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...
Format: moving image
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
Mattiel
Summary: The second album from the Atlanta-based singer/songwriter.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MATSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex rotescue? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGAHall, Rose
Summary: How could plastic-eating bacteria help reduce waste? Can a river be given human rights? Could we generate all the power we need from the sun and the wind? How do woolly sweaters help penguins in peril? Would building a giant sunshade in space stop the world from overheating? Find the answers to these questions and more in this bold, graphic and exciting book, full of big, small and unexpected...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Envi HallMattel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BSummary: An alien, from a distant planet, lands in Wisconsin and arrives at the remote cabin of Jenny Hayden, a distraught young widow. The alien (Starman) convinces her to drive him to Arizona, explaining that if he is not picked up by his mothership in three days he will die. En route, Starman demonstrates the power of universal love, while Jenny rediscovers her human feelings for passion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STAMasie
Contents: Listen, it's obsessive! -- I'm ashamed -- Flight song #7 -- Guts -- Ambra and her fans -- Dance stone -- Easy tune for Simon Jeffes -- Division -- Vigo oh oh -- Post modern? -- Post modern! -- Sipsysolly -- Candies -- H.A.D.D. -- I am not a fucking vegetarian -- I am sad -- Sense of speed -- When I float -- William Lustig.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Acidsoxx Musicks 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MASLubchansky, Mattie
Summary: "Newly-out trans artist's assistant Sammie is invited to an old friend's bachelor weekend in El Campo, a hedonistic wonderland of a city floating in the Atlantic Ocean's international waters -- think Las Vegas with even fewer rules. Though they have not identified as a man for over a year, Sammie's old friends haven't quite gotten the message -- as evidenced by their former best friend Adam...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LUBSummary: Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 1995
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CUTKahn, Mattie
Summary: "The untold history of the people who helped spark America's most important social movements from the Revolutionary War to today: teenage girls. Nine months before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1912, women's rights activists organized a massive march in support of women's suffrage, led up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 KAHSummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Three American women working in Rome, Italy, share a spacious apartment and the desire to find love and marriage, each experiencing a few bumps in their journeys to romance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THRBoyd, Pattie
Summary: The former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton describes her intimate relationship with two of the icons of rock music and her memories of the dynamic, often turbulent world of rock music during the 1960s and 1970s.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 782.421 BOYCerato, Mattia
Summary: When a young boy's father is worried about the crops and his mother loses her job, the boy worries as well. He tries counting sheep to help him sleep but they only multiply. Then he has a solution as a result of believing in his dreams.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Chair Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CERHellmich, Mittie
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.874 HELAttie, Alice.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quantuck Lane Press 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 974.71 AttEllis, Hattie.
Summary: Integrating popular science and social history, a global history of honeybees examines the hive society of the bee, as well as the influence of bees and honey on diverse cultures around the world and throughout history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.799 ELLMattis, George.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Pub. Co. 1969
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Summary: "There's a chill in the air and frost on the trees, and Little Bear has something to say: 'I love wrapping and ribbons and balls of bright string, And gift tags, and glitter - the joy that they bring! I love giving presents, and getting them too, But thething that I love more than Christmas is--' But Little Bear keeps getting interrupted by the mail carrier, the oven timer, the carolers... Can...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2020
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE HATSummary: When Sal's husband dies suddenly of a heart attack, Sal and her best friend, Tip try to find some fun among the knitting and cake-baking of The Ladies' Guild in the small West Country town of Clatterford St. Mary. The Guild members are certainly an eccentric bunch: leader Eileen, who takes her position--and chains--very seriously; cheese-mad Rose (or Margaret, depending on whether she's taken...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLAStepanek, Mattie J. T. (Mattie Joseph Thaddeus)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 STEFriedman, Matti
Summary: "Describes the author's harrowing experiences manning a remote Israeli outpost with a regiment of other young soldiers, during a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s that foreshadowed other unwinnable conflicts in the Middle East,"--NoveList.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRIEDMAN, MATTI FRIContents: Death don't have no mercy (Blind Gary Davis) -- Rolling log blues (Lottie Kimbrough) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves and Bro.) -- Expressman blues (Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell) -- Love in vain #1 (Robert Johnson) -- Tallahatchie River blues (Mattie Delaney) -- High water everywhere, Part 1 (Charley Patton) -- Original stack O'Lee Blues (Long Cleve Reed & Little Harvey Hull...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023