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
Lille, Mari-Liis.
Summary: Enter the magical world of Lilleliis. With this book in one hand and your crochet hook in the other, you will be able to create these 15 wonderful amigurumi designs. Lilleliis' handmade toys have a wide array of details you will love: the cutest color combinations, the sweetest expressions and little fabric details, this book offers the opportunity to surprise your family and friends with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Meteoor Books 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A dead showman looks down upon the Earth and dreams of his perfect show.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ZIECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZIESummary: 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: The film depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young performers, and, for the very few, stardom and success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: Three separate stories about love in Puerto Rico: a man accidentally reveals his brother's extra-marital affair to his sister-in-law when he mistakes her grief over the death of her grandmother for distress about the infidelity. The next story revolves around a man whose love for a bus driver drives him to take her and the bus passengers hostage until she consents to marriage. In the final...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MALSummary: Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot, individual tableaus that parallel Christ's journey to his own crucifixion, this film is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STAContents: Special stream line (Bukka White) (2:53) -- Railroadin' some (Henry Thomas) (3:15) -- How long has that evening train been gone (Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell) (2:50) -- Riding the blinds (Eddie Mapp) (2:45) -- Midnight special (Leadbelly) (2:02) -- I hate that train called the M & O (Lucille Bogan) (3:07) -- That lonesome train took my baby away (Charlie McCoy) (2:59) -- Spike driver blues...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ROUSummary: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, and Natalie Wood star in a moving, romantic drama about a soldier, previously thought lost in action, who returns years later to find his wife remarried.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOMSummary: Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SILSummary: "December 1897, Paris. Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties. He has not written anything for two years. In desperation, he offers the great Constant Coquelin a new play, a heroic comedy, in verse, for the holidays. Only concern: it is not written yet. Ignoring the whims of actresses, the demands of his Corsican producers, the jealousy of his wife, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CYRKelis
Contents: Breakfast -- Jerk ribs -- Forever be -- Floyd -- Runnin' -- Hooch -- Cobbler -- Bless the telephone -- Friday fish fry -- Change -- Rumble -- Biscuits n' gravy -- Dreamer.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES KELLedisi
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LEDLedisi
Contents: Anything for you -- Next time -- Same love -- Now or never -- Stay gone -- Where I am -- Wknd -- What kinda love is that -- Sunrise interlude -- In it to win -- One -- Wake up -- Stone -- Without you -- Sunset interlude.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LEDLewin, Elizabeth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker and Company 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.68 LEWColandro, Lucille.
Summary: In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a woman swallows a rose, some lace, glitter, and other items associated with Valentine's Day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Colandro, Lucille.
Summary: A twist on the classic tale of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" takes the story even further as the lady goes about swallowing a variety of items related to school, including books, a ruler, and chalk.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COL BASKETColandro, Lucille
Summary: In this adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, an astronaut swallows the Moon and other celestial objects, while two children ask questions about the Solar System and outer space.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COLColandro, Lucille
Summary: In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a woman swallows a turkey, a balloon, a horn of plenty, and other items associated with Thanksgiving Day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC COLColandro, Lucille.
Summary: "You won't believe why this old lady swallowed some leaves, a shirt, a pumpkin, a pole, some pants, a rope, and some hay! Read this book to find out!"--P. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC COLRegis.
Contents: 1. Loss (Regis version) / Ike Yard -- 2. He was human and belonged with humans (Regis version) / Dalhous -- 3. Blood witness (original 12" mix) / Regis -- 4. Church of all images (Regis version) / Vatican Shadow -- 5. Manbait (Regis version) / Family Sex -- 6. Blinding horses (original 12" mix) / Regis -- 7. C U 1 (original mix) / Cub -- 8. Blood witness (downward extended version) / Regis --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC REGLowis, Kristina.
Summary: Presents fifty paintings by major artists from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and includes a brief critical analysis of the work and a timeline for the artist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 750.1 LOWBogan, Lucille.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004