Yet Barbellion still manages to write with uplifting eloquence and passion of his love for family, natural history, music, and literature. Told with a thoroughly modern voice, the unjustly overlooked Journal is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications, Inc. 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARBELLION, W.N.P. BARSummary: "An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TALSummary: "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: 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
Contents: The hand that holds the bread / George F. Root (1:25) -- The anti-monopoly war song / R.J. Harrison? (2:15) -- The Pacific railroad / George F. Root (2:15) -- The song of the red man / Henry C. Work (2:54) -- The future America / trad. and H.C. Dodge (1:37) -- Drill, ye tarriers, drill / Thomas F. Casey? (2:53) -- A laborer you see, and I love liberty / George W. Loyd (1:03) -- Out of work /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New World Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK HANMaclean, John N.
Summary: "A universal story about the power of place to shape families: In the spirit of his father's beloved classic A River Runs Through It, comes John N. Maclean's meditation on fly fishing and life along Montana's Blackfoot River, where four generations of Macleans have fished, bonded, and drawn timeless lessons from its storied waters"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MACBrown, Rachel W. N.
Summary: Small Camel is given the honor to carry a very important package on a journey, as his master Balthazar, a wise man, goes in search of Baby Jesus.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BrownBrown, W. N.
Summary: Civil War, 1863. Virginia. Union soldiers Colonel Thomas Rose and Major A. G. Hamilton were captured by the Confederate Army and taken to Libby Prison, one of the most horrific prisons ever run--infamous for its overcrowded, vermin-infested conditions. But neither fear, nor darkness, nor squealing rats could keep Rose and Hamilton from freedom. They and other POWs would fight against the odds...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BROFerris, W N
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ferris State College Centennial Task Force 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 808.882 FERN Burton W Kent
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Shapiro Bernstein 1941
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMW Wilson N Moret
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist 1920
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMW Tracey N Vinceent
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Music Corp. 1916
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMElrod, P. N. (Patricia Nead)
Summary: In this never-before-published novel from The Vampire Files, vampire private investigator Jack Fleming must protect a dangerously unstable vampire mobster from old enemies and rival syndicates, while unraveling the mystery surrounding his charge's undead state.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books/ Berkley Pub Group/ Penguin Group 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELRKinsella, W. P.
Contents: The baseball wolf.--The fadeaway.--The darkness deep inside.--Eggs.--How Manny Embarquadero overcame and began his climb to the major leagues.--Searching for January.--Feet of clay.--Lumpy Drobot, designated hitter.--The Dixon Cornbelt League.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINKinsella, W. P.
Summary: A dreamer builds a baseball diamond amid the Iowa cornfields and waits for the outstanding, but dead, baseball players of the past to show up for a very special game.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINElrod, P. N. (Patricia Nead)
Summary: A mystery during the 1930s gang wars in Chicago featuring PI Jack Fleming, a vampire with a social conscience and a black sense of humor. He used to be a reporter until an association with the wrong kind of woman sent him to the otherworld.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELRElrod, P. N. (Patricia Nead)
Summary: Sleuthing vampire Jack Fleming goes to the rescue of a wealthy lady in 1930s Chicago by searching for her stolen documents. They threaten her reputation which she is keen to preserve, being engaged to marry a prince. By the author of A Chill in the Blood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELRKinsella, W. P.
Summary: The title story was the basis for the movie "Field of Dreams."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Methodist University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINDavies, P. C. W.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BasicBooks 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 574.999 DAVP Denniker W Osborne
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Santly Bros. 1929
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMW Donaldson P Ash
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist 1926
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMRichter, H. P. (Herbert P.)
Summary: Provides information on standards, codes, and safety practices of interior electric wiring, along with instructions for a variety of wiring projects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.319 RICAtkins, P. W.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BasicBooks 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 541.24 ATKDavies, P. C. W.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1983