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Ferrari, Alessandro Friedman, Daniel Groen, Hendrik Rosenblatt, Roger Von Drehle, DavidSummary: Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can't help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred's, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arrow Academy 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TOTSummary: On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. Solo's American dream is just beginning, while William's is quickly winding down. Despite their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: An inspirational story of family, friendship, and redemption. After years of searching for his father, a young man, on the run from the law, finds his way into the life of a secluded old man in the woods. As the days go by and secrets about their past are revealed, they realize they may not have been looking for each other but they were brought together for a reason.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FATSummary: An older American expat living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter is disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent, unexpected blows to his self-esteem. He wades through this late chapter of his life with an increasingly impaired grasp on reality as he prepares for his next film.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOMSummary: Two ex-brothers-in-laws set off to Iceland in an attempt to reclaim their youth nightclubs, trendy spas, and rugged campsites. This adventure is a throwback to 1980s road trip comedies, as well as a candid exploration of aging, loneliness, and friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LANSummary: The year is 1985. Among many other things, Compo, Clegg, and Foggy attempt to settle a question involving Nora Batty's feet, an old mattress dumped in the countryside prompts Foggy to institute the Dewhirst Campaign for a Cleaner Countryside, and with the assistance of Compo and Clegg, Foggy sets out to show Digby's donkey who's the boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: British comedy series followed elderly ne'er-do-wells Compo, Clegg, and Blamire as they found adventure and trouble while roaming the streets of their small Yorkshire town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: The world's longest-running sitcom returns with more antics from everyone's favorite geriatrics! After seeing Seymour off, Compo and Clegg intend to take over his position as headmaster. Foggy returns from Bridlington, but Compo and Clegg keep missing him. Once Foggy finally reunites with Compo and Clegg, though, he loses them while out on a walk, leading him to come up with an idea to create...
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corporation 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: A devoted old couple are separated when the wife dies. The husband struggles to cope with his loneliness and failing health, but his spirit is fading when a mysterious white dog appears and reawakens his joy of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOGroen, Hendrik
Summary: "Nine years before the events of the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old, Hendrik and his best friend Evert embark on a madcap adventure -- with an unexpected guest. Hendrik Groen and Evert Duiker, faithful friends in good and bad times, are well over seventy and their lives have quieted down. They see each other once a week to play chess, have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROVon Drehle, David
Summary: "When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old. Little did he know that he was beginning a long friendship -- and a profound lesson in the meaning of life. Charlie White was no ordinary neighbor. Born before radio, Charlie lived long enough to use a smartphone. When a shocking tragedy interrupted his idyllic boyhood, Charlie mastered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC VONRosenblatt, Roger
Summary: An aging poet contemplates the later chapters of his life while avoiding trips to the neurologist, spending time with his grandson, and falling for a blind woman less than half his age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSSummary: Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa to the rift that forced him to choose between the two.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2020
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3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY IRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IRISummary: Never underestimate the inappropriate impulses of senior delinquents Clegg, Truly Alvin and their friends in beautiful Yorkshire Dales. Who else would rig a karate match to meat an annoyingly fit neighbor, resurrect Elvis Presley for a fan, meddle in romance with ₁Her₂ at the pizza parlor, and make career plans while heavily chained? What to do with a jewel thief who brags too much, a long-ago...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: Follows the lives and comedic adventures of three older men living in the English town of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video. 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: Compo is just as smitten with Nora as ever, so when Smiler becomes her lodger, Compo is left depressed. The trio tracks down one of Compo's old friends from school, hoping to cash in on an old debt. Foggy also has his inventor's cap back on this season. He creates a chair lift to get up the hills and a pole vault to help Compo hang a washing line for Nora, but as usual, his brilliant ideas lead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2 Entertain 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: Join the trio for another season of hilarious adventures. Contains ten episodes and a Christmas Special: Potts in Pole Position.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: The picturesque Pennine village of Holmfirth in the Yorkshire Dales is the setting for this vintage comedy, which first began life in 1973. This is Bronte country - miles and miles of unspoiled moorland and a breathtaking backdrop to the antics of our aging delinquents and their demented friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: A suspense-filled story of Zev, an Auschwitz survivor who discovers that the Nazi guard who murdered his family some seventy years ago; is living in America under an assumed identity. With the aid of a friend, Zev sets out on a gripping journey that tests both his will and his fading memory as it brings him closer to the retribution he seeks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE REMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ReSummary: A film of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Anton Checkhov's play Uncle Vanya. Chekhov's portrayal of the frustrations and disillusions of advancing age and the numbing boredom of provincial life in 1890's Russia, is here effortlessly performed by probably the most talented and prestigious cast ever assembled for this work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS UNCFerrari, Alessandro
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of UP, seventy-eight-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. He discovers too late that an 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell has stowed away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC DISFriedman, Daniel
Summary: "Once, Detective Buck Schatz patrolled the city of Memphis, chasing down robbers and killers with a blackjack truncheon and a .357. But he's been retired for decades. Now he's frail and demented, and Rose, his wife of 72 years, is ill and facing a choice about her health care that Buck is terrified to even consider. The future looks short and bleak, and Buck's only escape is into the past. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRISummary: Brian Cox is Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory's life will be unexpectedly transformed through a newly found love for his baby grandson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020