Ruffin, Maurice Carlos
Summary: "When Adebimpe is ten, she is sold with her mother, Sanite, to plantation owner John du Marche. He soon renames her Ady but Sanite never lets her daughter forget who she really is - a person who can read and write and understand numbers. Most importantly, Sanite reminds Ady that she must never reveal these abilities to a white person, especially not her true name. Tasked with maintaining du...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2024
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2 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC RUF1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Summary: Max has an active imagination, who will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WHECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHECaron, Dewey M. (Dewey Maurice)
Summary: The standard beekeeping (apiculture) textbook used to teach college students and beekeepers the science and practice of bees and beekeeping. It concentrates on the 'why', 'how' and 'when' of beekeeping. It explains bee basics in a manner meaningful to people who lack an intensive background in biology. It does not oversimplify, and provides a meaningful source of beekeeping information for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wicas Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 638.1 CARRavel, Maurice
Contents: Piano concerto in G major (22:04) -- Menuet antique (6:32) -- Piano concerto for the left hand (19:05) -- Une barque sur l'océan (7:49) -- Fanfare from l'Éventail de Jeanne (1:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca Record Co. 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RAVSummary: Ocean's 11 (127 min): New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin and the champaign fizzes. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and his 10 partners in crime, it's the perfect moment to steal millions. Danny devises a scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig five big casinos vaults and raid them all at the same time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLCoffin, Charles Carleton
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.7349 COFSummary: When it rains, sometimes Little Bear plays indoors ... and sometimes Little Bear plays outdoors. Either way, Little Bear and his friends know how to have fun. A rainy day never puts a damper on Little Bear's adventures - whether he is acting in a play or puddle jumping.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A World War II Marine sergeant and a Roman Catholic nun are both marooned together on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops. The sergeant does his best to make the nun's ordeal less painful, but is torn by his growing love for her. The nun is equally fond of the sergeant, but refuses to renounce her vows. Their unrealized ardor mellows into mutual respect as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEASummary: The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VICContents: Tough de times (things getting tough) / (The Emperor) -- Mary / (Preacher Stephens with the Foree Wells Combo) -- Loose lips / (Percy Mayfield) -- No more for you / (Ethel Boswell) -- Hurry back baby / (Camille Howard) -- Caravan / (Chuz Alfred & His Combo) -- Alabama Sue / (Roy Gaines) -- Mambo mambo baby / (Paul Boyers Band) (feat. Pattie Parish) -- Calypso cha cha for spooks / (Monogram...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jazzman Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES JUKSummary: A timid young girl marries a troubled widower only to find her new home is haunted by the memory of Rebecca, the first wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REBCarlson, Laurie M.
Summary: The story of John Stetson and how he came to create the most popular hat west of the Mississippi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Ink/DK Pub. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 STESummary: Creature from the Black Lagoon: Members of a scientific expedition to the Amazon discover a gruesome half man/half fish creature. Revenge of the Creature: A monster, half man and half fish, kills two men and abducts a woman ichthyologist after escaping from the tank where it is chained. The creature walks among us: Despite the clear intention of enjoying his watery home deep in the Everglades,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CRESummary: "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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUDebussy, Claude
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: London 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA DEBSummary: The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAKSummary: After returning from World War II, a young G.I. finds he has little in common with the wife he left behind. Disillusioned, he heads north to work as a traveling salesman where he meets the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. On her way home, she is terrified of what her father will do when he learns she is unmarried and pregnant. The young man gallantly offers to help by posing as her husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WALCarlson, Laurie M.
Summary: Gives instructions for preparing foods, making clothes, and creating other items used by European settlers in America, thereby providing a description of the daily life of these colonists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 1997
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Summary: More than 150 craft and art activities for creative self-expression of youngsters, with easy-to-follow instructions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Williamson Pub. Co. 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 CARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 CARCarlson, Laurie M.
Summary: Presents art and craft projects that benefit the environment through such activities as recycling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Williamson Pub. 1993