Booker, Sheri
Summary: "Six Feet Under" meets The Wire in a dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming-of-age in a black funeral home in Baltimore. Sheri Booker was only fifteen years old when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea that her summer job would become nine years of immersion in a hidden world. Reeling from the death of her beloved great aunt, she found comfort in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOOKER, SHERI BOOSummary: Lin lives in a world of quiet hardship in China, longing to live without fear or shame. Katie lives in a world of pampered ease in Malibu and wants something new and challenging in her life. When these two come together, their lives are forever changed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Smile 2005Turrell, Sheri L.
Summary: "In The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Teen Anxiety, you'll find helpful alternatives to the ineffective strategies and habits you're currently using to deal with anxiety, such as avoidance. You'll find basic information about anxiety to help you recognize what it looks and feels like, mindfulness tips to help you stay in the moment when you feel worried about the future, and tips to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Y 362 TurMingus, Charles
Contents: Better git it in your soul : (alternate) (8:30) -- Bird calls : (alternate) (4:53) -- Jelly roll : (alternate) (6:41) -- Song with orange : (alternate) (6:42) -- Diane : (alternate) (7:29) -- New now, know how : (alternate) (4:19) -- Revelations : first movement (12:01) -- Non-sectarian blues (3:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MINJaggar, Louisa
Summary: "The true story of James Herman Banning, the first African American pilot to fly across the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BANSummary: Continues the history of people of African descent, including topics such as the global African presence, the science of melanin, the truth about the prison industrial complex, how thriving black economic communities were undermined in America, hidden truths about Native Americans, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIDSummary: Collects twelve short stories about the Disney princesses, including Moana, Belle, Pocahontas, Tiana, and Snow White.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Mingus, Charles
Summary: Program notes inserted in container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MINMingus, Charles
Contents: Better git it in your soul -- Goodbye pork pie hat -- Boogie stop shuffle -- Self-portrait in three colors -- Open letter to Duke -- Bird calls -- Fables of Faubus -- Pussy cat dues -- Jelly roll.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1959
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Brides of Dracula: "Marianne is traveling to Eastern Europe from Paris for a teaching post. She gets stranded at an inn after her stagecoach mysteriously leaves her. She is persuaded to stay at Baroness Meinster's chateau. During her stay Marianne meets the Baroness's son who is chained to a wall. Feeling bad for the son, Marianne frees him, only to discover that he is a vampire. Luckily for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR HAMSummary: Andre "Dre" Johnson has it all...a job as a top ad exec, a beautiful doctor wife, four great kids and a lovely, well-appointed house in the suburbs. And he's not about to let his family forget how they got there. Keeping cultural identity alive is not without its challenges for this man on a mission. With perpetual pushback from clueless coworkers, an outspoken father, and even the wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLAMacLachlan, Patricia
Summary: A story inspired by the life of the influential French master artist considers how he transformed his dreary childhood community in northern France through his expressions of color and form.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Save it for a rainy day (The Jayhawks) (3:09) -- Hollywood (Kasey Chambers) (3:38) -- War (Jonatha Brooke) (4:09) -- Sweetness (Dan Bern & the IJBC) (3:14) -- Eenie meenie (Big Lazy) (3:52) -- For you (Duncan Sheik) (2:06) -- Just can't last (Natalie Merchant) (4:12) -- The cranes (Patty Larkin) (2:38) -- She said it was destiny (Richard Thompson) (3:54) -- Will you remember me? (Rosanne Cash)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NPR 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK I4hero
Contents: Disc one (complied & mixed by 4hero)--Universal love (4hero)--My dreams (London Elektricity)--Better place (4hero)--Versions (Calibre)--Spread love (Lenny Fontana presents Black Sun)--Jazz is (Lemon D)--Wings (wings)--Shadow boxing (Nasty habits)--Inside outside (Manix)--Maximum Style (Tom & Jerry)--Images (Aquasky)--Give a little love (Nookie)--Find a way (Internal affairs)--Terminator II...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBE Records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC FOUSummary: After twelve years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, offbeat detective Charlie Crews has returned to the force with a $50 million settlement, a new spiritual outlook, a strong fondness for fruit, and a highly unusual approach to solving crime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LIFShark, Amy
Contents: The wolves -- Everybody rise -- Worst day of my life -- C'mon (featuring Travis Barker) -- All the lies about me -- Miss you -- Love songs ain't for us (featuring Keith Urban) -- I'll be yours -- You'll never meet anyone like me again -- That girl -- Lonely still -- Baby steps -- Amy Shark.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHAShura.
Contents: (I) -- Nothing's real -- What's it gonna be? -- Touch -- Kidz 'n stuff -- Indecision -- What happened to us? -- (Ii) -- Tongue tied -- Make it up -- 2shy -- White light.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHUSummary: An anthology series that showcases the stories, memories and inspirations behind Dolly Parton's most beloved songs. New and classic Dolly music will score every episode. Each story will vary in tone, from love stories and inspirational tales to family dramas, westerns and revenge comedies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV DOLCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DOLSummary: In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society, leading him to embark on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime that brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego, the Joker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY JOKSummary: The legendary woodsman known as the Pathfinder, his adoptive Indian father, Chingachgook, and a beautiful Colonial woman, Mabel Dunham, are swept up in a desperate race to rescue a British fort besieged by hostile French forces, and a deadly, unknown traitor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PathfinderSummary: The Destiny continues its journey through the universe while its crew suffers from a lack of supplies and no knowledge of its final destination. Struggling to control the ship's systems, tempers and personalities of the crew clash. Facing uncharted space and enemies who would take the ship by force, the Destiny crew perseveres in the struggle to stay alive and find a way home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer 2011
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SGUSummary: Jean, René, Janine: two men and a woman from different generations and different backgrounds, whose paths meet at a crisis point in mid-life, faced with disappointment and frustration, all three muse about a legendary "uncle in America", a guardian angel who gives them their hearts' desires and tells them exactly what they want to hear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MONHerji
Summary: "Go back in time with Nobel Prize laureate Michel Mayor to understand the secrets of the Universe and meet the great names in physics: Newton, Einstein and many more. This graphic-novel guide to the Universe explains complex ideas in a way anyone can understand. It's a book full of adventure-- as well as some of the most important concepts humankind has ever studied. On the program:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Helvetiq 2023