Summary: Provided is an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. This documentary has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college, and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose mom will do anything to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WAI1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAI
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WAISummary: The movie is based on the 1951 novel by Daphne Du Maurier and tells the story of a young Englishman who plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYOrne, Michele Rose
Summary: "Every design begins with a spark of inspiration. Knitwear designer Michele Rose Orne shares her secrets for creating beautiful handknits in 'Insipired to knit', a collection of 21 patterns arranged by season"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 ORNSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this candid look at our relationships with our mothers, fifteen authors write about subjects that they wish they had talked to their mothers about. While some of the writers in this book are estranged from their mothers, others are extremely close. Topics vary widely: from growing up with a deaf mother, to seeking a conversation that won't be interrupted, to relationships affected by the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.874 WHASummary: I am somebody : Records the 1969 strike by black, predominantly female, hospital workers in Charleston, S.C. for better working conditions and higher wages. Shows how the struggle was won by a coalition of local and national union and civil rights groups plus the local black community through nonviolent marches and demonstrations. Highlights Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IRhye
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC RHYAndersen, Eric
Contents: CD one. Everything ain't been said -- Dusty box car wall -- (We were) Foolish like the flowers -- Dream to Rimbaud -- Secrets -- I will wait -- Waves of freedom -- Mama tried / feat. David Bromberg previously unreleased -- Is it really love at all -- Florentine -- Blue River / feat. Joni Mitchell -- Pearl's goodtime blues -- Woman, she was gentle / feat. Joan Baez and Leon Russell -- Moonchild...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ANDSummary: Long-married British couple Nick and Meg are revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. Diffident, wistful Nick and demanding, take-charge Meg careen from harmony to disharmony as they take stock of half a lifetime of deep tenderness, and even deeper regret. An invitation from Nick's old friend Morgan, an amusingly eccentric American...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WESummary: Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VENRhee, Peter
Summary: Documents the life story of the trauma surgeon who helped save Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, describing his upbringing in South Korea and Africa, his selection as President Clinton's personal physician, and his wartime service.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RHEE, PETER RHEOkee Dokee Brothers
Summary: "On June 1st 2011, The Okee Dokee Brothers began a month-long canoe trip at the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca, Minnesota. After thirty days of camping, canoeing, filming and writing the songs that make up this album, Joe and Justin eventually ended up downstream at the St. Louis Arch. Can you canoe? is the first CD/DVD in The Okee Dokee Brothers' Adventure album...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Okee Dokee Music 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV OKEOdenkirk, Bob
Summary: Follows the trials of criminal lawyer Saul Goodman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BETCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BETSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex rotescue? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: If we knew how much longer we had to live, what would we choose to do with the time we have left? Set in a British hospital, it follows poised and put-together Hollywood star Julia Roth, who seems to be in the sunset of her career, as she begins her journey with a critical medical issue. Preferring to be incognito, Julia is instead thrust into a room with three remarkable women who, with humor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MySummary: We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMSummary: A serial imposter, Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child, and when she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, the power of emotion threatens to overcome all rationality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NANBaker, Chet
Contents: Belgium, 1964. Bye bye blackbird ; Isn't it romantic ; Airegin ; Time after time ; So what -- Norway, 1979. Interview ; Blue train ; Softly, as in a morning sunrise ; Five years ago ; Love for sale.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Reelin' in the Years Productions 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Wilhelmina is a Chinese-American lesbian and a young surgeon who has kept her sexual orientation secret from her conservative Chinese community in New York. But when her widowed mother becomes pregnant and is kicked out by her own parents, Wil suddenly has to juggle her mother's secrets with her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SAVMead, Richelle.
Summary: After making a life-changing decision, Sydney Sage, an Alchemist who serves to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires, must tread a careful path as she harnesses her profound magical ability to undermine the way of life she was raised to defend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MEASummary: Contains the entire third season of the television program "House" in which the controversial Dr. Gregory House and his team diagnose and treat mysterious illnesses. Includes special features.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: A drama series inspired by the classic Grimm's Fairy Tales. Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as 'Grimms', charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dom Toretto is a former street racer who, along with his crew, hijacks an oil truck out on the highway. Dom is living the life of a fugitive in the Dominican Republic, but after suffering a devastating personal loss, he is driven by revenge to return to Los Angeles to bring down an elusive drug smuggler. He is reunited with undercover FBI agent Brian O'Connor who let him go eight years earlier....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009