Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIEarle, Steve.
Summary: A novel based on the imagined life of Hank Williams's sidekick and sometimes doctor, Doc Ebersole, and his haunting by his famous, dead friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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Earle, Steve.
Summary: Wracked by guilt and addiction ten years after administering a fatal morphine overdose to Hank Williams, Doc Ebersole performs illegal medical services in the red-light district of San Antonio before meeting a young Mexican immigrant who seems to heal others with her touch.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EARStemple, Heidi E. Y.
Summary: Birds of different feathers play bingo together, and watch the balls spin as they all hope to win.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN STEStemple, Heidi E. Y.
Summary: Birds fill the stands to watch a thrilling flag football match between the Eagles and Turkeys--and one chicken.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN STESummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELStemple, Heidi E. Y.
Summary: On Chicken karaoke night, duck wants to shine in the spotlight, but she must overcome her stage fright.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN STECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STEStemple, Heidi E. Y.
Summary: Children see that people come in many different shapes, and then are asked to pick which shape they are.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD STESummary: An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHRSummary: Cars: Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen is living life in the fast lane until he hits a detour on his way to the most important race of his life. Stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on old Route 66, he meets Sally, Mater, Doc Hudson, and a variety of quirky characters who help him discover that there's more to life than trophies and fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: 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
Pitman, Gayle E.
Summary: "A picture book illustrating a Pride parade. The endmatter serves as a primer on LGBT history and culture and explains the references made in the story"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amer Psychological Assn 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PITPitman, Gayle E.
Summary: A child celebrates her Maddy, who is neither mommy nor daddy but a little bit of both, like so many things in nature. Includes note to parents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PITSummary: Conan the barbarian: Cimmerian Conan is captured as a child after his parents are murdered by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom. After years of enslavement, Conan is freed to learn the "riddle of steel" and to kill the arch-villain Thulsa Doom
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CONWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "Written in the voice of Mother Africa, who speaks to her children--human beings--this stunning picture book thrums with the love between mother and child as it celebrates humanity's common roots. Before words or tools or fire, Mother Africa's caves sheltered us and her forests fed us. She could not protect us from all dangers, but, like mothers everywhere, she gave her children all she could...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEASummary: When Alita awakens with no memory in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman. Doctor Ido tries to shield Alita from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo offers instead to help trigger her memories. But when the deadly and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE ALICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AlSummary: After she rescues dozens of children who survived a massacre in Jerusalem in 1948, Palestinian Hind Husseini establishes an orphanage that helps thousands of other children left homeless by violence. But the success of her peace-through-education institution is tested when pupil Miral gets a taste of radical politics in the region's refugee camps.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MIRSummary: Andy is 17 years old and headed off to college, meaning he doesn't have a place in his life for childhood things. The toys (save for Woody), fearing they'll be packed away in the attic and forgotten about forever, are mistakenly donated to the local daycare facility. There, their wishes to be played with once again are fulfilled all too well. They also meet a new collection of toys, including...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TOYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOY RATED GSummary: The story of the Henry family as they experience World War II in Europe and the Pacific, depicting the final years of the war and its impact on everyday people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WARSummary: A sheriff attempts to capture an escaped convict before a bloodthirsty mob lynches him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005