Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ISummary: They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: The Cold War heats up when a KGB defector exposes Operation Glass, a potentially devastating Soviet plot to activate sleeper agents across the UK. The charismatic but paranoid head of MI-5, known simply as 'Daddy', assembles a secret committee of spies and intelligence officers to investigate. They're the only colleagues he trusts in a world of double agents and lies, but has he chosen well?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GAMSummary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jewel, Blu and their three kids are leaving their domesticated life in that magical city for a journey to the Amazon. They encounter a menagerie of characters that are born to be wild. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV RIOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ri 2Bono, Mary.
Summary: Rhyming text and illustrations present various reactions to encounters with such bugs as an ant, beetle, and ladybug.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2002
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BONSummary: Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM NOT RATEDSummary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEASummary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: After Mary Poppins departed London, Jane and Michael Banks grew up into loving and responsible adults. When Michael becomes a single father of three children after the death of his wife, Mary Poppins revisits the Cherry Tree Lane home again to try to help Michael and his family cope and move beyond their grief. Time passes quickly for most normal mortals. Mary Poppins has never been normal....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Mary 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF MaSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: The story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2016Summary: Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIDSummary: A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2004
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRISummary: In this collection of health-related episodes, Arthur catches chicken pox, frets about losing his baby teeth, and has bad dreams caused by eating too many sweets. D.W. has a tantrum over spinach, and their dog Pal has to stay overnight at the veterinary clinic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Kids 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ART RATED GSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRSummary: Based on historical events, this suspenseful thriller examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Chappaquiddick 2018Tolstoy, Leo
Summary: "At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon?s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as 'Grimms', charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When shy, beautiful Sissi is the victim of a horrible car accident, a handsome small-time criminal comes to the rescue and saves her life. Once she recovers, she sets out to find him and discovers that he is a violent man with a conflicted past and dangerous future. It doesn't take long for the two to meet again - during a deadly bank robbery. Now it is her turn to save his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Colubia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002