Summary: 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
Contents: Dirty Harry / screenplay by Harry Julian Fink & R.M. Fink and Dean Riesner ; produced and directed by Don Siegel (102 min.) -- Magnum force / screenplay by John Milius and Michael Cimino ; produced by Robert Daley ; directed by Ted Post (123 min.) -- The enforcer / screenplay by Stirling Silliphant and Dean Riesner ; produced by Robert Daley ; directed by James Fargo (97 min.) -- Sudden impact...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DIRHandy, W. C. (William Christopher)
Contents: St. Louis blues (8:50) -- Yellow dog blues (4:16) -- Loveless love (4:28) -- Aunt Hagar's blues / J. Tim Brymn, W.C. Handy (4:57) -- Long gone (from Bowlin' Green) / Chris Smith, W.C. Handy (5:08) -- The Memphis blues (or Mister Crump) / George A. Norton, W.C. Handy (2:59) -- Beale Street blues (4:56) -- Ole Miss Blues / W.C. Handy, Walter Hirsch (4:56) -- Chantez les bas (Sing 'em low) (4:48)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ARMSummary: Don't know who Tom Shadyac is? As a writer and a director, Shadyac first unleashed Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor remake on the world, and then a string of film fiascoes, but that's all behind him now. A bike accident left him with a host of debilitating maladies and brought him to the verge of suicide, so he took stock of his life and set out on a quest to answer some of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shady Acres, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc IBruchac, Joseph
Summary: "Through poems that capture the essence of each person's life, acclaimed Native American writer Joseph Bruchac introduces readers to famous indigenous leaders from The Peacemaker in 1000 A.D. to modern day dancer Maria Tallchief and Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller. Each poem is illustrated by a modern-day tribally enrolled artist."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 BRUHardy, Sandra.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Guild of Master Craftsman 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.7 HARSummary: Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BATSummary: Follows Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater's tumultuous election year, as well as other years in a career that encompassed numerous political and ideological triumphs. Though he never achieved the ultimate prize, the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 vindicated the conservative agenda Goldwater had long championed. Ironically, in later years, Goldwater's support of issues like abortion and gay...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MR.Shah, Sonia.
Summary: Traces the centuries-long battle to treat and prevent malaria in numerous regions of the world while revealing how hundreds of millions of people are infected annually in spite of available preventions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 SHASummary: Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV KILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KILBrown, Milton.
Contents: Disc 1. Sunbonnet Sue -- Nancy Jane -- Brownie's stomp -- Joe Turner blues -- Oh! you pretty woman -- My precious Sonny boy -- Swinging on the garden gate -- Do the hula lou -- Garbage man blues -- Four, five or six times -- Where you been so long, Corrine? -- Talking about you -- Just sitting on top of the world -- Take it slow and easy -- Get along, Cindy -- Trinity waltz -- Loveland and you...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Rose Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY BROSummary: Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ADVShah, Sonia
Summary: "A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.809 SHAShah, Sonia.
Summary: "From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 SHASummary: Crime abounded in late Victorian and Edwardian times--from the streets of London to the country houses of nobility; from the royal apartments of Vienna to the hotel rooms of quiet Copenhagen. Sherlock Holmes took on many of the era's crooks, killers, blackmailers, and schemers, but so did the fictional sleuths of other celebrated writers of the time. (from container.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIVW C Handy
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Handy Brothers Music 1914
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. C.P....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BeCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BESShaw, Garry J.
Summary: "This handy guide to Egyptian mythology explores how the ancient Nile-dwellers explained the world around them. It delves into the creation and evolution of the world and the reigns of the gods on earth, before introducing us to the manifestations of Egypt's deities in the natural environment; the inventive ways in which the Egyptians dealt with the invisible forces all around them; and their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSummary: In New Hampshire in 1777, Dick Dudgeon's father dies. Called back home to the unhappy family he revolted against years ago, Dick finds he's been named heir, much to the horror of his religious mother. To complicate matters, the British have arrived.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEVW C Handy (B)
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Handy Brothers 1914
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Handy Brothers Music 1914
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMContents: Breathin' (Ariana Grande) -- Happier (Bastille & Marshmello) -- Taki taki (DJ Snake, Selena Gomez & Ozuna, feat. Cardi B.) -- This feeling (the Chainsmokers, feat. Kelsea Ballerini) -- Electricity (Silk City, Dua Lipa, feat. Diplo & Mark Ronson) -- Promises (Calvin Harris & Sam Smith) -- Body (Loud Luxury, feat. Brando) -- Close to me (Ellie Goulding, Diplo & Swae Lee) -- Thunderclouds (LSD,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019