Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GREContents: Crazy hair day -- and more funny school adventures. Crazy hair day / written and illustrated by Barney Saltzberg -- Petunia / written and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin -- How do dinosaurs go to school? / written by Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Mark Teague -- Monty / written and illustrated by James Stevenson -- Will I have a friend? / by Miriam Cohen ; illustrated by Lillian Hoban.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CRASummary: An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music. This fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Home Video 1994
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HEA1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HEA
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Summary: Inspired by a real shark attack in 1958, this story is about two women whose lives are transformed by a shark attack that amputates a child's leg. It is alternately narrated by Scat, the older sister of the victim, now a reformed drunk and disaster photographer, and by Gracie, a casualty of a disfiguring accident, who becomes obsessed with Shark Girl, as the younger sister is known, for Shark...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Livingston Press, University of West Alabama 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLSummary: A group of women decides to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bombshell 2020Summary: In the mid-1930's the great politican and orator Winston Churchill was out of favor with the English people and struggling to make his voice heard. Wrestling with his personal demons, a lonely but defiant Churchill attempts to warn the world of the impending gloom surrounding Hitlers' Germany.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GATSummary: The grave course of events set in motion by Thanos that wiped out half the universe and fractured their ranks compels the remaining to take one final stand in the grand conclusion to twenty-two films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie AvengersCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AVECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD AVECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AVECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AVESummary: Scooby-Doo! and the legend of the vampire: While on vacation in Australia, Scooby and the gang attend a music festival at Vampire Rock. When a legendary creature called Yowie Yahoo begins kidnapping the acts and turning them into vampires Scooby and crew help crack the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEASummary: In this collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the end of every alley and where the things that go bump in the night have something to fear.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Banished to Earth by his father Odin, Thor starts a new life, meeting fascinating people like Jane Foster--and battling fearsome foes like Mr. Hyde! Then, as his friendship with Sif and the Warriors Three hang in the balance of a mystical force, Thor must resist temptation to save his fellow Asgardians! After tragedy strikes, the Thunder God flies into combat against Frost Giants and the...
Format: text
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 THOSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROORubart, James L.
Summary: Every now and then we get a break from reality. A glimpse into the other world that is more real than the reality we live in 99 percent of our days. The Bible is about a world of demons and angels and great evil and even greater glory. What if you could travel inside another person's soul? To battle for them. To be part of Jesus healing their deepest wounds. To help set them free to step boldly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2012
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Summary: Kill Bill Vol. 1: "Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, The Bride emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback-- with a vengeance! Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she didn't start, but is determined to finish!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KILRobertus, Polly M.
Summary: Baxter the Basset Hound comes to the aid of some kittens when their mother disappears one afternoon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROBRubart, James L.
Summary: "Toren Daniels vanished eight months back, and his wife and kids have moved on--with more than a little relief. Toren was a good man, but carried a raging temper that often exploded without warning. So when he shows up on their doorstep with no notice, they're shocked to see him alive. But more shocked to see he's changed. Radically. His anger is gone. He's oddly patient. Kind. Fun. The man he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018