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Summary: Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop, and fast. But they have one last delivery for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SLOSloan, Robin
Summary: A software engineer is left a sourdough starter from sibling bakers after they're forced to close their shop, a gift that leads to a new vocation, a legal dispute, and a venture into a secret market that fuses food with technology.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION SLOAN 2017Sloan, Robin
Summary: After a layoff during the Great Recession sidelines his tech career, Clay Jannon takes a job at the titular bookstore in San Francisco, and soon realizes that the establishment is a facade for a strange secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOSummary: Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. C.P....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BESCopies Available at Kingsley
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BESSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATVieira, Mark A.
Summary: "In this official centennial history of the greatest studio in Hollywood, unforgettable stars, untold stories, and rare images from the Warner Bros. vault bring a century of entertainment to vivid life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 384 VIERubin, Sean
Summary: "Ever since mysterious bones were found in 1822, scientists and artists have tried to figure out what the creature they came from looked like. But it seems that every time they've made up their minds, someone makes a new discovery, and they have to start all over. That's only fair, though--after all, it's how knowledge advances!"-- Publisher's website
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANDSummary: Forrest Gump is a low-intelligence man who has good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His mama teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army and heads off to Vietnam where he becomes friends with Dan and Bubba. He wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FORSummary: Before she was Wonder Woman she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained warrior. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, she leaves home to fight a war to end all wars, discovering her full powers and true destiny.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wonder 2017Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WON RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WoSummary: Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUDCopies Available at Fife Lake
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Summary: After Sybil learns that Bolivar, her dinosaur friend, only eats corned beef sandwiches, she convinces him to sample some of the various cuisines of New York City's five boroughs. Includes descriptions of notable foods, such as rugelach, pretzels, dim sum, falafel, cannoli, bagels, pizza, and others --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A musical comedy film about an aspiring songwriter, four single actresses, and the staging of a new musical play on Broadway. Includes dances choreographed by Busby Berkeley.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GOLSummary: A crossover anthology depicts Kung Fu Master Shang-Chi's high-action partnerships with other fan-favorite Marvel superheroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARRubin, Sean
Summary: "What would you do if your neighbor was a dinosaur? Sybil knows that there is something off about her next door neighbor, but she can't seem to get anyone to believe her. Everyone is so busy going about their days in the busy streets of New York City that they don't notice Bolivar. They don't notice his odd height, his tiny arms, or his long tail. No one but Sybil sees that Bolivar is a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia, a division of Boom Entertainment Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 RUBRubin, Sean
Summary: "A deeply moving nonfiction picture book about the 9/11 Survivor Tree and the spirit of America"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 RUBSummary: It tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan who begins to photograph her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Media 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRASummary: They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: Danger, disillusionment, and betrayal reach an all-time high in the suspense-laced fifth season of The Americans. KGB agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings' unwavering dedication to their work comes at even more of a personal cost than before. And as Paige is drawn deeper into the reality of her parents' secret job, she realizes she will never have a normal life. Meanwhile, as Cold War tensions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: At the height of the Cold War, a former agent for the British Secret Intelligence Service is called back to root out a Russian spy who has infiltrated the organization's highest levels.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tinker 2012Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER TINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TIN RATED RSummary: Morvern Callar is greeted with a startling surprise, her boyfriend has committed suicide. He has left her a cryptic message on his computer and a manuscript for a novel. She changes the author's name to her own and begins a re-birth of self discovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MORSummary: After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2009