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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Courage Juvenile fiction Feature films Folklore Polynesia Legends Polynesia Polynesia Juvenile fiction Reilly, Nina (Fictitious character) Fiction Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc Juvenile fiction Women lawyers FictionSummary: 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
Ferry, Beth
Summary: Derwood the goat has planted a garden and is prepared to defend it from all nibblers, including Tabitha the bunny, whom Derwood is convinced has designs on his growing vegetables; she teases him as the months go by, but after she helps him with the weeding the two become friends and share the feast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERHeinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson)
Summary: A youth and his father emigrate from the mechanical and organized world on overpopulated Earth to become colonists on Ganymede, the third moon of Jupiter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1950
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEIBrown, Rachel W. N.
Summary: Small Camel is given the honor to carry a very important package on a journey, as his master Balthazar, a wise man, goes in search of Baby Jesus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BrownSummary: On the eve of World War II, Roy, a British officer, revisits Waterloo Bridge where he and Myra met and fell in love during an air raid at the beginning of World War I. Heartbroken after Roy was reportedly killed in action, Myra turned to prostitution to make her way. The report, however, was false, and when Roy returns from a POW camp, Myra's shattered spirit may no longer hold any room for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WATSummary: Presents a collection of mystery stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets and falls in love with the devout Christian, Lygia. She doesn't want to have anything to do with the warrior. Though Lygia grew up Roman, and as the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia is not happy about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Quo 2008Summary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When the head of NASA's manned Mars mission discovers that the capsule meant to carry the astronauts will suffer a catastrophic failure, he forces them to participate in a hoax by broadcasting their 'Mission' from a studio built at an abandoned air force base. Over many months, the astronauts are forced to film broadcasts on their progress. They find out that they are to die upon re-entry. An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Petry, Ann
Summary: "The Street follows Lutie Johnson, a young, newly single mother, as she struggles to make a better life for her son, Bub. An intimate account of the aspirations and challenges of black, female, working-class life, much of it set on a single block in Harlem, the novel exposes structural inequalities in American society while telling a complex human story, as overpriced housing, lack of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETSummary: Vienna-born, New York-raised Josef von Sternberg directed some of the most influential, stylish dramas ever to come out of Hollywood. Though best known for his star-making collaborations with Marlene Dietrich, von Sternberg began his career during the final years of the silent era, dazzling audiences and critics with his film's dark visions and innovative cinematography. The titles in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: First appearing on newsstands in late 1952, Manhunt was the acknowledged successor to Black Mask, which had ceased publication the year before, as the venue for high-quality crime fiction. By April of 1956 it was being billed as the World s Best-Selling Crime-Fiction Magazine. On its pages, over its 14-year run, appeared a veritable Who s Who of the world s greatest mystery writers including:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stark House Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESWhiteford, Merry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHILiu, Marjorie M.
Summary: "Chinese American twins, Milly and Billy, are having a tough time. On top of the multiple failures in their personal and professional lives, they're struggling to keep their restaurant afloat. Luckily their parents, Ipo and Keon, are in town for their annual visit. Having immigrated from Hong Kong before the twins were born, Ipo and Keon have supported their children through thick and thin and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Comicarts 2022
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LIUPeery, Janet
Summary: Gathering on a summer evening to celebrate the birthday of their ailing patriarch, the Campbell family confronts the difficult realities of an offspring's addiction problems, his mother's enabling behaviors, and his siblings' conflicted views.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEESummary: "Inside the walls of St. Vincent's Orphanage, young boys fall victim to sexual, physical and emotional abuse at the hands of their guardians. Henry Czerny gives a terrifying performance as Brother Lavin, the head of the orphanage who must juggle the teachings of the church with his own personal demons. The plight of the boys under his care remains a secret until the orphanage janitor and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYO'Shaughnessy, Perri.
Summary: Attorney Nina Reilly needs a fresh start. In three years, she's taken on some of Lake Tahoe's most controversial cases and has turned her struggling one-woman law firm into a thriving practice. Now she's ready to sort out her complex relationship with her boyfriend Monterey P.I. Paul van Wagoner. So she's heading to the Carmel Valley, the place where she began her career and where her estranged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSHO'Shaughnessy, Perri.
Summary: In the mountain resort town of South Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly is known for taking on the underdog cases. She is called to meet with a desperate new client who has just hit a huge slot machine jackpot, and the men in suits are waiting to hand her the check just as soon as she tells them her real identity. Nina helps her client devise a brilliant plan to collect the money while keeping her true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'SHSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIFranceschelli, Christopher.
Summary: Teaches the numbers from one to one hundred by showing how a certain number of objects can become something else, from one acorn growing into an oak tree to one hundred puzzle pieces becoming one large puzzle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Sperry, Armstrong
Summary: Based on a Polynesian legend, a young Polynesian boy, whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994