Summary: On January 20, 1942, 15 German officials attended a conference at Wannsee - on the outskirts of Berlin. The meeting comprised of mid-ranking SS commanders and a variety of government ministers. The meeting was organized by SS Major Adolf Eichmann under the direction of Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich. It was a polite conference, but under this thin veneer of manners lay an evil intent. By...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles and his life, Mikey returns to his childhood home, a cluttered Manhattan loft presided over by his bohemian parents. His mother tells him he may stay as long as he wants. What begins as a respite from adult responsibility becomes a premature mid-life crisis. Re-installed in a house saturated with two generations of bric-a-brac evoking days gone by, Mikey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corp. 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOMSummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIMaazel, Fiona
Summary: Meet Phil Snyder: new father, nursing assistant at a cutting-edge biotech facility on Staten Island, and all-around decent guy. Trouble is, his life is falling apart. His wife has betrayed him, his job involves experimental surgeries with strange side effects, and his father is hiding early-onset dementia. Phil also has a special talent he doesn't want to publicize--he's a mind reader and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Maazel 2017Summary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELSummary: Two thieves try to pull off a dangerous heist with FBI, NYPD, and KGB operatives on their trail, and try to escape with their loot and their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CODSummary: Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he's drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization controlled by his father, a man who gained immortality and the desire for unlimited power when he acquired an ancient artifact centuries ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE 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: In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WELSummary: Vivo, a one-of-a-kind kinkajou, spends his days playing music with his beloved owner Andrš. But when tragedy strikes, it₂s up to Vivo to deliver a message that Andrš never could: a love letter to his old partner, the famous Marta Sandoval, in the form of a song. Yet in order to get to Marta, who lives a world apart, Vivo will need the help of Gabi, an energetic tween who bounces to the beat of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY VIVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV VIVLawrence, Lorien
Summary: Thirteen-year-olds Quinn Parker and Mike Warren uncover the awful truth about their strange neighbors and the gruesome secret of how they stay young.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAWSummary: When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family SavingCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAV RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SaLangdon, Lorie
Summary: "Olivia Brownlow is no damsel in distress. Born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, she is as tough and cunning as they come. When she is taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, her life goes from fighting and stealing on the streets to lavish dinners and soirees as a debutante in high society. But she can't seem to escape her past ... or forget the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Langdon 2018Scarfarotti, Lorie
Summary: "Over the course of a week, thirteen-year-old track & field runner, Josie Tomaselli, confronts multiple challenges with humour, confusion, fear, "lady balls," and the support of her pre-race music playlist. As the big race approaches she's missing the support of her father, who is dying of cancer. While at first she refuses to acknowledge the possibility of losing him, in the end she decides to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Deer Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCASummary: Mariana brings her two children from Colombia to New York to reunite with her husband, only to be abandoned by him. Desperate and alone, Mariana must find a way to survive and care for her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IndiePix 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ENTBrantz, Loryn
Summary: "This board book tells in simple verse how the journey that parents take to have their baby leads them to their perfect little one"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: BOARD BRABrantz, Loryn
Summary: "Blowing bubbles, enjoying messy ice cream cones, settling in for a bedtime story, and more are celebrated in this irresistible love poem from caregiver to child."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: BOARD BRASummary: After Mary Poppins departed London, Jane and Michael Banks grew up into loving and responsible adults. When Michael becomes a single father of three children after the death of his wife, Mary Poppins revisits the Cherry Tree Lane home again to try to help Michael and his family cope and move beyond their grief. Time passes quickly for most normal mortals. Mary Poppins has never been normal....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Mary 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MARMackel, Kathryn.
Summary: The perfect candidate to carry their child...with the perfect opportunity to destroy their lives.When Kyle Dolan convinces his wife, Bethany, to hire a surrogate for their last surviving embryo, they allow themselves to hope once again. A med school student, Laurel Bergin seems perfect in every way. Problem is—Laurel Bergin is really Sable Lynde.As the pregnancy progresses, Sable's dark secrets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2004
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Summary: After finding a hamster that has been left behind in his taxi, a lonely immigrant cab driver celebrates Hanukkah with the little creature, while waiting to learn if the owner will return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MARSummary: Bert Kreischer rose to fame as a stand-up comedian known as The Machine, and in his signature set he recounts his true experience with Russian mobsters while on a booze-soaked college trip. Now, 23 years later, that trip has come back to haunt him as he and his estranged father are kidnapped back to Russia by the mob to atone for something they say he did. Together, Bert and his father must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MACMackel, Kathryn
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Publisher / Publication Date: WestBow Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACJungkunz, Mariel
Summary: It's eleven days after Christmas and Lucía yearns to be in lush Puerto Rico celebrating Día de los Reyes with family and friends. But this year, instead of dancing and singing in the parrandas of her Puerto Rican neighborhood, she is surrounded by cold and silence in snow-blanketed Ohio. How will she ever be able to guide the Three Kings to her new home in the frosty Midwest? This picture book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023