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: Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: On Christmas Eve, psychologist Marcia Fieldstone asks her radio audience to share their dreams for the holiday season. Eight-year-old Jonah calls in from Seattle, with a wish for his dad to find a new wife. Mom died a year-and-a-half ago. Baltimore Sun reporter Annie Reed also hears the broadcast, when Jonah's architect father Sam gets on the air. Sam talks about the magical moment he met his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tri-Star Pictures 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When a dangerous and powerful magic ring falls into his hands, a hobbit named Frodo gets caught up in an adventure. The mighty wizard Gandalf and a daring band of elves, dwarfs and warriors defend their enchanted land from the wicked sorcerer who would see it destroyed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family LordSummary: Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LaChalamet, Timothee
Summary: When his girlfriend goes to New York to interview a cult director for the college newspaper, college student Gatsby Welles tags along planning on spending a romantic weekend but his plans make an unexpected turn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mpi Media Group 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RAIChalamet, Timothee
Summary: Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto, along with the native inhabitants of the planet Arrakis, struggle to overthrow the terrible Baron Harkonnen and his family to control the mind-altering spice produced by giant sand worms of Arrakis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Callahan, Timothy.
Summary: When a comet the size of a small moon threatens the remote world of Regal the Earth Alliance assigns the most decorated ship in the fleet, the Arwen, to destroy it. Its Captain, Marjorie Cook, sees this as an opportunity to redeem herself after a tragic mistake in her past causes the death of over 400 of her crew. It seems like an easy mission but, when the Arwen arrives, it finds things are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Springbrook Digital 2010
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Summary: "It's the week before Christmas in Tinsel Town, and the Edgerton Mall isn't exactly full of holiday cheer, despite its two Santas. The mall is a fossil of an industry in decline; many of its stores are closed, and to make matters worse, there is a rampant shoplifting problem. Enter burglar Junior Bender, the unwilling fixer for LA's various underworld bosses. The murderous Russian gangster who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M HALHallinan, Timothy.
Summary: Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is summoned by a formidable nonagenarian mob boss to exact justice for a once-famous starlet whose career was derailed by an unknown adversary's compromising photos seventy years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHutton, Timothy
Summary: Follows a team of high-tech criminals led by an ex-insurance investigator as they try to thwart corporate and governmental injustice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD/Paramount 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LEVZahn, Timothy
Summary: When a mysterious enemy strikes at the very foundation of the Ascendancy by widening the rifts between the Nine Ruling Families and Forty Great Houses, Thrawn and his allies must decide what matters most--the security of their family or the survival of the Ascendancy itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAHZahn, Timothy
Summary: "For Dr. Adrian Sommers, a split second of driving while distracted leads to tragedy--and obsession. His family destroyed, he devotes his entire being to developing Soulminder, a technology that might have saved his son as he wavered on the edge of death. Sommers's vision is to capture a dying person's life essence and hold it safely in stasis while physicians heal the body from injury or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Road 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAHZahn, Timothy
Summary: Grand Admiral Thrawn and Darth Vader team up against a threat to the Empire in this thrilling novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. "I have sensed a disturbance in the Force." Ominous words under any circumstances, but all the more so when uttered by Emperor Palpatine. On Batuu, at the edges of the Unknown Regions, a threat to the Empire is taking root--its existence little more than a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAHZahn, Timothy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAHKnapman, Timothy
Summary: Dad might not have a superhero mask or wear his pants outside his trousers, but his super snores can be heard a thousand miles away, he tells super jokes and can even make super-scary monsters go away at bedtime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BRDLewis, Timothy
Summary: "Adam Colby didn't believe in marriage anymore. After Haley left him, he was convinced that lasting marriage was a fairy tale. He gave up hope of ever experiencing a lasting covenant. But then he found the postcards..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lewis 2013Mason, Timothy
Summary: An ingenious mystery/thriller set in the mid-1800s in London, blending fictional characters and events with real characters, and featuring a detective intent on stopping a ruthless killer who has threatened the life of Queen Victoria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASMason, Timothy
Summary: "Inspector Charles Field hunts a serial killer targeting Florence Nightingale's nurses in Crimea and women in London"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASSchaffert, Timothy
Summary: "Clementine, sometimes known as Judge, is a 72-year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of crime has led her from the uber-wealthy perfume junkies of belle epoque Manhattan, to the scented butterflies of Costa Rica, to the spice markets of Marrakesh, and finally the bordellos of Paris, where she settles down and opens a legitimate shop bottling her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSchaffert, Timothy
Summary: "For weeks after the sinking of the Titanic, Yorick spots his own name among the list of those lost at sea. As an apprentice librarian for the White Star Line, his job was to curate the ship's second-class library. But just as he was about to board to tend to his library throughout the passage, a superior takes his place, leaving Yorick stranded at the dock. The Titanic was not Yorick's first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Truman, Timothy.
Summary: Ki-Adi-Mundi has been assigned as mission in the deserts of Tatooine. He is to find Jedi Sharad Hett of the Sand People and convince him to return. Standing in Ki's way is a vicious krayt dragon and the Jedi-slaying bounty hunter Aurra Sing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Williams, Timothy.
Summary: April 1990: French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud has been living and working in the French Caribbean departement of Guadeloupe for more than a decade, but her days are still full of surprises--for example,the fact that every witness Anne Marie interviews grills her about when she's going to get remarried. She is only just starting to investigate the increasingly suspicious suicide of a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015