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Gideon, Melville.

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Herman Darewski Music Pub. Co. 1918

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Summary: 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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Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV O

Summary: At New York's hottest restaurant, things are really heating up. Owner and bookie Louis Cropa lost a friend to a mob hit and now his chef's gambling problem has brought the unwelcome mobsters into their restaurant.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DIN

Summary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROO

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROO

Summary: Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD L

Summary: When a group of rambunctious teenagers inadvertently kills his only son, Ed Harley seeks the magic of a backwoods witch to bring the child back. Defying superstition, he and the witch invoke the Pumpkinhead, a monstrously clawed and fanged demon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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Summary: Five years after the shocking events that rocked her hometown in New Zealand, Detective Robin Griffin has returned to Sydney and is trying to rebuild her life. When the unidentified body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin realizes "China Girl" didn't die alone.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TOP

Darby, Anabel

Summary: Fodor's Essential New Zealand travel guide is packed with customizable itineraries with top recommendations, detailed maps of New Zealand, and exclusive tips from locals. Whether you want to explore Auckland, bungee-jump in Queenstown, or visit The Lord of the Rings sights in Middle-earth, this up-to-date guidebook will help you plan it all out.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fodor's Travel 2910

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 NEW ZEALAND TRAVEL

Birdy

Contents: Skinny Love (3:23) -- Wings (4:12) -- Heart Of Gold (3:34) -- Light Me Up (US Version) (3:59) -- Words As Weapons (US Version) (3:41) -- All You Never Say (US Version) (4:28) -- Strange Birds (3:03) -- Maybe (3:14) -- No Angel (4:03) -- All About You (4:37) -- Standing In The Way of The Light (4:04) -- Shine (4:04) -- People Help The People (4:16).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Records 2011

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Birdy

Contents: Paradise calling -- Raincatchers -- Ruins I -- Your arms -- Heartbreaker -- I wish I was a shooting star -- Portraits -- Ruins II -- Automatic -- Battlefield -- Tears don't fall.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BIR

Summary: Angelina in the wings: Angelina can't believe that Henry has the part she had set her heart on and, to make matters worse, she's his understudy. Treasure tandems: Angelina and Alice, beset by detours and accidents, are desperate to beat the Pinkpaw twins in the village rac . Two mice in a boat: Angelina and Sammy disagree on the decorations for the boat-decorating contest and, as a result,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HIT Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ANG

Summary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOU

Summary: During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA PAT

Valério, Geraldo

Summary: "This stunning exploration of butterflies from around the world is a companion to My Book of Birds. Geraldo Valério grew up in Brazil, watching white butterflies visit the vegetable patch behind his house. As he got older, he learned more about these unique and beautiful insects, which can be found on every continent except Antarctica. In this gorgeous album, Geraldo presents his favorite...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.78 VAL

Pino, Geraldo.

Contents: Heavy heavy heavy -- Let them talk -- Africans must unite -- Shake hands -- Power to the people -- Let's have a party -- Born to be free -- Man pass man, iron de cut iron -- Right in the centre -- On the spot -- Black woman experience -- Afro soco soul live.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RetroAfric 2005

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN Pino

Walker, Jerald

Summary: "Personal essays exploring identity, family, and community through the prism of race and black culture. Confronts the medical profession's racial biases, shopping while black at Whole Foods, the legacy of Michael Jackson, raising black boys, haircuts that scare white people, racial profiling, and growing up in Southside Chicago"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 WAL

Summary: It's Christmas and Angelina is auditioning for the lead role in the musical extravaganza 'Cinderella Mouse and the Ugly Whiskers'. She is devastated when Pricilla Pinkpaws is chosen to play Cinderella and she gets cast as the Wicked Stepmouse. Things go from bad to worse and the production might have to be cancelled. Realizing her selfishness, Angelina becomes determined to set things straight.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hit Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ANG

Summary: Mick St. John is a private investigator 'living' in Los Angeles. Mick's bride turned him into a vampire on the couple's wedding night fifty-five years earlier. In the present day, he struggles with his love for a mortal woman, his dealings with other vampires and other criminal elements.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOO

Kerby, Mona.

Summary: In 1888, Owney, a stray terrier puppy, finds a home in the Albany, New York, post office and becomes its official mascot as he rides the mail train through the Adirondacks and beyond, criss-crossing the United States, into Canada and Mexico, and eventually traveling around the world by mail boat in 132 days.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2008

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC KER

Kirkby, Bruce

Summary: "A warm and unforgettable portrait of a family letting go of the known world to encounter an unfamiliar one filled with rich possibilities and new understandings. Bruce Kirkby had fallen into a pattern of looking mindlessly at his phone for hours, flipping between emails and social media, ignoring his children and wife and everything alive in his world, when a thought struck him. This wasn't...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KIR

Summary: Comprising elements of travelogue, history lesson, biography, critical analysis, psychological study, and fan testimonial, this documentary explores the work and influence of German writer W.G. Sebald, via a long walk through coastal East Anglia, retracing the steps he took in his most famous book, The rings Of Saturn. Includes interviews with writers, artists, and filmmakers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild/Spark 2012

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PAT

Summary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRI

Valerio, Geraldo

Summary: A little girl falls asleep, her book in hand, and as she dreams an astonishing adventure unfolds. This wordless picture book celebrates the joy and freedom that can be found in stories, dreams and the imagination.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VAL

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