Summary: An original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. Porter looks back on his life as if it were one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and actions onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits, Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DELSummary: A poet imagines scenarios in a wax museum fairground that involve Jack the Ripper, Ivan the Terrible, and Haroun al-Raschid.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FANTASY WAXSummary: In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHICohen, Ivan
Summary: When Giganta steals the Pandora Jar from a museum in New York and opens it, releasing a wave of misery that changes the behavior of every human it touches, Wonder Woman suspects that somebody else is behind Giganta's actions; on the hidden island that was once her home Wonder Woman discovers that the real villain is Ares, God of War, and he is planning to use the jar to unleash World War III on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COHSummary: "John Waters' gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous sequences. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MULSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An aging woman is given the chance to become young again with a secret formula. She sees this as an opportunity to right her past, but her husband declines because he has no regrets and wouldn't change a thing about the life they've shared. Now she must decide if she will take this journey without him and what the consequences would be if she does.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FORJohns, Geoff
Summary: Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps must join forces with their rivals of the other colors to battle the Black Lanterns, an army of undead superheroes and villains--all their deceased friends and foes--who are out to destroy all life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JOHSummary: Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime in the form of legendary wrestler Gregorius the Great. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and pummeled flesh, and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY NIGSummary: A comical satire which charts the rise and fall of a Madison Avenue ad agency previously controlled by Whites and is taken over by Blacks who are dedicated to the downfall of the White Establishment. The picture is mostly a parade of vignettes, dealing with people and campaigns of the advertising world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: P.S. Company 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PUTSummary: Set during the French and Indian War, follow the story of frontier scout Hawkeye and his efforts to lead a British commander's daughters to safety.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2007
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASShotwell, Vivien.
Summary: "Vienna Nocturne tells the story of the turbulent life and brilliantly successful career of young British opera singer Anna Storace, a child prodigy who is taken by her parents to Italy at age thirteen to advance her career. In love with life and wildly ambitious, Anna wants everything--to be famous, to be loved--and this leads her to make some fatal choices. We watch her turn from a carefree...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOGroen, Hendrik
Summary: "Nine years before the events of the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old, Hendrik and his best friend Evert embark on a madcap adventure -- with an unexpected guest. Hendrik Groen and Evert Duiker, faithful friends in good and bad times, are well over seventy and their lives have quieted down. They see each other once a week to play chess, have a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROHolub, Joan
Summary: Persephone and Aphrodite are continuing the quest to try and find some missing jewels. They end up meeting a lost bunny in their travels, who is looking for the Castle of What-Ifs. The girls end up in a magical, delicious land, where they meet a unicorn made of chocolate, with a very special crown--one that might be the key to finding one of the missing jewels!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin QUIX 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Little HolubGroen, Hendrik
Summary: Everyone's favorite octogenarian is back and, together with his pals in the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he is more determined than ever to wreak havoc and turn a twinkly eye on the brighter side of life. After a year spent mourning the death of his beloved friend Eefje, Hendrik may be older and a little more wobbly, but his youthful appetite for mischief hasn't diminished. When fears arise that the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROSchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: The reader is invited to lift the flaps and follow the cats as they play with yarn, boxes, pillows, and fish.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.French, Vivian.
Summary: In this deadly funny fourth Tale from the Five Kingdoms, it's Gracie Gillypot's birthday, and Prince Marcus plans to show her a flight of dragons as a special gift. But when greedy, chocolate-hungry twins awaken the banished Old Malignant One, evil magic and Total Oblivion threaten the Five Kingdoms. Gracie must find a powerful, long-forgotten dragon's egg before the Old Malignant One does in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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Summary: While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FRESchwartz, Viviane
Summary: Tiny Cat is very confident at counting to four balls of yarn, but when more and more come bouncing into Tiny Cat's life, things get tricky! Of course, Tiny Cat finds the perfect way to settle the matter - sleep on it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHSchwarz, Viviane.
Summary: After his mother mends his favorite pajamas, Timothy finds that he has super strength and decides to use it to help others, but when the pajamas rip again, he loses his strength just when he needs it most.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCHGruen, Sara.
Summary: A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GruGruen, Sara.
Summary: When an explosion at the Great Ape Language Lab severely injures scientist Isabel Duncan and releases her special apes, she must connect with her own kind to save her family of apes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRUGruen, Sara.
Summary: The wildly entertaining new novel from the bestselling author of Water for Elephants. BONUS: This edition contains a reader's guide. Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships--but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language. Isabel Duncan, a scientist at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2010