Summary: Inspired by the legend of Shields 'Emperor' Green, a descendant of African kings turned outlaw slave in the pre-Civil War South. Seeking freedom for his family, Emperor fights his way north, joining the daring raid on Harper's Ferry and helping alter the course of American history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EmSummary: Jamie, an orphan who must leave his upper-class boarding school to live with an uncle in the wilderness of Manitoba, Canada, has no idea of the incredible adventure that awaits him. During a hunting trip, he and Awasis, a Native American Indian boy, become separated from the group. Finding themselves lost and alone in the icy and dreaded wilderness called The Barrens, their struggle to survive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Feature Films For Families 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LOSSummary: "This two-disc set contains every item that Lester Young recorded for Aladdin including the rare 1942 trio session with Nat Cole and a 1946 Helen Humes date, from which comes a newly discovered instrumental"--Container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ YOUSummary: Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MaSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Frank Butler, handsome star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, bags clay pigeons and ladies' hearts. He's the best marksman in the world--until a backwoods hoyden challenges him. Her name? Annie Oakley.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ANNSummary: After a tragic accident leaves Justin Wadlington blind in his left eye at age five, he develops a unique artistic ability with no formal art training. Despite growing up without parents and living in emergency shelters on the streets of Philadelphia, Wadlington takes advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and begins a journey of ascension to the highest echelon of the fine art world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, 95 min.): After wading in a puddle of radioactive waste, these radical reptiles are transformed into New York City's greatest crime-fighting quartet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TEESummary: Queen Elizabeth's realm is divided, politically unstable and dangerous. We see her troubled reign through the eyes of her spymasters, Willian and Robert Cecil, a father and son team in charge of counter terrorism and the protection of the fragile life of the one woman on whom everything depends. Looks at the entrapment and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, the capture and escape of Catholic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV QUESummary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who find solace in real ale, classical music, and difficult crosswords. Together with his able sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford. (Happy families) When Sir John Balcombe is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSSummary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his condierable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford. (Second time around) The murder of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSHolub, Joan
Summary: Persephone and Aphrodite are continuing the quest to try and find some missing jewels. They end up meeting a lost bunny in their travels, who is looking for the Castle of What-Ifs. The girls end up in a magical, delicious land, where they meet a unicorn made of chocolate, with a very special crown--one that might be the key to finding one of the missing jewels!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin QUIX 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Little HolubContents: Theme from "Blonde" (4:00) -- Party time (4:32) -- The blues for Norma Jean (4:47) -- The road to my heart (instrumental)(2:23) -- Cool pads (2:55) -- Heat (the slow burn)(6:06) -- Chelsea bridge (2:40) -- The big time bounce (3:04) -- One sunny day (3:48) -- Firelight (4:20) -- I can't give you anything but love (2:34) -- You're my dream (4:51) -- Easy street (4:50) -- Me and my baby (3:51) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playboy Jazz 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BloShields, Carol.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIShields, Carol.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHIShields, David
Summary: "An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate, about life and art-cocktails included. Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he's a stay-at-home dad to three young girls). David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he has overcommitted to art. At antipodes since first meeting twenty-five years ago, they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SHIShields, Kieran.
Summary: Investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1892 Portland, Maine, Deputy Marshal Archie Lean discovers that the victim was ritually executed as a witch, and enlists the help of a criminologist with whom he follows a trail to the spiritual societies of gothic New England.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHICharles Grean
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollis Music ,Inc. 1950
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMShields, Breeana
Summary: "When Juliette's sister, Clare, returns from her birthday week at the magical hotel upon a hill, she comes back changed ... Deeply unsettled, Juliette uses the last of her savings to book a stay at the Splendor and unravel its mysteries. Run by the talented young illusionist, Henri, the halls are full of magnificent delights and alluring distractions. Every wonder seems to twist Juliette's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHIShields, Carol.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIShields, Carol.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Shields, Aomawa
Summary: "A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for life in the universe while building a meaningful life here on Earth. As a child, Aomawa Shields was always bumping into things, her neck craned up at the sky, dreaming of becoming an astronaut. One year into an astrophysics PhD program, she was plagued by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHIELDS, AOMAWA SHIShields, Brooke
Summary: A little girl welcomes her new baby sister home from the hospital and takes joy in telling and showing her all the activities and experiences they will share.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Groen, Hendrik
Summary: "Nine years before the events of the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old, Hendrik and his best friend Evert embark on a madcap adventure -- with an unexpected guest. Hendrik Groen and Evert Duiker, faithful friends in good and bad times, are well over seventy and their lives have quieted down. They see each other once a week to play chess, have a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021