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: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOIVarious artists
Contents: What goes around-- comes around : interlude (Justin Timberlake) -- Rehab (Amy Winehouse) -- Irreplaceable (Beyoncé) -- The pretender (Foo Fighters) -- Makes me wonder (Maroon 5) -- 1234 (Feist) -- (You want to) make a memory (Bon Jovi) -- Dance tonight (Paul McCartney) -- Candyman (Christina Aguilera) -- Say it right (Nelly Furtado) -- Good life (Kanye West featuring T-Pain) -- River (Herbie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grammy Recordings 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRASummary: When it comes to snobbery, Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'bouquet') is in a class of her own. Desperate to impress the neighbors and elbow her way into the local aristocracy, every moment of Hyacinth's day is spent going to manic lengths in her quest for perfection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. 2013
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV KEESummary: Ballykissangel has become a huge international hit since first hitting UK television screens in 1995, and continues to win millions of fans from across the world. This collection include every episode of this beloved BBC classic, full of Irish charm, quirky characters, strange shenanigans and tales of friendships, rivalry and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BALContents: Disc one. Give me back my wig / Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers (3:31) -- I'm a woman / Koko Taylor (4:36) -- Have mercy / Big Walter Horton ; with Carey Bell (3:45) -- Somebody loan me a dime / Fenton Robinson (2:54) -- It's my fault, darling / Professor Longhair (4:54) -- Telephone angel / Son Seals (5:25) -- Lights out / Johnny Winter (2:35) -- Blue Monday hangover / Albert Collins...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ALLSummary: The Merrye children suffer from a rare genetic malady in which they mentally regress to a condition of pre-human savagery and cannibalism. They live in their family mansion and terrorize and kill anyone or anything that passes through the gates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SPISummary: If we knew how much longer we had to live, what would we choose to do with the time we have left? Set in a British hospital, it follows poised and put-together Hollywood star Julia Roth, who seems to be in the sunset of her career, as she begins her journey with a critical medical issue. Preferring to be incognito, Julia is instead thrust into a room with three remarkable women who, with humor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MyHenion, Leigh Ann.
Summary: "One woman reclaims her sense of wonder by seeking out the globe's most incredible natural phenomena"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HENION, LEIGH ANN HENSummary: From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AIRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AIR1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AIRMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: "Skye Elliot is given a choice after her car accident--jail or rehab--and her ex-husband, a bull rider who introduced her to the party scene, gets custody of their four-year-old daughter Gracie. It takes Skye eight months to get clean, but the day she is released, she has one plan: to be a good mother--better, at least, than Skye's own selfish mother and absent dad. Owen Garret hasn't seen his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: Three broken souls, who have suffered losses that change their lives forever, find in each other an expected comfort, the bond of friendship, and a second chance to see the miracles of everyday life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: After leaving her no-good rodeo boyfriend, Mary Madigan ends up in Oklahoma Creek where she meets journalist Rick, pregnant Phoebe, and HIV-positive Ness, all of whom join forces to help, comfort, and love each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: In a tale spanning four generations of the Moon family, matriarch Gammy Bess limits her kind nature to the days on which she wins at bingo, Allegra drives her daughter Mariah crazy with protest rallies, and twelve-year-old Lindsay struggles with her highIQ.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: In Jo-Ann Mapson's deeply felt, wise, and gritty novel, three people will find in each other an unexpected comfort, the bond of friendship, and a second chance to see the miracles of everyday life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: After years of estrangement, two sisters reconnect on their parents' ranch in New Mexico. One is a widow with grown children, the other a career woman. The latter rekindles a romance with a high-school sweetheart by whom she had an abortion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFlamingo 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPSummary: When a medical resident loses a patient, he moves back home with his father to rethink his career. His visit is a bittersweet one, overshadowed by memories of the mother he lost 18 years earlier on Christmas Eve. Nathan accepts a coaching position at a local elementary school where he meets Megan, a teacher, and becomes close with a young boy named Charlie. His world is turned upside down when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHRSummary: Tackling an extremely sensitive issue in a vibrant, humorous way, this is the story of Yehezkel and his wife Levana. Well into their 70s, they are living contented lives inside a Jerusalem retirement home. But they are shocked when their dear friend Max falls prey to an irreversible illness. Looking to escape a slow, painful death, Max asks Yehezkel for help to end his suffering.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FARSummary: Twang reigned, the shitkickers kicked shit, and the vaguely western-sounding guitar records piled up. Country-rock became 'the dominant American rock style of the 1970s', as Peter Doggett's comprehensive Are You Ready for the Country put it much later. This album picks up and dusts off golden ingots from the dollar-bin detritus of that domination, to reconstruct events as seen from the genre's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WAYContents: Disc 1- Side A. Powder keg (starring Rod Taylor & Dennis Cole, 1971, 93 min.) -- Boot Hill (starring Terence Hill & Bud Spencer, 1969, 97 min.) -- To the last man (starring Randolph Scott, 1941, 70 min.) -- Song of Arizona (starring Roy Rogers, 1946, 68 min.) -- Winds of the wasteland (starring John Wayne & Lane Chandler, 1936, 55 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TGG Direct 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN TWESummary: The animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kindhearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes. Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! To keep Griffin from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU ZOOMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: Preparing for the birth of an unexpected baby, forty-one-year-old Santa Fe newlywed Glory Vigil spends time with her adopted college-age daughter, Juniper, who has fallen in love and who is haunted by memories of a sister who disappeared years earlier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: Thirty-four-year-old Chloe Morgan, pregnant with Hank Oliver's child, goes to live with him in his Arizona cabin, but she chafes at the restrictions of her impending motherhood and when she develops a strong attraction to Native American artist Junior Whitebear, she begins to wonder if she is capable of domesticity and fidelity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: FlamingoBooks 1998