Couch, Angela K.

Summary: "With her father in a German POW camp and her home in Sainte-Mère-Église, France, under Nazi occupation, Rosalie Barrieau will do anything to keep her younger brother safe . . . even from his desire to join the French resistance. Until she falls into the debt of a German soldier--one who delivers a wounded British pilot to her door. Though not sure what to make of her German ally, Rosalie is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC COU

Court, Anla.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Pseudoarcana 2005

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE Court

Summary: Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mandella 2014

Roach, Marilynne K.

Summary: The Salem Witch Trials is based on over twenty-five years of original archival research (including the author's discovery of previously unknown documents), as well as on newly found cases and court records. From January 1692 to January 1697, this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the crisis as the citizens of New England experienced it, while providing details of the communal,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Publishing, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.43 ROA

Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLI

Roach, Marilynne K

Summary: Examines the lives of six women accused of witchcraft and their accusers to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials and what it was like to be present throughout this time in Salem's history.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.43 ROA

Summary: Walter Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo is the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BUR

Summary: Heaven help the murderer who crosses paths with G.K. Chesterton's cassocked crime-solver, Father Brown. Despite his absentminded air, the kindly priest always manages to confound criminals with his inescapable logic and keen understanding of the human condition. Often joined by his friend, thief turned private investigator Hercule Flambeau, Father Brown unravels devious schemes in 1920s England.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD FAT

Summary: Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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

Brand, Christo

Summary: After more than a decade as a prison guard overseeing Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), Brand, with the assistance of Mail on Sunday Africa correspondent Jones, chronicles the unlikely personal relationship they built.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANDELA, NELSON BRA

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cassell 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 463.21 CAS

Mandela, Nelson

Summary: Draws on the South African leader's personal archive of private papers, speeches, correspondence, and audio recordings to present a collection of inspirational and historically significant quotations spanning more than sixty years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 082 MAN

Flanders, Angela.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson N. Potter 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.321 FLA

Summary: Following a mysterious absence of several years, the man of Steel returns to Earth. While archenemy Lex Luthor plots to render him powerless once and for all, Superman faces the realization that Lois Lane has moved on with her life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SUP

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SUP

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Superman 2006

Backus, C. K. (Charles K.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Westernlore Press 1955

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRANG, JAMES JESSE BAC
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 921 STR

Contents: Africa we want fe go (Count Ossie's Rasta Family) -- None shall escape the judgement (Johnny Clarke) -- Haile Selassie (Laurel Aitken) -- Tales of Mozambique (Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari) -- Booma Yeah (Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus) -- Say (Mutabaruka) -- African Drums (Bongo Herman & Jah Lloyd) -- Hail the words of Jah (Ashanti Roy) -- Sam's intro (Count Ossie & The...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE RAS

Summary: We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUM

Summary: When an American family moves into a remote English house in the woods, the two daughters begin to see a young girl who vanished in the woods during a solar eclipse 20 years ago. Is it a ghost, or something more?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Watcher

Crowley, John

Summary: Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GOL

Pell, Susan K.

Summary: "The technical terms used to describe plants are essential for accurate identification and communication. This comprehensive glossary, enhanced by clear, accurate illustrations, gives concise definitions of the terms that describe all the visible characteristics of plants. Gardeners, botanists, and nature lovers will find this guide invaluable in understanding the plant kingdom." -- Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 580 PEL

Summary: The six Angulo brothers have grown up in their Manhattan apartment, home schooled by their parents, rarely if ever leaving their apartment. Their only connection to the outside world is television and the movies they watch and act out, complete with homemade costumes, in the apartment. When one of the brothers sneaks out for a few days on his own, the whole family dynamic is changed when he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015

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3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WOL

Summary: Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant, takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City. Separated from her son and casually exploited by her employers, Aisha finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage, one that could either destroy or empower her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HORROR NAN
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: Alternates animated sequences of a panda bear named Little Pim with live action sequences of children enjoying everyday activities to teach babies, toddlers, and preschoolers over 60 mealtime-related Japanese vocabulary words. Includes vocabulary reviews and a repeat play option.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Pim Corp. 2009

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: DVD JUV JAPANESE LIT

Summary: Designed specifically for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers, this video presents Pim the Panda as your child's teacher, who introduces the viewer to Japanese words with the help of live-action segments in which relevant vocabulary appears on the screen.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Pim Corp. 2009

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: DVD JUV JAPANESE LIT