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1) Ajami
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 120 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
עברית
Description
Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Ajami is a bold crime drama set on the margins of an Arab ghetto. Working with a cast of non-actors in the real streets of Ajami itself, the film deftly meshes characters and conflicts with unsentimental compassion, uncompromising realism, and harrowing violence.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto--a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot understand the entanglements of race, poverty, and place...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing....
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Step into Tyler Perry's neighborhood, peel back the rough exterior, and behold! Get on the laugh wagon as some of your favorite stage stars strut, sing, and remind us, no matter how tough it gets, that laughter, faith, and love are the best remedies.
6) Angel City
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
An old black man finds a baby abandoned in a dumpster and raises him in a rough Los Angeles neighborhood to know both African American and Mexican American ways.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this musical, Mushnik's Flower Shop houses an exotic potted plant called Audrey II. People are rushing in to see it but if they knew the truth, they would rush right out.
Author
Language
English
Description
"1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Jewish Ghetto in Krakow, Poland, during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her mother are forced to seek refuge in the sewers beneath the city. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed close alliances with the occupying Germans. While on an errand in the market, she catches...
Author
Series
Coldest winter ever volume 1
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Winter Santiaga, the daughter of one of Brooklyn's most powerful drug czars, uses her own weapons--including sex and an aggressive attitude--to stay on top, after her father's empire is threatened by a drug war.
Author
Series
The coldest winter ever volume 1.5
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria paperback edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sharp-tongued, quick-witted Porsche worships her sister Winter. Cut from the same cloth as her father, Ricky Santiaga, Porsche is also a natural-born hustler. Passionate and loyal to the extreme, she refuses to accept her new life in group homes, foster care, and juvenile detention after her family is torn apart. Porsche--unique, young, and beautiful--cries as much as she fights and uses whatever she has to reclaim her status. Unselfishly, she pushes...
11) Hoop dreams
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Filmmaker-approved special ed.; standard format (1.33:1).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Follows the high school careers of two young, African-American men from inner-city Chicago as they pursue their dream of playing professional basketball.
Series
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 800 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"With the fall of the Barksdale empire, and the ascent of a new young drug king in Baltimore, McNulty, Bunk and the rest of the detail continue to "follow the money" up the political ladder amidst a hotly contested mayoral campaign. Prez witnesses first-hand the role of inner-city education in the formation of youth as four students, Michael, Namond, Randy and Dukie, face dangerous decisions and adolescent angst in a city rife with the temptations...
Series
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 630 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, where easy distinctions between good and evil are challenged at every turn.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 498 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Even as a hardened cop, things have never been tougher for Detective Vic Mackey. In this season, he must deal with a vicious, gang-related slaughter with no leads, the desperate attempts of an Internal Affairs detective to discredit him, and the looming threat of forced retirement. To top it all, he's obsessed with finding the killer of a valued Strike Team member and friend. Meanwhile, Shane hooks up with the Armenian mob and becomes a dangerous...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. She's eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father's empire, reset his crown, and ultimately to snatch Midnight back into her life no matter which bitch had him while she was locked up. But Winter is not the only one with revenge on her mind. Simone, Winter's young business...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Vic Mackey is the leader of an elite Strike Team unit, a group of cops effective at eliminating crime but also operating under Vic's own set of rules. But his rules sometimes cross the fine line between legal and illegal. Now the precinct has a new captain who doesn't like Vic's tactics and wants to bust him off the force-- even as the captain finds himself going to Vic for help whenever the going gets rough.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows two teenagers coming of age in the midst of the Bronx drug trade as they experience budding sexuality, teen parenthood, and gang identity in a social examination of the challenges of family life in the face of violence.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
©2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This book is unlike any memoir you'll ever read. Moving in its frankness, it is a relentless tale of a resilient spirit who took on the worst of contemporary urban life and survived it with a furious wit and unyielding determination. Cupcake Brown is a dynamic and original storyteller who will guide you on the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you'll ever take.--From publisher description.
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