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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

White Raven.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cavalier Communications 1996

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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 398.2 WHI

Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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

Summary: The Complete First Season ignites a firestorm of suspense cloaked in the haze of a noir-inspired slow burn. Haunted by a tragedy that broke her world apart, Jessica Jones settles in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, and opens her own detective agency, called Alias Investigations, with the hope of rebuilding her life and keeping the lights on in her apartment. She discovers that the source of her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2017

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

Summary: Jakob Eklund stars as tough Gothenburg cop, Johan Falk, in three films that introduced the character to audiences around the world --Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Svensk Filmindustri, Sonet Film, MHz Networks 2013

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

Summary: The life of a consummate politician's wife is turned upside down when she discovers that her husband, the British Conservative government's Minister for the Family, has been having an affair with a former call girl.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn, Media 2013

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

Weiner, Jennifer

Summary: Struggling with the demands of her job, distant husband, spoiled daughter, and Alzheimer's patient father, Gillian becomes addicted to painkillers and lands in rehab, where she confronts incompatible recovery techniques, barely trained counselors, and her own denial.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEI

Summary: Two religious ladies, who witnessed brutal murders, are forced to go on the run and find themselves under the wing of two morally gray outlaws who ferry them to safety.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2023

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

Summary: One man's brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national dangers after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and cover organization known as "Beekeepers."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Beekeeper

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: The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. She personifies grace under pressure as the Miniver family huddles in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, while she is forced to confront a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, and while...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Mrs.2004

Summary: All Alex's life he has worked for his father in the family's murder-for-hire business. Now his life is out of control. In the throws of a mid-life crisis, he wants out of the business and he wants change in his life. Unfortunately, his father won't let him quit.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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

Gravel, Elise

Summary: After her companion Meh gives birth to a litter of babies that resemble spring rolls, Olga has her hands full taking care of her new charges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRA

Summary: "After jointly inheriting a struggling vineyard in southern New Zealand, Sydney socialite Daisy Monroe and ex-London lawyer Louis Oakley are now trying to run it." --

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Summary: A dozen souls, all moving in different directions, all longing for something more. As their lives unexpectedly intersect, they each are about to discover there is power in the Cross of Christ, even if they don't yet believe it. From the creators of God's Not Dead comes this stirring new film.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Pure Flix 2015

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

Summary: After inheriting a failing vineyard in rural New Zealand, a socialite from Sydney and a lawyer from London, who both lack experience, try to find a way to make it succeed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COM

Summary: For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspring and cautionary. Whether it's a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselvs and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BES

Morgan, Sarah (Romance fiction writer)

Summary: When Joanna Whitman's famous ex-husband dies in a car accident, she doesn't know how to feel. But when she discovers the woman with him in the crash is pregnant, Joanna is compelled to help her avoid the media spotlight.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOR

Summary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WEL

Summary: The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Chéri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009

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