Summary: Celebrate Shakespeare's 400th anniversary with this hilarious comedy about the playwright's mysterious lost years. Bill Shakespeare is a hapless lute player with a big dream. When his bandmates kick him out of their group, Bill leaves his wife and kids behind to seek fame and fortune in the big city of London. He's written a great work for the stage and he's certain he'll prove all his doubters...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BILSummary: The girl of his dreams : A ten-year-old Roma girl is found dead in a Venetian Canal. Commissario Brunetti goes to the encampment where she lived, but his attempts to speak with the community there are futile. When he learns who had befriended the victim and her little brother, he begins to understand the community's silence. It also explains why he's hit obstacles preventing the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Through a glass darkly : The Venetian island of Murano is known for its artisans who specialize in the traditional craft of glass making. When the owner of a glass factory is found murdered, Commissario Brunetti uncovers a connection between the colorful, filigree glass products that he made and some very toxic poisons. How else to explain the colorful slime containing arsenic oozing out from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONContents: Paris after dark / Jordan Summers -- Coven of mercy / Deborah Cooke -- Le cirque de la Nuit / Karen MacInerney -- Perdition / Caitlin Kittredge -- Deliver us from evil / Dina James -- Blood and thyme / Camile Bacon-Smith -- Into the mist for ever / Rosemary Laurey -- Blood feud / Patti O'Shea -- Love bites / Angie Fox -- Flotsam / Caitlin R. Kiernan -- The murder king's woman / Jamie Leigh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAMSummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANASummary: In the African savannah, a group of animals waiting for the annual flood they rely on for food and water discover the humans who have been destroying their habitats have built a dam for a leisure resort. The animals endeavor to save the delta and send a message to the humans not to interfere with nature.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by ARC Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVDSummary: In the late 1980s, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian launched a crusade to provide what he considered a humane and dignified option for the terminally ill--assisted suicide. Aided by his loyal friend Neal Nicol, and his older sister Margo Janus, Kevorkian begins offering his "death counseling" services to a grateful and burgeoning clientele. He earns the support of Hemlock...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Films 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie You 2010Summary: A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WindtalkersSummary: In the Interest of the Nation - Masked soldiers attack a vehicle loaded with high-tech missiles in an attempted smuggling operation in Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, a Swedish engineer is kidnapped in Ethiopia. But Not if It Concerns Your Daughter - Carl Hamilton's family was wiped out in a revenge attack years ago. Now, those painful memories resurface as Hamilton's seven-year-old goddaughter is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: ""Illusions" blurs the line between fiction and reality as the illegitimate child of an influential mafia member shares her life and perspective of history over the span of fifty years. A life defined by murder, identity theft, CIA assassins, sex, drug-dealers, gun-runners, and a young adult who would travel the East Coast--running away from her past while searching to belong in a life that was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Major 2016King, Stephen
Summary: Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else? He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his wildest dreams ... and all-too-human...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINSteen, Sandra.
Summary: While sitting inside their car, two children enjoy the soapy sights and watery sounds of the car wash.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STESummary: "When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CoCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CocoonSummary: Maggie is a young plainswoman raising her two daughters in the desolate wilderness of New Mexico. When daughter Lily is kidnapped by a dark-hooded phantom with shape-shifting powers, Maggie's long-estranged father offers to help find her. Though stunned by his return, Maggie knows she must swallow both hurt and pride if she is ever to see Lily again. Unaware of the frightening events that lurk...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MISSterer, Gideon
Summary: A clever magician teaches young readers his most top-secret tricks as he disappears and reappears throughout the book's pages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STEPoliner, Elizabeth
Summary: Enjoying summertime weeks of freedom at a popular Jewish beach with their children, beautiful Ada thrives away from her strict husband, while chef Vivie develops diplomatic skills, and unmarried Bec is forced to choose between family beliefs and her passion for a married man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POLSeven, John.
Summary: Twelve happy punks go about their day greeting and meeting each other and preparing for a free concert their putting on.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Manic D Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SEVHolder, Alissa
Summary: Ayaan loves being a sueprhero and offering a helping hand, but when two classmates tell him he does not look like a superhero, Ayaan's father assures him that superheros come in all shapes and sizes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOLHoltzer, Susan.
Summary: Student newspaperwoman Zoe Kaplan investigates UFO sightings over the University of Michigan campus. It's a replay of the 1966 sightings, then explained as swamp gas, but on this occasion someone takes advantage of the crowds of sightseers to commit murder. By the author of Black Diamond.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martins's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLHoltzer, Susan.
Summary: "Police lieutenant Karl Genesko and his fiancee, computer pro Anneke Haagen, are finally tying the knot--and in-law-deep in pre-wedding jitters and activities. Anneke's grown daughters and granddaughter are arriving soon, she's got her consulting business ends tied up, and the University of Michigan's Art Museum rotunda is a glorious wedding locale. But when Karl is called away suddenly to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLStaten, Joseph
Summary: The New York Times bestseller-part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo! 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space. But humanity has unknowingly trespassed on holy ground-straying into the path of the aggressive, theocratic empire known as the Covenant. What begins as a chance encounter between an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASteffen, Sandra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEKleven, Elisa.
Summary: A little bird discovers why the lion's tail changes color each day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KLESteffen, Sandra.
Summary: On the surface, thirty-six-year-old Brooke Valentine has a picture-perfect life: a gorgeous. Main Line husband, a precocious pre-teen daughter, a great career in advertising, and a stunning house in Philadelphia's Society Hill. But when her husband cheats on her--again--Brooke is devastated. Reeling from the blow, she takes her daughter and heads to the one place she feels safe: home. Alcott is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. Corp. 2005