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...
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
Summary: Activist Guy Fawkes and a group of disgruntled, persecuted provincial Catholics conspire to work together to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I in the early seventeenth century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vision Films 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUNSummary: The story of the musical Carter and Cash families, the dynasty at the heart of country music. Starting with the Original Carter Family, A.P., Sara, and Maybelle, this film traces the flow of their influence through generations of musicians, the transformation of that act into the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle, the marriage of Johnny Cash and June Carter, and the efforts of the present-day...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WINSummary: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana Spencer, struggling with mental health problems, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPEHandsome Boy Modeling School (Musical group)
Contents: Intro / featuring Father Guido Sarducci -- If it wasn't for you / featuring De La Soul and Starchild Excalibur -- Are you down with it / featuring Mike Patton -- The world's gone mad / featuring Del the Funky Homospaien, Barrington Levy & Alex Kapranos -- Dating game / featuring Tim Meadows, Hines Buchanan and introducing Neelam -- Breakdown / featuring Jack Johnson -- Its like that / featuring...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP HANSummary: Wild horses: Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a 15-year-old missing person case and uncovers evidence that suggests the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man Scott Briggs. Samantha will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy's death - even putting her own life in jeopardy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf : distributed by Random House 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.309 ARRGottesfeld, Jeff
Summary: "With every step, the Tomb Guards pay homage to America's fallen. Discover their story, and that of the unknown soldiers they honor, through resonant words and illustrations. Keeping vigil at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in Arlington National Cemetery, are the sentinel guards, whose every step, every turn, honors and remembers America's fallen. They protect fellow soldiers who have paid the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOTSummary: Once upon a time, Dicky Eklund was known as the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts. There isn't a person in Lowell who doesn't know about the time that Dicky knocked down the great Sugar Ray Leonard. By the early 1990s, Dicky's crack addiction has soured everything, although he dreams of making a comeback. The real contender is his half-brother Micky Ward. 31-year-old Micky is an unassuming nice...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIGBarber, Barrington.
Contents: Introduction -- Materials and equipment -- Basic mark-making -- Shading practice -- Still life -- Perspective and composition -- Landscapes -- Animals -- Portraits -- Life drawing -- Index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcturus 2013
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.2 BARGus Gus
Contents: Thin ice (8:24) -- Hateful (9:37) -- On the job (10:50) -- Take me baby (feat. Jimi Tenor) (3:58) -- Bremen cowboy (7:51) -- Add this song (11:35).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Kompakt 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC GUSBurrington, Ingrid
Summary: What does the Internet look like? It’s the single most essentail aspect of modern life, and yet, for many of us, the Internet looks like an open browser, or the black mirrors of our phones and computers. But in Networks of New York, Ingrid Burrington lifts our eyes from our screens to the streets, showing us that the Internet is everywhere around us, all the time—we just have to know where to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004 BURCarrington, Stephanie
Summary: Whale sharks live in an ocean full of amazing creatures, but these massive aquatic beasts stand apart because of their size, and with that comes fascinating features, such as having 3,000 tiny teeth. Through full-color photographs and easy-to-read text, young readers explore the seas through their eyes, seeing for themselves how these astonishingly large animals survive in the wild. These...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 597.3 CARSummary: August 1896: Victorian London is rocked to its foundations by a supernatural event which gives certain people, mostly women, abnormal abilities, from the wondrous to the disturbing. An epic fantasy/science fiction drama about a gang of Victorian women who find themselves with unusual abilities, relentless enemies, and a mission that might very well change the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NEVBarber, Barrington
Summary: Barrington Barber's complete introduction to drawing is a comprehensive, easy-to-use book that will take your drawing skills to new levels. Beginning with the basics, the author leads you step by step, from simple mark making through to carefully thought-out exercises on composing and drawing still life, landscapes, portraits, and figures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 BARBarber, Barrington.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcturus 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.2 BARWoods, Stuart
Summary: "Teddy Fay is back in Hollywood and caught in two tricky situations. First, a rising star at Centurion becomes the target of malicious gossip, and Teddy must find and neutralize the source before the situation gets out of hand - or becomes violent. At the same time, Teddy finds himself targeted by a criminal thug bearing a grudge. It's a lot of knives to juggle, even for a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOWoods, Stuart
Summary: "While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Studios’ business by making a deal with a young Croatian tech billionaire. But when the magnate’s wife is kidnapped, Teddy Fay is brought in to assess the threat and recover the young woman. As Teddy unravels the threads of her disappearance, he quickly comes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Sofie Metropolis longs for a return to investigating mundane missing pet cases, but her Christmas wish does not come true as she takes a kidnapping case that puts her life at risk.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARWarrington, Freda
Summary: "A painting, depicting haunting scenes of a ruined palace and a scarlet-haired goddess in front of a fiery city, arrives unheralded in an art gallery with a cryptic note saying, "The world needs to see this." The painting begins to change the lives of the woman who is the gallery's curator and that of an ancient man of the fey Aetherial folk who has mysteriously risen from the depths of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARBarber, Barrington
Summary: Dynamic and engaging, the human figure is an enduringly popular subject for artists, presenting constant challenges and many rewards. This comprehensive anatomy book covers everything you need to know to make accurate, convincing drawings of the figure. It shows the bone structure, muscle layers, and surface views of every part of the human body, as well as looking at how master artists have...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcturus 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 743.4 BARKing, Barrington.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINLevy, Barrington.
Contents: Englishman -- If you give to me -- Sister Carol -- Don't fuss nor fight -- Look girl -- Look youthman -- Send a Moses -- Black heart man -- Money makes friends -- Bend your back -- Englishman (12" mix) -- Daughter them irie -- Sister Carol (12" mix) -- Put on me clarks.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Greensleeves Records, Ltd., Zest Music 1992