Williams, Jenny D.
Summary: "With empathy and political intrigue, this is a gripping story of two women from different worlds who become inextricably bound in a quest to save their loved ones. The Atlas of Forgotten Places is that rare novel that delivers an exquisite portrait of family and love within a breathlessly thrilling narrative. After a long career as an aid worker, Sabine Hardt has retreated to her native...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WILSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove: Two former Texas Rangers leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE LonCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN LONSummary: [Disc 1]: Star trek: the motion picture: A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space, destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everthing in its path and Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on. [Disc 2]: Star trek II: the wrath of Khan: On a routine inspection of the U.S.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Association for State and Local History 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.389 MCWSummary: Jonny's father is a scientist, the sort who travels to exotic locations and faces a host of sinister villains, gun-wielding thugs, and fearsome monsters. Not only does Jonny go along on these escapades, but so do his tutor-bodyguard, Roger T. "Race" Bannon, his mystical adopted brother, Hadji, and his dog, Bandit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JONSummary: Join Mary and the rest of the crew from the WJM-TV newsroom for another season of the classic sitcom. This time around Mary deals with more adventures, both in the newsroom and with her romantic life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARContents: Disc one, December 23, 1938 concert. Swingin' the blues / Count Basie, Eddie Durham, (Count Basie and his Orchestra) (3:34) -- One o'clock jump / Count Basie, (Count Basie & his Orchestra) (1:11) -- Introduction / John Hammond (0:38) -- Blues with Lips / Count Basie, (Oran "Hot Lips" Page, with Count Basie Orchestra) (3:11) -- I never knew / Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn, (Kansas City Five) (3:11) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FROSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Blasberg, Jeanne McWilliams
Summary: "Becca Meister Fitzpatrick - wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community - is the dutiful steward of her family's iconic summer tradition. That is until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this is likely her last season in Long Harbor, Becca is inspired by her granddaughter's boldness in the face of impending...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLASummary: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BIRSummary: A compelling combination of storytelling and science, this series uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AFRWilliamson, Sonny Boy
Contents: Good evening everybody -- Don't start me to talkin' -- All my love in vain -- You killing me -- Let me explain -- Your imagination -- Don't lose your eye -- Keep it to yourself -- The key (to your door) (alternate) -- Have you ever been in love -- Fattening frogs for snakes -- I don't know -- Like Wolf -- Cross my heart -- Ninety nine -- Born blind -- Little village (with false start and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Chess 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WILWilliamson, Sonny Boy
Contents: The sky is crying -- Slowly walk close to me -- Once upon a time -- Don't let your right hand know -- Movin' out -- Coming home to you baby -- I can't understand -- Same girl -- Gettin' together -- Why are you crying? -- Girl friends -- When the lights went out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alligator 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WILWilliamson, Sonny Boy
Contents: One way out -- Too young to die -- Trust my baby -- Checkin' up on my baby -- Sad to be alone -- Got to move -- Bring it on home -- Down child -- Peach tree -- Dissatisfied -- That's all I want -- Too old to think.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCA/Chess 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WILWillis, Jeanne
Summary: Hom is the last of his kind. I don't know what kind of creature he is, and nobody knows he exists, apart from me. When a boy washes up on a desert island after a shipwreck, he is sure he's all alone in the world. But he soon discovers there's someone else living there: Hom, a peace-loving creature who has lost his family, too. Alone on the island together, they learn from each other and become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andersen Press USA 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILWillis, Jeanne
Summary: When a little rhino, who likes to make the rules, finds a tree bursting with fruit, he is not about to share it with any of the other animals since he is in charge, but it looks like things are about to change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2018
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Summary: When Paddington arrives in London, he's excited to explore the city that he's heard so much about. Thanks to a stroke of luck, he meets Mr. and Mrs. Brown at the train station. They welcome him into their home and agree to help him find the explorer who visited his family in Peru. As Paddington sets out to search for the explorer and discover the many wonders in the city, he catches the eye of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BONWilliams, Jeanne
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1993