Contents: Disc 1 : the 'A' sides Boogie rock / Laurel Aitken & The Boogie Cats -- Dumplin's / Byron Lee & The Dragonaires -- Manny oh / Higgs & Wilson with Ken Richards & His Comets -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Junior with Duke Reid & His Group -- My hearts desire / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & His Group -- Worried over you / Keith & Enid with Trenton Spence & His Group -- Fat man / Derrik Morgan...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sunrise Records

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE STO

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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: Predator: Recruited by the CIA to rescue hostages held by guerrilla fighters in a Central American country, Schwarzenegger and his men encounter an enemy more deadly than any on earth--because the Predator is not of this earth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI PRE

Summary: In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society, leading him to embark on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime that brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego, the Joker.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY JOK

Contents: Tough de times (things getting tough) / (The Emperor) -- Mary / (Preacher Stephens with the Foree Wells Combo) -- Loose lips / (Percy Mayfield) -- No more for you / (Ethel Boswell) -- Hurry back baby / (Camille Howard) -- Caravan / (Chuz Alfred & His Combo) -- Alabama Sue / (Roy Gaines) -- Mambo mambo baby / (Paul Boyers Band) (feat. Pattie Parish) -- Calypso cha cha for spooks / (Monogram...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Jazzman Records 2017

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES JUK

Aliu, Akim

Summary: "Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ALI

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ALI

Summary: Although he's set to retire and looking forward to it, Marcus agrees to help his old partner one last time to discover and stop whoever has been attemptint to assassinate Mike. Now the "old guard", they work with a new division of hotshots on the Miami PD called AMMO -- and find themselves hunting the head of the Aretas Cartel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BAD

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

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BAD

Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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

Summary: Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor, too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to other patients.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1997

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AWA

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AWA

Summary: The Thing: In the winter of 1982, a 12-man research team, at a remote Antarctic research station, discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing alien wreaks havoc, creates terror and takes on the appearance of those it kills.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR JOH

Summary: Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks, advised by his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

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

Summary: A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13

Summary: Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Bennett (Lawrence) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin, whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched off an underground war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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

Alien.

Contents: Everyting I never said -- Frankie the prankster -- Blind summit -- Time timed -- Slow fader -- Honeycreeper -- The pleasure of leisure -- The return of the rat phink -- Progress is progress -- A man's eye -- A killer in the family.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Room 1998

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC Alien

Aries

Contents: Lágrimas I -- Eclipse total -- La fuerza del sonido -- Nieve de noche -- Memorias -- En el océano -- Nuestra casa -- El paseo -- Lágrimas II -- Adieu or die.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Aline

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALI

Anile.

Contents: False tense -- Jack of clubs -- Inside my head -- Don't tell me -- City of injustice -- Losing my mind -- Seventh sound -- Stay with me -- Fortune tells -- Not the way (to run) -- Exchange -- Between the sides -- Running from time

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Med School Music

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ANI

Lawrence

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bridge-Logos Publishers 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.482 Law

Payton, Asie.

Contents: I love you -- Worried life -- Nobody but you -- Please tell me you love me --Asie's jam -- Can't be satisfied -- All I need is you -- Come home with me -- Skinny legs & all -- I love you.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Fat Possum Records 1996

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES PAY

Todd, Zazie

Summary: "Cat people, rejoice! Finally, a fun-to-read yet science-based book about cat behavior that explains how to keep your cat healthy and happy. We all love our cats, and we all want them to be happy. But making our cats happy isn't about buying them lots of things. It's about finding out what matters to them--and this book shows you how to do that, with the science to back it up. In Purr, animal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 TOD

Hirono, Mazie

Summary: "Mazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family's rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIRONO, MAZIE HIR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HIRONO HIR

Rawlence, Ben

Summary: "In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 577.3 RAW

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.3 RAW

Todd, Zazie

Summary: "A psychologist and respected dog trainer shares the secrets to a happy pooch. Did you know that seemingly noiseless electronics may be upsetting your dog? Or that letting her sniff the breeze is one of the best gifts you can give her? Wag bridges the gap between human and canine by demystifying the inner lives of dogs to share evidence-based advice for making them happy. Acclaimed blogger...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 636.7 TOD

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 TOD