Summary: Afghan refugee Donya lives in Fremont but works at a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Seeking connection, she decides to send a message out to the world one sentence at a time by recording her story on the fortunes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRE

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

Summary: In the wake of season one's climatic wave, the residents of the town adjust to the new order of life and the repercussions of the horde's appearance. Season two picks up after six months have gone by since the returned left with Simon, Camille and her mother, and Julie, along with the mysterious boy Victor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Carolan

Summary: Goodnight Hawaiian Moon is a whimsical bedtime book with nighttime rhymes by Dr. Carolan and beautiful illustrations by Joanna Carolan. Children and adults will be transported to a tropical dreamland listening to the Read Along CD by Grammy Award Nominee, Amy Hanaiali'i. The CD includes her beautiful rendition of Brahms' Lullaby sung in Hawaiian and English. Amy is accompanied by the award...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Banana Patch Press 2006

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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE GOO

Summary: An epic portrait of late sixties America as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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

Summary: In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking viewers back to where it all began, the film tells the true story of how these cultural rebels-armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent-stood up to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA STR

Summary: Meet Mahmud Nasir, loving husband, doting father, and something of a relaxed Muslim. He may not be the most observant, but in his heart he is a true Muslim. After his mother's death, Mahmud finds his birth certificate, which reveals that he was adopted at birth and he's Jewish, with the real name of Solly Shimshillewitz!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2010

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INF
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INF

Summary: "In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend--the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role--and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GIR

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

Summary: Will is locked in a mental asylum accused of Hannibal Lecter's crimes. Now that Will knows what Hannibal is, he faces a fight to prove his own sanity and convince those closest to him that he is innocent. Jack is dealing with his own feelings about Will, and whether his protege is a killer. Looking for answers, Jack looks to Lecter, who becomes the new consultant on cases. Lecter is torn...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: Biographical film about one of the most exciting and controversial figures of the '60s, Jim Morrison. With his rock and roll band, The Doors, he influenced the rock music scene as no other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000

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

Summary: Ian Curtis has aspirations beyond the trappings of small town life in 1970s England. Wanting to emulate his musical heroes, he joins a band, and his musical ambition begins to thrive. Soon though, the everyday fears and emotions, fueled by his music, slowly begin to eat away at him. Married young, with a daughter, he is distracted from his family commitments by a new love and the growing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008

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

Ixta, Carolina

Summary: Belen Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant--by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about because he's Black and her parents are racist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC IXT

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC IXT

Summary: London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the Philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC QUA

Görtler, Carolin

Summary: For curious kids ages 2 to 5! Packed with look-and-find fun, Wimmelbooks let kids be the storyteller. The bustling illustrations in A Day at School invite kids (and parents!) to imagine what's happening in the Wimmelschool classroom, at recess, on a field trip, and in more fun scenes. Millions of kids around the world already love Wimmelbooks. You will, too!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOR

Summary: On a typical day in South Central Los Angeles two buddies need to settle a $200 debt, but in their efforts to come up with the money they encounter the distractions and obstacles of family, friends, and neighbors.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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

Summary: Prepare yourself for a terrifying onslaught of monstrous man-eating Graboid, flying Ass-Blasters, and heat-seeking Shriekers in this complete collection of all Seven movies in the Tremors franchise. Throughout the years and may International locations, the Graboids have evolved and become ever more menacing and deadly. Only the gonzo survivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) can stop them all....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2020

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

Ramqvist, Karolina

Summary: "Karin knew what she was getting herself into when she fell for John, the high-flying criminal and love of her life. But she never imagined things would turn out like this: John is now gone and the coke-filled parties, seemingly endless flow of money, and high social status she previously enjoyed have been replaced by cut telephone lines, cut heat, and cut cash. All that remains of Karin's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAM

Summary: Miracle mile: A young man named Harry hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit Los Angeles in less than two hours. Not sure if the whole thing is a dire warning or a harmless prank, Harry races through the city, fighting mobs of terrified people in a desperate search for Julie, a young woman he only met yesterday and the one person with whom he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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

Summary: The true story of the Temptations, the vocal soul group of the 1960s, as seen from the viewpoint of the last surviving member, Otis Williams. Beginning from their humble origins in the late '50s and continuing through the '90s and the deaths of the other four members.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: RHI Entertainment Inc. 2011

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

Waid, Mark

Summary: "In the past two years, the little town of Riverdale has changed in a number of amazing ways. The entire Archie universe has been given a fresh coat of paint and it's only getting bigger and better from here. Road to Riverdale presents to readers all of the first issues of each of our new series so far, including Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica, Josie and the Pussycats, and Reggie & Me,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Archie Comic Publications 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 ROA

Long, Justin

Summary: While on a cruise, the Chipmunks and the Chipettes go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD ALV

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

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