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Davenport, N. E. Blade, Adam Blade, Adam. Davenport, N. E. Kirsanow, Peter N. Rundell, B. N.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...
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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: 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: 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 PACSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OBlade, Adam
Summary: "One boy's journey to help his village becomes a quest to save the kingdom. Strange things are happening in Tom's village. First, the horses were attacked. Then, the river dried up. Now, the last of the crops has mysteriously burned. Everyone is terrified. But Tom isn't afraid. He's always dreamed of a quest -- a real quest! -- and vows to go to the king and bring help for them. But Tom soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Kirsanow, Peter N.
Summary: "Dick Canidy and the agents of the OSS scour war torn Poland looking for a rocket scientist who holds the secrets to the Nazis most dangerous weapon in this new entry in W.E.B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling Men at War series"-- April 1940. By terms of the Soviet Nazi Nonaggression pact, the two dictatorships divided the helpless nation of Poland. Now, the Russians are rounding up enemies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIRKirsanow, Peter N.
Summary: "April 1940. By terms of the Soviet-Nazi Non-Aggression Pact, the two dictatorships divided the nation of Poland. Now, the Russians are rounding up enemies of the state, but one essential target slips away. Professor Sebastian Kapsky had spent years working with Walter Riedel and Werner von Braun, but refused to continue when he saw the perversion of their work by the Nazis. The Soviets are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KIRKirsanow, Peter N.
Summary: Dick Canidy and the agents of the OSS scour war-torn Poland looking for a rocket scientist who holds the secrets to the Nazis' most dangerous weapon in this entry in W.E.B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling Men at War series.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIRSummary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: Felix Bush, a Tennessee hermit, is either feared or hated by most of the people that live in the town. One day, he gets the idea to throw one big bash before he kicks the bucket. While he is still alive and kickin' he plans his very own rollicking funeral party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GETCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GBlade, Adam.
Summary: "As Tom and Elenna navigate the horrid terrain of Gorgonia, they quickly realize that nothing is what it seems to be. Each step brings them to another dangerous encounter. But Tom won't give up. Not when Epos the Winged Flame is being held captive somewhere in the Dark Realm and Malvel has created a wicket winged Beast of his own. With the help of his friends, Tom is determined to chase down...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BLABlade, Adam.
Summary: The Good beasts of Avantia have been imprisoned in the kingdom of Malvel the evil wizard. Tom has already fought five terrible Beasts and is nearing the end of his Quest. But in order to achieve victory, Tom must navigate through the tunnels under Malvel's castle, where Stin the Scorpion Man awaits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Blade, Adam.
Summary: The evil Wizard Malvel's final Beast has reached the doors of King Hugo's palace! Stealth the Ghost Panther lassoes victims with his three tails, scratching the good citizens of Avantia and turning them into evildoers. To rescue his father, Tom must capture the final piece of Amulet from Stealth's collar--before all Avantia turns to evil!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BLASummary: Jesse Stone is a down-and-out former L.A. police detective whose biggest battle is now against the bottle, as the demons of his past rise to haunt him while he drives himself to distraction by pursuing a decade-old murder case. Finding refuge in the small town of Paradise, Chief Stone reopens an unsolved murder case, digging up clues in an old grave and pursuing the ghosts of a forgotten crime....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 4Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jesse 2008Rundell, B. N.
Summary: "When the Salish War Leader, Spotted Eagle appeared in the clearing before their cabin, life-long friends Gabe and Ezra weren't sure what to think. This man had shown himself to be their friend, and now he invited them to join him and the village on a buffalo hunt. With winter just around the corner, it seemed the likely thing to do, but had they known what the journey would bring, they might...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNRundell, B. N.
Summary: "It was new country, beautiful and wild and full of challenges. When Reuben chose to start the new chapter of his life with a partner, he had no inclination as to the trials that would come. The sight of a war party of Cheyenne Dog soldiers caught their attention when they saw two captive white women, and Elly's insistence that they free them was the beginning of those challenges. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNRundell, B. N.
Summary: "They had flirted with the distant snowcapped mountains before but never had the opportunity to walk among them. Now with renewed determination, Reuben and his new bride, Elly, set out for those mountains. But the trail they traveled took them through the goldfields of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush of South Park, Colorado Territory. Evil was running rampant in the outlying areas of the mountain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNRundell, B. N.
Summary: The power of a promise made and a promise kept is realized when Jeremiah Thompsett comes of age and accepts the responsibility of fulfilling his mentor's long-held dream. Raised by an escaped slave in the midst of the Arapaho nation in the Wind River mountains, he now must track down the slave catchers that killed his adopted father and stole their cache. The Vengeance Quest takes him and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNRundell, B. N.
Summary: "The gold rush of 1859 in the Colorado Rockies brought more than just gold seekers. Outlaws, conmen, crooks, and thieves quickly populated the central Rockies, and it was from that element that Reuben and Elly Mae Grundy fled. They had done their part, serving as deputy marshals, but now they wanted time alone and together. Choosing a site far south and away from the gold rush, they built a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNDavenport, N. E.
Summary: "When 17-year-old Megan Allen is betrayed by her best friend, LC, and targeted by LC's enemies, she is plunged into a waking nightmare and must claim what makes her uniquely herself to get her life back-- or die trying"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAVDavenport, N. E.
Summary: "After discovering the depth of betrayal, treachery, and violence perpetrated against her by Mareen's Tribunal Council and exposing her illegal blood-gift to save her Praetorian squad, Ikenna becomes a fugitive with a colossal bounty on her head. Yet, somehow, that's the least of her worries. Her grandfather's longtime allies refuse to offer help, and the Blood Emperor's Warlord is tracking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVRundell, B. N.
Summary: "Kaniache, war chief and leader of the Mouache Ute tribe, stood at odds with Ouray, chief of the Tabeguache Ute, who was willing to do whatever white men asked, even giving up much of their native homeland. All that Ouray would surrender in a bid for peace, Kaniache was determined to reclaim. With the aftermath of the Sand Creek massacre still on the minds of the native peoples, few were keen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNRundell, B. N.
Summary: "It was to be no more than a wagon train going west, but when Reuben uncovers a plot to provide a shipment of Beecher's Bibles to the restive Oglala Sioux, he was forced to intervene. He knew the destruction that would come at the hands of renegade natives armed with Springfield Rifles and in good conscience, he forced himself to try to do whatever was necessary to prevent that from happening....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2021