Summary: The hit series based on Lev Grossman's best-selling novels returns for season three as Quentin Coldwater and his magician friends now face a world without magic. Deprived of their special powers, Quentin and the other magicians are desperate to find a way to restore magic. But in order to regain what has been lost, they must embark on an epic quest that cannot be accomplished alone. Now more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAGRalph, Jason
Summary: Follows grad student Quentin Coldwater and others after they are chosen to attend Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy in upstate New York to hone their powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAGSummary: Based on the best-selling novels by Lev Grossman, The Magicians centers on a group of friends who discover they have magical abilities and must ward off evil creatures who threaten to destroy the world. After embarking on the epic quest of the seven keys, our Magicians may have restored magic but not without a great cost. With their memories erased and new magic-free identities, they're more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAGRalph, Jason
Summary: Follows grad student Quentin Coldwater and others after they are chosen to attend Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy in upstate New York to hone their powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAGSummary: A grad student at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, has been fascinated by the magical fantasy world since he was young. But as he has gotten older, Quentin and his 20-something friends have discovered that the magical world they read about as children is not only real, but it poses dangers to humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A secluded school for magicians faces danger from a fantastical flying creature outside and sinister forces inside. While visiting Velma's sister Madelyn, who's enrolled at the Whirlen Merlin Magic Academy, the gang gets lots more than rabbit emerging from a hat. A greedy ice-cream mogul wants to close the place, a screaming banshee gives everyone the creeps and a mythological half-dragon,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: A teenage delinquent befriends a surly magician who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight of hand magic. A coming-of-age comedy that touches on unlikely friendships, grief and finding hope in the darkest moments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MARSummary: Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the bestselling children's books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician, and chocolate maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big-screen spectacle will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Family WonkaSummary: Jonathan Creek, an inventor of magical tricks, teams up with investigative journalist Maddy Magellan to solve some near impossible cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JONSummary: When a new TV crime series recruits Jonathan's specialist skills, he is reunited with his ex-girlfriend and old sparring partner, Carla Borrego. Carla is pushy and an equally determined amateur detective, and she has no intention of playing Watson to his disheveled, laid-back Sherlock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JONSummary: Five (1951) Black and White 93 minutes Not Rated Starring: William Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee When a nuclear bomb destroys the world, only five survivors remain. A pregnant woman, a philosopher, a black man, a banker and an explorer seek shelter in an abandoned house. As the last living human beings, they must work together. However, their clashing visions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CLASummary: When a dangerous and powerful magic ring falls into his hands, a hobbit named Frodo gets caught up in an adventure. The mighty wizard Gandalf and a daring band of elves, dwarfs and warriors defend their enchanted land from the wicked sorcerer who would see it destroyed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD LordSummary: A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland. While performing in a village pub, he encounters Alice, an innocent young girl, who will change his life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ILLSummary: Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Magic 2014Summary: One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, The Four Horsemen resurface for a comeback performance in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry, a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOW RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER NOWEisenberg, Jesse
Summary: An FBI agent and Interpol detective track a team of illusionsists who rob banks during their performances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOWSummary: Looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age ten, a director of Shakespeare at fourteen, a painter at sixteen, a star of stage and radio at twenty, romances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAGSummary: Magicians Penn Jillette and Teller turn their talents to controversial muckraking as they confront a variety of institutions held dear by American society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PENSummary: This fantasy series tells the alternative history of 19th-century England, where magic once existed and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange, who pit their skills against the might of Napoleon, the mythical Raven King and death. The clash between these two British magicians is about to become a dangerous duel of the dark arts where, in the midst of the Napoleonic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015