Summary: Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAISummary: Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BANCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BansheesSummary: Allison Dubois works in the Phoenix District Attorney's office. She uses her psychic abilities to help crack criminal cases. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people and by touching someone she often gets to see beneath the facade into the person's soul. Allison juggles her job with her role as wife and mother, including a daughter who seems to be developing similar...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MEDSummary: Allison Dubois is a strong-willed, devoted young wife and mother of three girls, who has gradually come to grips with her extraordinary ability to talk to dead people, see the future in her dreams, and read people's thoughts. This season, Allison and her family's world is turned upside down after her abilities are publicly exposed, resulting in sweeping changes both professionally and personally.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Paramount Network Television 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MEDSummary: Allison Dubois is a strong-willed, devoted young wife and mother of three girls, who has gradually come to grips with her extraordinary ability to talk to dead people, see the future in her dreams, and read people's thoughts. This season, Allison and her family's world is turned upside down after her abilities are publicly exposed, resulting in sweeping changes both professionally and personally.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MEDSummary: An aspiring artist and the aspiring singer he loves join the most berserk brood of sun-and-funners on Nantucket Island in New England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONESummary: Despite their hardships, five sisters living in rural Ireland in 1936 are able to embrace life and all its complexities and dance with joy in their hearts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DANSummary: Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEASummary: When Anna's four-year anniversary to her boyfriend passes without an engagement ring, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Inspired by an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on Leap Day, Anna follows Jeremy to Dublin to propose to him. But after landing on the wrong side of Ireland, she must enlist the help of Declan, a handsome and carefree local man, to get her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEASummary: An adventure set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful U.S. mining magnate to build a railroad to his newest mines. His romance with the boss's daughter only complicates matters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TYCSummary: A disaffected veteran returns to his hometown in the Midlands, in hopes of getting even with the petty criminals who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DEASummary: A one-night stand develops into a weekend-long idyll for two very different young men in the English Midlands, in an emotionally naked film that's both a snapshot of the complexities of contemporary gay living, and a portrait of a love affair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WEESummary: The epic story of Henri Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. Determined to regain his freedom, Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, who, in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon's escape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAPSummary: George and Kathy Lutz are newlyweds who move into a large house that is located on Long Island. The couple move in with their three children into what they believe is their dream home. Despite full disclosure by the real estate agent of the home's history, George and Kathy buy the house. The couple turn to their family priest Father Delaney who comes to bless the house. The Father believes the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI AVASummary: When Terry Noonan returns to New York's Hell's Kitchen after a mysterious ten year absence, he immediately rejoins the Irish mob run by Frankie Flannery and soon finds himself torn between loyalty for his Irish cronies and loyalty to a secret that could bring them down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY STASummary: Hank is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. One day everything changes when a corpse names Manny washes up onshore. The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SWISummary: Ready for high-speed, high-seas, treasure hunting? Set sail with Blaze and Pegwheel the Pirate-Truck to search for three keys to unlock the golden treasure! Then, use a treasure map to find the most amazing treasure there is, race to The Island of Lost Treasure for more riches, and speed through an ancient race track in search of a magical Wishing Wheel!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighborhood after 14 years in prison, all he wants is to find peace, resume his career, and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance, they realize cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A woman and her mother are sent to an island and spend almost 60 years trying to leave it. Follow three generations of the woman's family as they all try and find happiness on a lagoon surrounded by shifting dunes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD HOUSummary: On an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds; or almost entirely because in this paradise, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it's up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AnCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ANGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD AngrySummary: A reimagining of the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. A diverse team of explorers are brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, as beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KONSummary: A group of soldiers, scientists and civilians, fleeing an attack, is stranded billions of miles from Earth on an Ancient ship known as the Destiny. Locked on an unknown course, they must fight to survive and find a way home. The danger, adventure, and hope they find on board the Destiny will reveal the heroes and villains among them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A withdrawn couple's isolated house is infiltrated by a rude, burly American gangster on the run. The three engage in role-playing games of sexual and emotional humiliations. An evocative, claustrophobic, and morbidly funny tale of the modern world in chaos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011