Summary: "Chronicles the struggles of the Bailey family--torn apart by economic hard times while trying to survive in the Great Depression of the 1930's. Blamed by her in-laws for the tragic death of her hustand, Honey Bailey finds herself penniless and homeless. She is forced to leave her boys, Jub and Fat, with their wealthy and controlling grandmother, in the picturesque mining town of New Bedford....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WINSummary: Bob Belcher is a third-generation restaurateur and his ever-quirky family who together run the restaurant Bob's Burgers. Bob believes his burgers speak for themselves and isn't afraid to offer a variety of off-beat creations. Bob's wife, Linda, supports his dream but is becoming sick of the slow times, as the restaurant is constantly in danger of going out of business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOBSummary: Bob's Burgers serves up a sizzling sixth season of well-done comedy that features voices of Cloris Leachman, Paul Rudd, Wanda Sykes and more! The Belcher children put on a musical spectacular to earn their spot on the Nice List of a grumpy mall Santa, Linda hopes her "wine shoe" promotion is a perfect fit for the restaurant, and the whole town gets involved when Bob lands in a sticky situation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Bob and Gene take father-son bonding to new heights with a high-flying trapeze experience, Linda tranforms into "Punky Bookster" for her storytelling gig at the local library, and the kids put the squeeze on a juice truck owner who's trying to take over their back alley turf"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This season, Bob's Burgers serves up even more greasy fun. In the hilarious musical milestone 150th episode, Tina tries to connect with her (latest) soulmate at boy band auditions. Power, betrayal and revenge are on the menu when Louise becomes Principal for a Day, Gene gets ditched by his BFF, and Bob befriends a vengeful quilter, and loses his ability to flip burgers. Meanwhile Linda gets a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The fourth season of the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers returns with Bob and his quirky family. Bob subs as the home economics teachers at the kids' school, Linda goes to her high school reunion and ends up singing there, the family tries to create a local Super Bowl advertisement, and the kids set up a trap for Santa Claus."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOBSummary: "Bob eagerly enters a "Best Burger" contest, Linda goes blonde, eldest daughter Tina romances a ghost, Gene directs a musical, and bunny ears-wearing youngest daughter Louise infiltrates the Thundergirls youth club."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREWong, Jack
Summary: "A young girl helps her dad navigate life in a new country where she understands the language more than he does, in an unforgettable story about communication and community. Angie is used to helping her dad. Ever since they moved to Canada, he relies on her to translate for him from English to Chinese. Angie is happy to help: when they go to restaurants, at the grocery store, and, one day, when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WONWing, Natasha
Summary: In rhyming text based on "The Night Before Christmas," a family, decked in red, white, and blue, heads to the Fourth of July parade, hosts a backyard BBQ with neighbors, dodges an afternoon thundershower, and watches the fireworks show.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WINSummary: 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 ROOSummary: The Reagan family dynamics continue to shift as they deal with everything from gambling and drugs to kidnapping and murder: Jamie (Will Estes) wrestles with his feelings for his new partner; Erin (Bridget Moynahan) and Jack (Peter Hermann) work to figure out their personal relationship; and Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) and Frank (Tom Selleck) clash over an internal investigation of Danny's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Bl 4Summary: When Victor's family moves into his grand-uncle's mansion filled with African masks, taxidermy crocodile mounts - and a dark secret: forty years ago a girl, at the same age that he is now, mysteriously disappeared. With his detective instinct kindled, Victor makes it his mission to solve the case. But after he finds the girl's diary, filled with mysterious drawings showing that the mansion may...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VICSummary: Sebastian is encouraged by his fiancé to bring his Italian hairdresser father Salvo to a weekend get-together to meet her wealthy and eccentric family. As the weekend turns into an outrageous clash of cultures, Sebastian and Salvo discover that the great thing about family is everything about family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ABOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABO1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABO
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ABOSummary: 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: God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides to rewrite the world, which leaves God angry, powerless and adamant to get his power back.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BRASummary: Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can't help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred's, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arrow Academy 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TOTDe Witt, Abigail
Summary: Over four long years, the Delasalle family has struggled to live in their Nazi occupied village in Normandy. Maman, Oncle Henri, Yvonne, and Françoise silently watched as their Jewish neighbors were arrested or wordlessly disappeared. Now in June 1944, when the sirens wail each day, warning of approaching bombers, the family wonders if rumors of the coming Allied invasion are true, and if they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DE WFrazee, Hank
Summary: In this book, you'll discover an easy-to-learn three-step method for turning your life experiences, and those of your family, into great bedtime stories, all without notes or memorization. Best of all, you'll make bedtime one of the happiest parts of the day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.58 FRASummary: "U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon . . . works for the Witness Protection Program (WITSEC). Putting her life on the line as she relocates and protects both innocent people and ruthless criminals, Mary struggles to find a balance between work and her personal life"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INSummary: Through another hard year of the Depression, season three details the Walton family's discovery that the true richness in life comes from the joy they bring each other, while fans also relive John-Boy's first year at college. Includes all 25 episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Perfect man: Holly Hamilton is on a mission to find her single mom a perfect man ... even if she has to make the man up. One crazy mishap after another leads the two of them to discover that sometimes what you want is right in front of you.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRISummary: Through tests, tears, and triumphs as a fire drives the Waltons from their home, John-Boy becomes a scriptwriter, Mary Ellen applies to nursing school, and Jim-Bob discovers a fact about his birth, all while Hitler and Mussolini threaten the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012