Summary: Andre "Dre" Johnson has it all...a job as a top ad exec, a beautiful doctor wife, four great kids and a lovely, well-appointed house in the suburbs. And he's not about to let his family forget how they got there. Keeping cultural identity alive is not without its challenges for this man on a mission. With perpetual pushback from clueless coworkers, an outspoken father, and even the wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLASummary: Season Two opens in the thick of a New World Order that has taken root and is steadily deepening. In the wake of the Far Right tide sweeping across continental Europe, Germany finds itself on the precipice of a pivotal election.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BERSummary: Welcome to Bedlam Heights, a hip newly converted apartment building in the heart of Leeds. The high quality rental apartments offer stylish 21st century living, but behind the facade lie unimaginable horrors, for this former pre-Victorian asylum is haunted by the ghosts of its dark and violent past. Kate, who lives and works at Bedlam Heights, thinks anyone who believes in ghosts is a fool.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The continuing story of British transplant Dr. Ruby Walker and the staff of the Good Karma Hospital as they work to heal their patients in modern-day rural India.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GOOSummary: Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY INSummary: In Series two, British transplant Dr. Ruby Walker furthers her career under the watch of her formidable boss, Dr. Lydia Fonseca. While Lydia's boyfriend, beach bar owner Greg, tries to help newly widowed Paul overcome the death of his wife, Ruby continues to spar with her handsome but standoffish colleague, Dr. Gabriel Varma. Then a link to Ruby's estranged family brings her closer than ever to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV GOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: After the death of his wife, sports broadcaster later turned morning talk show host Danny Tanner raises his three little girls, D.J. (Donna Jo), Stephanie and Michelle - with help from his rock musician brother-in-law, Jesse Katsopolis and his comedian best friend, Joey Gladstone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD FULSummary: Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A Roaring Twenties gangster saga that only the Coen brothers could concoct, Miller's Crossing marries the hard-boiled sensibility of classic noir fiction with the filmmakers' trademark savory dialogue, colorful characters, and finely calibrated set pieces. Gabriel Byrne brings a wry gravitas to the role of Tom Reagan, the quick-thinking right-hand man to a powerful crime boss (Albert Finney),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Putting his brilliant intellect and fastidious nature to the test, Agatha Christie₂s famous Belgian detective solves the most mystifying crimes of the Art Deco era in these newly remastered adaptations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POISummary: In nineteenth-century England, jilted by London's most eligible bachelor, Julia convinces her friend to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he's found the perfect woman or the perfect hoax.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MR.Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MR.Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MRSummary: Loner Sam and his ambitious sister, Gina, live in a decaying steel town in South Wales. Since the death of their father twelve years earlier, the two have taken divergent paths. Gina has a promising career in the police force, but Sam's life is going nowhere, until one day he gets his hands on a gun. Emboldened by newfound confidence, he begins to commit increasingly daring crimes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BANSummary: Based on the acclaimed movie, this is an episodic series that tells the story of a group of black students navigating the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly as post-racial as it thinks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEASummary: Set in an Edwardian country house starting in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Carnival Film & Television Limited 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: Led by Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible. From an underground base built on a rift in time and space, the team responds to any alien threat-- a meteorite crash landing, sightings of extra-terrestrial technology, an unusual autopsy report, the spread of a deadly alien virus. Everyone who works for Torchwood is under 35. Some day that's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TORSummary: Hannibal, Face, Murdock and B.A. face off against new criminals with the most outrageous schemes yet-- from toxic-waste dumping to wild-game poaching to restaurant sabotage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Season 3: "The Great War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. As other great houses are crippled psychologically and financially in the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his duty to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSSummary: "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 incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the twentieth century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOS RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOSSummary: Napoleon Dynamite is a high school outcast in every sense of the word. Things at home are not much better. When a new student arrives, Napoleon finds friendship and performs an act of defiance that makes him a true hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2009