Summary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BIGSummary: Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MONSummary: Another supernatural force has come to light in Bon Temps, witchcraft, and life for its residents will never be the same. Sookie finds herself entangled in a love triangle, torn between a vengeful Bill, the new Vampire King of Mississippi, and Eric, who's not the former Viking he once was. Led by a charismatic witch named Marnie, who threatens to let no one living or dead stand in her way, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment, [2012] 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SPESummary: Larry David has it all - money, security, famous friends, a nurturing wife, and an oceanfront home. So why is he so intent on making a mess out of his life? Contains all 10 episodes from season two.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CURSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA CASSummary: Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman who was dispatched to kill her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY SNOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SNOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SNO RATED PG-13Summary: Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman who was dispatched to kill her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiAffleck, Ben
Summary: Doug MacRay, leader of a Boston bank robber gang, decides he wants to leave town and the life of crime behind when he falls in love with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, but he finds the choices he has to make more difficult than he imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TOWSummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Sombogaart, Ben
Summary: Three Dutch women become friends as they fly to New Zealand to get married and begin new lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BRIBell, Kristin
Summary: After walking away from her past as a teenage private investigator, Veronica Mars goes back to her hometown to help her old flame Logan Echolls fight a murder charge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VERSummary: Married couple Ian and Emma negotiate the insecurities, the ambiguities, the hopes and the fears, and the risks and the gifts of a long-term intimate relationship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MARSummary: When Leonardo, a wealthy businessman, has a yachting accident and develops amnesia, an ill-treated employee exacts some revenge. Kate is a single mom who manages to convince Leonardo that she is his wife. Hilarity ensues as Leonardo must take on the task of helping Kate raise her three daughters. Will Kate's plan succeed to perfection, or will she discover that Leonardo isn't such a bad guy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OVECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OVECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Overboard 2018Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OVECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OvSummary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASSummary: Passions ignite and culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torrid encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Baby Carriage: Infused with a jazzy, nouvelle vague-inspired energy, Bo Widerberg's feature debut has the freshness of youth. Building on his film criticism's call for a socially relevant Swedish cinema, the writer turned director offers a vivid portrait of a young factory worker finding her way toward independence as she weathers unexpected pregnancy, learns hard lessons from relationships...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006