Contents: Disc 1. Dark road -- Disc 2. Tuesday's child -- Disc 3. The moth catcher -- Disc 4. The sea glass.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope and her assistant Detective Sergeant Aiden Healy work to solve four more perplexing cases, set in rural Northumberland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The indomitable Vera and her trusted team unravel more complex cases, exploring stories of corporate corruption, organized crime and deeply buried personal guilt" --Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VERSummary: The central character is Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope. Who is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. If she's lonely she doesn't show it and faces the world with caustic wit, guile, and courage. Her trusted and long suffering colleague is Sergeant Joe Ashworth. Together they approach every new case with unparalleled gusto and professionalism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VERContents: Imaginational anthem (2004) (Max Ochs) -- Bouba's bounce (Brad Barr) -- Train Z (Suni McGrath) -- Lake Shore Drive (Slight return) (Harris Newman) -- Dorian sonata (Harry Taussig) -- White mule III (Jack Rose) -- My thoughts began to crystallize (Steve Mann) -- The little dog's day (Glenn Jones) -- La cigale = The locust (Gyan Riley & Terry Riley) -- Low barometer (Bern Nix) -- Celtic reverie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tompkins Square 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK IMASummary: Same Genius. New World. Florence is thrown into chaos in the wake of the Pazzi conspiracy and Leonardo da Vinci must push the limits of his mind and body to defend the city against the forces of Rome. When the dust settles, friends are buried and rivalries are enflamed. While the Medicis go to unthinkable lengths to deal with new threats, da Vinci continues on his quest to find the fabled Book...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DAJiles, Paulette
Summary: The story of two different families, headed by a former slave and by a Quaker, who settle in Texas during the Civil War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILJiles, Paulette
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hungry Mind 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 JIL1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 970.3 JIL
Jiles, Paulette
Summary: "In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JILJiles, Paulette
Summary: Follows Adair, the daughter of modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks, who is wrongly accused of enemy collaboration by the Union militia, as she falls in love with her interrogator and embarks on a periloous journey to find her family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILJiles, Paulette
Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JILJones, Ripley
Summary: Despite their resolution to avoid mysteries and podcasts, Cam and Blair re-enter investigative mode when Mattie Brosillard seeks their help, convinced that someone is impersonating her sister Lola, who disappeared five years ago.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC JONSummary: Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey's own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AILSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Jiles, Paulette
Summary: "Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the better part of a year as he struggled to regain his senses and mobility. By the time he returned home, the Civil War was over, but tragedy awaited. John's beloved sister and her family had been brutally murdered. Their killer goes by many names. He fought for the North in the late unpleasantness,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction JilesJiles, Paulette
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Jiles, Paulette
Summary: "In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILJiles, Paulette
Summary: Four Texas women struggle against nature and opportunists on their Brazos River ranch during the Great Depression.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILJones, Ripley
Summary: High school juniors and best friends Blair and Cameron start a true crime podcast to investigate an unsolved murder in their hometown, and after making a startling discovery, they accuse a potentially innocent man of murder on one of their episodes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC JONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC JONSummary: 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: A concert film of the 2007 Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus tour. Start backstage before the concert. Then you see Hannah sing 'Rock Star.' The Jonas Brothers come onstage to sing with the Hannah, and then by themselves. While they are performing, Hannah goes backstage and switches to Miley. Compared to Hannah's songs, Miley's are a little edgier, slightly sexier, as she sings the sisterhood anthem...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2008