Summary: Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MANSummary: A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI SECSummary: Now that Jesse Stone has settled in as Paradise's police chief, he has to solve the grisly murder of a teenage girl. The investigation uncovers abuse and even leads him to a conflict with a Boston mob.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 3Summary: Naples 1904: Italian theatre is thriving, and comic actor, Eduardo Scarpetta is the box office king. Known in the Neapolitan theater for his cheeky alter egos, Scarpetta's larger-than-life stage productions were matched only by his eccentric personal life. Composed of wives, partners, lovers, legitimate and illegitimate children, Scarpetta's home situation resembled one of his comedies more...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINSummary: A tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie and a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KNICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KnCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KNICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Knives 2020Summary: A crime-thriller about judicial cover-ups and corruption in Argentina, told through flashbacks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEC1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEC
Summary: Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother's boyfriend, the handsomest man in the world, Monroe Rutherford. What follows is a sharp, funny and provocative account of one girl's sexual and artistic awakening, without judgment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIASummary: Young and pretty with a soul of pure steel, Jane Hammond is a good girl married to one of the worst baddies in town. When her husband Bill turns against his own gang, the vicious Bishop Boys, and returns home barely alive with eight bullets in his back, Jane knows it's time to ditch the dress for a pair of pants and strap on her own gun.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JANSummary: Sabata: Sabata is a mysterious steely-eyed gunslinger who, after he discovers the town of Daugherty's elite are the masterminds behind the big bank heist, imposes his bullet-laced brand of justice on the town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2005
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SABMartella, Vincent
Summary: After a supervillain causes several superheroes to lose their powers, Phineas and Ferb go on a mission to help them restore their powers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PHIMirabella, Angelina.
Summary: It's 1953 and seventeen-year-old Leonie Putzkammer is cartoonishly tall and curvaceous, destined to spend the rest of her life waiting tables and living with her widowed father, Franz, in their Philadelphia row house. Until the day legendary wrestling promoter Salvatore Costantini walks into the local diner and offers her the chance of a lifetime. Leonie sets off for Florida to train at Joe...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIRMirabella, Richard
Summary: Willa grudgingly takes in her brother, Justin, who is spiraling out of control, unable to manage his sobriety and the ongoing effects of a brain injury suffered when he fled a terrifying act of violence committed by his first boyfriend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIRSu, Tong
Summary: "In Peach village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learned to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his hand in marriage. Then, one day, Qiliang disappears. Binu learns that he has been transported hundreds of miles and forced to labor on a project of terrifying ambition and scale - the building of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUMarabell, Peter.
Summary: Michael Russo’s friend and mentor, Frank Marshall, is the target of an assassination attempt one damp autumn night in Petoskey. The case goes cold fast. The police have no suspects and no leads, so Russo begins his own investigation. It is quickly apparent that the attack was not a random shooting but a professional hit. Russo vows to hold those involved accountable by whatever means necessary....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kendall Sheepman Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MarabellCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSummary: Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days alone in the desert. He connects expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. As Ouyang narrates his tale, he interweaves the stories of his unusual clients, old friends and future foes. He begins to realize the mistakes of his own past, and how his fear of rejection may have led him to a life of exile.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHMarmell, Ari.
Summary: Working as a private detective, Fae Mick Oberon is hired to find a gangster's daughter sixteen years after she had been replaced by a changeling, and Mick encounters Fae politics and mob power struggles as he investigates.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Marmell 2014Christie, Tory
Summary: When the lights go out in her house fourth-grader and middle child Curious starts to consider the whole phenomenon of electricity and how it is created--but one of her younger brothers, John Glenn McCarthy, sees her scientific research as an opportunity for practical jokes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CHRKarp, Marcelle
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Jazz worries when her best friend Macy displays obsessive behavior over an ex-boyfriend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KARSimpson, Tonya
Summary: "This gentle picture-book lullaby is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SIMMarkell, Denis
Summary: After discovering a ghost in his apartment, twelve-year-old Danny and his friends traverse Brooklyn's diverse neighborhood together to learn the spirit's origins and bring it to rest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARAlmhjell, Tone
Summary: After a mysterious key arrives for her, eleven-year-old Lin Rosenquist finds a crack in the cellar, a gate to the world of Sylver. This frozen realm is the home of every dead animal that ever loved a child. Lin is reunited with Rufus, thepet she buried under the rosebush and together they must find the missing Winter Prince in order to save Sylver from destruction.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALMFisscher, Tiny
Summary: "An honest and simple exploration of death and grief for kids 4 to 8. With playful illustrations by a therapist-turned-artist, Bird is Dead uses humor to make death a more approachable topic. An honest and simple exploration of death and grief for kids 4 to 8. With playful illustrations by a therapist-turned-artist, Bird is Dead uses humor to make death a more approachable topic."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FISSummary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006