Summary: A billionaire decides on a whim to create a movie, hiring a team he considers the best: a renowned filmmaker and two egotistical actors -- one from Hollywood and the other from experimental theatre -- who cannot get along. While the director creates bizarre rituals to test their abilities, the actors find themselves confronting each other as well as their pasts and their bodies of work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OFFSummary: Baker Sentaro's business enjoys new success when his new 76-year-old assistant Tokue shares her recipe for the sweet red bean paste used in the bakery's dorayaki pancakes, but another of Tokue's secrets may bring their happy work life to an early end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SWESummary: Set in late 19th-century, pre-independence India, this film is about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning. It is about the lonely wife of a workaholic newspaper editor, Charulata, whose beautiful face masks a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him creatively and dangerously drawn to him physically. A delicate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHASummary: In Dhadkan (Heart beat), Anjali (Shilpa Shetty) is forced by her parents to marry a man they choose rather than Dev (Sunil Shetty), an illegitimate child. Anjali's marriage to Ram (Akshay Kumar) gets off to a disastrous start, as Anjali refuses to acknowledge Ram as her husband. But despite herself Anjali is drawn into Ram's family's intrigue, overcomes her memory of Dev, and gradually comes to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eros International 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DHASummary: Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in Devi (The Goddess), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In the waning days of mid-nineteenth-century India's feudal system, after his son leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy rural landowner is seized by the notion that his beloved...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DEVSummary: Two decades after its original negatives were burned in a fire, Satyajit Ray's breathtaking milestone of world cinema rises from the ashes in a meticulously reconstructed new restoration of a family saga. Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) follows a poor Bengali family living in a village. The boy Apu's development grows as he witnesses the protection of family members' reputations, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twenty-something Mina spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius, their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both of their families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MISGore, Kristin
Summary: A funny and moving debut novel about life on Capitol Hill as seen through the eyes of Samantha Joyce, a twenty-six year old health care analyst to Ohio Junior Senator Robert Gary. Hard working, idealistic, extremely competent as well as neurotic and prone to daydreaming, Sammy, as she's known to her friends, has little time for anything, much less a relationship. But in the midst of lobbying...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GORGore, Kristin
Summary: In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Jiminy Davis abruptly quits law school and flees Chicago for her grandmother Willa's farm in rural Mississippi. In search of peace and quiet, Jiminy instead stumbles upon more trouble and turmoil than she could have imagined. She is shocked to discover that there was once another Jiminy -- the daughter of her grandmother's longtime housekeeper, Lyn -- who...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GORVidal, Gore
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIDVidal, Gore
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIDGore, Leonid.
Summary: At his drawing table on a rainy day, a boy imagines all the ways in which different things might grow up, and comes to the conclusion that he will grow up to be just like his dad. On die-cut pages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE GORGore, Steven.
Summary: A man lies unconscious in a hospital bed, the victim of a violent assault the police are calling "road rage." If he recovers, prosecutors are waiting to indict him for conspiracy, eager to send him to prison for the rest of his life. And he's the lucky one . . . Private investigator Graham Gage believes the injured man—his closest friend Jack Burch—had no part in the ever-widening criminal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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Vidal, Gore
Summary: The third volume of Gore Vidal's series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 explores the political scandals of the Grant administration and the intrigues of that year's presidential election. Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to America after his self-imposed exile, hoping to arrange a marriage for his daughter Emma, but...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1976
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIDGore, Kristin
Summary: Twenty-something Sammy Joyce--hypochondriac, klutz, jumper-to-conclusions--is in the White House as a health-care advisor to the newly elected administration. Everything seems to be falling into place for her. However, soon after taking office, the administration finds itself deep in a red-hot scandal. President Wye's old problem with the bottle re-emerges. An informant within the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORGore, Leonid.
Summary: When various forest animals discover a mysterious object in the woods, they each use it for a different purpose, until a boy reads stories aloud from it, much to the animals' delight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Vidal, Gore
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIDGore, Steven.
Summary: A terrorist bombing in Asia...A dead FBI agent in Marseilles...Bank accounts linked to a genius finance professor in Boston... Can investigator Graham Gage make the connection before his world collapses? Days after failing to arrive for a secret meeting with the Federal Reserve chairman, FBI agent Michael Hennessy's body is found at the base of a cliff. But was it suicide or murder? A call from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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Gore, Steven.
Summary: The first book in a thrilling series featuring a compelling new hero, former San Francisco homicide detective Harlan Donnally.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M GORGore, Steven.
Summary: [Gore] knows how to hook his readers from the opening line. —Richard North Patterson Graham Gage is back! The private investigator with an unfailing moral compass—whom Cornelia Read, author of The Crazy School , calls a James Bond for grown-ups—returns in Power Blind , another high-stakes political thriller from Steven Gore. The murder of a fixer for the wealthy and corrupt puts Gage on the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012
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Vidal, Gore
Contents: Three Stratagems -- The Robin -- A Moment of Green Laural -- The Zenner Trophy -- Erlinda and Mr. Coffin -- Pages from an Abandoned Journal -- The Ladies in the Library -- Clouds and Eclipses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIDSummary: Hard-luck hound Hank finds himself in a town full of cats who need a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain's evil plot to wipe their village off the map. With help from a reluctant teacher to train him, our underdog must assume the role of town samurai and team up with the villagers to save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PAWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAWGore, Kristin
Summary: White House aide Samantha "Sammy" Joyce, now in her late 20s, still handling crisis after crisis. She discovers the president is secretly drinking again and that his father was sexual accousted while living in a nursing home resulting in an out-of-wedlock infant.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007