Summary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JUDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUD RATED RSummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCDownes, Robert
Summary: "'Bicycle Hobo' revisits the story of Moby-Dick in a thriller set on the underside of modern America. When a homicidal motorist kills his wife during a bicycle tour of the South, a man known only as Jake spends months trying to track the killer down through the efforts of the law, social media and a private investigator, all in vain. Driven to the brink of insanity, Jake receives a divine clue....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Wandering Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Downes 2018Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sherlock 2009Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHE RATED PG-13Summary: A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. Looks into the lives of the four men most effected by the killer: San Francisco PD Homicide, David Toschi and William Armstrong, the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ZODCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ZODDownes, Robert
Summary: "The great love of Blue Heron and Red Bear sustain an Ojibwe clan as it struggles to survive war, famine, and the coming of foreign explorers bearing deadly diseases. The blood feud between two rival warriors over the love of Ashagi, a strong-willed woman of great beauty and greater determination threads through this story of one Ojibwe clan on the cusp of great change. A young woman from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blank Slate Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Downes 2017Downes, Robert
Summary: "Together, Wolf and Willow battle their brutal captors in an odyssey up the Mississippi River, with their fate to be decided at the ancient Indian city of Cahokia near present-day St. Louis. Ranging from the coast of Morocco to the shores of Lake Superior, The Wolf and the Willow weaves a tale of Native America at first contact with Spanish explorers, a time when a thriving Indian civilization...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wandering Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DownesSummary: "Expectant first-time father Peter Highman (Robert Downey, Jr.) looks forward to his new child's due date five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at his wife's side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when an encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan on a cross-country trip that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOIVE DUEDownes, Robert
Summary: "The great love of Blue Heron and Red Bear sustain an Ojibwe clan as it struggles to survive war, famine, and the coming of foreign explorers bearing deadly diseases. The blood feud between two rival warriors over the love of Ashagi, a strong-willed woman of great beauty and greater determination threads through this story of one Ojibwe clan on the cusp of great change. A young woman from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blank Slate Press 2017
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 133 FIC DOWDowney, Robert Jr.
Summary: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson seek out their nemesis Dr. Moriarty, believed to be behind the rising tensions between European countries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHE RATED PG 13Summary: 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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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIDownes, Robert
Summary: "Just back from Guatemala after three years of tending bar on Lake Atitlan, part-time shaman and aspiring detective Natty Dredd Bumpo returns to Traverse City, Michigan, where he's plunged head-first into solving the murder of millionaire eco-warrior Timothy Bottom ..."--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wandering Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DownesSummary: A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAXSummary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAIDowney, Robert Jr.
Summary: When terrorist Mandarin leaves intelligence agencies baffled by a lack of forensic evidence, Tony Stark battles to survive the attacks and protect those closest to him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE IROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IRO RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ir 3Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Iron 2013Summary: Tells an epic story of military strategy, politics, romance, and family conflict set against the backdrop of world events from 1938 through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Follows naval officer Victor "Pug" Henry as he is sent to Berlin as the U.S. Naval attaché. Shows how "Pug" and his family are drawn into the center of the conflicts that lead to America's involvement in World...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WINSummary: When a man murders his nagging wife because his affections have turned to her far-more-pleasant younger sister, it appears he has executed the perfect crime--until a minor slip-up arouses the suspicions of a family friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: Now that the world knows billionaire inventor Tony Stark is the armored super hero Iron Man, his life has suddenly become even more intense. Everyone wants in on the Iron Man technology, whether for power or profit, but for Ivan Vanko, it's revenge. With Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, Stark must once again suit up and face his most dangerous enemy yet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE IROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IRO RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IrCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Iron 2010Summary: 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: In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA CASSummary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014