Summary: Set against the vibrant landscape of South Florida, and featuring an astonishing ensemble of award-winning actors and breakouts alike, this film traces the epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family, led by a well-intentioned but domineering father, as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. A heartrending story about the universal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAVSummary: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, the tenuous domestic order he has established with his wife and son is put to the ultimate test with the arrival of a desperate young family seeking refuge. Despite the best intentions of both families, paranoia and mistrust boil over as the horrors outside creep ever-closer, awakening something hidden and monstrous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR ITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ITSummary: "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: On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BRESchulte, Greg
Summary: What If There Are Monsters In The Toy Box is a beautifully illustrated children's bedtime book that appeals to modern parents and their kids alike. Sometimes Max's imagination is stronger than his will to get ready for bed, so he turns to his father for guidance. The story teaches bedtime routine to youngsters, while emphasizing paternal involvement and overcoming silly childhood fears of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue North Media Publishing 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SCHGorey, Edward
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOREY, EDWARD GoreyGorey, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GORGorey, Edward
Summary: A collection of fifteen works by Edward Gorey, featuring his gothic pen and ink illustrations, and often gruesome story lines.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1981
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GORGorey, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1997
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GORGorey, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORSummary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSchultz, Joey
Summary: In 2017 photographer Joey Schultz was asked a question - "What would be the most powerful photograph that you could take?" His answer was images of his grandmothers. That was the spark that lit the fire on the idea of photographing grandmothers all over the country and how powerful a collection that would be. He brought this idea to fellow photographer John Hanson over breakfast one day in Los...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ProSeed Books 2021
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.24 SCHSummary: Best selling crime novelist Charles suffers from terrible writer's block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His picture-perfect new wife Ruth is doing her best to keep him focused so they can fulfill her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles' quest for inspiration leads him to invite the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti to perform a séance in his home. He gets more than he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLISchultz, Howard
Summary: The founder of Starbucks shares his untold personal story--from his childhood in Brooklyn's housing projects to his rise as a business icon--and lays out his vision for how companies can improve their social impact.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHULTZ, HOWARD SCHCarey, Edward
Summary: Young Clod, living in his family's mansion amongst a mass of shifting forgotten items, becomes aware of the items whispering to him and senses a growing storm ahead, needing the help of an orphan servant to unravel the mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARCarey, Edward
Summary: In 1761 a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CARCarey, Edward
Summary: "At the Iremonger mansion, set in the trash heaps of an alternate Victorian London, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger has found a way to make objects assume the shapes of people, and how to turn people into objects. Will outcast grandson Clod--transformed intoa gold coin--and servant girl Lucy (now a discarded button) be found and returned to human form?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARCarey, Edward
Summary: As the Iremonger family begins a search for a new home in London, residents of the city begin to notice strange incidents, including missing persons, strange objects appearing, a creeping darkness, and lots of rats.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARCarey, Edward
Summary: "In the small Tuscan town of Collodi, a lonely woodcarver longs for the companionship of a son. One day, "as if the wood commanded me," Giuseppe--better known as Geppetto--carves for himself a pinewood boy, a marionette he hopes to take on tour worldwide. But when his handsome new creation comes magically to life, the woodcarver screams at him . . . and the boy, Pinocchio, leaps from his arms...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARGershwin, George
Contents: Disc 1. Swanee (Al Jolson) -- The Yankee doodle blues (Van & Schenck) -- Do it again (Arthur Lange's Orchestra) -- Somebody loves me (Isabelle & Tom Patricola) -- Fascinating rhythm (Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards) -- Oh, lady be good (Buck & Bubbles) -- Tell me more (Alexander Gray) -- Sweet and low-down (Singing Sophomores ; Ed Smalle) -- Song of the flame (Tessa Kosta ; The Russian Art Choir)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUFSummary: A group of heroic figures span the globe protecting democracy and freedom against terrorism. Learning that power hungry North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il is out to destroy the world, the team recruits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover as a terrorist. With the help of Team America, Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer's hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TEAEdwards, C. Drew
Summary: Noting that parenting is one of the most difficult and demanding challenges people face, this book integrates extensive clinical experience, up-to-date research, and personal experience to help parents manage hard-to-handle children more effectively. The book explains hard-to-handle behaviors and helps parents understand what might be normal childhood behavior and what needs to be addressed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Spirit Pub. 1999