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Batman (Fictitious character) Comic books, strips, etc Bounty hunters Drama Dogs Japan Drama Graphic novels Human-animal relationships Japan Drama PRO Rothman, Steven D. (donor) Rain forests Brazil Drama Rescues Japan Drama Science fiction comic books, strips, etc Superman (Fictitious character) Comic books, strips, etcSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSSummary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Issac) is at a crossroads and struggling to make is as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles- some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, Llewyn's misadventures take him from the baskethouses of Greenwich Village...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSSummary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED PG-13Summary: Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEASummary: After being hired to investigate a possible murder cover up in a small town, Arthur -- a traumatized private eye with a penchant for conspiracy theories -- is plunged into a world of lies and deceit, seeing parallels between this death and the death of his daughter. Increasingly paranoid, Arthur's sanity is tested as he attempts to filter fact from fiction and solve the case, all the while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WANSummary: "Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots. With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture."--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ISLSummary: Distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists. Zia discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that Desiree has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WRILoeb, Jeph.
Summary: A collection of Batman comics, originally published in thirteen monthly installments, following the efforts of the costumed crime fighter to save Gotham from a serial killer, a crime lord, and assorted gangsters and freaks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATLoeb, Jeph.
Summary: Comic industry giants Jeph Loeb (Batman: The Long Halloween) and Joe Kelly (X-Men), along with some of the hottest up-and-coming artists in the business, usher in a new generation of Superman excitement by taking the Man of Steel back to basics. He's died, been resurrected, exiled, accused, turned blue and even split in two, but now, in the capable hands of two of comics' most happening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2000
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPLoeb, Jeph.
Summary: Superman's hometown has grown up a bit in his absence, and he is called back to defend it against eco-terrorism, lake demons and other threats. Upon his return to Metropolis, our hero gets a visit from one of his deadliest foes, the Parasite, who's hungry for a rematch with the Man of Steel. But Superman's greatest challenge lies in his own home. Marital problems have come to the Kent house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2001
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPSummary: When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari Kobayashi embarks on an epic journey in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ISLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ISLLoeb, Jeph.
Summary: Recounts some of Superman's earliest adventures including leaving Smallville for Metropolis and battling his enemy, Lex Luthor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 1999
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPLoeb, Jeph.
Summary: Batman does battle with The Scarecrow, The Mad Hatter, and The Penguin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 1996
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATLoeb, Jeph.
Summary: Superman and Batman work together to battle evil in many forms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Summary: Wolverine and Sabretooth's bitter rivalry comes to a climax in a fight that spans the globe and has lasting consequences for the rest of the world's mutants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WOLSummary: Follows Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis. Dr. Josef Bartok is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts to fund the Nazi regime. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement. Just as his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Beck is anxious to retire from his bounty hunter work, but his boss, Walker, has one more "retrieval" job for him. He sends Beck into the Brazilian rainforest to bring back his wayward son, Travis. Travis is there looking for a gold statue, which he could sell for millions if he finds it. The powerful Hatcher owns the area's huge mine, and feels that anything found in the area is his property....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RUNAbraham, Brad
Summary: ""Magicians Impossible is a mind-bending page-turner! A brilliant and unique mash-up of spells, myth and mayhem, once it got its claws in me I couldn't put it down. Like a veteran stage magician, Brad Abraham has created a hip thriller that turns convention on its ear with misdirection and mayhem. A must read for enthusiasts of edgy and extreme fiction." --Don Coscarelli, director of John Dies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRFroeb, Lori.
Summary: "Meet Daisy the cat. She is so happy to be leaving the shelter with all those loud dogs. Travel along with her as she meets her new family, and discovers that 'Oh, no!' they have a dog too!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Fun International, Inc. 2015
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Summary: A young woman who hopes to give up her bartending job to become a successful writer, Ivy Seidel falls under the spell of Vance Harrow, convicted for a terrible crime, while teaching writing to inmates at a maximum security prison.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRAbrahams, Peter
Summary: When a baseball star fails to bring victory to his team, Gil Renard, an outraged fan who has lost everything except his fanatic passion for baseball, decides to murder him. The novel follows the murderer, a knife salesman, as he infiltrates the world of the fallen hero to make things right. By the author of Pressure Drop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABRAbrahams, Peter
Summary: Facing his own impending death from a rare respiratory disease, Roy Valois, hacks into the morgue files at the New York Times to research his own obituary, and discovers that his long-dead wife, Delia, was not the person he thought she was.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007