Filter By Authors
Edge, Christopher Edge, Steve Emrys, Ruthanna Okura Paine, Lauran Paine, Lauran. Yoshinari, YohFilter By Authors
Edge, Christopher Edge, Steve Emrys, Ruthanna Okura Paine, Lauran Paine, Lauran. Yoshinari, YohSummary: A look at life and everyday struggles in Havana through three main stories -- when a woman dies in childbirth, the new father runs away; a lonely woman is courted by an older man, but can't forget her first love; a couple's relationship crumbles when they can't conceive a child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cine Cubano a Precios Muy Bajos 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARSummary: Five adolescent boys are enamored by the arts, but drawn to crime and transgression. After a brutal crime committed by the group and aided by Trevor - a deity of chaos they can't control - they're punished to board a boat with a captain hell-bent on taming their ferocious appetites. After arriving on a lush island where dangers and pleasures abound, the boys start to transform in both mind and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WILSummary: Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BAAOkura
Summary: "Despite belonging to a family of four, the Aoyama residence is typically home to three due to father Akiyoshi's job. While he's away at work, mom Tomoko and her two beloved sons Hiroki and Yuri go about their everyday lives--going to school, making dinner, doing homework, etc. But now that Hiroki's in his first year of high school, his thoughts are turning ever so slightly to sex and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Square Enix Manga 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ISummary: A gritty look at the mean streets of South London, where drug addiction, poverty and abuse are common, and hope is not.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NILSummary: A deeply moving portrait of a family's unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son's addiction and his attempts at recovery. As David's son repeatedly relapses, the family are faced with the harsh reality that addiction is a disease that does not discriminate and can hit any family at any time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEAYoshinari, Yoh
Summary: Akko Kagari, a student from a non-magical family, faces bullies and builds friendships at the prestigious Luna Nova Witchcraft Academy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: JY 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: On the surface, everything seems the same in the seaside town of Monterey, CA: mothers continue to dote, husbands support, children are adorable, houses are beautiful. But the night of the school fundraiser changed all that. Meanwhile, Perry's grieving mother Mary Louise Wright comes to town in search of answers after the son's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Bi 2Emrys, Ruthanna
Summary: "A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EMRSummary: A community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, 'into the light,' where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BoCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOXCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: DVD Blu BoxtrollsCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BOXSummary: A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their darkest fears.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ODDEdge, Christopher
Summary: "It's the morning of Maisie's tenth birthday, and she can't wait to open her presents. Maisie is not a typical kid. What she wants most for her birthday are the things she needs to build her own nuclear reactor. But she wakes to an empty house, and outside the front door is nothing but an unsettling, all-consuming blackness--a shifted reality. Even for super-smart Maisie, these puzzling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EDGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC EDGEdge, Steve
Summary: After the sudden death of her husband, an English antique dealer relocates to her cottage in France and starts investigating his death and other mysteries involving antiques.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MADSummary: Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors heralding the rise of National Socialism. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm but the authorities believe he is the problem.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SIXSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: London's richest borough hides a dark side that Chelsea local DI Max Arnold knows all too well. Killers lurk among the art galleries and luxury homes, and it₂s up to Max and new partner Layla Walsh to expose them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CHEPaine, Lauran
Summary: "When two strangers come to the aid of a teen hustler known as Gitalong because of his crippled leg who is being harassed by three Texas drovers, it seems like a normal day in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. When the Texans return with reinforcements, another confrontation ends with one of the Texans being killed. Gitalong is encouraged to leave town until the Texans have moved on, only to be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAIPaine, Lauran.
Summary: "Todd Duncan barely escapes a lynch mob who believes he murdered the express agent in town. The only way to convince them that he's innocent is to track down the real killer"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAISummary: When a magical meteor crash lands in Adventure City, it gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, transforming them into the Mighty Pups! For Skye, the smallest member of the team, her new powers are a dream come true. But things take a turn for the worse when the pups' archrival Humdinger breaks out of jail and teams up with Victoria Vance, a meteor-obsessed mad scientist, to steal the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PAWSummary: Welcome to Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or OZ. As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glenn, Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer, whether you're in for a few years or in for life, you have a role to play. Once inside, choose your friends carefully.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003