Summary: When Christy's best friend dies of typhoid before they've had a chance to patch up a disagreement, Christy angrily questions her faith as she tries to reconcile her beliefs with the tragedy of a young, loving mother being taken away from her family and friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHRSummary: When a mysterious man visits a small island off the coast of Maine during a devastating snow storm, its inhabitants are met with an evil unlike any they've ever encountered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While spending summer vacation with her family on the idyllic southeast coast of Brazil, fourteen-year-old Filipa discovers that her father, a famous author, is betraying her mother by dallying with a beautiful young American woman. Wrestling with the truth, Filipa will soon discover that her father's infidelity is only the first of many dark secrets that lurk beneath the surface of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRSummary: This contemporary drama is about romance between two imperfect, alcoholic, resentful ordinary people, neighbors in the suburbs, adults with enough money to support themselves in the discontent to which they have become accustomed. Terry Wolfmeyer, suburban Detroit mother of four girls, is suddenly abandoned by her husband, and sinks into depression and subsists on a steady diet of vodka tonics....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPSSummary: Whatever became of the "American Dream"? Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRESummary: Having escaped to hide in Elizabethan London, Matthew and Diana must find a powerful witch teacher to help Diana control her magic and search for the elusive Book of Life. Enemies are everywhere, the threat to witches is growing, and Diana and Matthew's romance faces a barrage of new threats, from within as much as without.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DISSummary: A jealous English earl (Grant) who wants to keep his beautiful wife (Kerr) first tries suave trickery but finally resorts to a duel with pistols.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GrassSummary: When an Australian aid-worker is kidnapped by Muslim extremists, a high-stakes race to save his life pits East against West in these exciting new episodes. From the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to Melbourne, Jack Irish is caught in a global web of religious zealotry among right-wing Christians and media-savvy jihadists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Notable highlights include an episode in which a program to build an international space station is threatened by sabotage. Another where Superman encounters Kryptonite for the first time. Then there is the episode where Superman is suspected of causing a heatwave and jailed for using his powers. Lois and Clark share a hotel suite whilst investigating high level political corruption. Superman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOISummary: On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain Chesley Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA SULSummary: Los Angeles teenager and overachiever Tracy is an excellent student in her seventh grade class and gets along well with her mother, Melanie. She fears that she's not cool enough to be friends with Evie, the most popular girl in school. Fueled with genuine adolescent energy, Tracy follows Evie's lead into the harsh realities of sex, drugs, and hard-edged adventure. Consumed with temptations and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Another supernatural force has come to light in Bon Temps, witchcraft, and life for its residents will never be the same. Sookie finds herself entangled in a love triangle, torn between a vengeful Bill, the new Vampire King of Mississippi, and Eric, who's not the former Viking he once was. Led by a charismatic witch named Marnie, who threatens to let no one living or dead stand in her way, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment, [2012] 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Two feuding brothers try to drive each other out of the used car business. To add to the problems, one salesman (who is working as a used car salesman as training for his political career) ends up creating even more problems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY USESummary: The cold case unit, led by quick-tempered cop DS Boyd, has assembled to re-examine unsolved crimes with cutting-edge detection techniques. Pressure is on for this mix of forensics, psychology, and detective investigators to yield results.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAKSummary: Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in this immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society's most stigmatized profession. Inspired by the experiences of the sex workers Borden met while making her underground feminist landmark Born in Flames, Working Girls reveals the textures of a day in the life of Molly, a photographer working part-time in a Manhattan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WORSummary: Fearing the actions of Superman are left unchecked, Batman takes on Superman, while the world wrestles with what kind of a hero it really needs. With Batman and Superman fighting each other, a new threat, Doomsday, is created by Lex Luthor. It's up to Superman and Batman to set aside their differences along with Wonder Woman to stop Lex Luthor and Doomsday from destroying Metropolis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE BATSummary: Thirty-year old Justine longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and dead-end job. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart, Justine's good girl existence takes a turn for the worse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes it may already be too...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Justice 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PG-13Summary: Armed with a razor-sharp wit, Miss. Fisher investigates crimes in opulent 1920s Australia. Sharply written and gorgeously costumed, these episodes are sure to charm fans of costume dramas and mysteries alike.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISSummary: Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. Regina has ensnared Bligh patriarch and political aspirant George in marriage, but she continues to plot against Sarah, exploiting the rising fear of Communism to target her rival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pl 4Summary: A divorced couple teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TicketCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TICSummary: When Alex Irving, a charismatic and contradictory Indigenous woman, is thrust into the national limelight after a horrific domestic violence event, Australia's embattled Prime Minister Rachel Anderson, sees a publicity goldmine for her party. In a bold power play, she handpicks Alex for the Senate. But Alex wants to be more than just a political stunt: she wants to make a difference. So, when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022