Summary: "In a rundown circus on the outskirts of Mexico City, 13 year-old Alma earns a living as a trapeze artist. When her fellow performers find out that she is pregnant, Alma is expelled from the circus. She lives on the streets until she meets a troupe of traveling puppeteers that preach the word of God. Alma sees a promise in them, a glimpse of hope. This is a story of a young girl's search for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Desert Mountain Media 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANGSummary: A street rat frees a genie from a lamp, granting all of his wishes and transforming himself into a charming prince to marry a beautiful princess. But soon, an evil sorcerer becomes fixated on securing the lamp for his own sinister purposes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AlCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALASummary: In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 33 RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: Young and pretty with a soul of pure steel, Jane Hammond is a good girl married to one of the worst baddies in town. When her husband Bill turns against his own gang, the vicious Bishop Boys, and returns home barely alive with eight bullets in his back, Jane knows it's time to ditch the dress for a pair of pants and strap on her own gun.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JANLomax, Alan
Contents: Alan Lomax: Rambling gambler ; I'm bound to follow the longhorn cows ; Lord Lovell ; The rich old lady ; All the pretty little horses ; Billy Barlow ; The wild rippling water ; Rattlesnake ; Sam Bass ; The dying cowboy ; Eadie ; My little John Henry -- Ed McCurdy: When the works all done this fall ; The cowboy ; Jack o'Diamonds ; Utah ; Punchin' the dough ; Red River Valley ; Along side of the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy International 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK COWLomax, Alan
Contents: I'm bound to follow the longhorn cows -- Rambling gambler -- Lord Lovell -- The rich old lady -- Long summer days -- Ain't no more cane on this brazis -- All the pretty little horses -- Billy Barlow -- The wild rippling water -- Rattlesnake -- Sam Bass -- The dying cowboy --Godamighty drag -- Eadie -- Black Betty -- My little John Henry.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arion 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK LOMSummary: Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he hears the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris has invited the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He gathers together his former musicians and a young solo violin virtuoso to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. If they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CONGear, Alan.
Summary: Topical and practical, this is simply the best book you can read on growing, storing and preserving organic fruit & vegetables from the country's leading experts in the field of organic gardening
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Duncan Baird Publishers Limited 2007
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Summary: Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first. Separate...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 LUXOmar
Contents: Vicky's tune (feat. Ty & Robert Glasper) -- Insatiable (feat. Natasha Watts) -- Gave my heart (feat. Leon Ware) -- It's so (Interlood) (feat. Grant Windsor's Big Beat Band) -- Feeds my mind (feat. the Floacist) -- Déjà vu (feat. Mayra Andrade) -- Girl talk (interlude) (feat. the Moteane-Lyefooks) -- This way, that way -- Hold me closer (feat. Stuart Zender) -- I want it to be -- Doobie doobie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP OMAKoman, Alan J.
Summary: For anyone interested in his or her own genealogical links to medieval Europe and early Christianity, Alan Koman's new book offers an extraordinary opportunity. For the first time, the lives of 275 early European saints are retold and accompanied by lineages connected those saints to twenty-four of the great men and women of medieval Europe. Today, those twenty-four men and women have...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2010
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3 KOMSummary: A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child. A film of sinister, mocking laughter, and a biting satire of a contemporary Senegal whose post-colonial dreams are faced with erosion by western materialism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HYESummary: "Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year 2023, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T.C. Boyle"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jimmy, known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit is a white kid trying to make music in a predominantly African-American community and culture. After Rabbit freezes up in the midst of an MC battle, he's convinced he's missed his chance and that he's doomed to lead a marginal life as a factory rat for the rest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 8 MILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie 8 Mile 2003Albion, Mark S.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.409 ALBSummary: Hard-luck hound Hank finds himself in a town full of cats who need a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain's evil plot to wipe their village off the map. With help from a reluctant teacher to train him, our underdog must assume the role of town samurai and team up with the villagers to save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PAWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAWSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Omar.
Contents: Give me back my wig -- Bessie Mae -- Big Chief Pontiac -- Sleeping in the ground -- Lover man -- Come on pretty baby -- Gotta good friend -- Leave her running -- Big round world -- Omar's blues -- Angel child -- Tears like rain -- Too much -- Wine headed woman -- Blues in a bottle.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES OMAParker, Marjoire Blain.
Summary: Easy-to-read, rhyming text celebrates a bouncing, noisy ride to school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN ParSummary: NOW 88 features your favorite current hits from the world's biggest artists. Each numerical NOW release also features 'NOW Presents What's Next' tracks, previewing tomorrow's biggest hits.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Alai
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALASummary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019