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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans African Americans in motion pictures Cooking (Natural foods) Cooking (Vegetables) Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William) 1885-1966 Race relations Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870 Comic books, strips, etc Riel Rebellion, 1885 Comic books, strips, etc Seasonal cookingSummary: A ragtag group of Knights Templar hold out for months against the hard-fought siege of Rochester Castle in the thirteenth century. Set in the time of King John's signing of the Magna Carta treaty, the group struggles against the king to defend the freedom of their country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by ARC Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IROSummary: "We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love--and a lot of what they fear--through a twisted blend of horror...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amberjack Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALLSummary: In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORContents: CD 1. I'm the face / The High Numbers -- Bo Street runner / The Bo Street Runners -- Country line special / Cyril Davies & his R&B All Stars -- Chills and fever / Tom Jones -- Crawling up a hill / John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers -- You'd better make up your mind / The Koobas -- Desdemona / John's Children -- Tick tock / Shyster -- Wasn't it you / Billie Davis -- Bus stop / The Hollies -- Tell...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Ribchester, Lucy.
Summary: London, 1912. The suffragette movement is reaching a fever pitch, and Inspector Frederick Primrose is hunting a murderer on his beat. Across town, Fleet Street reporter Frances “Frankie” George is chasing an interview with trapeze artist Ebony Diamond. Frankie finds herself fascinated by the tightly-laced acrobat and follows her to a Bond Street corset shop that seems to be hiding secrets of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "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: Five classic films that offer a rare glimpse at a lost era of provocative filmmaking.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Price, the show's stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORISummary: "Vincent Price stars as an obsessed doctor who discovers that fear manifests itself as a parasitic creature, which grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. If they scream, The Tingler can be destroyed. If they don't, it will sever the spinal column and kill them. He successfully isolates and removes The Tingler from a deaf-mute (Judith Evelyn) who has been scared to death by her devious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR TINHastings, Chester
Summary: Offers ninety seasonal recipes that combine cheese with the ripest fruits and vegetables, including a springtime raw baby artichoke salad with Pecorino Toscano and savory pumpkin tarts with Bûcheron for autumn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books Llc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.673 HASChester, John
Summary: Follows the filmmaker and his wife as they try to create a sustainable farm in Ventura County, California.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BIGSummary: 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
Brown, Chester
Summary: A graphic novel about teenagers and their agony.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly Publications 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BROBrown, Chester
Summary: Martyr or Madman? The Passionate Rebel History Can't Close The Book On. Is this the future of comics? Respectably penning the dowdy pages of history? Don't be fooled. This is one of the hippest comics going and will be a controversial must-have in 2003. Legendary cartoonist Chester Brown reveals in the dusty closet of Canadian history there are some skeletons that won't stop rattling. To some...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.05 BROChester, Molly
Summary: "Seasonally-inspired food, with more than 130 recipes, from the chef, farmer, and star of The Biggest Little Farm"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.564 CHECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.564 CHEGillis, Chester
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.73 GILNez, Chester.
Summary: A retired Marine and Navajo Indian describes his experiences as one of twenty-nine top-secret code talkers during World War II and how his life growing up on the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo Reservation prepared him for his service.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 940.54 NEZ, CHESTER NezSummary: 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 TWIChester, John (John G.)
Summary: Farmer John and his team work together to save a sick pig who's just given birth to 17 piglets and is unable to care for them in this heartfelt picture book, the first of three depicting stories about the animal, plant, and human life of Apricot Lane Farms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHEHirt, Al.
Contents: Disc One: 1. Bourbon Street Parade -- 2. Cotton Candy -- 3. That's a Plenty -- 4. Java -- 5. Stardust -- 6. South Rampart Street Parade -- 7. When It's Sleepytime Down South -- 8. Echoes of Harlem -- 9. Walkin' -- 10. Trumpeter's Lullaby -- 11. Struttin' With Some Barbeque -- 12. Muskrat Ramble -- 13. Royal Garden Blues -- 14. Mama's Gone, Goodbye -- 15. I'll Be Seeing You -- 16. Strangers in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Intersound 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HIRSummary: "In Japanese, tora means "tiger." In December of 1941, "tiger, tiger, tiger" was the code phrase that unleashed one of history's most devastating surprise attacks. But the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor also awakened the "sleeping giant" of American military might, and in the process, sealed Japan's fate"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PEAJohnson, J. Chester
Summary: An illuminating journey to racial reconciliation experienced by two Americans--one black and one white.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books Ltd. 2020