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Engineering Graphic novels Great Britain History 20th century Drama Great Britain History Elizabeth II, 1952- Drama Great Britain Politics and government Drama Inventions Man-woman relationships Drama Prime ministers Great Britain Drama Princesses Great Britain Drama Queens Great Britain DramaJennings, John
Contents: Walking to China -- It's only the rain -- Do you want me now -- Everybody loves me -- Night will fall -- A third of the world -- Run run run -- Another town -- Willie Short -- Monday night.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY JENJennings, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.829 JENDuffy, Damian
Summary: In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2020
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUTCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DUFJama-Everett, Ayize
Summary: "When Black graduate student Lyndsey begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosarium Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BOXSummary: "In partnership with Second Sight Publishing, Dark Horse Comics is proud to present, Shook! A Black Horror Anthology. With over 190 pages of terrorizing material, the anthology is filled with stories from a range of award-winning Black writers and artists. Stemming from a love of Southern gothic horror, this anthology boasts a cadre of award winning or nominated writers representing awards...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SHOMedina, Tony
Summary: The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MEDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MEDOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: The drama takes place in a small Nigerian town during a violent and unexpected storm. A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her, and his touch burns like fire. Something is very wrong. Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive. John Jennings...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OKOSummary: In a cave in the woods, all winter long, Bear sleeps in his cozy lair. Surprise guests stop by to warm up, brew tea and pop corn while Bear snores on. When the smells and the fun finally disturb his slumber, Bear wakes up to find his den full of celebrating critters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods/Scholastic 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BEAContents: The night before Christmas-- and more classic holiday tales. The night before Christmas / by Clement Clarke Moore, illustrated by Ruth Sanderson -- In the month of Kislev / by Nina Jaffe, illustrated by Louise August -- Seven candles for Kwanzaa / by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney -- Too many tamales / by Gary Soto, illustrated by Ed Martinez -- Max's Christmas / written and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2009
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1 available in Sight and Sound Holiday Display, Call number: DVD JUV NIGDuffy, Damian
Summary: "Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Comicarts 2018
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DUFWalker, David
Summary: "The Sangerye family has spent generations in a never-ending fight to destroy the hate that infects the human soul. But now the disease of intolerance has given rise to a new breed of deadly creature that threatens to destroy the world, and some of the family members will not survive the coming battle. With Blink taking charge of the family, Cullen and Ford surrounded by monsters, and their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BITSummary: 1950, rural Alabama. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint and away from the rival club across the way. He lays off his regular talent and hires the famous electric guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a one night only gig. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HONSummary: What would you wish for if you were granted a new wish every day? That's the interesting situation five children face when they're sent to live with their eccentric uncle in his moldering mansion while their father fights in World War I. There they discover It, a fairy who makes their wishes come true.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The day that Katie Elder is buried, her four sons return home to Clearwater, Texas, to pay their last respects. It is a he-man story, as well as, a drama of the maternal influence of Katie Elder, her sacrifice, love and incredible valor. The hopes and aspirations for her sons is movingly communicated from beginning to conclusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie SonsCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SONWestwood, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorset Press 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.54 WESSummary: Season two follows Queen Elizabeth through the late 1950s and early '60s as she struggles to navigate a world that's changing around her. She must face the challenges of a new era, from the Suez Canal crisis to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, while preserving both the monarchy and her marriage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Cr 2Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CROSummary: Could engineering secretly be an exciting, creative, heroic realm where the optimists of today are creating the life-saving, world-altering marvels that will make for a safer, more connected, more equal and even more awe-inspiring tomorrow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DRESummary: During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, when neighbors killed neighbors and friends betrayed friends, some crossed lines of hatred to protect each other. As the country became a slaughterhouse, mosques became places of refuge where Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis came together to protect each other. This film interweaves six different tales that together form one grand narrative providing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 791.43 KinyarwandaSummary: Charley Varrick is a small-time crook who outfoxes the mob and makes a desperate run for the Mexican border and safety.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Picture 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CHASummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017