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
Lucius
Contents: Wildewoman -- Turn it around -- Go home -- Hey, Doreen -- Tempest -- Nothing ordinary -- Two of us on the run -- Until we get there -- Don't just sit there -- Monsters -- How loud your heart gets.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LUCContents: Summertime (4:44) / Morcheeba & Hubert Laws -- It ain't necessarily so (4:39) / Finley Quaye -- But not for me (3:25) / Natalie Merchant -- They can't take that away from me (2:49) / Smoke City -- I got plenty o' nuthin' (5:01) / Spearhead & Ernest Ranglin -- Summertime (6:01) / Bobby Womack & the Roots -- I was doing all right (3:37) / Davina -- Embraceable you (4:25) / Duncan Sheik -- Let's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Antilles 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RedSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYDroogs
Contents: Fuctioning -- Date at the roller rink -- Asshole of the weekend -- From this barstool -- Hard scribbles -- Day drinking of you -- Another bank job -- Above and beyond -- 4000 miles -- Gloves on your casket -- Droogsville radio -- Zombie prom
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 231 Productions
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL DROSummary: A family in 1630s New England faces destruction by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. When one of their five children goes missing and their life-sustaining crops fail, they fall victim to paranoia and fear as they begin to turn on one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Holly is an up-and-coming caterer and Messer is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous first date, all they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in this world, Holly and Messer must set their differences aside. Juggling career ambitions and competing social calendars, they'll...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIFBooks
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BOOShepard, Lucius.
Summary: A collection of the author's stories set in the mythical Carbonales Valley and centering around the dragon, Griaule.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEBoots
Contents: Brooklyn gamma -- C.U.R.E. -- Oraclies -- Bombs away -- I run roulette -- Gallows -- Aquaria -- Earthquake -- Only -- Dead come running -- Still.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BOOSeneca, Lucius Annaeus
Contents: On the shortness of life -- Consolation to Helvia -- On tranquility of mind.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 188 SENSummary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYPaige, Lucius R. (Lucius Robinson)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1978
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3744 PaigeContents: Charmaine (Frank Brunson) -- Mattie Bee (Emmett Hobson) -- Right now (Zilla Mays) -- Big foot mammy (Paul Williams) -- Hoodoo (Roy Gaines) -- Should, holler and scream (George Benson) -- Blackboard rock (Beverly Wright) -- Bye bye baby (Clayton Love) -- Champ ale (Sonny Brooks) -- The last laugh will be on you (Johnny Bird Orchestra, with Mr. Blue) -- Run a' long (Lil McKenzie) -- I'm trapped...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: [Disc 1]. The inheritance (1997; 93 min.) / a Kraft Premier movie ; Alliance Atlantis Communications presents an Alliance Atlantis Communications/Cosgrove Meurer/Televest production ; producer, Ed Self ; teleplay by Maria Nation ; directed by Bobby Roth -- Love among the ruins (1975; 103 min.) / ABC/Circle Films ; produced by Allan Davis ; directed by George Cukor ; written by James Costigan....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BrCrooks, Noelle
Summary: After a series of go-nowhere jobs in the New York publishing world, Harper Cruz is desperate for a salary that won't leave her scrambling to make rent each month. Self-help guru Charlotte Green's relentless optimism and charismatic can-do spirit has created a cult-like following of women across the country. She selects Harper among thousands of other applicants, and Harper becomes the newest...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRO1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Broks, Paul
Summary: "When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and what it means to be human. The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars weaves a scientist's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 153 BROSummary: In 1994, seventeen-year-old Isabel Baker was murdered. The crime shocked the small town of Ashford and devastated Isabel's Australian South Sea Islander community. The case was never solved, and the killer was never found. But 25 years later the opening of a time capsule unearths a secret that puts cold-case Detective James Cormack on the trail of the killer. Suspicion is cast over the entire...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDBrooks, Terry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lucas Books 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROBroks, Paul.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152 broRooks, A.E.
Summary: Chronicles the history of the Black Joke, a ship in the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and its quest to liberate as many enslaved people as possible.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326 ROOSummary: Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed, who, after relocating with his wife Rachel and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family's new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall, setting off a perilous chain reaction that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PETCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PeBrooks, Felicity
Summary: Lots of unusual animals compete to be featured in this alphabet book with a difference. A lively cast of characters from aardvarks to zebras decide to disrupt and rewrite an alphabet book to make it more fun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC publishing 2021