Sayers, Constance
Summary: "Paris, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world of wonder--a world where women weave illusions of magnificent beasts, carousels take you back in time, and trapeze artists float across the sky. Bound to her family's circus, it's the only worldCecile Cabot knows until she meets a charismatic young painter and embarks on a passionate affair that could cost her everything. Virginia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SAYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYSayers, Constance
Summary: "1968: Actress Gemma Turner once dreamed of stardom. Unfortunately, she's on the cusp of slipping into obscurity. When she's offered the lead in a radical new horror film, Gemma believes her luck has finally changed. But L'Etrange Lune's set is not what she expected. The director is eccentric, and the script doesn't make sense. Gemma is determined to make this work. It's her last chance to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYSayers, Constance
Summary: "A young witch is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist, in this beautiful debut novel. In 1895, sixteen-year-old Juliet LaCompte has a passionate, doomed romance with the married Parisian painter Auguste Marchant. When her mother -- a witch -- botches a curse on Marchant, she unwittingly binds Juliet to the artist through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAYSummary: At the end of Season Four, the Lyons lost Empire. However, Lucious (Terrence Howard) and Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) finally found their way to each other and said their "I do's." In Season Five, two years have passed, and the Lyons have yet to reclaim Empire. The family has experienced unimagined tragedies and now must join forces to rebuild from scratch. As their plans begin to take shape, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMPSummary: Having spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, nothing could prepare Dora for her biggest challenge yet: High School. When her parents mysteriously disappear while searching for the Lost City of Gold, Dora must swing into action and lead a group of ill-equipped high schoolers on a quest to save them. It is a high stakes mission as Dora and her new friends navigate the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DORSummary: The life of Dora Carrington, the Victorian Era painter whose passionate life created one of England's greatest scandals. Unable to possess the one man she loves, Lytton Strachey, Carrington embarks on a long string of loveless sexual encounters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Powell and Pressburger merge film with opera and dance to tell the tale of a poet who dreams of three women who all break his heart. He tells "the three tales of my folly of love"--In Paris, when he fancied himself in love with Olympia, who turned out to be a life-sized doll; in Venice, when bewitched by a beautiful courtesan; and on a Grecian isle, in love with daughter of a singer and conductor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TALSummary: Two Americans living in Athens have a weekend fling one summer and decide to see if their relationship can last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MONSummary: It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSDelle Donne, Elena
Summary: Having shot up to six feet tall over the summer, seventh-grader Elle not only has trouble controlling her limbs on the basketball court, she dreads the upcoming school cotillion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DONSummary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: After musical mogul Lucious Lyon is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease, he must choose which of his three sons with succeed him at the legendary Empire entertainment company. The game changes when ex-wife Cookie returns from prison. This groundbreaking series features a pulsating soundtrack from legendary music hit maker Timbaland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMPSummary: When a climber encounters a stranded stranger on Mt. Washington, she must get them both down the mountain before nightfall when an oncoming blizzard is due to hit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INFCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER INFSummary: The eccentrically macabre family moves to a bland suburb where Wednesday Addams' friendship with the daughter of a hostile and conformist local reality show host exacerbates conflict between the families.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AdCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADDSummary: Best selling crime novelist Charles suffers from terrible writer's block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His picture-perfect new wife Ruth is doing her best to keep him focused so they can fulfill her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles' quest for inspiration leads him to invite the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti to perform a séance in his home. He gets more than he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLIAyers, Starr
Summary: "When Caroline Myers discovers a box of letters in her deceased mother's trunk, she's captivated by the romance that unfolds between her mother, Emma Rose Walsh, a nineteen-year-old waitress, and Noah Anderson, a handsome young soldier. Determined to read between the lines, Caroline and her sister, Kate, set out on a search that leads them to the North Carolina foothills and the padlocked gate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mountain Brook Ink 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AYESummary: When Susan moves with her father from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood, an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son's own tour of duty begins. Finding out whether he will return home safely or not makes for some of the most dramatic moments in motion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE WHISummary: The story is based on the Defoe character, Moll Flanders who is a high-spirited and beautiful, but also destitute young woman living as a social outcast in 18th century England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment, Inc. 2001
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MOLSummary: In this all-new movie, we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with "scream time." To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADDWaters-Sayer, Mary
Summary: "Kat Lind, an American expatriate living in London with her entrepreneur husband and their young son, attends an opening at a prestigious Mayfair art gallery and is astonished to find her own face on the walls. The portraits are evidence of a long-ago love affair with the artist, Daniel Blake. Unbeknownst to her, he has continued to paint her ever since. Kat is seduced by her reflection on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Waters-Sayer 2016Summary: Spalding Gray performs a monologue that mostly recounts his trip to Southeast Asia to create the role of the U.S. Ambassador's aide in the 1984 Oscar-winning film The Killing Fields.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios 2013
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS SWISummary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000