Summary: Explores the making and meaning of Film, a 1965 short film starring Buster Keaton, that was written by Samuel Beckett, directed by Alan Schneider, and produced by Barney Rosset. Topics covered include the circumstances leading to the film's production, the production process itself, and the film's critical reception. Includes outtakes, never-before-heard audio recordings of production meetings,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOTMoss, Marissa
Summary: Eager to fight for the North during the Civil War, Sarah Emma Edmonds joins a Michigan infantry regiment. She excels as a soldier, and she even takes on the grueling task of nursing the wounded. Because of her heroism, she is asked to become a spy, cross enemy lines, and infiltrate a Confederate camp. For her first mission, Sarah must once again disguise herself and rely on the kindness of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 921 EDMSummary: 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 PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Cooney, C. S. E. (Claire S. E.)
Summary: Lanie Stones, the daughter of the Royal Assassin and Chief Executioner of Liriat, has never led a normal life. Born with a gift for necromancy and a literal allergy to violence, she was raised in isolation in the family's crumbling mansion by her oldest friend, the ancient revenant Goody Graves. When her parents are murdered, it falls on Lanie and her cheerfully psychotic sister Nita to settle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishinig Ltd. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOE S S Huntington C E Roat
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chas. E. Roat Music 1914
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHME Heyman S Harmati
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: T.B.Harms 1934
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMGrove, S. E.
Summary: She has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous. Boston, 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World -- a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, when all the continents were flung into different time periods. Eight years ago, her parents left her with her uncle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GROThomson, E. S.
Summary: When the principal physician for Angel Meadow Asylum is found brutally murdered, Jem Flockhart and Will Quatermain pursue the story through the darkest corners of London. From the depths of a notorious rookery, to brothels, gallows, graveyards and the convict fleet, Jem and Will find themselves caught up in a web of dark secrets and hidden identities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THOBoyd, S. E.
Summary: "While filming on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, John Doe, the universally adored host of the culinary travel show Last Call, is found dead in a hotel room in an apparent suicide. As the news of his untimely demise breaks, a group of friends, fixers, hustlers, and opportunists vie to seize control of the narrative: Doe's chess-master of an agent Nia, ready to call in every favor she is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYHinton, S. E.
Summary: The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their peers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 1988
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD HINHinton, S. E.
Summary: Ponyboy and his 2 brothers struggle to find their place in a difficult world after the deaths of their parents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Hinton 2007Hinton, S. E.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1971
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HINKeefe, Richard S. E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 KEES Adams E Lecuona
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Ed.B.Marks 1934
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSchlosser, S. E.
Summary: "Get ready for 34 creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past! Michigan folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings...You'll meet ghosts and witches, hear things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening" -- back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 SCHHinton, S. E.
Summary: Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH HINMoore, E. S.
Summary: Even a vampire has to face her inner demons. . . Kat Redding is the very thing she hunts: a vampire, thirsting for blood, capable of killing any creature unlucky enough to get in her path. The difference is, Kat kills her own kind in order to protect human Purebloods. She's good at what she does. Good enough to earn the nickname Lady Death—and the enmity of every bloodthirsty being around. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2012
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Rogie, S. E.
Contents: Kpindigbee (4:09) -- A time in my life (3:25) -- Nor weighme lek dat (4:03) -- Jaimgba Tutu (2:36) -- Koneh Pelawoe (5:02) -- Jojo yalah jo (4:41) -- Nyalomei luange (2:52) -- African gospel (4:18) -- Nyalimagotee (4:47) -- Dieman noba smoke tafee (6:38).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RealWorld 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ROGThomson, E. S.
Summary: After uncovering six tiny coffins at St. Saviour's Infirmary, apprentice apothecary Jem Flockhart seeks answers, following a trail that leads from the dissecting room to Newgate prison and the gallows.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOE Heyman S Harmati
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Harms 1934
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMHinton, S. E
Summary: A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HINHinton, S. E.
Summary: In fourteen original stories Hinton takes her trademark themes to a new level through depictions of adults trapped in lives of missed connections and opportunities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HINGingrich, Newt.
Summary: Newt Gingrich, former Congressman and student of Civil War history, has written an astounding book giving us an alternate history of the Civil War. On July 10th, 1863, Baltimore is in the hands of the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Robert E. Lee. Shattered remnants of the defeated Army of the Potomac have fallen back into Washington. Six days earlier, General Ulysses S. Grant...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004