Summary: "Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MILSummary: It's time to make some music with Pinkalicious and her brother Peter! In seven exciting adventures, hear Peter cheer his friends up by playing the harmonica, listen to Pinkalicious practice singing over and over again to perfect her solo for a class concert, and watch Pinkalicous, Peter, and their friends play with Mommy's latest invention called the Opera-matic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD Juv PiSummary: The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek-style masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS OEDKahn, James.
Summary: Luke Skywalker and his friends in the Rebel Alliance formulate a daring plan to battle with the Empire and its evil leaders, Darth Vader and the Emperor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAHSummary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVESummary: No one will ever mistake Jeff Reigert for Moses, but like Moses, it is Jeff's job to introduce the world to the Ten Commandments. However, Jeff is not exactly the picture of virtue. In fact, Jeff is surrounded by gigantic replicas of the famous stone tablets. He is so busy juggling his wife Gretchen and his girlfriend, that he can barely get through a single commandment without breaking one...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TENSummary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Cain, James M. (James Mallahan)
Summary: Beautiful widow Joan Medford reluctantly works as a waitress to regain custody of her young son and considers relationships with a seductive con artist and a wealthy but unwell older man who proposes an unconventional marriage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hardcase Crime 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAICain, James M. (James Mallahan)
Summary: A drifter and the bored young wife of a middle-aged cafe owner become lovers and murder her husband. They escape justice, but eventually are caught in their own web.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAICain, James M
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1934
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAISummary: A tabloid reporter who wants to write legitimately again investigates an old woman's story about the disappearance of five, including a child actress, that occurred at the Hollywood Hotel in the 1930s. Everyone says the Hollywood Hotel is haunted now, and when Buzzy Crocker (Guttenberg) explores it, he finds out why.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TOWCarie, Jamie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: B & H Pub. Group 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CarieCarie, Jamie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARSummary: Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easy-going older man. When the drifter and the owner's voluptuous wife fall in love, they plot to kill her husband and run away together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY POSCarie, Jamie.
Summary: "When Noah Wesley hears the faint sound outside the door of his remote Alaskan cabin during a violent nighttime blizzard, it is no less than the voice of God that urges him to take a closer look, to discover there his snow angel."--Cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: B & H Pub. Group 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CARCarie, Jamie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARZollars, Jaime
Summary: "A girl's frightening and exciting first day of school is full of prowling dragons that aren't quite what they seem"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A corrupted police officer is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. While solving a brutal murder, he makes sure to turn his colleagues against one another to ruin their ambitions. By stealing their wives and exposing their secrets the cop starts to lose himself in the web of deceit he created.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILCain, James M. (James Mallahan)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CainSummary: Alex Winston is young, beautiful and talented. She comes from nowhere to become a figure skating superstar. She has to push herself, reinvent herself, and most painfully of all, leave her boyfriend behind. When a tragic fall leaves her blind, she needs someone to believe in her, to love her and convince her she has the strength to skate and dream again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ISummary: The Postables take a road trip in an old Winnebago to track down a small boy who they fear may have been kidnapped. The discovery of an '80s era instant camera and the unusual photographs it contains, send our team on a wild ride across Colorado using the pictures as a guide.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A modern movie musical with a daring take on the classic fairy tale. The ambitious heroine has big dreams and with the help of her fabulous Godmother, she persists to make them come true.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CINCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CINFord, Jamie.
Summary: When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, a man embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009