Hurston, Zora Neale
Summary: "One of the most acclaimed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston was a gifted novelist, playwright, and essayist. Drawn from three decades of her work, this anthology showcases her development as a writer, from her early pieces expounding on the beauty and precision of African American art to some of her final published works, covering the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 HURSummary: Monsieur Ladmiral is a widowed painter in his twilight years who welcomes his bourgeois son Gonzague and free-spirited daughter Irene and their families to his home for a lazy afternoon lunch. Over the course of the day buried resentments come to the surface. The passage of time has left no family member unscathed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SUNSummary: Errol Flynn's farewell to big-budget swashbuckling has him playing the legenday Don Juan, the Spanish lover who fights to save the Queen Margaret and her King from the treacherous machinations of her minister, Duke de Lorca.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ADVHurston, Zora Neale
Summary: In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HURSummary: Ambitious and acclaimed series from The Queen writer Peter Morgan offers a comprehensive look at the adult life and reign of Elizabeth II over a projected six-season arc. The fifth season follows Elizabeth from the early to late '90s, as the fraying union of Charles and Diana ultimately came to separation, and John Major saw his tenure as prime minister end with the election of Tony Blair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRO1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: At the edge of the mortal world lies a mystical vortex leading to the Nine Kingdoms, a fantastic land where fairy tales are reinvented--and not with happily-ever-after endings. An evil queen has doomed Prince Wendell to life as a dog. His quest to recapture the throne leads him through a portal to the mythical Tenth Kingdom--Central Park! With the help of ordinary mortals Virginia and Tony, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY TENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TeGeorge, Margaret
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Margaret George has brought history to vivid life with her chronicles of queens and kings. Now, she turns her gaze to an Emperor ... Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar's imperial dynasty is only as strong as the next person who seeks to control it. In the Roman Empire no one is safe from the sting of betrayal: man, woman--or child....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOShakespeare, William
Summary: King John of England is pitted against the united powers of France, Brittany, Austria, and the Papacy. Will England be destroyed by his fatal indecision? As alliances are made, broken, and remade, the paranoid and erratic John reveals his weakness and reliance on those around him--including his powerful mother Queen Elinor and Faulconbridge, the cynical and witty bastard son of the dead King...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHASummary: Young & innocent: Robert is the estranged husband of a beautiful actress with a bad reputation. When he discovers her lifeless body on the beach, he is mistaken for the murderer and soon finds himself on the run, learning that the murder makes for very strange bedfellows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BCI Eclipse 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ALFMagnusson, Margareta
Summary: Shows readers how to prepare for and understand the aging process, and the joys and sorrows it can bring, with the ultimate message that people should all be less afraid of the idea of death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 MAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging MagnussonGodbout, Geneviève
Summary: When Maloo the kangaroo loses his hop, his friends help him find it again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GODBlackstone, Margaret.
Summary: A guide for girls explaining both the physical and psychological aspects of puberty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Inc. 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613.0424 BLAHudson, Genevieve (Genevieve Katherine)
Summary: "A queer coming-of-age told with magical realism, Boys of Alabama guides us through 16-year-old Max's first year in America. Conflicted about leaving Germany, Max is in awe of his new 'home' - here, the heat is thick, the food is grossly delicious, and football and religion--seemingly intertwined--permeate everything. While his parents don't know what to make of an American South pining for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUDCôté, Geneviève
Summary: When Mr. King builds a machine to stop caterpillars from eating pretty flowers, he doesn't notice his machine is destroying the environment until his friends call for him to stop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC COTCôté, Geneviève
Summary: When Mr. King goes fishing, he unexpectedly catches what he believes to be a monster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTSummary: Welcome to the fairy best café in the Puddlebrook. Help Butterbean and friends on Opening Day in a delicious double-length special. Take a spin in the Sweet Ride, serve up Fluttercakes, help prep Cricket's first menu, and even make lunch for the president. Just watch out for greedy Ms. Marmalady.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BUTCôté, Geneviève
Summary: Wanting a dog for his birthday but instead receiving a pet ghost named Fluffy, young Bob becomes frustrated by his ghost companion's disobedience and inclination to eat everything in sight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTDrake, Nick
Contents: disc 1. Voices (prelude) (the Wandering Hearts) ; 'Cello song (Fontaines D.C.) ; Hazey Jane II (Camille) ; Saturday sun (Mike Lindsay feat. Guy Garvey) ; Road (Bombay Bicycle Club & the Staves) ; From the morning (Let's Eat Grandma) ; Place to be (David Gray) ; Three hours (John Parish & Aldous Harding) ; Parasite (Stick in the Wheel) ; Time has told me (Ben Harper) ; One of these things first...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ENDSummary: Dorothy Gale lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. She has a pet dog named Toto. When Miss Gulch takes Toto away, Toto escapes and runs back to Dorothy. Soon, she runs away from home, and runs into the fake psychic, Professor Marvel. He tells Dorothy that her Auntie Em is sick, so Dorothy and Toto run back home, but a tornado comes and takes Dorothy and Toto to Oz, a place somewhere over the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WIZSummary: "Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MARKwes.
Contents: Purplehands -- 36 -- Rollerblades -- Cablecar -- Flower -- Hives -- Broke -- Chagall -- Parakeet -- B_shf_l.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warp Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC KWEMast
Contents: Misterioso (reprise) -- Evidence (featuring Jonah Levine Collective ; Dan Rosenboom, Gavin Templeton) -- Bemsha swing -- Ask me now (featuring Brian Marsella) -- Well you neednt (featuring Chris Speed) -- Epistrophy (featuring Dan Rosenboom, Gavin Templeton) -- 'Round midnight (featuring Brian Marsella) -- Blue Monk (featuring Jason Fraticelli) -- Oska T -- Nutty (featuring Makaya McCraven, Dan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Galaxy 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MASCôté, Geneviève
Summary: When Piggy and Bunny encourage each other's inner stars while performing in a play, they discover that the same feeling can be expressed in very different ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Pr 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTLittle, Margaree
Summary: Rest is a vivid, powerful collection examining the human cost of crossing the border. In 2010, Margaree Little was working for a humanitarian mission near Tucson when, along with a group of volunteers, she found the unidentified body of a man, who a medical examiner would later estimate died at least six months before. This discovery serves as the jumping-off point to a stunning, elegiac series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Way Books 2018