Contents: Corduroy-- and more stories about caring. Corduroy (live action) -- The happy lion / by Louise Fatio ; illustrated by Roger Duvoisin -- Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel / written and illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton -- I love you like crazy cakes / by Rose Lewis ; illustrated by Jane Dyer -- Smile for Auntie / written and illustrated by Diane Paterson -- The happy owls / written and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV COR

Summary: 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 ROO

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: Wynne is fourteen and in love with her adoptive brother. When she finds blood on his sweater she gets the idea that he is the person murdering young women in the area. But her visits to the old family house, about to be demolished, lead her to the real killer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER I

Summary: Bob is a playboy who recklessly crashes his boat, necessitating the use of a resuscitator. While the equipment is used on Bob, a beloved physician dies of a heart atttack because the resuscitator was unavailable. To atone for this, Bob decides to become a doctor himself. He becomes involved with the doctor's widow, but an accident that causes her to go blind will shadow the rest of their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MAG

Summary: A black hockey player hopes to be drafted into the NHL, but his dreams are threatened by the racial tensions in his Nova Scotia community.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Light Year Entertainment 2017

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ACR

Summary: Maggie is a young plainswoman raising her two daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily is kidnapped by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father offers to help find her. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MIS

Summary: The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GIV

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GIV RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIV

Moss, Elisabeth

Summary: Years after a deadly pandemic wiped out most of the female population, a father travels with his young daughter disguised as a son through the fringes of the dystopian world, trying to protect her at all costs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIG

Summary: To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount DVD 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TEN

Summary: When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FAT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Father

Flood, Georgia

Summary: Tells the story of the nurses that served with the Australian Army Nursing Service on the Western Front during World War I.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Entertainment 2015

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ANZ NOT RATED

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ANZ

Summary: A tangled web of blackmail, murder and passion awaits former Scotland Yard detective Albert Tyburn when he arrives in Nairobi. In three mysteries-Private Lives, Hide in Plain Sight and Sport of Kings-Tyburn battles arson, murder, drug-dealers and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HEA

Summary: When a psychiatrist becomes frustrated that he can't provide or define happiness for his patients, he sets out on a journey to discover happiness.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HEC

Summary: Follows the adventures of two young men and a young woman in the 1960's who are undercover police officers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MOD

Floyd, James Krishna

Summary: While on a vigilante border patrol, Jackson shoots and kills a young Mexican teenager and then flees into Mexico, becoming an illegal alien himself in order to seek forgiveness from the boy's father.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2021

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOM

Turner, Aidan

Summary: After the American Revolutionary War, Ross Poldark returns to England and attempts to rebuild his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2018

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pol 4

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Poldark 2018

Summary: A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RUS

Summary: Edina and Patsy hide out in the south of France after they cause a grand stir with Kate Moss at a London Fashion Week event.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY BRITISH TV ABS

Arthur, Jean

Summary: Comedy in which the daughter of an eccentric family falls for the son of a wealthy New York family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOU

Summary: 1794: War and the revolution in France hang over Britain. In Cornwall, George Warleggan grows his empire with a view to crush the Poldarks while Ross and Demelza attempt to repair their relationship. Ross must ask himself how long he can allow George's ascent to continue unchecked. Facing battles both at home and abroad, will Ross answer the call and risk losing everything he holds dear?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Po 3

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Poldark 2017

Summary: East Germany, 1980. Barbara Wolff is a young doctor who has applied for an exit visa from the GDR and, as punishment, has been transferred from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small pediatric hospital in the country. She must weigh her absolute dedication to her patients against a potential escape to the West, and her newfound attraction to a doctor in whom she sees a kindred spirit.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Schramm Film Koerner & Weber 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAR