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Basilone, John 1916-1945 Basilone, John 1916-1945 Drama Dopa Therapeutic use Case studies Drama Leckie, Robert 1920-2001 Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Military campaigns New York (N.Y.) Drama Sledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant) 1923- United States. Marine Corps.Summary: A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen until now.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RINSummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Killer-elite commandos out to hijack the USS Missouri's nuclear arsenal overpower the crew, except for the cook, who just happens to be an ex-Navy SEAL and highly decorated combat operative.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE UNDSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: Charlie, who has recently lost control over his life, searches New York City for a mysterious stranger who holds the key to his recovery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA URBSummary: "Billy Batson--aka Shazam!--and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with having adult Super Hero alter egos, but a vengeful trio of ancient gods has arrived on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago. Now, Billy and his family are thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives and the fate of their world"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2023
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHASummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: Jay Gatsby is still in love with Daisy, whom he met during the war when he was penniless. Having made himself wealthy through illegal means, he now lives in a mansion across the bay from the home of Daisy Buchanan, who has since married for money. Holding on to his illusion of Daisy as perfect, he seeks to impress her with his wealth, and uses his new neighbor, Nick Carraway, (our narrator), to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC FITFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Contents: The offshore pirate -- The ice palace -- Head and shoulders -- The cut-glass bowl -- Bernice bobs her hair -- Benediction -- Dalrymple goes wrong -- The four fists.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITFreedman, J. F.
Summary: WiIn a novel that races along like a hot desert wind, Freedman unleashes "one of the most extravagantly entertaining thrillers of the year" (Kirkus). Justice is blind--especially for criminal attorney Will Alexander who's trying the most hopeless case of his career. Convinced that his two motorcycle gang member-clients are innocent of murder, Will now must prove it to a ruthless D.A., a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRESummary: On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was killed in Dallas and the world changed forever. But what if it could be changed back? James Franco stars as Jake Epping, an English teacher who accepts the monumental mission of trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. Luckily, he has the help of Sadie Dunhill (Sarah Gadon), a resourceful librarian who's trying to reconcile secrets of her own....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ElCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ELESummary: The VCR-loving, mixtape-making, spandex-wearing Goldbergs are back! For geeky and movie-obsessed youngest child Adam, his wonder years were spent documenting the hilarious and awkward antics of his colorful family. This season finds the siblings fighting off huggies, snuggies, and nubbies as they navigate what it means to grow up as a Goldberg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Go 3Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Alix E. Harrow, Stephen Graham Jones, chosen by editor R. F. Kuang.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: "It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954-5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973. For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLSummary: A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's epic story of passion, betrayal and revenge. The president of the Denmark Corporation is dead, and already his wife is remarried to the man suspected of his murder. No one is more troubled by this than her son, Hamlet. Now, after this hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passion is on the rise and vengeance is in the air.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HAMSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor, too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to other patients.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1997
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AWACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AWASummary: While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SHAKeating, H. R. F. (Henry Reymond Fitzwalter)
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Publisher / Publication Date: O. Penzler Books 1994