Summary: Under the glow of a full moon, a sadistic murder is committed on Nordkoster Island. A young pregnant woman is buried in the sand and slowly drowns as the tide rises. 25 years later, the case remains unsolved. Rookie police officer Olivia Ronning gets assigned to it during training and becomes obsessed when she discovers that her father, who died years prior, worked on the original investigation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: A stern lady communist comes to Paris to retrieve three wayward comrades and a Russian composer, but instead warms up to capitalist attractions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SIL

Summary: Evert Baackstromis a rock star among cops. Starring as a TV expert doesn't help his ego or reputation. He thinks he's a genius, and he is, at solving crimes. When a woman's skull is found, it seems she was murdered recently, but DNA points to her death in the 2004 tsunami. Prosecutor Hanna Hwassbelieves it's a mistake, but Backstrom sees a case only he can solve: a woman who has died twice.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Summary: "In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NOR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOR NOT RATED

Summary: The critically acclaimed drama returns for six more riveting episodes. In this season, DC Kate Fleming and DS Steve Arnott of AC-12 investigate the conduct of Sergeant Danny Waldron of the Armed Response Unit.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2016

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LIN

Summary: Sandra, who lives in Belgium, has just been released from a psychiatric hospital only to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. So, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWO
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWO

Summary: "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

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

Jonasson, Jonas

Summary: It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Centenarian Allan Karlsson and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JON

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jonasson 2019

Karlsson, Jonas

Summary: A passionate film buff, our hero’s life revolves around his part-time job at a video store, the company of a few precious friends, and a daily routine that more often than not concludes with pizza and movie in his treasured small space in Stockholm. When he receives an astronomical invoice from a random national bureaucratic agency, everything will tumble into madness as he calls the hotline...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAR

Karlsson, Jonas

Summary: "Björn is a compulsive, meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works--a secret room that no one else in his office will acknowledge. When Björn is in his room, what his co-workers see is him standing by the wall and staring off into space looking dazed, relaxed, and decidedly creepy. Björn's bizarre behavior eventually leads his co-workers to try and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAR

Eika, Jonas

Summary: "Under Cancún's hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists' desires, seeing deep into the world's underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EIK

Jonasson, Jonas

Summary: Nombeko Mayeki, a chief adviser at the helm of one of the world's most secret projects in South Africa, holds the fate of the world in her hands when she discovers a nuclear missile that was supposed to have been dismantled.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JON

Nay, Jonas

Summary: During the Cold War, a 24-year-old East German soldier is chosen to go undercover as a West German soldier.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2015

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

Agee, Jonis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGE

Summary: Collection of four film adaptations of classic English literature. Includes a printed set of replica memorabilia from the lives of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Charlotte and Emily Brontë.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2012

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLA

Agee, Jonis.

Summary: Story of love and passion that evokes the Nebraska sandhills and explores the power of familial and cultural myths.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ticknor & Fields 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGE

Summary: A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2013

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIN RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIN

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO