Summary: Dr. Thorndyke is an early proponent of forensic investigation; and there is the blind gumshoe Mac Carrados; and gentleman thief Simon Carne; and Mr. Carnacki who is a detective of the occult. These men pit their wits against the best that London's underworld has to offer. Victorian London was a boon for crooks and a bane to Scotland Yard, whose job it was to keep the city safe from criminals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIVLucasfilm Press (COR)
Summary: Collects twelve short stories from the cinematic world of Star Wars, including two tales from "Star Wars: the Last Jedi."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Lucasfilm Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.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: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TENContents: She danced all night in the fiddler's shoes.--Atlanta schottische.--Snowstorm.--The downfall of Paris.--Andrew Jackson.--Pharaoh.--Everybody's favorite.--Boatin' up Sandy.--Red Lick.--Poor girl waltz.--Last gold dollar.--Johnny inch along.--Rough and ready.--Midnight.--Morgan on the railroad.--Snowbird in the ashbank.--Shippingport.--Camp Nelson blues.--Garfield march.--One eyed...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY TRAVarious artists
Contents: Portsmouth airs (Buddy Thomas) -- Bumblebee in a jug (George Lee Hawkins) -- Meg Gray (G.L. Hawkins) -- Lansing Quadrille (Alfred Bailey) -- Weddington's reel (A. Bailey) -- Indian squaw (Alva Greene) -- The pet Indian (A. Greene) -- Getting George Bush upstairs (Perry Riley) -- Getting wild again (P. Riley) -- Lost hornpipe (Charlie Kinney) -- Blackeyed peas and cornbread (Bob Prater) -- Grand...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY TRAMace, Nancy L.
Summary: Originally published in 1981, The 36-Hour Day was the first book of its kind. Thirty years later, with dozens of other books on the market, it remains the definitive guide for people caring for someone with dementia. Now in a new and updated edition, this best-selling book features thoroughly revised chapters on the causes of dementia, managing the early stages of dementia, the prevention of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2011
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Shapiro Bernstein 1944
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Documentary film about the 2007 National Council Auditions grand finalists, Jamie Barton, Kiera Duffy, Michael Fabiano, Disella Larusdottir, Ryan McKinny, Angela Meade, Nicholas Pallesen, Matthew Plenk, Alek Shrader, Ryan Smith, and Amber L. Wagner. Looks at the pressures these young opera singers face as they struggle to succeed in one of the most difficult professions in the performing arts....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Metropolitan Opera 2008
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS AUDJohnson, Hal
Summary: Meet the fearsome creatures of the lumberwoods! The Hodag, like a spinybacked bull-horned rhinoceros packing 3,000 pounds of carnivorous fury. The Snoligoster, the reptilian beast that feeds on the shadows of its victims. And deadlier than a rattler, copperhead, or cottonmouth combined, the Hoop Snake, which can chase prey at speeds up to 60 miles per hour and then, with one sting of its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JOHBukem, L. T. J.
Contents: Sky line -- Dark matter -- Miles & miles from Marz -- Travel star -- Logical -- Close to the source -- Equanimity -- Chill -- Future shock -- Skyward -- Indian summer.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Good Looking Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BURMcBeth, T. L.
Summary: Despite the vest, bowtie, and Easter egg painting a bunny insists that he is NOT the Easter Bunny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE MCBT Whitaker L Blasco
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Midland Music 1944
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMBukem, L. T. J.
Contents: Rantoul (Systems sylence).--Big bud (A way of life).--Seba (Soul 2000).--Moonchild (View of life).--Rantoul (The Ladder).--LTJ Bukem (Rhodes to freedom).--Makoto (Butterfly).--Rantoul (Too high).--Psyne (Sly detector).--Big bud (Darker Than Blue).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Good Looking Records, Ltd. 1973
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BUKHigley, T. L.
Summary: The untold story of King Nebuchadnezzar's daughter.Since her treaty marriage at a young age, Tia has lived an opulent yet oppressive life in the palace. But her husband has since died and she relishes her newfound independence. As the queen plans to wed Tia to yet another prince, the powerful mage Shadir plots to expose the family's secret and set his own man on the throne. Tia enlists the help...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HIGBarrett, T. L.
Summary: Pastor T.L. Barrett led a youth choir out of Chicago during the late '60s and early '70s, just a few years after he got on the straight and narrow path, which may help listeners understand the unique power of the material on Like a Ship... (Without a Sail). Self-released by Barrett in 1971, it communicates many things, foremost being adoration and praise and, on the title track, the lost,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Light in the Attic Records Records & Distribution 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS BARHuchu, T. L.
Summary: Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghost talker, and she now speaks to Edinburgh's dead - carrying messages to the living - but when she learns someone is bewitching children she investigates and discovers an occult library, a taste for hidden magic,and a wealth of Edinburgh's dark secrets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUCL Young T Fiorito
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Remick Music 1935
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMcBeth, T. L.
Summary: A funny and charming picture book about Robot's efforts to win the heart of his shiny, beautiful, one true love (who just happens to be a toaster).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1971
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Summary: "Everyone's favorite fifteen-year-old ghostalker, Ropa, arrives at the worldwide Society of Skeptical Enquirers' biennial conference just in time to be tied into a mystery--a locked room mystery, if an entire creepy haunted castle on lockdown counts. One of the magical attendees has stolen a valuable magical scroll. Caught between Qozmos, the high wizard of Ethiopian magic; the larger-than-life...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2023
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Summary: "An impoverished fifteen-year-old linebacker grapples with ideas about strength and masculinity after the dope-dealing father he idolized goes missing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Desperate for money to look after her family, Ropa Moyo accepts a job at the magical private hospital Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments, but when her investigation into a coma patient leads her to the Edinburgh Ordinary School for Boys, she learns a long-dormant and malevolent entity has taken hold in this world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2022