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African American families Drama Criminal investigation California San Francisco Drama Minneapolis (Minn.) Drama San Francisco (Calif.). Police Department Drama Single women Minnesota Minneapolis Drama Slavery United States Drama Television broadcasting of news Minnesota Minneapolis Drama Television journalists Minnesota Minneapolis Drama United States Women journalists Minnesota Minneapolis DramaAsner, Edward
Summary: Ed Asner, a self-proclaimed dauntless Democrat from the old days, figured that if the right-wing wackos are wrong about voter fraud, Obama’s death panels, and climate change, they are probably just as wrong about what the Constitution says. There’s no way that two hundred-plus years later, the right-wing ideologues know how to interpret the Constitution. On their way home from Philadelphia the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 ASNSummary: In this third season, Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore), she of the bright smile and infectious vivacity, gets to display some backbone. She demands to be paid the same amount of money as her predecessor (The Good-Time News) ; she defies her boss, Lou Grant (Ed Asner), and vainglorious anchorperson Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) by counseling Ted's new girlfriend, whom he takes for granted (The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARDaley, Brian.
Summary: Six episodes of Return of the Jedi building on the original story as seen in the film, using the motion picture score and sound effects.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 1996
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DALSummary: Enter the mythical world of the Gargoyles and get to know the ancient creatures that once guarded a medieval Scottish fortress, and who now have come alive at night to protect the city of Manhattan from evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GARSummary: What can a California girl do with a few dusty acres of land in rural Nebraska? So Kennedy Blaine wonders after she inherits a ranch in the small, western-style town of Valentine, Nebraska. As she makes arrangements to sell the property, she finds herself drawn to the ranch and to its attractive manager, Derek Sterling. She decides to spend the summer and reconnect with family members. But soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LoSummary: Join Mary and the rest of the crew from the WJM-TV newsroom for another season of the classic sitcom. This time around Mary deals with more adventures, both in the newsroom and with her romantic life. Season 5 features: Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?, The Outsider; Not a Christmas Story, An Affair to Forget, What Are Friends For?, The System, Phyllis Whips Inflation, The Shame of the Cities,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: No longer the new girl in town, Mary has come to think of the newsroom staff as family. But along with the good times and close friendships come the often trying and ultimately hilarious situations every family faces. From Mary explaining the facts of life to Phyllis' daughter to going on a blind date to attending her disastrous high school reunion, Mary has to cope with every situation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOOSummary: Carl Fredericksen is a seventy-eight-year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY UPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family UpCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV UPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPSummary: The Underground Railroad was the principle means used by slaves to escape their captivity. Two important "stationmasters", Thomas Garrett and William Still, are depicted in this documentary on the Underground Railroad in Delaware.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 WHISummary: Containers of a lethal microbe are stolen from a top-secret U.S. germ warfare laboratory. The group behind the theft plans to annihilate Los Angeles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILL SATSummary: Faced with the choice of getting married within 24 hours or losing a $100 million inheritance, unrepentant bachelor Jimmie Shannon is suddenly desperate to get to the altar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BACSummary: In a bombed out wasteland in the Bronx stands a police station--less a precinct house than a fort in hostile territory. Each officer does what he must to survive his tour of duty at Fort Apache, the Bronx.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORSummary: A mule who kicks 100-yard field goals becomes the star player of a pro football team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From their uniquely-equipped office at SFPD headquarters, Chief Ironside continues to lead his special police unit, fighting crime others can't. His crack team includes Sgt. Ed Brown, ex-con-turned-assistant Mark Sanger and beautiful policewoman Eve Whitfield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IROSummary: Share the memories and the laughter with the hilarious, heartwarming final season of this enduring classic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: Join Mary and the rest of the crew from the WJM-TV newsroom for another season of the classic sitcom. This time around Mary deals with more adventures, both in the newsroom and with her romantic life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: This documentary examines why hundreds of American POWs from the Korean and Vietnam wars were abandoned and why our government doesn't demand their repatriation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bill Dumas Productions 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MISSummary: The humorous adventures of a thirty-ish, single woman trying to make her way in Minneapolis after breaking off her engagement to her long-time fiancé.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: Marred by an over-reliance on stock footage, this documentary attempts to link the United States insatiable appetite for oil as the chief trigger of the war in Iraq. After making some frightening if familiar points about increasing oil consumption and diminishing reserves is unfortunately veers off into discussions of radioactive depleted uranium rounds in Afghanistan, the privatization of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free-Will Productions 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OILSummary: Rich Man, Poor Man recounts the lives of immigrant brothers Rudy and Tom Jordache for two decades following WWI. One will gain great wealth and power, the other will struggle through life as a boxer and gangster thug; but both continue an epic struggle to gain the love of Julie Prescot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RICHSummary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007