Summary: "In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIRSummary: "A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie MarloweJames, Elmore
Contents: Can't stop loving you / Elayna Boynton -- Person to person / Bettye LaVette -- Shake your money maker / Rodney Crowell -- Done somebody wrong / Tom Jones -- Mean mistreatin' mama / Warren Haynes with Billy Gibbons & Mickey Raphael -- Dust my broom / Deborah Bonham -- It hurts me too / Jamey Johnson with Warren Haynes -- Strange angels / Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer -- Look on yonder wall / Keb...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sylvan Songs 2018
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES STRPalmer, Daniel D. (Daniel Dooley)
Summary: Michigan’s ferns and lycophytes are among the state’s most fascinating plants. The species in these groups exhibit incredibly diverse life cycles and an amazing array of morphology. Some species such as the Bracken fern are widespread and aggressive, dominating forest understories throughout much of northern Michigan, while other species are exceedingly rare and adapted to life solely in harsh...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 580 PALL Morey E Daniel
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Santly-Joy 1948
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Calcutta: Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILContents: Kiss you all over (Exile) (3:28) -- Stumblin' in (Suzi Quatro and Chris Norman) (3:28) -- Which way you goin' Billy? (The Poppy Family) (3:21) -- Last song (Edward Bear) (3:10) -- Oh, babe, what would you say? (Hurricane Smith) (3:24) -- Love really hurts without you (Billy Ocean) (2:59) -- Kung fu fighting (Carl Douglas) (3:14) -- Right back where we started from (Maxine Nightingale) (3:12) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARSummary: This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War, and finally to his death at Little Big Horn. The battle against Chief Crazy Horse is portrayed as a crooked deal between politicians and a corporation which wants the land Custer gave to the Indians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THESummary: When a young fox and hound meet for the first time, they become friends before they know that they are supposed to be enemies; Tod and Copper's friendship is put to the test when Copper gets a chance to howl with a hound dog chorus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FoCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD FoxSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANMandel, Emily St. John
Summary: Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal, an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SF MANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC MANSummary: Car dealer Frank Mallon is watching his life fall apart around him. His wife has left, his cars aren't selling, and his teenage daughter, Corrina is out of control. When bank manager Desmond Rane tells Frank he's in financial trouble and is about to lose everything , Frank devises a plan to fix his money problems while also getting revenge on the people making his life miserable.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLEContents: Disc one: Stax writers, Stax releases (part one). Comfort me / Carla Thomas -- You make a strong girl weak / Jeanne & The Darlings -- What did I do wrong / William Bell -- Another night without my man / Carla Thomas -- I got everything you need ; Mister fix it ; I'll always have faith in you ; Got to make a comeback / Eddie Floyd -- I've seen what loneliness can do / Homer Banks -- Slow train /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WRIMoney.
Summary: 2013 debut album from the British band. Hailing from Manchester, Money released their debut single 'Who's Going to Love You Now' last year. Simon Raymonde was immediately enraptured, and promptly tracked the band down to see if they had anything else in their locker. As it turns out, they did. Promptly signing to Bella Union, the band recently sealed off work in the studio. 'Bluebell Fields'...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bella Union 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MONSummary: It's not easy for a boy to grow up with ten sisters. It's a constant battle not to succumb to their various plans for him. To maintain his own identity as the Man with a Plan, it's important to stay true to himself--even when being pulled in ten different directions. Lincoln Loud explores middle school life while Lori is working on her backswing at Fairway University, but what is Leni, Luna,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LOUSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: Join Hal, Tom and Alex as they continue their search for their lost humanity. With bills to be paid, the heroes take jobs in Barry₂s kitschiest hotel. But alongside the tacky decor and the cocktail umbrellas dwells an evil greater than anything Hal, Tom and Alex have faced before. Captain Hatch hides a dark secret that threatens not only the heroes' friendships but the entire world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BEISummary: "Detectives Martha Bellamy (Fay Ripley, Cold Feet), Jack Weston (Damien Molony, Being Human), and Charlie Steele (Clare-Hope Ashitey, Children of Men) are back to solve a series of all-new mysteries in contemporary London. From an arson attack that leaves a teenager fighting for his life to a copycat murder that could be the work of a serial killer, Martha and her team work tirelessly to expose...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Acorn Media] 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SUSSummary: In this unique police procedural drama, DS Jack Weston, DC Charlie Steele, and DI Martha Bellamy investigate a series of crimes in modern-day London. The nine episodes are unscripted, and the actors improvise all dialogue. From missing person's reports to murders and drug overdoses, this fascinating drama explores both the mysteries involved in police work and the relationships between the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SUSSummary: Includes episodes 1-13 from season 1, 14-26 from season 2, 27-39 from season 3, 40-45 from season 4 of the British television series broadcast from 1969-1974.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E 2000
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COMSummary: "The plow that broke the plains" depicts the social and economic history of the Great Plains from the settlement of the prairies by cattlemen and farmers through the World War I boom to drought and depression. "The river" traces life in the Mississippi River Valley during the previous 150 years, showing the consequences of sharecropping, soil exhaustion, unchecked erosion and floods, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLOSummary: Go behind the Oklahoma State Penitentiary walls to follow convict cowgirls on their journey to the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Documentary Films 2010