Killens, John Oliver
Summary: "A major literary event-the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the Black Arts Movement and mentor to celebrated writers, including Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Arthur Flowers, and Terry McMillan. Wanderlust has taken Jimmy Jay Leander Johnson on numerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 35, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KILHand, John Oliver
Summary: Hand has selected nearly 400 masterworks to create not only a sampling of the Gallery's collection but also a pleasurable and illuminating history of Western painting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Gallery of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 750.74 HANVarious
Contents: Circle of life/Nants' ingonyama (Lebo M, Lindiwe Mkhize) -- Life's not fair -- Rafiki's fireflies -- I just can't wait to be king (JD McCrary, John Oliver, Shahadi Wright Joseph) -- Elephant graveyard -- Be prepared (2019) (Chiwetel Ejiofor) -- Stampede -- Scar takes the throne -- Hakuna matata (Billy Eichner, Donald Glover, JD McCrary, Seth Rogen) -- Simba is alive! -- The lion sleeps tonight...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC LIOSummary: A rock opera about a boy who is traumatized by the murder of his father. He is "cured" several years later, only to be hailed as a "Messiah."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2009
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TOMDoman, John
Summary: Chronicles the rise to power of Catalan cardinal Rodrigo Borgia as he seeks to win the ultimate prize, the Chair of Saint Peter, and to establish his family as a powerful dynasty.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2014
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BORSummary: The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUKloepfer, John
Summary: "When twelve-year-old outcast Freddie Liddle and his best (and only) friend, Manny Vasquez, accidentally bring their 3D monster creations to life, the boys must stop them before they take over the entire town"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KLOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION KLOSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: One hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ready for the taking. It's too much to resist for Earl Slater, a bigoted ex-con slumming through life with a patronizing girlfriend, an obliging neighbor and zero expectations. He agrees to be part of a bank job planned by former cop Burke. Until, that is, he finds out one of his partners will be a black man. Earl's desperate need for cash, however, leads...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2003
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ODDSummary: Season one: Ninja heroes Kai, Jay, Zane, and Cole are trained in the ancient art of Spinjitzu by Sensei Wu in order to take on Lloyd Garmadon, the son of their archenemy, who has released sinister snake tribes in his attempt to conquer the land of Ninjago. When his plan goes awry, Garmadon joins forces with the ninja to stop an enemy prophesied to cast their land into eternal darkness....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV LEGSummary: Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Sparkling cyanide: An elderly husband and wife are unlikely looking secret agents brought in to investigate the murder of a powerful soccer club manager's beautiful trophy wife at a glitzy champagne event. Why didn't they ask Evans?: A local vicar finds a man lying fatally injured and unconscious on the rocks at the foot of a cliff. His last words before passing were spoken clearly to the vicar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGAWho (Musical group)
Contents: Overture from Tommy (4:59) -- Prologue 1945 (2:57) -- Captain Walker/It's a boy (2:35) -- Bernie's holiday camp (3:42) -- 1951/What about the boy? (2:48) -- Amazing journey (3:38) -- Christmas (3:20) -- Eyesight to the blind / Sonny Boy Williamson (3:20) -- Acid queen (3:47) -- Do you think it's alright (I) (:54) -- Cousin Kevin / John Entwistle (3:07) -- Do you think it's alright (II) (:44) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC TOMSummary: In the final season of this popular series, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Laura Linney reprises her role as Cathy Jamison, who comes to a realization about her battle with skin cancer. Deciding to quit chemotherapy, Cathy finds peace and resolution with her husband, son and even her estranged father. With four one-hour episodes, Cathy's journey is filled with laughter, tears and poignancy- a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIGSummary: A witty and gory Australian horror-comedy, 100 BLOODY ACRES stars Damon Herriman and Angus Sampson as Reg and Lindsay Morgan, brothers and partners in a struggling blood and bone fertilizer business. When Reg comes across three stranded travelers, he realized he may have found a radical solution to their supply problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2013
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Summary: Cimmerian Conan is captured as a child after his parents are murdered by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom. After years of enslavement, Conan is freed to learn the "riddle of steel" and to kill the arch-villain Thulsa Doom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2000
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CONHunkin, Oliver
Summary: Retells the story of Christian, who flees from the City of Destruction and makes his way, through much adversity, to the Celestial City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Morgan & Scott 1985
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HUNSummary: Bourne, is pulled from the sea suffering from amnesia with a pair of bullet wounds in his back. His only clue to his own identity is a bank account number etched on a capsule implanted in his body. He finds the Zurich bank where money, a gun, and several passports with different names await. He quickly realizes he can trust no one and offers a German gypsy named Maria ten thousand dollars for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bourne 2002Summary: "When an American journalist visits Germany, he finds that the violent world of Nazism has a new face: the face of cold-hearted, brutal German youth. What he discovers is a dangerous link between young Neo-Nazis and old surviving soldiers of Hitler's Third Reich, still alive, still preaching hate and world domination. Backed by a group dedicated to the exposure of Nazis in hiding, he takes part...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INF RATED RSummary: A nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a "soulful chorus of swingin' sisters." The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SISSummary: The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, who happens to be a veteran of the circus, but the newborn is soon ridiculed because of his truly gigantic ears and is dubbed "Dumbo". Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts. It is up to Dumbo's only true friend, Timothy Q. Mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUM RATED GCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DUMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DUMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Dumbo 2011Summary: This videodisc explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: 363.41 Prohibition 2011Summary: This explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2011