Summary: Combines elements of analysis, history, biography, performance, and the personal passions of six presenters to tell the stories behind the stories of six Shakespeare plays. Includes interviews with actors, directors, and scholars; visits to key locations; clips from celebrated film and television adaptations; and illustrative excerpts from performances staged at Shakespeare's Globe in London...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHASchulze, Bianca
Summary: 101 Books to Read Before You Grow Up provides a comprehensive list of kid-friendly books for children to read before they grow up. This must-read review list acts as an interactive journal where kids can document the books they read, why they like them, and how they rate them. Divided into sections by subject, from fairy tales and fantasy to sports and nonfiction, 101 Books to Read Before You...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Published by Walter Foster Jr., a division of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 028.5 SCHLee, Laura
Summary: A history of ballet provides plot synopses of famous ballets and introduces the language, steps, and costumes of the dance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2007
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J WHITE CHIShiga, Jason
Summary: A "choose your own story" graphic novel. In a small medieval coastal town, the residents live in fear of a giant sea creature, the Leviathan, who attacks anyone who lies. Your mission: discover the secrets and defeat the creature before it's too late! How you go about it depends on the choices you make.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHIPak, Greg
Summary: "After a mysterious attack devastates a great swath of 19th century Japan, Korea, and China, survivors from all three lands find refuge on a hidden island and build a new society. Hana, the orphaned daughter of Korean farmers, and Kenichi, son of a great samurai leader, have little in common except for a mutual disdain for the other. But these young warriors will have to work together when an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RONSummary: The cold case unit, led by quick-tempered cop DS Boyd, has assembled to re-examine unsolved crimes with cutting-edge detection techniques. Pressure is on for this mix of forensics, psychology, and detective investigators to yield results.
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 WAKO'Connor, Tara
Summary: "Willow Sparks and her best friend Georgia Pratt are at the bottom of the social ladder at Twin Pines High School, just trying to get through each day relatively unscathed. But when Willow finds a mysterious book that allows her to literally change her life, it feels like her luck is finally turning. Becoming more and more popular with each entry into the book, her old life, including her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OCOPearson, Luke
Summary: "In the latest installment of the Hildafolk series, Hilda is thrust into a new life in the bustling city of Trolberg, far from the magic and wonder of her birthplace in the Fjords. Lamenting the loss of her enchanting, wooded surroundings, Hilda wonders if she'll ever recapture the same excitement in this strange new concrete forest. Hilda is set for a thunderbolt of surprise as she discovers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PEASummary: The award winning and critically-acclaimed crime drama returns for another series of dark, gripping murder mystery investigations. In the six stories, DSI Boyd and his Cold Case Squad enter the visceral worlds of international terrorism, private military contractors, the penal system and sex offenders, Navajo rituals, people trafficking and neo Nazi politics to close more previously unsolved...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAKSullivan, Tom
Summary: "A minute-by-minute account of the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the United States uses reproductions of FBI files and investigation photographs to chronicle the events surrounding an unidentified extortionist's 1971 hijacking and disappearance."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GAIShiga, Jason
Summary: Overview: Chocolate or Vanilla? This simple choice is all it takes to get started with Meanwhile, the wildly inventive creation of comics mastermind Jason Shiga, of whom Scott McCloud said "Crazy + Genius = Shiga." Jimmy, whose every move is under your control, finds himself in a mad scientist's lab, where he's given a choice between three amazing objects: a mind-reading device, a time-travel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SHIGillen, Kieron
Summary: They say you can never go home. For the Young Avengers, that's not true. They can go home--it's just that if they do, the universe may end. Better not go home then, eh? (Wait, what are you doing, Young Avengers? You've decided to go home?!?) The team takes on the gig to save reality, but is Kate Bishop an enemy in waiting? Is this the last we see of the loveable/ strangle-able Kid Loki?.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide Inc. 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 YOUSummary: Beetlejuice is the name of a wild bug-eating ghost from the Neitherworld with a bad habit of acting stupid and a weakness for not working well with others. His best friend Lydia is a mortal who, despite being best friends, is consistently getting pranks pulled on her by Beetlejuice. Trapped in the Neitherworld, the only way Beetlejuice can visit the Outerworld (mortal world) is when his name is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013