Williams, Rachel Marie-Crane
Summary: "In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both war-time industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement - a powder keg waiting to go off. Thirty-four people were killed, most were Black, and over half were killed by police. Two thousand people were arrested and over 700...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 WILSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELSummary: "The Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPSummary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CONContents: Introduction -- Season in New York -- Season in Chicago -- Deburau / by Sacha Guitry -- First year / by Frank Craven -- Enter Madame / by Gilda Varesi and Dolly Byrne -- Green goddess / by William Archer -- Liliom / by Frank Molnar -- Mary Rose / by J.M. Barrie -- Nice people / by Rachel Crothers -- Bad man / by Porter Emerson Browne -- Emperor Jones / by Eugene G. O'Neill -- Skin game / by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small, Maynard, & Co. 1921
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESSummary: "Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars featuring the monsters of Latine myths and legends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2022
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Summary: An indispensable guide that empowers parents to understand and recognise anxiety in their children, and to help them to develop strategies to manage it together. Parents hold the key to helping their children with the strains of our always-on world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Pretty little angel eyes (Curtis Lee) -- Sea of love (Phil Phillips) -- Stay (Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs) -- Happy, happy birthday baby (The Tune Weavers) -- Angel baby (Rosie and The Originals) -- Here comes summer (Jerry Keller) -- Sorry (I ran all the way home) (The Impalas) -- Born too late (Poni-Tails) -- Love letters (Ketty Lester) -- Bobby's girl (Marcie Blane) -- Over the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Life Music 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONESummary: Ben Singer is a failed folk singer, newly unemployed proofreader, and every-other-weekend dad to his young daughter. The only thing he takes comfort in is smoking marijuana and chess games with Ibou, his Senegalese roommate. When Ibou becomes ill, a municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, and Ben pours his energy into a lawsuit against the city. Meanwhile, Ibou's beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wonderful 2010Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACMarie, Racquel
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Ophelia Rojas, well known for her rose garden and her dramatic crushes on every boy in sight, begins to question her sexuality and sense of self when she starts to fall for cute, quiet Talia Sanchez in the weeks leading up to their high school prom and graduation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACSummary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRIMarie, Racquel
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Valentina jeopardizes her future when she gets into an altercation with her rival, Leticia, during a soccer game, so the two girls must co-captain a soccer team to redeem themselves and what starts as a shaky alliance of necessity blossoms into something more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MARArana, Marie
Summary: "Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region:exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.08 ARASummary: Join Bob the Builder as he and his friends locate missing pets. Bob, Wendy, and his machine friends work together to make new homes for the pets once they are found.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HIT Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BOBArana, Marie
Summary: "A sweeping yet personal overview of the latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority. LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana's life experience as a Latina....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.868 ARACruze, Rachel
Summary: "Do you want to improve your money-and your life-for good? Then you need to understand why you handle money the way you do! The basics of personal finance, like budgeting and saving, may be black and white, but there are deeper reasons you make the choices you do with money. That's why, in Know Yourself, Know Your Money, #1 New York Times bestselling author and money expert Rachel Cruze goes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ramsey Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.024 CRUSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: Santa Bob is dreaming of a white Christmas, but along with the snow and ice comes an avalanche of problems! Bob and Scoop must plow a path to a snowbound Farmer Pickles, feed hungry ducks, and build a cozy home for chilly porcupines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016