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...
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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
Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: "After Hitler took over power in 1933, many Jewish artists were forced to leave Germany. Wilhelm Furtwängler chose to stay, serving as one of Germany's foremost cultural assets. Though never a member of the Party, Furtwängler was the recipient of government honors and appointments associated with Party members. However, the conductor often used his position and contacts to save hundreds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAKSummary: Enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton receives a strange gift from his ne'er-do-well younger brother on his 48th birthday: A voucher for a game that will change his life. Thus begins a trip down a rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewer alike. This is a surreal multilayered, noirish descent into one man's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In this murder mystery, a woman can not remember the man who claims to be her husband following the murder of a young girl. The woman's uncle runs a mystery radio show, which brings up the questions of who committed the murder, why they murder the girl and who is the man claiming to be her husband."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Bros. 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY UNSSummary: 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 INSJayWood
Contents: Intro (end of an era) -- God is a reptile -- Pray, move on -- All night long -- Just sayin -- Is it true? (dreams pt. 3) -- Kitchen floor -- Shine -- Tulips -- Ygbo -- interlude -- Thank you -- Arrival (outro).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JAYSummary: Charlie St. Cloud is a small-town hero and an accomplished sailor who has it all: the adoration of his mother and younger brother and a Stanford scholarship. His bright future is cut short when tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. Now Charlie is torn between honoring a promise he made years ago and pursuing his newfound love with a former high school classmate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHASummary: Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: When Flynn, the world's greatest video game creator, sends out a secret signal from an amazing digital realm, his son discovers the clue and embarks on a personal journey to save his long-lost father. With the help of the fearless female warrior Quorra, father and son venture through an incredible cyber universe and wage the ultimate battle of good versus evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRO RATED PGSummary: Tales of terror: three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The facts in the case of M....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 2007
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR VINSummary: The rumor circling the halls is that Beecham House (the home for retired musicians) is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it's a star. Reginald, Wilfred and Cecily are in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean. Her subsequent career as a star soloist, and the ego that accompanied it, split up their long friendship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUA RATED PG-13Summary: The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Henwood, Chris.
Summary: Topics covered include housing, feeding, health, purchasing, breeding, colors, and varieties.x.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: T.F.H. Publications 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.932 HENHeawood, Sophie
Summary: What happens when you have an unplanned baby on your own in your mid-thirties before you've worked out how to look after yourself, let alone a child? This is the story of one woman's adventures in single motherhood. About what it's like raising a baby on your own when you're more at home on the dance floor than in the kitchen. It's about how to invent the concept of the two-person family when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEAWOOD, SOPHIE HEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio HeawoodHaywood, Eliza Fowler
Contents: The Injur'd Husband -- Lasselia -- Notes to the Novels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 1999
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM FIC HAYHeywood, Joseph.
Summary: Hard Ground is a treasure chest of stories for lovers of the outdoors, fans of smart crime fiction, and, of course, the legions of Joseph Heywood fans. Featuring the game-warden colleagues of Woods Cop star Grady Service, the tales in this collection follow the men and women patrolling Michigan's wilds as they encounter everything from poachers determined to defend their kills with deadly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M HEYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HEYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY HEYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P HEYHeywood, Joseph.
Summary: A treasure chest of stories for Joseph Heywood fans, featuring the women game-warden colleagues of his mystery series star Grady Service. With Heywood’s trademark ability to capture the eccentric characters of the Michigan wilderness, his wonderful ear for dialogue, and his vivid descriptions of hunting, fishing, and outdoorsmanship, these stories will delight Heywood fans and entice any reader...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MI Fiction HeyCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HEYHeywood, Claire
Summary: "Nationally bestselling author of Daughters of Sparta Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative and female-centered reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, told through the voices of three women who are sidelined in the traditional version - his mother Danae, his trophy Medusa, and his wife Andromeda - but whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEYHeywood, Joseph.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1757 HEYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 799.1 HeyHeywood, Joseph.
Summary: In 1960, a group of Red Army officers are planning to have Khrushchev assassinated. At the same time a CIA officer linked to the planned Bay of Pigs invasion vows vengence after an ambush and disappears. The two plots converge at the 1961 summit in Vienna.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HeyCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HEYHeywood, Joseph.
Summary: "Former Rough Rider turned Michigan game warden Lute Bapcat learns that the deputy warden from Ontonagon County has gone missing and must navigate one of the Michigan Upper Peninsula's most lawless places on his search"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M HEYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M HEYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HEYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY HEYHeywood, Joseph.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2006