Burrows, William E.

Summary: Unknown to the public and cloaked in the utmost secrecy, the United States flew missions against the Communist bloc almost continuously during the Cold War in a desperate effort to collect intelligence and find targets for all-out nuclear war. The only hint of the relentless, clandestine operations came when one of the planes was shot down. Many of the air force and navy flyers were killed on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 BUR

Summary: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMI

Burrows, Russell (Russell E.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Superior Heartland 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.3 BUR

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 PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: 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 O

Griffin, W. E. B.

Summary: While World War II rages on in Europe, 24-year-old Cletus Frade has been hired to spring Wilhelm Frogger, a German officer, from a Mississippi prisoner-of-war camp. Having learned that Frogger has masterminded a plot to assassinate Hitler, Frade plans on bringing the war to a swift end. However, a rogue group of fascists, led by Argentinean Colonel Juan Peron, plans on thwarting the coup and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2009

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRI

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Time Inc. Home Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: REF 909 LIFE

Summary: A look at the drug scene in Baltimore through the eyes of the dealers, cops, and users.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2008

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIR

Summary: "Documentary-style drama questions the existence of a hairy 7ft tall Sasquatch-type monster that lives in a swa[m]p outside of Fouke, Arkansas."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cheezy Flicks Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEG

Will.i.am.

Summary: "Parental Advisory; explicit content."-- Container insert.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope Records 2013

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP WIL

Summary: An exceptional anthology exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration-- written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands... while also dancing at weddings, keeping diaries, teaching ESL. In presenting the myriad facets...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COM

Summary: A mini-series based on Thackeray's story of an amoral beauty determined to scheme and seduce her way into Britain's upper classes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2003

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VAN

Willis, Barbara (Barbara E.)

Summary: Guides readers through various approaches to doll design and basic and advanced construction techniques. Through the creation of three complete step-by-step projects, readers will develop color boards, learn to use vintage images, create both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional cloth dolls, learn sophisticated costuming techniques, and gain knowledge of elaborate soft sculpting. A gallery shares...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quarry Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 WIL

Summary: He has survived on the streets for twenty years. He's a gambler-- a thief-- a killer and a cop. Now he's investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth, his self-destructive past is closing in.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE BAD

Summary: Fresh out of New York's Columbia University, cocky young Dr. Joel Fleischman is looking forward to his comfortable position in Alaska's largest city. But upon his arrival, Joel finds himself a fish out of water as he's instead assigned to a tiny Alaskan village where the offbeat locals would love him to stay forever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV No 1

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Northern

J Burris,E E Hogan C Smith (B)

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Whitney Warner Co. 1903

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

H Williams E VanAlstyne

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Shapiro,Remick and Co. 1903

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Williams, Kidada E.

Summary: "The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in collective memory. But this pivotal era looked very different to African Americans in the South transitioning from bondage to freedom after 1865. They were besieged by a campaign of white supremacist violence that persisted through the 1880s and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 WIL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 WIL

Williams, Mark E.

Summary: In the past century, average life expectancies have nearly doubled, and today, for the first time in human history, many people have a realistic chance of living to eighty or beyond. As life expectancy increases, Americans need accurate, scientifically grounded information so that they can take full responsibility for their own later years. In "The Art and Science of Aging Well," Mark E....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 WIL