Summary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Ballard, Mignon Franklin.
Summary: Guardian angel and heavenly sleuth Augusta Goodnight joins forces with Lucy Nan Pilgrim, a long-time resident of Stone's Throw, South Carolina, to investigate the mysterious disappearances of a number of young women.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBallard, Mignon Franklin.
Summary: It's 1942, and the residents of the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, have been rattled down to their worn, rationed shoes. For young teacher Charlie Carr, life and love aren't going exactly as planned--her head dictates loyalty to the handsome corpsman, Hugh, but whenever she thinks of her best friend's beau, Will, her heart does the Jersey Bounce. Charlie is doubly troubled by the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBallard, Mignon Franklin.
Summary: "It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a War that will never end. On the home front, the people of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing everything they can to support the troops. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help: An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ballard 2014Ballard, Mignon Franklin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBallard, Mignon Franklin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALBallard, Mignon Franklin.
Summary: "With the country in the midst of World War II, you can be sure the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, will pull together to find a missing child. And you can be equally certain that first-grade teacher, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick, will be in the search party--especially since Peggy Ashcroft is one of her students. Miss Dimple carves out a search path all her own and once again, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALSummary: Here you will find some of the deepest and rawest cuts to emanate out the Studio One factory, truly hypnotic rhythms, powerful funk guitar and bass, soaring horns and more interspersed with occasional vocals and toasting as musicians reach for the highest heights and deepest roots of reggae music.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE STUHamilton, Nigel
Summary: To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war-proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed. Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 HAMGoodrich, Phillip
Summary: In this under-reported and under-taught story of the American Revolution, Phillip Goodrich describes the role Benjamin Franklin played in bringing the northern and southern colonies together against corrupt British rule. Along with an "Inner Circle" of British Abolitionists, Franklin worked behind the scenes to secure the freedom of a single American slave, James Somersett; and then, in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3092 GOOSummary: 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 PACSummary: Volume 1 begins with a look at two of the many crises faced by George Washington during his term as America's first president. At a time when any conflict had the potential to dissolve the fragile union, Washington surrounded himself with brilliant men who were bound by their undying devotion to America, but who were often bitterly divided about how best to serve their common cause. Volume 2...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FOUSummary: They were the most legendary and respected politicians, statesmen and warriors of history's first republic since the days of ancient Rome. They were also traitors and smugglers, rabble rousers and hot-heads, unfaithful husbands and prodigious drinkers. Our "Founding Fathers" were, in fact, human beings. Gain a fascinating glimpse behind the images on the marble busts and faces on our dollar...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.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 PACDylan, Bob
Contents: All along the watchtower (Eddie Vedder & the Million Dollar Bashers) -- I'm not there (Sonic Youth) -- Goin' to Acapulco (Jim James & Calexico) -- Tombstone blues (Richie Havens) -- Ballad of a thin man (Stephen Malkmus & the Million Dollar Bashers) -- Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again (Cat Power) -- Pressing on (John Doe) -- Fourth time around (Yo La Tengo) -- Dark eyes (Iron...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax 2007
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC I'MVarious artists
Contents: Tell mama (Etta James) -- Mojo queen (Ike & Tina Turner) -- Thank you (Sam & Dave) -- Plantation Inn (The Mar-Keys) -- We're gonna make it (Little Milton) -- Pass the hatchet (Roger & the Gypsies) -- I'll take her (Eddie Floyd) -- Mojo Mama (Dan Varner) -- Temptation 'bout to get me (The Knight Brothers) -- Drowning on dry land (O. V. Wright) -- Light my fire (Erma Franklin) -- Pouring water on...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2005
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. She personifies grace under pressure as the Miniver family huddles in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, while she is forced to confront a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, and while...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Mrs.2004Morton, P. J.
Contents: Dad's interlude: welcome (feat. Bishop Paul S. Morton) -- Don't let go (feat. Kim Burrell) -- Repay you (feat. J Moss) -- Gotta have you (feat. Kirk Franklin, Jermaine Dolly and Lena Byrd Miles) -- Over and over (feat. Commissioned) -- Dad's interlude: origin (feat. Bishop Paul S. Morton) -- So in love (feat. Darrel 'MusiqCity' Walls & Zacardi Cortez) -- All in his plan (feat. Le'Andria Johnson...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS MORTONHamilton, Nigel.
Summary: A close-up, in-the-room look at how FDR took masterful command and control of the Second World War, from wresting key decisions away from Churchill and his own generals, to launching the first successful trial landing in North Africa, and beginning to turn the tide away from the Axis.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Various Artists
Contents: Ego war / Audio Bullys. -- Tangerine / DJ Touche vs. Pepe. -- Gold top filta facta theme / Filta Facta. -- Supernatural / King Britt presents Firefly, featuring Ursula Rucker. -- Hypnotizing / Kid Creme. -- Incidental / Milton Jackson. -- Theme de Rio / Salome de Bahia. -- The lunge / Tim Wright. -- Stick 'em / Dr. Luke and Liquid Todd. -- Don't you never stop / Lax, featuring Ajai. -- Square /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Journeys by DJ 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DJTHinton, Milt.
Contents: Joshua (traditional) (3:45) -- I know that you know / Youmans, Caldwell (4:46) -- Russian lullaby / Berlin (4:15) -- Deep night / Vallee, Henderson (3:48) -- Shine / Mack, Brown, Dabney (3:16) -- Mona's feeling lonely / Hinton (5:19) -- Right here, right now / The Trio (5:54) -- Rosetta / Woods, Hines (4:43) -- Mama don't allow it / Davenport (2:15) -- Slap happy / Hinton, Hampton (3:19) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Chiaroscuro Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HINHinton, Milt.
Contents: A child is born / T. Jones (7:12) -- Sweet Georgia Brown / B. Bernie, K. Casey, M. Pinkard (5:44) -- Laughing at life / C. Todd, B. Todd, C. Kenny, N. Kenny (4:19) -- How high the moon / N. Hamilton, M. Lewis (4:27) -- Prelude to a kiss / D. Ellington, I. Gordon, I. Mills (4:01) -- Indiana (back home again in Indiana) / J.F. Hanley, B. MacDonald (3:02) -- Mona's feeling lonely / M. Hinton, D.G....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HINContents: Disc 1. Every praise (radio edit) (Hezekiah Walker) (4:54) ; Greatest man (7:47) ; Nothing without you (radio edit) (Jason Nelson) (4:27) ; Witholding nothing (4:37) ; I win (radio edit) (Marvin Sapp) (4:02) ; Break every chain (4:14) ; We are not ashamed (3:04) ; You reign (William Murphy) (6:16) ; Finish strong (5:03) ; Worthy is your name (5:11) ; Your best days yet (5:03) ; Still able...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014