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ARCA Brookins, Cara Carta Cary, Mara. Ciara. Hara McAnulty, Dara Reynolds, Emma Sun Ra. Zara, ChristopherBrookins, Cara
Summary: "After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn to but herself. In desperate need of a home but without the means to buy one, she did something incredible. Equipped only with YouTube instructional videos, a small bank loan and a mile-wide stubborn streak, Cara built her own house from the foundation up with a work crew made up of her four...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROOKINS, CARA BROContents: Disc 1. Freight train boogie (Captain Luke) -- A living past (Guitar Gabriel) -- Railroad Bill (Etta Baker) -- Going away (John Lee Ziegler) -- High yellow (Cootie Stark) -- Chapel Hill boogie (John Dee Holeman) -- Shortnin' bread (Neal Pattman) -- Old rugged cross (Carl Rutherford) -- No hidin' place (Cool John Ferguson) -- Feel like my time ain't long (Essie Mae Brooks) -- Old time religion...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WEContents: Disc 1. Penny reel / Lord Power & Calypso Quintet -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & his Group -- Judgment Day / Laurel Aitken with Ken Richards & his Harmonisers -- In and out the window / Monty & Roy with Drumbago's Orchestra -- Feel so fine (aka feel so good) / Derrick & Patsy with Drumbago's Band -- River bank part 1 (aka bank to bank) / Baba Brooks & his Band -- Rough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TREContents: Disc one. Invitation to Jamaica / Lord Tanamo -- Fat man / Derrick Morgan -- Tell me darling / Jackie Edwards -- Running around / Owen Gray -- Miss Jamaica / Jimmy Cliff -- Housewife's choice / Derrick & Patsy -- Give me all your love / The Continentals -- Darling Patricia / Owen Gray -- Man to man / Kentrick Patrick -- Uno-dos-tres / Stranger & Ken -- Slow boat / Al T. Joe -- Rude boy / Duke...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TROSummary: 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
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Contents: Alfred M--Building bridges--Hourglass--Small lights--The likeness is undeniable--Sidereal--Santander--Descension--Prettier at night--Bank of England--Back to nature--Who killed the clerk?--The late Alfred M
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silber records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CARHara
Summary: What do you do when your body doesn't match the ideal shape as dictated by society? What do you wear when sweats seem to be the only clothes that fit you? How do you deal with the constant, overwhelming waves of criticism about your appearance from yourself and others? A love letter to anyone striving to embrace their size, this wonderfully illustrated, uplifting comic essay by a plus-size...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 HARReynolds, Emma
Summary: Emma Reynolds shines a spotlight on sixteen incredible youth activists from around the world who are fighting to protect the planet and all life on Earth. From Autumn Peltier campaigning for clean water to Edgar Edmund Tarimo turning plastic waste into building materials-and many more-these inspiring true stories highlight the importance of taking charge and creating change. Beautifully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REYCary, Mara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.41 CARSun Ra.
Contents: Burton Greene introduction -- Sun Ra and his band from outer space -- The shadow world -- Interpolation -- The satellites are spinning -- Advice to medics -- Velvet -- Space aura -- The exotic forest -- Theme of the star gazers -- Outer space ways incorporated -- Dancing shadows -- Imagination -- The second stop is Jupiter -- The next stop Mars -- The satellites are spinning -- Velvet --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ESP-Disk' 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SUNSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORASummary: Hard-luck hound Hank finds himself in a town full of cats who need a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain's evil plot to wipe their village off the map. With help from a reluctant teacher to train him, our underdog must assume the role of town samurai and team up with the villagers to save the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PAWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PAWCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAWCiara.
Contents: Basic instinct (u got me) -- Ride (feat. Ludacris) -- Gimmie dat -- Heavy rotation -- Girls get your money -- Yeah I know -- Speechless -- You can get it -- Turn it up (feat. Usher) -- Wants for dinner -- I run it.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: LaFace Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CIASummary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSummary: A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful and beloved institutions in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CON RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONSummary: A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD COLARCA
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ARCSummary: Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota iron mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOR RATED RSummary: Blazing saddles: A railroad needs to be built, but the land necessary is already owned. Needing to drive out the town folk, you appoint a new sheriff you figure will last about 24 hours. High anxiety: Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Richard Thorndyke is a nut-job with a paralyzing fear of heights. He had just become head of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very Very Nervous. History of the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MELMcAnulty, Dara
Summary: "From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCANULTY, DARA MCAZara, Christopher
Summary: "For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioral problems and never allowed back. From a school for "troubled kids," to wrestling with his identity in the burgeoning punk scene of the 1980s; from a stint as an ice cream scooper as he got clean in Florida, to an unpaid internship in New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Robin Hood attempts to save England from Prince John and the Sheriff of Rottingham, while also winning the heart of Maid Marian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Robin 2006Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROBSummary: A new regime has arrived at Litchfield and with it comes new business interests, spiritual movements, and parental problems that turn life behind bars upside down and ignite power struggles among Litchfield's residents and guards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ORAContents: See a man's face (Horace Andy) -- Right on rasta (Cedric Im Brooks & Count Ossie) -- Jah dread (Prince Jazzbo) -- What about me (Myrna Hague) -- Time to be happy (Michigan & Smiley) -- Stick together (the Wailing Souls) -- Have no fear (Sugar Minott) -- Just another day (Judah Eskender Tafari) -- Chuky skank (Dillinger) -- Bredda labba labba (Freddy McGregor) -- Stay with me (Frankie Wilmoth)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016