Summary: 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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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIRSummary: Despite their hardships, five sisters living in rural Ireland in 1936 are able to embrace life and all its complexities and dance with joy in their hearts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DANSummary: Chronicles the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ZERCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZeSummary: Brennan's uncanny forensic skills help resolve even grislier cases, including a retirement home murder, a possible death by robot, and the slaying of close friend. Along the way, family tragedy strikes and Booth lands in the crosshairs of a serial killer. The fascinating storylines, heart and humor of these twelve episodes wrap of the final season of this hit series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BONSummary: US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When James arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment. It will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with their new leader....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUR RATED RSummary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MISKennedy, Kathryne.
Summary: He's a ruler in a divided world... In the magical, watery world of the Sea Forest, the divide between the rulers and the people is an uncrossable chasm. Handsome, arrogant prince Korl Com'nder has lived a life of luxury that is nothing more than a fantasy to the people he rules. Until the day he is accidentally kidnapped by a beautiful outlaw smuggler and is forced to open his eyes to the world...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2010
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Summary: In the Tenth Season, suspense is at an all-time high as Booth is framed and jailed for the murder of three FBI agents while Bones considers committing blackmail to get him out of prison. Meanwhile, the team at the Jeffersonian sets out to solve a whole new roster of bizarre cases, the deaths of a controversial radio host, a mysterious crossword puzzler, and many more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BONBury, Katryn
Summary: When a cyberbully posts embarrassing rumors about other students at school, Drew, to protect her own secret, puts her sleuthing skills to good use to find the culprit, who just might be one of her closest friends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BURSummary: Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb, is called the Wood. It is largely home to Black middle class families. Mike, Slim, and Roland have been best friends since junior high. It's three hours before Roland's wedding and he has a bad case of cold feet. Mike and Slim must sober him up and help him decide if he wants to go through with the wedding. In flashbacks, they recall key moments of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WOOFalwell, Cathryn.
Summary: Numbers from one to ten are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to prepare a meal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1993
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE FALFalwell, Cathryn.
Summary: A child observes wild turkeys through the seasons. Includes facts about this classic American bird.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dawn Publications 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALWinnick, Katheryn
Summary: A motorcycle daredevil and semi-reformed art thief teams up with his brother to steal a priceless historical book.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ARTSummary: Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children's extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a dark paternity secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Alice's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie FamilyBoyd, Damien
Summary: Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is sent undercover as a trainee teacher at a boarding school to find the killer of Isobel Swan, a murdered sixth form student. To find the killer, Dixon must first confront his inner demons and lay to rest the ghosts lurking in his own past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYBoyd, William
Summary: When Sally Gilmartin's life is threatened, she must turn to her daughter Ruth for help. But first Sally must reveal the truth about her past: she is actually Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigre once recruited by the British Secret Service during World War II. Though Ruth is struggling with her own demons, she is now drawn deeper and deeper into the astonishing events of her mother's past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYFalwell, Cathryn.
Summary: Six silent turtles sit still as stones on a log, as energetic movement by the other animals in the pond happens all around them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALFalwell, Cathryn.
Summary: As they are startled by the activities of other nearby creatures, the number of turtles on a log in a pond decreases from ten to one.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Falwell 2001Falwell, Cathryn
Summary: "Max wants some space for himself away from his younger brother who takes his things and makes noise, but eventually Max finds a way to make space for his brother too"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALFalwell, Cathryn.
Summary: When a mysterious vine appears in their carefully tended garden, the brother and sister patiently watch and wait to see what it becomes. Includes gardening activities and pumpkin recipes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALBoyd, Damien.
Summary: Rock climbers can't afford to make careless mistakes. But Detective Inspector Nick Dixon's former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, died doing just that. Or so it seems. Dixon suspects foul play, but his only leads are unreliable accounts of something odd happening in Cheddar Gorge seconds before Jake fell. As the body count rises, Dixon bends the rules to breaking point to lure out a killer and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYBoyd, William
Summary: "From the award-winning, internationally bestselling author, a romp of a novel, at once intimate and panoramic, about the adventures and misadventures of a 19th-century zelig. One man, many lives . . . Cashel Greville Ross experiences more of everything than most, from the rapturous to the devastating, from surprising good luck to unexpected loss. Born in 1799, Cashel seeks his fortune across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: "When Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her disappointed father gave her an androgynous name and announced the birth of a son. But this daughter was not one to let others define her; Amory became a woman who accepted no limits to what that could mean, and, from the time she picked up her first camera, one who would record her own version of events. Moving freely between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015