Summary: Hoop Dreams goes to the mat in this intimate coming-of-age documentary about four members of a wrestling team at Huntsville's J.O. Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabama's list of failing schools. Teammates Jailen, Jamario, Teague, and Jaquan each face challenges far beyond a shot at the state championship: splintered family lives, drug use, teenage pregnancy, mental health...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WRESummary: 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.Summary: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLERone.
Contents: (00) -- Acid reflux -- Elle -- Sing song -- Memory -- Sir Orfeo -- Ouija -- Roads -- Calice Texas -- Freaks -- Quitter la ville -- VIF.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Infiné 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC RONSamaris.
Contents: Hljma -- Viltuvitrast -- Gatungl -- Stofnarfalla -- Vggudub -- Slhvrf i -- Slhvrf ii -- Klanmikla -- Hljma (muted remix) -- Viltuvitrast (futuregrapher remix) -- Gatungl (dj arfi remix) -- Stofnarfalla (sub:minimal remix)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: One Little Indian 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SAMSummary: See super earth-moving equipment in action and up close. Marvel at the biggest dump truck in the world that moves 240 tons of dirt in one load, and other giant machines.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreams Come True Productions 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ISummary: An original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. Porter looks back on his life as if it were one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and actions onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits, Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE De-Lovely 2004Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DELCamarão.
Contents: Retrato de um forró -- A casa de Anita -- Rio Antigo -- Sereia do mar -- Xeêm -- Quem vem la -- Forrozinho moderno -- Vocé passa, eu acho graça -- Xaxando com garibaldi -- Não interessa não -- Os camaröes -- Se quiser valer -- Camarão no oriente -- De serra em serra -- A cigana lhe enganou -- Fim de festa.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Analog Africa 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CAMRowe, Jeannette
Summary: Half pages turn to reveal whose nose is pictured.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1998
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: STO ROWRowe, Rosemary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Headline 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWRowe, Rosemary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWRowe, Maggie
Summary: A successful television writer describes her friendship with a neurodiverse middle-aged woman who helps her confront her own issues with mental illness and feelings of inadequacy while coming to peace with the choices she has made.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROWE, MAGGIE ROWRowe, Mickey
Summary: "Fearlessly Different is the moving, inspirational memoir of autistic actor Mickey Rowe, who pushed beyond the stereotypes and obstacles so many disabled individuals face to shine on Broadway's biggest stage. Fearlessly Different opens up the world of autism to those who feel locked out and helps those with autism feel seen and understood"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROWE, MICKEY ROWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROWE ROWRowe, Peggy
Summary: "Peggy Rowe is at it again--this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forefront Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROWE, PEGGY ROWRowe, Rosemary
Summary: This is a compelling new mystery for Libertus, set against the backdrop of the Roman Empire in turmoil ... An astonishing new order has usurped power in Rome and the reverberations are reaching even to Glevum, where the legion is preparing to depart. Libertus' wealthy patron, until recently one of the most influential men in the Empire, finds himself not only deprived of the privilege and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWOkupe, Roye
Summary: Iyanu, a teenage orphan with no recollection of her past, suddenly discovers that she has abilities that rival the ancient deities spoken of in the folklore of her people. It is these abilities that are the key to bringing back an "age of wonders," as Iyanu begins her journey to save a world on the brink of destruction! The Corrupt--cursed wildfire and strange, divine beasts--are determined to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 IYAOkupe, Roye
Summary: The orphan Iyanu is thrust into the wildlands beyond the safety of the walls of her home! She must quickly learn to work with an exile and the people of the Riverlands Settlement if she hopes to save her mentor. Meanwhile, Chancellor Nuro finalizes a diabolical plan that threatens to destroy the entirety of Yorubaland in his greedy hunt to capture Iyanu, also known now as the Chosen One!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 IYARode, Rebecca
Summary: In a world where female sailors are executed, Lane's dream of being a ship's captain seems impossible. Sea life is all she knows, and Lane has to hide as a captain's boy to avoid being killed. Then an old pirate enemy comes after her father, and she begins hearing rumors that her father was once a pirate as well. Then a mysterious prince shows up, and Lane finds her very survival tied to a boy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RODShovels & Rope
Contents: Birmingham -- Keeper -- O' be joyful -- Hail hail -- Lay low -- Kemba's got the cabbage moth blues -- Tickin' bomb -- Carnival -- Shank Hill St. -- Cavalier -- This means war.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dualtone 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHORowse, Sharon.
Summary: John Lansdowne Granville takes a job guarding the silk trains traveling across Canada, along with his friend Sam Scott. By the second day, a body is discovered and and Sam is arrested for the murder. Granville is determined to get Sam out of jail.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWRowe, Edward
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BAIRowe, Rosemary
Summary: April, CE 194. The tensions in the civil-war-torn Empire have come to Glevum now. Libertus's patron, Marcus Septimus, has received a letter from Druscilla Livia, a widowed cousin of his wife, seeking his protection. She has received an offer of marriage from a powerful Roman Senator, Hortius Valens, a man of cruel and unusual tastes, and she is in no position to refuse. She has run away . . ....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWRowe, Rosemary
Summary: Passing the villa of an absent Marcus Aurelius, Libertus comes upon a gruesome discovery, but even worse is the news that arrives from Rome, news which will turn the lives of the whole Empire upside down.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015