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Crime in literature Friendship Juvenile fiction Man-woman relationships Drama Pittsburgh (Pa.) Policia secreta Estados Unidos Teatro Scientists England London Drama Secret service United States Drama Teenage boys Drama United States United States. Central Intelligence Agency DramaSummary: This is the story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Xenon Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOMSummary: 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 ROOLovelace, Maud Hart
Summary: The further adventures of 12-year-old Betsy, Tacy, and Tib as they explore the world beyond their neighborhood and discover the public library, see a real play, and make friends with the owners of the downtown hotel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1979
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LOVLovelace, Maud Hart
Summary: After Tacy Kelly moves into the house across the street from Betsy Ray, the five-year-olds become inseparable friends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOVSummary: The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of Vienna, but also the interest of the ambitious Crown Prince Leopold. When Leopold's new fiancée rekindles a childhood fascination with Eisenheim, the Prince's interest evolves into obsession. Suddenly the city's Chief Inspector finds himself investigating a shocking crime. But even as the Inspector engages him...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ILLSummary: A volatile story about a Washington, D.C. political reporter who writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent. Unexpectedly finding herself behind bars, she struggles to maintain her principles and relationship with her family when she refuses to divulge her source. Inspired by true events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Nothing 2009Summary: Erik Kernan is an up-and-coming sports reporter who rescues a homeless man only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect the Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESDaoud, Hassan
Summary: "The Penguin" is a physically deformed young man who lives with his aging mother and father in one of the "temporary" buildings. His father spends his days on the balcony of their apartment, looking at the far-off city and pining for his lost way of life. Mother and father both find their purpose each day in worrying about the future for their son, while he spends his time in an erotic fantasy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAOSummary: Based on a true story of the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the two DEA agents that brought the famed Medellin Cartel to its knees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NARDaoud, Kamel.
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAOSummary: Teenage secret agent Cody Banks must track down a former instructor who's gone rogue and left the States with a mind-control microchip. Cody masquerades as a musical prodigy to get close to a snobby, egocentric scientist who lives in London and is the only person who can make the microchip work. Along the way, Cody hooks up with a demoted agent and a teenage Scotland Yard operative.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AGESummary: To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAR7 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: Johnny Worricker is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron dies suddenly, leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the stability of the organization. Meanwhile, a seemingly chance encounter with Johnny's striking next-door neighbor and political activist Nancy Pierpan seems too good to be true. Johnny is forced to walk out of his job, and then out of his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAGSummary: "Focusing on the loves, careers, ambitions and relationships of a group of gay men and women" in Pittsburgh, PA--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV QUESummary: 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 newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to go somewhere else. Many are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on a true story, the unlikely romance between Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis and reclusive fishmonger Everett Lewis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAU RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAUKunzru, Hari
Summary: Shattered when their autistic son disappears during a family vacation to the California desert, Jaz and Lisa Matharu organize searches from a remote town near the Pinnacles rock formation and bond with a sequence of eccentric locals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNKunzru, Hari
Summary: "After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he takes long walks and binge-watches "Blue Lives"--a violent cop show that becomes weirdly compelling in its bleak, Darwinian view of life--and soon begins to wonder...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When New York's most practical-minded 'doctor of love' convinces one of her distraught callers to break off her engagement, the caller's unpredictable fiance decides to get revenge. Creating a fake marriage license, he 'accidentally' weds himself to the doctor, who is already engaged. A wildly unpredictable romance is set in motion that neither one expects to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AKunzru, Hari
Summary: "Once, Jay was an artist. Shortly after graduating from his London art school, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career already taking shape before him. Now, undocumented in the United States, he lives out of his car and makes a living as an essential worker, delivering groceries in a wealthy area of upstate New York. The pandemic is still at its height - the greater public panicked in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Kunzru, Hari
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNKunzru, Hari
Summary: Two ambitious young musicians are drawn into the dark underworld of blues-record collecting while navigating the fallout of a scam involving one's claim that a viral video of an unknown singer is a long-lost recording of a famous blues musician.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017