Summary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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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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Summary: It's the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. As the Reverend Will Davenport unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating finds himself trying to repair his own marriage to estranged wife Cathy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013

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Johns, Geoff

Summary: The Flash races into adventure in this incredible new edition of a classic trade paperback collecting THE FLASH #170-176, plus stories from THE FLASH SECRET FILES and IRON HEIGHTS, written by Geoff Johns! Featuring art by fan-favorites Ethan Van Sciver (GREEN LANTERN), Scott Kolins (Beyond) and more!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2002

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Johns, Geoff

Summary: While Hal Jordan is inducted into the Green Lantern Corps, the Green Lantern called Sinestro investigates the death of Hal's predecessor, Abin Sur. Who--or what-- could have killed this Lantern? And what does it all have to do with the event called "The Blackest Night"?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010

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Johns, Geoff

Summary: While dealing with personal issues within the JSA, members Atom Smasher, Black Adam, Mr. Terrific, Dr. Mid-Nite, Sand, Hawkman, and Hawkgirl are abducted by Roulette to participate in her version of gladiator games.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2003

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Johns, Geoff

Summary: Features a story that reintroduces the team's greatest champion, Steve Trevor; and Green Arrow intends to join the Justice League, but one member stands against this: Aquaman. Then the Justice League faces an all-new major nemesis!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2013

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Johns, Madison.

Summary: Senior snoop, Agnes Barton, has taken up residence in a Winnebago at a campground in East Tawas, Michigan. It’s not the ideal place for a woman of seventy-two to live, but she’s making do. She had planned to start a detective agency with partner in crime, Eleanor Mason, but a snag with the license has them free wheeling it, not that it matters because they are the ones folks call when dead...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013

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Johns McDermott

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Will Rossiter 1906

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Johns, Geoff

Summary: Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps must join forces with their rivals of the other colors to battle the Black Lanterns, an army of undead superheroes and villains--all their deceased friends and foes--who are out to destroy all life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010

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Johns, Geoff

Summary: The United States government creates an answer to the Justice League by bringing together the world's most dangerous heroes to form the Justice League of America.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dc Comics 2013

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Johns, Ana

Summary: "Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura's prearranged marriage to the son of her father's business associate would secure her family's status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man--an American sailor, a gaijin--and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it's learned Naoko carries the sailor's child, she's cast out in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row 2019

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Johns, Geoff

Summary: Where or what is the Justice Society of America? Who is Wally West? As the answers to the mysteries plaguing our heroes reveal themselves one thing is certain. Their world will never be the same. With the Earth teetering on the brink of an international super-war, Black Adam and his followers make their move while our heroes are busy elsewhere. Dr. Manhattan has set his endgame into motion. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020

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Johns, Geoff

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2003

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Johns, Geoff

Summary: Sinestro journeys to Korugar with one purpose, to free his homeworld.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2012

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Johns, Patricia

Summary: "As a bishop's daughter and good Amish mother, widowed Sadie Hochstetler teaches her young son that God blesses those who try their best to please Him. But her brief marriage taught her that life is infinitely more complicated than that. Older, and serious, her late husband seemed a sensible choice-especially compared to Elijah Fisher, the spirited boy with whom she butted heads and hearts....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019

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Johns, Roger

Summary: "Dark River Rising is a tense and expertly-plotted mystery set against the bayous of Louisiana, from debut author Roger Johns. Baton Rouge Police Detective Wallace Hartman has had better days. With her long-time partner and mentor on medical leave and a personal life in shambles, she's called to the scene of a particularly gruesome murder: the body of a known criminal has been found in a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017

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Mendez, Jonna

Summary: "Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife," a second-class citizen who was hired as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Switzerland. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to her apartment, and she performed menial duties for the CIA. Despite battling sexism at all levels of the agency, Mendez's talent for espionage was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2024

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