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: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: It is 2153. The crew of the starship Enterprise are engaging in the third year of their mission under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. An alien probe has attacked the Earth, killing over seven million people. The Enterprise is sent to track down and stop the aliens from attacking again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 679.7 BRASummary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIGSummary: In this extraordinary adventure comes a wonderful tale of friendship, courage, and wisdom as Pooh and his friends set off on a journey through the great unknown to rescue Christopher Robin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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Summary: Follows several generations of a Kazakh family as they live through some of the most dramatic periods of Kazakhstan's history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in Mississippi in 1964, this controversial film is based on the true story of the case of three young civil rights workers (in real life they were named James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) who were brutally murdered in June of 1964. The chaotic aftermath was dubbed Mississippi Burning. This movie is told from the perspective of the FBI's operations to uncover evidence...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISContents: Say you love me (Harold Burrage & his band) -- Hello baby (Lee "Shot" Williams) -- Goin' home (Mary Johnson) -- Way out, baby (Flora D) -- Please love me (Harold Burrage ; Milt Bland Orchestra) -- Garlen's mambo (Ze-Majestics) -- Romeo Joe pt 1 (Robert & the Rockin' Robins) -- The buzzard (Freddy Robinson Orchestra ; Paul Hankins, organ) -- Lost love (Mary Johnson) -- I'm trying (Lee "Shot"...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FOXGrant, Alan
Summary: A new collection featuring the legendary 1990s Batman epics "The Return of Scarface" and more! This new collection of 1990s Batman tales includes the legendary story "The Return of Scarface," one of DC's most vindictive villains made famous from the Batman: The Animated Series. This volume also includes the first appearance of the Gotham Gargoyle, and a run of stories in which the Dark Knight...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATGrant, Alan.
Summary: Robin is possibly the most maligned of all comic book heroes, and is often considered to be a mere sidekick. The Boy Wonder is seen by many as standing in the shadow of the Dark Knight. This book aims to change such opinions.'
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 1991
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROBSummary: Scooby-Doo and the cyber chase: Scooby-Doo and the gang are zapped into a computer game based on their own adventures. There they must play the game through to its end to find and capture the Phantom Virus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACJ Branen A Lange
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Joe Morris 1915
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMGrant, Alan
Summary: Retells in graphic novel format Stevenson's story about David Balfour who, after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GrantSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACSummary: Zaman and his wife Najma have built their happy life together in a house of reeds. When Najma falls ill, the doctor tells them she needs surgery or some medicine he does not have. Zaman sets off in his boat and journeys to Baghdad for the cure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZAMWoods, Brenda (Brenda A.)
Summary: In August 1965, twelve-year-old Eden's older cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in Los Angeles, and while the Watts Riots erupt around them, they continue their investigation of the disappearance of Winter's father ten years ago.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOSummary: Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare people for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring the world back from the brink of extinction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IND RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD InCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Independence 2016Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI INDSummary: A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMESummary: Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including the causes of the exodus and the immigrant experience in the United States. Uses photographs, archival footage, manuscript material and interviews with Irish immigrants to describe their experiences and the profound influence they have had on American culture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie Entertainment 1997