Summary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVESummary: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HID RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HiCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HIDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hidden 2017Benz, Chanelle
Summary: Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day, and she hasn't been back to the South since. Thirty years later, Billie returns but her father's home is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Person, Houston
Contents: Sentimental journey -- A Sunday kind of love -- It had to be you -- Fools rush in -- Black velvet -- Save your love for me -- What'll I do -- I love you yes I do -- Canadian sunset.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighNote Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PERPerson, Houston.
Contents: Blue odyssey (7:35) -- Holy land (6:38) -- I love you, yes I do (3:39) -- Funky London (4:48) -- Please send me someone to love (7:03) -- Starburst (6:08).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Prestige Records, Inc. 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PERPerson, Charles
Summary: "A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward--written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil RightsMovement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERSON, CHARLES PERSedgwick, Chantele
Summary: Grieving for her older brother Lucas, Oakley Nelson agrees to spend a few months with her mother at Aunt Jo's California beach house, where a notebook of letters from Lucas to Oakley challenges her to feel better and enjoy life, but a budding romance reminds her of the chances Lucas will never have.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1. Will you be my love / The Four J's I'll never know / The Chantells with The Aqua Lads -- My fault / The Passionetts -- I gotta know / The Tonettes -- I wanna be a winner / Vickie & The Van Dykes -- A love of mine / The Vandelettes -- I'll say yes / The Devilettes -- Searching for my man / Dot and The Velvelettes -- Help me somebody / The Chapells -- Same old sweet lovin' / The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Numero Group 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BASContents: Disc one. Can the circle be unbroken (bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Barbara Allen (Bradley Kincaid) -- I'll fly away (James and Martha Carson) -- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- Blue yodel number 9 (standin' on the corner) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Wildwood flower...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC COUChenille Sisters
Contents: Howlin' at the moon -- Lives intertwined -- I lie in the dark -- Help! I'm turning into my parents -- And so it goes -- Pizza -- Deliverance -- Love of your life -- I'd be lost without you -- Namedroppings -- Long ago -- The first time -- I said you said -- Co-dependent with you -- Faces.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red House Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK CHENIPerson, Stephen.
Summary: Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and habitat of the Arctic fox.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.7764 PERPerson, Stephen.
Summary: Discusses the history, breeds, and training of sled dogs and sled dog racing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.73 PERChapelle, Howard Irving.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bonanza Books 1949
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.822 CHAPederson, Rena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 204.4 PEDCavelle, Simon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.7 CavelleBarnes, Cinelle
Summary: "From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir Monsoon Mansion, comes a moving and reflective essay collection about finding freedom in America. Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning. Because she couldn't get a driver's license or file taxes, Cinelle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BARReardon, Lisa.
Summary: As Ray Johnson searches for the killer of his brother, a man whom the whole town wanted dead, he tries to explain what caused the brother to be a bad man. A tale of child abuse and incest in rural Michigan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REASummary: All of the best moments from thirty years (1962-1992) of memories. Includes Johnny's favorite episode, featuring Bette Midler and Robin Williams, the final episode, footage of Johnny participating in various sporting events, and much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Carson Productions Group 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ULTPearman, Hugh.
Summary: The airport terminal, the most important building type in the world of transportation, is also the site of the most ambitious and innovative achievements in 20th-century architecture. From the timber runway used during the Wright Brothers' first powered flight to modern glass-and-steel structures, from military buildings housing fighter planes to public spaces for both travel and shopping,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720 PEAEasson, H.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jack is disgusted that he has to visit his great aunt Gretel (whom nobody in his family has ever seen, and who lives in a deadly forest with many skinny cats), horrified that there is no wi-fi, internet, or television in her dusty ancient cottage, and totally terrified when he realizes that she is a real, honest-to-goodness witch--fortunately she sends him packing after one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC EASReardon, Scott
Summary: A young CIA agent's identity is stolen by a gifted college drop-out who would use agency resources to solve the cold case of his brother's murder, a situation that is complicated by a secret government program to engineer a perfect soldier.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC REAChapelle, Howard Irving.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.82 CHAPinkney Barlow, Charnelle
Summary: "A picture book biography of pioneering guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Books for Young Readers 2023