Summary: Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNISummary: Brides of Dracula: "Marianne is traveling to Eastern Europe from Paris for a teaching post. She gets stranded at an inn after her stagecoach mysteriously leaves her. She is persuaded to stay at Baroness Meinster's chateau. During her stay Marianne meets the Baroness's son who is chained to a wall. Feeling bad for the son, Marianne frees him, only to discover that he is a vampire. Luckily for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI SOYSummary: Reporter Bob Wilton is trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails. He gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. With unparalleled psychic powers, they can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat by simply staring at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Men 2010Summary: A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist "Calamity" Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Our 2016Summary: "Get ready for a battle of the ages when the Justice League faces off against its archenemies, the Legion of Doom, in an all-new movie from DC Comics. A mysterious being known as the Time Trapper arises, and a sinister plan led by Lex Luthor sends the Legion of Doom back in time to eliminate Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman before they become super heroes. For Aquaman, Flash and Cyborg, along...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV JLASummary: The young ambitious D'Artagnan arrives aspiring to join the Musketeers, proves he is worthy, and with the others helps save the honor of their Queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber 1997
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THRDexter, Pete
Summary: The mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that eats away at the social fabric of a small town, exposing the hypocrisies of its ways and shattering the lives of its citizens.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXAesop.
Summary: Twenty familiar fables with drawings by a well-known nineteenth-century English illustrator.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1978
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2452 AESSummary: "Set in nineteenth-century England, this gothic ghost story centers around a governess taking care of two orphans in a foreboding Victorian mansion. As eerie apparitions appear and the children's behavior becomes strange, the governess begins to wonder about the fate of the previous governess and her sadistic lover. Could it be that their restless spirits are trying to corrupt the innocence of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR INNKater, Peter.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE KATKater, Peter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE KATDexter, Pete
Summary: Peter and his cousin Michael are drawn into the violence of the mob in Philadelphia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
Summary: In the 1970s and 1980s, before he earned national acclaim for his novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few hundred words, he cut directly to the heart of the American character at a time of national turmoil and crucial change. His columns laid bare the violence, hypocrisy, and desperation he saw on the streets of Philadelphia and in the places he visited across the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 DEXDexter, Pete
Summary: In Florida, fame-hungry journalists reopen an investigation into the murder of a county sheriff. They fabricate false evidence and save the convicted man from being executed, for which they are awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A look at what some people will do to gain fame. By the author of Paris Trout.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete
Summary: Losing his father shortly after birth, Warren Spooner endures a troubled childhood and even more troubled young adulthood that is marked by his dishonorably discharged stepfather, whose inexhaustible patience is tested by the difficult Warren.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXDexter, Pete.
Summary: Now a major motion picture directed by Lee Daniels starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, and Macy Gray, with John Cusack and Nicole Kidman NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished."-- The New York Times Book Review The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Dexter, Pete.
Summary: The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry. Then Ward James, a hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence and aims...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012
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Meters
Contents: You've got to change (you've got to reform) -- Stay away -- Birds -- The flower song -- Soul island -- Do the dirt -- Smiling -- Lonesome and unwanted people -- Gettin' funkier all the time -- Cabbage Alley -- People say -- Love is for me -- Just kissed my baby -- What'cha say -- Jungle man -- Hey pocky a-way -- It ain't no use -- Loving you is on my mind -- Africa -- Out in the country -- Fire...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Entertainment Company 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Hyslop, Leah
Summary: "Whether you prefer a rich fudgy brownie or a comforting cakey blondie, dive into these 50-plus brownie-based solutions to all of life's challenges, big or small"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Absolute 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.8653 HYSAesop/ Imai, Ayano (ILT)
Summary: Presents a collection of thirteen animal fables first told by the Greek slave Aesop.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 AESPablo, Petey.
Contents: Part 2 -- Did you miss me (featuring Baby & TQ) -- Jam y'all -- Freek-a-leek -- O it's on (featuring Young Buck, of G-Unit) -- Let's roc -- Stick 'em up -- Get on dis motorcycle (featuring Bubba Sparxxx) -- Break me off (featuring Missy Elliott) -- Boy's bathroom -- U don't want dat (featuring Lil Jon) -- What you know about it -- I swear -- Roll off -- Be country -- He spoke to me.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jive 2004