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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Pearla

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Veronica never thought she'd want to fail a test-that is until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with a blue plus. With a promising college-bound future now disappearing before her eyes, Veronica considers a decision she never imagined she'd have to make. This never-taken-lightly decision leads her on a 1000-mile hilarious road trip to New Mexico over three days...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UNP

Smith, Arthur Q.

Contents: Disc 1. The Commercial Recordings : My tears don't show / performed by Roy Acuff -- You can't conceal a broken heart / performed by Kitty Wells -- Rainbow at midnight / performed by Carlisle Brothers -- Wedding bells / performed by Hank Williams -- Somebody lied / performed by Hawkshaw Hawkins -- Save a little dream for me / performed by Moon Mullican -- I overlooked an orchid / performed by...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, guns, and if he has his way, every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2013

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

Summary: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, guns, and if he has his way, every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY GAN

Summary: When an Australian aid-worker is kidnapped by Muslim extremists, a high-stakes race to save his life pits East against West in these exciting new episodes. From the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to Melbourne, Jack Irish is caught in a global web of religious zealotry among right-wing Christians and media-savvy jihadists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Summary: Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELV

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

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

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

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

McCormack, Catherine

Summary: "DescriptionProduct Details Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Cultural archetypes have long been used to subjugate women, binding them within the restrictive roles ofVenus, bride, wife, mother, and monster. These portrayals echo throughout the paintings and sculptures of western art-Titian, Botticelli, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.9 MCC

McCormack, Mike

Summary: "On All Souls Day, the late Marcus Conway returns home. Solar Bones captures in a single relentless sentence the life and death of this rural Irish engineer, and his place in the globally interconnected 21st century. The book takes in local municipal failures and global financial collapse, the quotidian pleasures of family, ancient history and the latest headlines, the living and the dead. A...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCC

McCormack, Una

Summary: Revealing brand-new details of his experiences on Vulcan and the Enterprise, Mr. Spock, one of Starfleet's finest officers, uses his own distinctive voice to shed new light on his relationships with the most important figures in his life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCC

McCormack, Will

Summary: Unimaginable loss yields to the power of human connection in this simple, moving story from the filmmakers of the eponymous Oscar-winning film. An elegy on grief. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated short by the same name, If Anything Happens I Love You is a young adult graphic novel that follows two parents as they reckon with the loss of their young daughter, Rose, in a school...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MCC

McCormack, John.

Summary: John McCormack describes his first year as a country veterinarian in Choctaw County, Alabama between 1963 and 1964.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.089 MCC

McCormack, Joseph

Summary: "Get heard by being clear and conciseThe only way to survive in business today is to be a lean communicator. Busy executives expect you to respect and manage their time more effectively than ever. You need to do the groundwork to make your message tight and to the point. The average professional receives 304 emails per week and checks their smartphones 36 times an hour and 38 hours a week. This...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 MCC

McCormack, Thomas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Paul Dry Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.06 MCC

Geary, Karl

Summary: Juno Loves Legs is the story of two teens labeled as delinquents. Juno and "Legs" grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, intelligent Juno is ostracized for her poverty and Legs is persecuted for his sexuality; they find safety only in each other. Set against the backdrop of Dublin in the 1980s, a place of political, social and religious change, the friends yearn for an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEA

Geary, Karl

Summary: As a gardener at the house on Montpelier Parade, Sonny is full of curiosity in his lonely life of dreams. Then the mysterious Vera comes around, and he falls in love for the first time. Casting off his life of solitude, Sonny longs to know Vera, even save her. But what is it that Vera isn't telling him?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEA

TEARS FOR FEARS.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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

Tears for Fears (Musical group)

Contents: No small thing -- The tipping point -- Long, long, long time -- Break the man -- My demons -- Rivers of mercy -- Please be happy -- Master plan -- End of night -- Stay.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

McCormack, John.

Summary: In the sequel to Fields and Pastures New, the author continues his "reminiscences of his experience tending to the animals and people of Choctaw County, Alabama."--Jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636 MCC

McCormack, Mike

Summary: "After a period of imprisonment, Nealon returns to an empty house in the west of Ireland to find his wife and young son missing. Then he gets a call from a man who claims to know what's happened to them--a man who'll tell Nealon all he needs to know in return for a single meeting. In a hotel lobby, in the shadow of an unfolding terrorist attack, Nealon and the man embark on a conversation shot...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2023

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MCC

McCormack, Una

Summary: "An original novel based on the new Star Trek TV series! A thrilling novel leading into the new CBS series, Una McCormack's The Last Best Hope introduces you to brand new characters featured in the life of beloved Star Trek captain Jean-Luc Picard-widely considered to be one of the most popular and recognizable characters in all of science fiction"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCC

Heart

Summary: The sixteenth release and highly anticipated first album in over four years from Ann and Nancy Wilson. The album includes special guests Ne-Yo and Metallica's James Hetfield.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Concord Records 2016

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD He

Peace

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Traffic Entertainment Group 2016

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN PEA