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(0)Dee Williams
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When a naïve encounter at a Coronation party leaves sixteen-year-old Janet Slater pregnant, there's no question in her scandalized parents' mind of her keeping the baby. Bundled off to a home for unmarried mothers in South London, Janet is about to face the hardest moment of her sheltered life, alone. Forced to give her tiny daughter up for adoption, Janet promises her that one day, come what may, she'll find her… In the years that follow, Janet...
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It's 1935, and Maggie Ross loves her life among the stallholders in Kelvin Market, where her husband Tony has a bric-a-brac stall and where she lives, with her young family, above Mr. Goldman's tailoring shop. But when, one fine spring day, her husband disappears into thin air, her world collapses. The last anyone saw of Tony was at Rotherhithe station, where Mr. Goldman glimpsed him boarding a train. Maggie can only guess at her husband's destination...
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When her friend and business partner Edwin Brown dies, it seems like Katherine Carter's own world has ended. Not only has her closest companion been taken from her, but she's also lost the successful restaurant they built up together and the comfortable home they shared with her young son, for Edwin has left no will. And his lecherous brother, Gerald, presumes he's inherited Katherine along with the house. With little money but full of determination,...
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277 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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"Film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades -- a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended...
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This is the true-life, roller coaster-ride story of a multi-talented, Earth-toned American singer, musician, and comedian, born and raised in Portland, Oregon, who survived a bullish upbringing that left him with a sense of unworthiness and not belonging, which metastasized into a wall of hopeless resentment and led to a rebellious, systemic journey of grapefruit-sour relationships, including a bogus military-based marriage, followed by a dysfunctional...
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In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on oral histories and previously sealed Church records, Williams demonstrates how master narratives of women's religious life and Catholic commitments to racial and gender justice fundamentally change when the lives and experiences of African American nuns...
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Gerald the giraffe longs to dance like everyone else, but his legs are too skinny, and he just can't seem to get it right. At the Jungle Dance, all the other animals make fun of him, and he almost believes he is a failure, until one friend's encouragement shows him how his uniqueness can make him the best dancer of all.
13) Ella Fitzgerald
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Told in the voice of a cool cat named Scat, this dramatic story tells how Ella got her sound on the way to a most remarkable and inspiring career.
14) Nighthawks
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Contemporary story of suspense and intrigue. Europe's most feared terrorist suddenly and explosively announces his presence in New York. Two tough undercover cops are given the task of finding and stopping him.
15) Farmers
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Explains the clothing, tools, schooling, and work of farmers.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"Every ninety years, twelve gods return as young people. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are all dead. It's happening now. It's happening again"--Page 4 of cover.
The gods are free to do whatever they want. Inevitably, they do. Collects issues 23-28 of the series, including the critically lauded Kevin Wada magazine issue.
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The fun begins following the victory celebration in the Ewok village on Endor, at the end of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. R2-D2 and C-3PO have gathered to regale Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca and the other Rebels with the tales of their adventures that led to the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. An accidental kidnapping occurs while the droids are reminiscing, and suddenly you₂re taken on a new journey that leads to the retelling of the entire...
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and two robots (R2-D2 and C-3PO) work together to rescue the princess and restore justice in the Empire.