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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Dogs Juvenile fiction Great Britain Kings and rulers Succession History Drama Kings and rulers Kings and rulers Drama Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain Albert 1819-1861 Drama Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1819-1901 Drama Queens Drama Stories without wordsSummary: An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY AVANT-GARDE ERASummary: A security expert is sent to investigate the disappearance of a research team drilling deeper into the Sahara desert's surface than anyone has attempted before.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gone to Hell Ltd. 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NINJewell, Lisa
Summary: Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her "superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose" (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Polo the dog sets out from his home and enjoys many adventures, including sailing his boat on top of a whale, roasting hot dogs over a volcano, and taking a ride in a spaceship built from a mushroom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALHaller, Robert
Summary: Vacation Bible School got a little out of hand this year. Laura: a teenage girl struggling to fit into her small, sleepy town in upstate New York, slowly drifting away from reality and into the secret life she inhabits online. Paul: a twentysomething wannabe rock star, back home from New York City, broke and jobless, living with his mother. April: a math teacher with two kids, running her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALWalker, Walter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSummary: 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
Wallen, Amy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WALSummary: Follows the trials and tribulations of a busload of tourists who get stranded in an abandoned mining town in the middle of the African desert. After a fine bout of partying, they fall prey to the heat, isolation, and fear of death that pushes them to the extremes of introspection and emotional exploration. And in a beautifully futile gesture, they begin to rehearse a production of Shakespeare's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KINWaller, Ericka
Summary: "Ericka Waller's Dog Days is a debut novel about the way dogs can bring out the best in us in the face of life's challenges. George is a grumpy, belligerent old man who has just lost his wife. She has left him notes around the home and a miniature dachshund puppy called Poppy. But George doesn't want a dog, he wants to fight everyone who is trying to help him. Dan has OCD but has channeled his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Walter.
Summary: Pitted against a powerful family when he reopens the scandalous case of a young woman's unsolved murder, George Becket is forced to confront a haunting mistake from his own past while outmaneuvering wealth-driven corruption.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalker, Walter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALHines, Gary.
Summary: Young Tad Lincoln is excited about the new national holiday until he learns that the cook plans to serve Jack the turkey as the main course for Thanksgiving dinner.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HINFaller, Regis
Summary: While trying to retrieve his new book from a thieving alien, Polo has a series of adventures and eventually helps the alien and his people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FalleSummary: The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Victoria 2019Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Vi 3Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VICWeller, Lance.
Summary: Civil War veteran Abel Truman, now elderly and disabled, endures a solitary existence in a driftwood shack on the Pacific Coast before undertaking one last hike through the Olympic Mountains, a journey during which he reflects on the war's savagery and the people who touched his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELSummary: What's a wallaby to do when he's surrounded by annoying neighbors, freeloading pals, heaps of laundry and the weight of life in general? Why, turn to his loyal canine, Spunky, dim-witted best pal, Heffer and neurotic nay-sayer Filburt to help him confront the trials and tribulations of modern life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROCSummary: In 1837, a diminutive, neglected teenager is crowned Queen Victoria, navigates the scandal, corruption, and political intrigues of the Court, and soon rises to become the most powerful woman in the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICCopies Available at Interlochen
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Victioria 2017Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Vi 1Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VIC NOT RATEDBailer, Darice.
Summary: Lucy thinks Linus is too attached to his blanket and wants to see what will happen to him without it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BAIGallen, Michelle
Summary: Summer, 1994. Maeve Murray wants a good final exam result so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. As a first step to afford studying journalism in London, Maeve takes a job in a shirt factory. As the British loyalist marching season raises tensions among the Catholic and Protestant workforce, Maeve realizes something is going on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALGallier, Laura.
Summary: Owen was a normal high school student with a great life. He had a beautiful girlfriend, played on the football team, and was surrounded by a group of great friends. That is, until he found a well on some abandoned land, and a man who offered him a drink of water that changed his life forever. Suddenly, Owen is seeing things that no one else sees: Shackles and chains that bind his family and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GALSummary: A ballet based on Shakespeare's tragicomedy that focuses on King Leontes, who accuses his boyhood friend of betrayal, condemns his wife for adultery, and banishes his newborn daughter. The story is taken up fifteen years later when the wronged and innocent parties are re-united with the king who has since come to his senses and now lives in a state of perpetual grief and regret.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015