Summary: A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GRESummary: After a bridegroom is shot on the steps of the church on his wedding day, his widow traces the group of men responsible and eliminates them one by one.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BRISummary: The lectures in Part 6 bring the progress of philosophy into the present day, beginning with the work of Nietzsche and the American pragmatists William James and John Dewey. This section explains the work and consequence of modern linguistic and logical analysis in lectures on Ayer and Wittgenstein. Also discussed is the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss and the attempts to develop rational...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRELaws, Hubert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LAWBolling, Claude.
Contents: California (Main title) -- Love theme from California suite -- Black battle -- Hanna's daughter -- Black folks -- Hanna's theme -- Academy awards -- Beverly Hills -- California (End credits).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC CLASummary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Summary: Introduces the most popular characters from the X-Men universe, including Wolverine, Storm, and Cyclops.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A retired officer must uncover the identity of a mass murderer who is killing off the potential heirs to a family fortune. The only clues are the names on the list of murdered heir Adrian Messenger. The tension builds as the final evil unfolds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LISHibbert, Clare
Summary: "Few people stop to consider they're not alone in their body. It's thought that the human body contains 10 times more bacteria than cells, in fact! Luckily, many of these microorganisms are harmless to us--and some are even very helpful. This fascinating look at nature's smallest life-forms is a high-interest introduction to the world of bacteria, viruses, and other microbes."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612 HIBHibbert, Clare
Summary: Get ready to take a leap into the water in this exciting exploration of pond habitats. This volume examines different kinds of pond habitats, and the creatures that are found both in the water and on its edge, from bass to grass snakes to herons. Readers will learn about life cycles, ecosystems, and conservation, which are important curricula-based science topics. This volume pairs compelling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.6 HIBSummary: 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 TWISummary: Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ShoCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHOSummary: Based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet. The two embark on one of the most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BonnieLevi, Herbert Walter
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: J 595.7 LEVLewis, Marjorie Herrera
Summary: "In Marjorie Herrera Lewis's debut historical novel the inspiring true story of high school teacher Tylene Wilson--a woman who surprises everyone as she breaks with tradition to become the first high school football coach in Texas--comes to life. Football is the heartbeat of Brownwood, Texas. Every Friday night for as long as assistant principal Tylene Wilson can remember, the entire town has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION LEWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lewis 2018Summary: "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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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUHyde, Lewis
Summary: In this lively, carefully argued, and well-documented book, Hyde brings the past to bear on present matters, shedding fresh light on everything from the Human Genome Project to Bob Dylan's musical root, revealing a vision of how to reclaim the commonwealth of art and ideas that we were meant to inherit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001 HYDHyde, Lewis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 HYDChude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah
Summary: "The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angeles--a fierce and funny memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming-to-America story"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUDE-SOKEI, LOUIS ONUORAH CHUSummary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MISMerberg, Julie.
Summary: Provides a simple introduction to the work of French artist Claude Monet, featuring his Impressionist paintings of city and country scenes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2003
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE MERSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009