Summary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: A lovely gesture - a bouquet of roses - from husband to wife becomes the catalyst for a clash of long-repressed emotion. Their son has just come back from war, but is caught in the middle of their conflict.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUBContents: Disc 1. Hey-hey-hey-hey (Little Richard) -- Shirley (John Fred & the Playboys) -- Would you believe it, I have a cold (Huey Smith) -- Telling lies (Fats Domino) -- Someday (you'll want me) (Smiley Lewis) -- Nervous boogie (Paul Gayten) -- It must be jelly (Frankie Ford) -- A-tisket a-tasket (Joe Jones) -- I'm so blue (Jimmy Beasley) -- I know (Ray Washington) -- Honey, honey (The Supremes) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantastic Voyage 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES HEASummary: Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHARoberts, Dannel.
Summary: This is a story about some thieves that were stealing the jewels in Boston and explains how the boys were shanghaied by pirates but managed to recover the jewels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions & Tigers & Bears, Pub. 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ROBRoberts, Dannel.
Summary: A crocodile who had lost an eye wrestling an alligator loses all his teeth when he falls for a decoy monkey.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions & Tigers & Bears, Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ROBGee, Darien.
Summary: "At Madeline's Tea Salon, the cozy hub of the Avalon community, local residents scrapbook their memories and make new ones. But across town, other Avalonians are struggling to free themselves of the past ... Enter Bettie Shelton, the irascible founder of the Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society. Under Bettie's guidance, even the most reluctant of Avalon's residents come to terms with their past...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEERoberts, Dannel.
Summary: Billy Goat Bob falls into Snake River Canyon when he is tricked by a boy dressed as a dumb old ewe sheep.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions & Tigers & Bears, Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ROBGee, Darien.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GEEGee, Darien.
Summary: Still reeling from a personal tragedy that left her estranged from the sister who was once her best friend, Julia Evarts remains at a loss as to how to move on with her life until she receives an anonymous gift of Amish Friendship Bread with instructions on how to make the bread herself, and a request to share it with others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEEGee, Darien.
Summary: Still reeling from a personal tragedy that left her estranged from the sister who was once her best friend, Julia Evarts remains at a loss as to how to move on with her life until she receives an anonymous gift of Amish Friendship Bread with instructions on how to make the bread herself, and a request to share it with others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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Summary: Still reeling from a personal tragedy that left her estranged from the sister who was once her best friend, Julia Evarts remains at a loss as to how to move on with her life until she receives an anonymous gift of Amish Friendship Bread with instructions on how to make the bread herself, and a request to share it with others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Contents: Tempest-tost -- Leaven of malice -- A mixture of frailties.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVSummary: 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 RANDavies, Robertson
Summary: The story of Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a doctor practicing holistic healing. It chronicles his youth, including an incident in the Canadian bush where his life was saved by an Indian shaman, and describes his World War II years in the course of which he decided to practice holistic medicine. A look at the connection between spirit and body. By the author of The Rebel Angels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVDavies, Robertson
Summary: The death of eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish leads to a spectacle of theft, perjury, murder, scholarship, and love at a Canadian university.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVDavies, Robertson
Summary: Relationship between three men who grew up together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DavieDavies, Robertson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 DAVDavies, Robertson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 DAVDavies, Robertson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVDavies, Robertson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DavieSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014