Summary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ODDSummary: An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Menemsha Films 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOMSummary: After Mary Poppins departed London, Jane and Michael Banks grew up into loving and responsible adults. When Michael becomes a single father of three children after the death of his wife, Mary Poppins revisits the Cherry Tree Lane home again to try to help Michael and his family cope and move beyond their grief. Time passes quickly for most normal mortals. Mary Poppins has never been normal....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Mary 2019Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF MaChesil
Summary: Inspired by a mysterious message, seventeen-year-old Ginny Park sets off to find herself as she reflects on her experiences of growing up Zainichi, an ethnic Korean born in Japan, and the incident that forced her to leave years prior.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHESummary: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk ways were maintained well into the twentieth century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAUSummary: Maggie Peyton wants to join her family's dynasty of race car drivers, but her father worries that she'll get hurt. As a college graduation gift, he buys Maggie a junked-out Volkswagen Beetle, which turns out to be Herbie, a car with a mind of its own. Soon Maggie and Herbie are racing against an arrogant racing champion and duking it out with monster trucks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Herbie 2005Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERSummary: The question on everyone's lips is finally answered as the hugely popular Sherlock returns in three brand new action-packed adventures. With the demise of Moriarty, Sherlock finds himself locked in another mind battle with the powerful Charles Augustus Magnussen, who is holding the secrets of the world at his fingertips. Once again the game is on for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Sh 3Summary: Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE AVAWelsh, Irvine
Summary: "Irvine Welsh returns to Edinburgh, the home of Trainspotting and so many of his novels since, with a new novel featuring one of his most iconic and beloved characters 'Juice' Terry Lawson that's thick on the Scottish brogue, heavy on the filth and masterful in its comedic timing. A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back in Edinburgh, this time with one of his most compelling and popular...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWelsh, Irvine.
Summary: The making of a Scottish hooligan. He is Roy Strang, whose mother was a prostitute, the father a ruffian, and there was a pedophile uncle who played with him. He gets into wrong company, stabs a schoolmate, gang rapes a girl and becomes famous. One day he gets his just deserts. The tale is told in flashbacks as he lies in hospital in a coma. By the author of The Acid House.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWelsh, Irvine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWelsh, Irvine.
Summary: After accidentally setting free two serial pedophiles, Lucy Brenna, a once heroic Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, is transformed into a villain who cannot stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, and imprisons her client, Lena, who is obsessed with her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWelsh, Irvine.
Summary: Chronicles the misadventures of Mark Renton and his friends as they cope with economic uncertainties, family problems, drug use, and the opposite sex in 1980s Edinburgh.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWelsh, Kaite
Summary: "Sarah Gilchrist fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical school in 1892, the first year it admitted women. Determined to become a doctor despite the misgivings of her family and society, Sarah quickly finds plenty of barriers at school itself; professors who refuse to teach their new pupils, male students determined to force out their female counterparts,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELBurke, Chesya.
Summary: Gritty and sublime, the stories of Let's Play White feature real people facing the worlds they're given, bringing out the best and the worst of what it means to be human. If you're ready to slip into someone else's skin for a while, then it's time to come play white.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Apex Publications 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURWalsch, Neale Donald.
Summary: A parable from "Conversations with God, Book 1", this book helps readers remember the angel within us all, as it gracefully explains spiritual concepts to children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Pub. Co. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 226 WALSummary: A corrupted police officer is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. While solving a brutal murder, he makes sure to turn his colleagues against one another to ruin their ambitions. By stealing their wives and exposing their secrets the cop starts to lose himself in the web of deceit he created.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILSummary: 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 GIVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GIV RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIVHarness, Cheryl.
Summary: Mary, Remember, and Bartholomew are among the pilgrims who survive the harsh early years in America and see New Plymouth grow into a prosperous colony.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1992
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E HARBrooks, Cheryl
Summary: He's never met anyone who made him purr... Starship pilot Dax never encountered a woman he wanted badly enough. Until he met Ava Karon... And he'll never give his body without giving his heart... Dax is happy to take Ava back to her home planet, until he finds out she's returning to an old boyfriend... As their journey together turns into a quest neither expected, Ava would give herself to Dax...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2011
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Summary: Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CALCharyn, Jerome
Summary: "J.D. Salinger, the mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a litigious misanthrope who disowned his daughter. Jerome Charyn's Sergeant Salinger is a young WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war--from the landing on D-Day...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2021