Summary: Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this documentary traces the untold history of Black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre. Adapting Robin Means Coleman's seminal book, this will present the living and the dead, using new and archival interviews from scholars and creators;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HORSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Gorilla Hunt (The Altecs) -- I'll Blow My Mind (Spencer's Van Dykes, vocal by Eddie Zarate) -- The Mad Scientist (The Zanies) -- Satisfaction (Los Corvets) -- Meet The Bongo Man (Johnny O) -- Everybody's Movin' (The Debonairs) -- The Day Is Hard (The Wrench) -- Grandchus (Bobby Fry) -- TNT In A T-Shirt (The Rebels) -- Camel Walk (Davie Allan & Arrows (issued as by The Zanies)) -- Midnight Star...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAKSummary: "A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRISummary: "Julián receives an unexpected visit from his friend Tomás, who lives in Canada. The two men, accompanied by Julián's faithful dog, Truman, will share emotional and surprising moments prompted by Julián's complicated situation."--IMDb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRUSummary: The live-action Christmas musical adventure for the entire family weaves classic Christmas melodies with humor, faith, and new pop songs in a retelling of the greatest story ever told, the story of Mary and Joseph and the birth of Jesus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAF RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CAFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cafe 2016Summary: Includes several episodes of the Mr. Bean television program. Shows Mr. Bean attempting the impossible: passing an exam without a clue, changing on the beach without removing his trousers, and staying awake in church. He also creates mayhem in his mini-van and attempts to get a date with the Queen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Mr. Bean 2003Dollo, Xavier
Summary: Who is considered the world's first science fiction author? How did American science fiction begin? What sci-fi novel is the all-time best-seller? What were the "Pulps" and how did they predict with uncanny accuracy the 21st century world around us? The answers are here, along with detailed chapters dedicated to the founders of the genre and their modern-day successors. Discover the origins of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Humanoids, Inc. 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Lecouturier, Xavier
Contents: Aube (5:00) -- Tempest (7:24) -- Carrier (5:49) -- Striations (6:04) -- Waiting (7:27) -- Level up (6:17) -- Event horizon (5:43) -- Monk derivative (6:09) -- Kindling (6:23) -- Guitar hero (5:57).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LECCugat, Xavier
Contents: The breeze and I -- Amapola -- Jalousie -- Amor -- Moon over Naples (Spanish eyes) -- Always in my heart -- Begin the beguine -- Carioca -- Cielito Lindo -- El Cumbanchero -- La Cumparsita -- Malaguena -- Desafinado (Slightly out of tune) -- The 3rd man theme -- Green eyes -- Siboney -- Quizas, Quizas -- Quiereme mucho (Yours) -- Perfidia -- Lady in read -- La Paloma -- Estrellita -- El Rancho...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Special Products 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING CUGXavier, Clément
Summary: "In the early 20th century, English suffragist group the Women's Social and Political Union formed an all-women security unit. Trained by Edith Garrud, these 'jujitsuffragettes' fought against abuse and arrest while pursuing long overdue rights"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 324.6 XAVCrews, Xavier
Summary: "With Art of Custom Sneakers, learn to make your own one-of-a-kind kicks from YouTube superstar Xavier Kickz"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quarto Group 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 746.6 CRESummary: Musical drama set in London, 1958. Film portrays lower class youths emerging from post-war privations and struggling to achieve mobility in the face of withering class, racial and economic barriers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ABSSummary: The story unfolds on a beautiful summer day in London, in 1923, while Clarissa Dalloway recalls a summer in the country, in 1890, when she was young and beautiful and very much courted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Burgis, Stephanie
Summary: After drinking enchanted hot chocolate, a brave young dragon is transformed into a twelve-year-old human girl with a passion for chocolate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURBurgis, Stephanie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Princess Sofia of Drachenheim enjoys freedom from her sister's manipulations during a diplomatic mission to far-off Villenne, until she and her dragon friend, Jasper, are forced to face ice giants.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURHollander, Xaviera.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.742 HOLGarza, Xavier
Summary: Just as Joaquin and his mother are about to enjoy their pan de muerto on the Day of the Dead, a skeleton arrives offering to play music in exchange for one tiny bite.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG GARRudd, Xavier
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RUDSummary: Join the Power Rangers for action-filled adventure as they face extreme dangers and impossible odds to protect the ten Energems. The Rangers must summon all their Dino Super Charge powers to become stronger than ever and battle the evil alien Heckyl and his alter ego Snide, but a force even greater than Heckyl stands in their way; the Dark Energem!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV POWSummary: The story of the Henry family as they experience World War II in Europe and the Pacific, depicting the final years of the war and its impact on everyday people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Bergin, Mark
Summary: Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing different types of knights, castles, and other medieval structures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 743.87 BERBergin, Mary
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1994