Summary: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIPauls, Alan.
Summary: The hero of this novel is obsessed with money. His father makes money in poker games and casinos. His mother marries again and squanders her small inherited fortune. A novel of hardcore economics where the sex was replaced with money, and the economy of an entire country goes insane without hope of recovery, a centrifuge created by inflation and financial irrationality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUSummary: An orphan comes to live with a foster family in a Canadian mining village, and becomes a part of the comical foibles and heartbreaks of a small French-Canadian town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MONLouise, Jean (Jean-Paul)
Summary: When her peaceful village of Lagusa is attacked by a Mistress sent to do the bidding of the power-hungry Sothpike and his army of undead monsters, Naira Khoum forms a resistance to stop the Mistress before Lagusa is beyond saving.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: the Criterion Collection 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOFAuel, Jean M.
Summary: Ayla shares a lonely valley with a herd of steppe ponies, harnesses their power, and discovers speech and love with Jondalar, a member of her own race.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUEAuel, Jean M.
Summary: Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni--one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2011
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AUEAuel, Jean M.
Summary: As Ayla and Jondalar travel across Ice Age Europe they encounter savage enemies and brave friends in their search for a place they can call home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AUESummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, a man who is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by a bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner's bored wife and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman's responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN JUBSummary: Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous train's Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Murder 2004Auel, Jean M.
Summary: An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Auel, Jean M.
Summary: After their epic journey across Europe, Ayla and Jondalar have reached his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as southwest France. Jondalar's family greet him warmly, but they are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AUECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUESummary: Fact-based story about the 40 passengers and crew aboard San Francisco bound flight United 93, who sat down as strangers and found the courage to stand up as one. This hijacked flight was the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001. As a result of a delay on takeoff, the passengers on the flight, are behind the carefully scheduled planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNI RATED RAuel, Jean M.
Summary: Ayla is training to become a Zelandoni, one of the community's spiritual leaders and healers. She becomes the acolyte to the Zelandoni for the Ninth Cave and begins the series of intensive journeys that are part of the sacred training. But as she struggles to find a balance between her calling and her duties as a new mother, her pursuits begin to take a toll on her relationship with Jondalar.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC AUEAuel, Jean M.
Summary: The highly anticipated sixth book of Jean Auel's Earth's Children® series, THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES, is the culmination fans have been waiting for. Continuing the story of Ayla and Jondalar, Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived more than 25,000 years ago. THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES is an exquisite...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer gives her little time to look, and when she finds a sheltered valley with a herd of hardy steppe horses, she decides...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Auel, Jean M.
Summary: After being cast out of the Clan that had adopted her as a child by the new leader, Ayla shares a lonely valley with a herd of steppe ponies, harnesses their power, and discovers speech and love with Jondalar, a member of her own race.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BANTA 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AUEVillalobos, Juan Pablo
Summary: What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia for his private zoo. But Tochtli is growing up in his drug baron father's luxury hideout, shared with hit men and dealers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VILSummary: "Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian ... and his cynical producer Costa ... arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EVESummary: Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when sinister monsters known as the Druun threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, those same monsters have returned and it's up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the last dragon in order to finally stop the Druun for good. However, along her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV RAYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAYSummary: Every 30 seconds in America, normal life stops. Someone is reported missing. That's where special agent Jack Malone comes in. On the behalf of victims and loved ones, Jack and his FBI team do the hard, exciting work of turning the missing into the found. Among the vanished: a man terrified of extraterrestrials, a spoiled celebrity heiress and an idealistic woman caught up in a romance with a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WITSummary: Multiple Emmy Award winner Jean Smart stars as a legendary Las Vegas comedian who is forced to hire an ambitious young writer. These two talented comedic voices from different generations form an unlikely bond in this new comedy from "Broad City" alums Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky and Emmy Award winning executive producer Michael Schur.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022