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Alcoholic fathers Illinois Chicago Drama Alcoholics Illinois Chicago Drama Chicago (Ill.) Drama Children of alcoholics Children of alcoholics Illinois Chicago Drama Christmas stories Dysfunctional families Dysfunctional families Illinois Chicago Drama Illinois Chicago Man-woman relationships DramaSummary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHECopies Available at East Bay
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHEStonex, Emma
Summary: "Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a remote tower miles from the Cornish coast--and about the wives who were left behind. What strange fate befell these doomed men? The heavy sea whispers their names. Black rocks roll beneath the surface, drowning ghosts. And out of the swell like a finger of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOStine, G. Harry (George Harry)
Summary: A fully updated new edition of the bible of model rocketry and the official handbook of the National Association of Rocketry G. Harry Stine was one of the founders of model rocketry and one of its most accomplished and respected figures. His Handbook of Model Rocketry has long been recognized as the most authoritative and reliable resource in the field. Now fully updated and expanded by Harry's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.46 STIStone, Emma
Summary: The prehistoric family the Croods discover another, more civilized and sophisticated family, the Bettermans, and it doesn't take long for tensions between them to escalate, until circumstances force them to work together in order to survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CROSummary: In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORSummary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THEDoctors of Madness
Contents: Disc one Waiting -- Afterglow -- Mitzi's cure -- I think we're alone -- The noises of the evening -- Billy watch out -- B-movie bedtime -- Mainlines
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RPM 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DOCSummary: Based on a true story of a daring young girl who will stop at nothing and fear no one. In 1943, thirteen-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive in Italy, their caretakers desperately organize the departure of the children to Switzerland. When they are suddenly left on their own, these eleven...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FANSummary: The tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2024
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Summary: Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that line to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor did he back away from any challenge. His determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast savage North American continent where no white man had been before. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, Jubal forged a legend as a powerful...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAMSummary: Fistful of dollars: An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Scrappy, stubborn and strong, the Gallaghers are tested by changing times, but Season Six finds them older, wiser, and better at playing the system. Used to their natural state of chaos, the Gallaghers are as surprised as anyone at how life is turning out for them. But as they come into their own and find out who they really are is it really possible that they could grow apart for good?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 EMMSummary: The Gallaghers have always scraped by, but Season Seven finds them finally getting a leg up. When Frank awakens from a coma to learn that his family tossed him in the river, he declares war, Gallagher vs. Gallagher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Frank comes out of a drug-induced haze and decides it's finally time to be a contributing member of society. Fiona faces hard decisions when she discovers her success as a landlord may mean someone else's misfortune. Lip struggles with staying sober, while Ian takes up a cause in hopes of getting back with Trevor. Debbie builds her future at welding school while juggling life as a single...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For a group of quirky animals, things are larger-than-life on a tropical isle that is pure wild animal paradise. Then Robinson Crusoe, a marooned human, arrives in the midst of a furious storm, and their lives are forever changed by this bewildering new 'creature.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WILSummary: "A nation rising to greatness through the work of men and women, new country opening, raw land blossoming, crude towns growing into cities, territories becoming rich states. In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma lands for white settlement--2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CimarronSummary: A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Dunkirk 20171982
Contents: 07:56 -- 06:19 -- 06:37 -- 07:00 -- 04:03 -- 04:45 -- 04:09
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hubro Music
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ NINSummary: London's richest borough hides a dark side that Chelsea local DI Max Arnold knows all too well. Killers lurk among the art galleries and luxury homes, and it₂s up to Max and new partner Layla Walsh to expose them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Move over, Rudolph! It's time for the Christmasaurus to lead Santa's sleigh. The Christmasaurus is a dinosaur who lives with Santa Claus and his elves at the North Pole. More than anything, he wants to fly with Santa's reindeer on Christmas Eve! But no matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to figure out how to fly. . . . Until one Christmas Eve, when he meets a young boy in a wheelchair who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE FLESummary: The boys follow the new President-elect from his acceptance speech to his first official day of duty as the Commander in Chief. They keep busy helping a down-on-her-luck pop princess, negotiating a truce for striking Canadians, and preventing giant rodents from destroying the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009