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 PIO
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Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PAC

Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PRO

Summary: A collection of stories about the Pawley Rescue Center, where rescued dogs find their way into hearts and homes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION LUC

Summary: Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STE

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Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PAC

Summary: "The Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUP

Marion, Stephen

Summary: After being away for fourteen years, Gary Solomon returns to his hometown and finds his estranged father is terminally ill, meets his son for the first time, and tries to reconcile with the boy's mother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Ralston, Nancy C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Books 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.6562 RAL

Mason, Stephen

Contents: Understand my heart -- Am I just a man -- The letter -- Yesterday -- Lost & found -- I let her in -- Stress position -- All come down -- Boys outside -- Hound on my heel.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Double Six 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAS

Summary: Focuses on the year in the life of a group of friends in New York's East Village. The "bohemians" live carefree lives of art, music, sex, and drugs. It is carefree until Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, and Roger, an aspiring songwriter, find out they owe a year's rent to Benny. Benny is a former friend who had promised them free rent when he married the landlord's daughter. Roger has also...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE REN

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS REN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Rent 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD REN

Mason, Stephen

Contents: The old problem -- Lie awake -- Flyover '98 -- A lot of love -- The last of the heroes -- Lonely -- Safe population -- Friends for evermore -- Seen it all before -- From hate we hope -- Oh my Lord -- Goodbye youth -- Never be alone -- Behind the curtains -- More money, more fire -- Fire! -- Operation Mason -- Fight them back -- Towers of power -- Come to me.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Double Six Records 2013

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAS

Contents: Disc one. Can the circle be unbroken (bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Barbara Allen (Bradley Kincaid) -- I'll fly away (James and Martha Carson) -- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- Blue yodel number 9 (standin' on the corner) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Wildwood flower...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC COU

Summary: "Within the last half century, our agricultural and food industries have changed more than ... ever before. New technologies and scientific ingenuity have given rise to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other man-made foods. People have begun to raise concerns about the safety of GMOs in our food supply, given their incredible dominance in a large portion of our diets. Traditional...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: KITG Productions 2015

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OF

Summary: Betty is a best selling novelist who has invented her name to escape a troubled past made worse by her emotionally unstable and violent mother. When her young son is killed in an accident, her mother brings her a "replacement", a boy she kidnapped off the street.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALI

Summary: A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain: they live at the same address, have the same names, and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed, and highly modern...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHE

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHE

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHE NOT RATED

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Sh

Summary: Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad's breathtaking work, a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage, follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White Helmets, an organization consisting of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Grasshopper Film 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAS

Rady, Martyn C.

Summary: "Habsburgs ruled much of Europe for centuries. From modest origins as minor German nobles, the family used fabricated documents, invented genealogies, savvy marriages, and military conquest on their improbable ascent, becoming the continent's most powerful dynasty. By the mid-fifteenth century, the Habsburgs controlled of the Holy Roman Empire, and by the early sixteenth century, their lands...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.7 RAD

Maroon, Joseph C.

Summary: Neuroscientist and surgeon Joseph Maroon looks at recent scientific breakthroughs identifying a group of natural substances--including the much-publicized molecule resveratrol--that can actually activate a specific set of genes that promote a longer, healthier life. These substances, which make red wine, dark chocolate, and green tea good for us, appear to stave off a wide array of age-related...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 MAR

Martin, Stephen

Summary: We live in a world where proven facts and verifiable data are freely and widely available. Why, then, are self-confident ignoramuses so often believed over thoughtful experts? And why do seemingly irrelevant details such as a person's appearance or financial status influence whether or not we trust what they are saying, regardless of their wisdom or foolishness? Stephen Martin and Joseph Marks...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.8 MAR