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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans Civil rights Alabama Huntsville History 20th century Juvenile literature African Americans in motion pictures Family secrets Fiction Handicraft Huntsville (Ala.) Race relations History 20th century Juvenile literature Large type books New Age music Racism Alabama Huntsville History 20th century Juvenile literature RelaxationJester Hairston
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Schumann Music 1956
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: 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: At first, miserable, greedy old Scrooge can't tolerate the revelry of Christmas, much less comprehend its meaning. But visits from his former business partner's ghost and three cautionary specters from the past, present and future force the man to soul-search.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Christmas 1984Hairston, Andrea
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Hairston, Andrea
Summary: ""[A] beautifully multifaceted story... Highly recommended." -The New York Times Andrea Hairston's historical fantasy Will Do Magic for Small Change presents a tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other. Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But she's always been...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, Tom Doherty Associates 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIHairston, Andrea
Summary: "Winner of the Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award. At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIFenster.
Contents: Better Days -- Sunday Owls -- In the Walls -- Cat Emperor -- True Love -- The Light -- Mirrors -- Fireflies -- On Repeat -- Hit & Run -- 1982 -- Creatures.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Morr Music 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FENDeuter.
Summary: "The Healing Music Series offers works by composers who are pioneering the use of music and sound for healing and enhanced well-being." --Container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Relaxation Co. 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE DEUThompson, Kester.
Summary: From Martinis and Manhattans to sparkling Bellinis and fruity, frozen daiquiris, this user-friendly collection of cocktail recipes will turn anyone into an outstanding bartender! Arranged by spirit type and filled with enticing photographs, it's the perfect introduction to the intimidating world of drink-making. Hundreds of fabulous concoctions are included, from traditional to trendy, from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imagine Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.21 THOBester, Alfred.
Summary: A collection of science fiction stories, most of them reprints from the 1950s. In Hobson's Choice, tourists from the future visit our age to experience a nuclear war, while Adam and No Eve is on the world's last surviving male.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESPester, Sophie
Summary: Get creative with upcycling craft projects from this book and discover materials and techniques you have never used before. Includes 52 projects with DIY ideas for every weekend, ranging from jewellery and accessories to home decoration and furniture. Embroider a notebook, print fabric with starfuit, or make a hanging garden for your bathroom. The projects are easy to accomplish, and you can...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 PESḲreyṭman, Ester
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KREJuster, Norton
Summary: When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Juster 2011Juster, Norton
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1982
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Place a hold to request this item.Jeter, Derek
Summary: A "collection of never-before-published images taken over the course of Derek's final season. Fans will have unprecedented access to The Captain, as the famously private baseball legend takes us behind the scenes inside his home, the stadium, the gym, at his Turn 2 Foundation events, fortieth birthday party, and more as he looks back with candor and gratitude on his baseball career"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 JETSummary: Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage- but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BROJeter, Derek
Summary: "Derek is juggling finals and a baseball tournament during the last few weeks of school, but when his friend Dave starts ignoring him, Derek's perfect summer starts to look less fun"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JETJeter, KW.
Summary: WHEN GEORGE'S FATHER DIED, HE LEFT GEORGE HIS WATCHMAKER SHOP -- AND MORE. But George has little talent for watches and other infernal devices. When someone tries to steal an old device from the premises, George finds himself embroiled in a mystery of time travel, music and sexual intrigue. The classic steampunk tale from the master of the genre. With a nw introduction by the author, and an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey Publishing 2011
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Better Oblivion Community Center (Musical group)
Contents: Didn't know what I was in for -- Sleepwalkin' -- Dylan Thomas -- Service road -- Exception to the rule -- Chesapeake -- My city -- Forest lawn -- Big black heart -- Dominos.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Oceans 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BETFox, Hester
Summary: "In post World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets . . . With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FOXFox, Hester
Summary: Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife's death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor. But not all is as it seems in the sleepy town. Strange, unsettling things have been happening, and the townspeople claim that only one person can be responsible: Sophronia Carver, a reclusive widow who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOXYoung, Hester.
Summary: "From a unique new talent comes a fast-paced debut, introducing a heroine whose dark visions bring to light secrets that will heal or destroy those around her. When New York journalist and recently bereaved mother Charlotte "Charlie" Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children--visions of injured children, dead children--she's sure that she's lost her mind. Yet these are not the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUKester, Eric
Summary: When star quarterback Brett suffers a terrible concussion, his brother Wyatt must decide if keeping his brother's secret is worth the risk to their relationship and their town's economic future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KESHariton, Anca.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1995