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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans Intellectual life African Americans Social life and customs Berries Identification Juvenile literature Brothers Gabaldon, Diana Lakota Indians Nuts Identification Juvenile literature Seeds Identification Juvenile literature United StatesHakim, Joy.
Summary: Presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.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...
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
Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: The wry, comic romantic tale follows the Owens sisters as they struggle to use their hereditary gift for practical magic to overcome the obstacles in discovering true love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Practical 2009Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRASummary: The bridges of Madison County: World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid is on assignment to photograph the bridges of Madison County, Iowa. He stops for directions at Francesca Johnson's farmhouse, and passion ignites. Defending your life: A man who is killed in a car accident ends up in 'Judgment City', a holding station for souls, where a person must defend themselves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Bracks, Lean'tin L.
Summary: "Updated and revised for the first time in over a decade, the second edition of African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence is a comprehensive and inspiring book that celebrates the African American experience, highlighting the extraordinary people and their profound influence on American history. It covers a wide range of topics, including literature, art, music, the civil rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 BRADivine, Albert L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kinship 1991
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.5 CEMETERY NEW YORKSmoker, M. L. (Mandy L.)
Summary: "If Aiyana hears one more traditional Lakota story, she'll scream! More interested in her social media presence than her Native American heritage, Aiyana is shocked when she suddenly finds herself in a magical world-with no cell coverage! Pursued by the trickster Raven, Aiyana struggles to get back home, but is helped by friends and allies she meets along the way. Her dangerous journey through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curiosity Books, an imprint of Curiosity Ink Media, LLC 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a parallel Earth ruled by the Crime Syndicate, the Justice League must fight their evil doppelgangers in a battle that would be dead even, except that their malicious counterparts are willing to do the one thing Batman and Superman never would: kill.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JUSDisney Book Group
Summary: A beloved classic comes to life for a new generation in the upcoming Walt Disney Studios live action Aladdin film, and this thrilling novelization invites fans to revisit Aladdin's tale.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Christner, Dianne L.
Summary: "Katy Yoder lives a simple, sheltered lifestyle ensconced in the traditions of the Conservative Mennonite church and holds a naive black-and-white world view. With her parents' approval, she moves in with a childhood friend. But after taking a temporary nanny position, gray begins to cloud her world and forces her to bend the rules. On top of that, her friends clutter her mind with their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Publishing 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRGabaldon, Diana.
Summary: The second volume of a comprehensive companion guide to each book in the "Outlander" series includes a complete chronology of the series, synopses of novels, a guide to research sources, a Scottish glossary and pronunciation guide, and essays by the author.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GABBrooke, L. Leslie
Summary: An illustrated collection of four traditional tales, originally published in 1904.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In this deeply personal tale of estrangement and reconciliation between two rebellious brothers, set in a dreamlike and timeless Tulsa, Francis Ford Coppola gives mythic dimensions to intimate, painful emotions. The director's "art film for teenagers" was his second adaptation of young-adult novelist S. E. Hinton's work in a single year, after the more classically styled The Outsiders. Graced...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chappell-Harms 1924
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMBrock, André L.
Summary: An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places blackness at the very center of internet culture. André Brock Jr. claims issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States. Distributed Blackness analyzes a host of platforms and practices (from Black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 BROBurns, Diane L.
Summary: A field guide to thirty species of snakes, salamanders, and lizards to introduce them in nature. Includes blank pages for drawings and notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord Press 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 597.6 BURBurns, Diane L.
Summary: Describes a variety of berries, nuts, and seeds that might be found on a nature walk and includes identification information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord Press 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 582.13 BURBurns, Diane L.
Summary: A guide to sixteen trees found in the United States provides information about their lifespans and uses, leaves, bark, and seeds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthWord Press 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 582.16 BURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Nature Take BurnsWilson, Diane L.
Summary: Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby determines to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid father, her proper mother, and the norms of Boston in 1872, while that city faces a serial arsonist and an epidemic spreading through its firehorse population.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILSummary: When Dory, the forgetful blue tang, suddenly remembers she has a family who may be looking for her, she, Marlin, and Nemo take off on a life-changing quest to find them, with help from Hank, a cantankerous octopus; Bailey, a beluga whale who's convinced his biological sonar skills are on the fritz; and Destiny, a nearsighted whale shark!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2016
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Finding 2016Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FiSummary: Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study rare mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GORBeers, Diane L.
Contents: Resurrecting the voice : animal advocacy in history -- A movement takes shape : the origins of animal advocacy -- Leaders and followers : the new humanitarians -- "The voice of the voiceless" : early campaigns, 1866-1915 -- Reaching out to the mainstream : animal advocacy evolves, 1915-45 -- "Our most strenuous protest" : antivivisection before 1945 -- The road to liberation : the rise of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press 2006