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(Fictitious character) Spider-Man Juvenile literature African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures C-3PO (Fictitious character) Juvenile fiction Comic books, strips, etc Juvenile literature Dinosaurs Fiction Humorous stories Robots Juvenile fiction Star Wars films Miscellanea Juvenile literature Superheroes Juvenile literatureSummary: Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. C.P....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BESSummary: 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...
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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: Sunny is living off the grid, doing his best to provide for his infant son, Henry, in the wake of Veil's death. It is only when Henry contracts a mysterious illness that Sunny must journey back into the Badlands, where the Widow and Baron Chau are entrenched in a drawn-out war. No longer supported by Tilda or Waldo, the Widow must find new allies in Lydia and in Nathaniel Moon. But when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INTSummary: Romantic comedy which follows the life of Angèle, a forty-something woman who makes her living at a Parisian spa and whose life has been a series of hedonistic and reckless one-night stands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VENSummary: Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MANSummary: Officer Down follows a rogue police officer who tries to right the wrongs of his past by seeking revenge against the men responsible for a string of attacks on the young women working at a local strip club.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OFFSummary: Danger-courting excursionist James Delaney returns to London in 1814 in order to attend his father's funeral. He not only inherit his notorious father's shipping empire, but all the enemies and debts created by his father's dubious dealings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TABSummary: The Turtle brothers work to earn the love of New York City while facing down an army of mutants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tells the tale of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. When Hugo encounters a broken machine, an eccentric girl, and the cold, reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HUGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Hugo 2012Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUG RATED PGSummary: Rose Lorkowski is a single mother attempting to support her son Oscar and her unreliable sister Norah. She works a mundane job as a maid. Once the head cheerleader in school with plenty of prospects, Rose now has little to show for her life. She still sees the former head football player, but it is little more than a despondent affair. When Oscar is expelled from public school, Rose takes a job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sunshine 2009Lott, Bret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTSummary: Richard Nixon is the disgraced president with a legacy to save. David Frost is a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. This is the legendary battle between the two men and the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after resigning from office, Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRO RATED RMost, Bernard.
Summary: A pig has trouble finding a place to sleep because she snores so loudly and wakes up the entire barnyard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: E STO MOSMost, Bernard.
Summary: A young boy who wishes for the return of dinosaurs imagines how useful they would be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1978
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Most 1978Lott, Bret.
Summary: The life of Jewel Hilburn, a mother living with her husband and children in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, undergoes a drastic change when her sixth child, Brenda Kay, is born without the gift of common sense.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTLott, Bret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTLott, Bret.
Summary: While most of the residents in the wealthy, historic Charleston enclave of Landgrave Hall are asleep at two-thirty in the morning, Huger Dillard and his father, "Unc," are heading, via jonboat, to the adjoining golf course. Blinded by a terrible accident that killed his wife, Unc prefers to practice his golf game when no one is watching. But before anyone can even tee off, Huger makes a grisly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTLust, Andreas
Summary: A man leads a double life as a championship runner and a bank robber.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROBAmbler, Eric
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Publisher / Publication Date: ImPress 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMBLott, Bret.
Summary: A 15-year-old teenager divides his time between caring for his blind uncle and spending weekends at the Hunt Club, but when a body is found at the club, he must struggle to stay alive and protect his beliefs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTLott, Bret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTLast, Shari
Summary: Princess Unikitty--half-kitten, half-unicorn--from the magical kingdom of Cloud Cuckoo Land and her friends save the day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LASLast, Shari.
Summary: Chronicles the adventures of the droid C-3PO and his friend, R2-D2 as they travel around the galaxy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2014
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LASCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LASMost, Bernard.
Summary: A humorous speculation on what really happened to make the dinosaurs disappear.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1984