Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: Director Robert J. Flaherty journeyed with his wife, Frances, and their children to the South Seas island of Savai'i to capture on film the exotic lifestyles of the Samoan people. In doing so, they resurrected and dramatized the recently vanished customs and struggles of the people just before modernization permanently altered the cultural landscape of the island. In 1975, nearly 50 years after...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOASummary: Basil Rathbone portrays the deductive genius, Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce his mystified colleague, Dr. Watson in these fourteen classic films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of fifteen horror stories centering on Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, face down death, and survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RACWagner, Gernot
Summary: In "Climate Shock," Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater. A rogue nation might shoot particles into the Earth's atmosphere,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 WAGSummary: The eccentrically macabre family moves to a bland suburb where Wednesday Addams' friendship with the daughter of a hostile and conformist local reality show host exacerbates conflict between the families.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AdCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADDFerron.
Contents: The chosen ones -- Girl on a road -- Stand up -- Ain't life a brook -- Misty mountain -- Alice says yes -- Call me -- Shady gate -- Independence day -- Shadows on a dime -- Our purpose here -- I am hungry -- I never was to Africa -- Higher wisdom -- Who loses -- Venus as appearances -- My, my -- Phantom center -- Proud crowd ; Pride cried -- Almost kissed -- Sushine -- Sunken city -- Showin' in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cherrywood Station 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FERFerron.
Contents: The chosen ones -- Alice says yes -- Venus as appearances -- Still riot -- Primitive future -- Takes a little time [intro] -- Takes a little time -- Ain't life a brook -- I am hungry -- Dazzle the beast -- Signals and messages -- Easy with love.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EarthBeat 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FERSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A collection of comics about every kid's favorite school subject: lunch!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 COMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC COMVinge, Vernor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VINSummary: Robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada learns to harness his genius, thanks to his brilliant brother Tadashi and their like-minded friends: adrenaline junkie Go Go Tamago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon, and fanboy Fred. When a devastating turn of events catapults them into the midst of a dangerous plot unfolding in the streets of San Fransokyo, Hiro turns to his closest companion - a robot...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BIGGomez, Vernona.
Summary: A baseball legend distinguished by his competitive nature, quick wit, and generous spirit, Lefty Gomez was one of a kind. Told for the first time, this is his remarkable story. Born to a small-town California ranching family, the youngest of eight, Vernon "Lefty" Gomez rode his powerful arm and jocular personality right across America to the dugout of the New York Yankees. Lefty baffled...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2012
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Summary: Inspired by true events, an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald. Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE REVVerdon, John.
Summary: Recently retired after a prestigious career with the NYPD, homicide detective Dave Gurney is pulled back into service when an old college friend receives threatening letters from a murderous sender who has an uncanny ability to read a person's thoughts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVinge, Vernor.
Summary: "Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. While there is peace among the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2011