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 PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKSummary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHEConnolly, M. T. (Marie-Therese)
Summary: "An elder justice expert uncovers the failures in the systems that are supposed to protect us as we age, and provides a battle plan for families and policy-makers to counter the greed and incompetence. Between 1900 and 2000, Americans gained, on average,thirty years of life. That dazzling feat allowed tens of millions of Americans to reach the once-rare age of 85, now the fastest-growing age...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 CONFormat: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dust-to-Digital 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: Follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, under constant attack by those it borders--land developers, an Indian reservation, and America's first National Park. It is an intense study of a violent world far from media scrutiny--where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world's largest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YELCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV YELCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD YELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YELLVarious artists
Contents: Don't forget about us / Mariah Carey -- Stickwitu / Pussycat Dolls -- Grillz / Nelly featuring Paul Wall and Ali & Gipp -- Run it! / Chris Brown -- My humps / Black Eyed Peas -- If it's lovin' that you want / Rihanna -- Fresh AZMIZ / Bow Wow featuring J-Kwon and Jermaine Dupri -- Lean wit it, rock wit it / Dem Franchize Boyz featuring Peanut and Charlay -- Stay fly / Three 6 Mafia featuring...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution 2005
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWSummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROODiVencenzo, Maria T.
Summary: A child overcomes his fears by instructing the creatures in his nightmare to help with household chores.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Winterlake Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DIVBailey, Maria T.
Contents: Taking aim at the mom market -- Talking about my generation -- Working it: mothers in the office -- Baby boomers: parenting pioneers -- Gen X marks the spot -- Generation Y not? -- Silver birds, gilded wallets -- Messages for moms -- Reaching the right moms the write way -- Getting moms buzzing through public relations -- Connecting with moms through brand experiences -- Moms online and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dearborn Trade Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.83 BAIFord, Carin T.
Summary: Explains the early plight of the slaves and their run for freedom during and after the Civil War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7115 FORKenyon, T. K.
Summary: "Examines the madness of blind faith in either religion or science."--Book jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: KUNATI, Inc. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENSummary: An anthology of ten stories by young adult authors about surprising and unusual collections.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC COLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLLogan, Marie T.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Claitor's Pub. Division 1970
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 917.6228 LoganSummary: Charlie has a close encounter with his long-deceased dad. Alan, after a few resumé embellishments, tries his hand at online dating. Jake swaps his Harry Potter posters for the joys of hottie wall art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWOSummary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELVandelly, T. Marie
Summary: For the lucky among us, life is what you make of it, but for Dixie Wheeler, the theme music for her story was chosen by another long ago, on the day her father butchered her mother and brothers and then slashed a knife across his own throat. Only one-year-old Dixie was left alive, infamously known as Baby Blue for the song left playing in the aftermath of the slaughter. Twenty-five years later,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this hilarious fifth season, Charlie tops the charts as kiddie-song sensation Charlie Waffles, Alan at last meets the perfect woman, Jake starts junior high, armed with 'helpful' advice from Alan and Charlie, and Evelyn ties the knot for the fifth time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWOSummary: When three parents discover their daughters' pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLOSummary: After Cesar's major league career is cut short, he returns to his native Monterey, Mexico. Once back home, a group of impoverished baseball-loving kids recruit him to coach their ragtag team. Together, they beat the odds and overcome hardships and bigotry to compete in the 1957 Little League World Series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PERAnderson, M. T.
Summary: Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANDM Travis T Williams
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: American Music, Inc. 1947