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...
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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 Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPSummary: Experience the classic holiday tale of the Nutcracker brought to life like you have never seen it before. This all-new film features a highly-acclaimed cast. Join Mary on a magical adventure when her toy nutcracker comes to life and whisks her away to a magical kingdom filled with fantastical toys, sugar plums and dancing fairies. Mary soon discovers the evil Rat King is threatening the kingdom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Nutcracker 2011Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NUTSummary: Powell and Pressburger merge film with opera and dance to tell the tale of a poet who dreams of three women who all break his heart. He tells "the three tales of my folly of love"--In Paris, when he fancied himself in love with Olympia, who turned out to be a life-sized doll; in Venice, when bewitched by a beautiful courtesan; and on a Grecian isle, in love with daughter of a singer and conductor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TALKinsey, T. E. (Tim E.)
Summary: "Missing diamonds. Mysterious deaths. And all that jazz. London, 1925. With their band the Dizzy Heights, Jazz Musicians Ivor 'Skins' Maloney and Bartholomew 'Barty' Dunn are used to improvising as they play the Charleston for flappers and toffs, but things are about to take a surprising turn. Superintendent Sunderland has had word that a deserter who stole a fortune in diamonds as he fled the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime/Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world but it's a lot older than you think. As ancient as the pyramids, its history is even more surprising. Cultural historian Paul Craddock takes us on a journey - from sixteenth-century skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants - uncovering stories of experiments and operations performed by unexpected people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 CRAMcMorrow, T. E.
Summary: In Harlem in the 1920s, in the middle of a family Christmas party, Marie receives a nutcracker from her Uncle Cab, which leads to a marvelous dream in this resetting of E.T.A. Hoffmann's familiar tale. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MCMKinsey, T. E.
Summary: "Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie. Once again, it is up to Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, to solve the case. Armed with wit and whimsy, not to mention Florence's mean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The son of a sheik is lured into a thieves' trap by a beautiful girl. When he escapes, he kidnaps the girl, they fall in love, and ride off into the sunset together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2000
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SONWeisz, Rachel
Summary: The story of author Deborah E. Lipstadt's fight for historical truth to prove that the Holocaust did occur when a denier sues her for libel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DENSummary: A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, and an encounter with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE QUESummary: Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LAWSummary: A compulsively neat detective's tidy world goes to the dogs when he is forced to team up with a drooling slob of a junkyard dog named Hooch to find a murderer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TURSummary: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DeCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DENCoelho, Paulo.
Summary: Elijah, a biblical prophet in the Middle East during the ninth century B.C., confronts the pagan princess Jezebel and finds love in the strange land of Zarephath with a young widow, only to have his new-found happiness shattered by tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFlamingo 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Your Future Is Bright! After all, your mother is a robot, your father has joined the alien hive mind, and your dinner will be counterfeit 3D-printed steak. Even though your worker bots have staged a mutiny, and your tour guide speaks only in memes, you can always sell your native language if you need some extra cash." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWSummary: Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as 'Grimms', charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFlamingo 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COESummary: Clara is searching for the special key to unlock a box from her late mother. Inside that box is a priceless item that her mother left for her. During her godfather's yearly holiday party, Clara almost gets the key but it disappears. She embarks on a quest into a mysterious world which has four different realms: a snowflakes realm, flowers realm, sweets realm, and the challenging realm where the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NUTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD JUV NUTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NuSummary: In the epic finale to the saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MAZCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAZCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAZCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MaPaull, Laline.
Summary: Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw, but her courage and strength are assets. She is allowed to feed the newborns in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FaSummary: An anthology of ten stories by young adult authors about surprising and unusual collections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023