Summary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: Claire Smythson, wife of the famous abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his last show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ARTSummary: The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 19th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2001
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PRI NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Pride 2001Summary: Seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a perpetually-moving train that circles the globe, where class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "A magical umbrella seems to grow and grow during a rainstorm so everyone in town is able to stay safe and dry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAVMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: After leaving her no-good rodeo boyfriend, Mary Madigan ends up in Oklahoma Creek where she meets journalist Rick, pregnant Phoebe, and HIV-positive Ness, all of whom join forces to help, comfort, and love each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: "Skye Elliot is given a choice after her car accident--jail or rehab--and her ex-husband, a bull rider who introduced her to the party scene, gets custody of their four-year-old daughter Gracie. It takes Skye eight months to get clean, but the day she is released, she has one plan: to be a good mother--better, at least, than Skye's own selfish mother and absent dad. Owen Garret hasn't seen his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: Three broken souls, who have suffered losses that change their lives forever, find in each other an expected comfort, the bond of friendship, and a second chance to see the miracles of everyday life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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Summary: Preparing for the birth of an unexpected baby, forty-one-year-old Santa Fe newlywed Glory Vigil spends time with her adopted college-age daughter, Juniper, who has fallen in love and who is haunted by memories of a sister who disappeared years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: Thirty-four-year-old Chloe Morgan, pregnant with Hank Oliver's child, goes to live with him in his Arizona cabin, but she chafes at the restrictions of her impending motherhood and when she develops a strong attraction to Native American artist Junior Whitebear, she begins to wonder if she is capable of domesticity and fidelity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FlamingoBooks 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: SUMMARY: The story of a California family whose patriarch should have died long ago, felled by the family's inherited heart disease which is killing so many younger members. Instead, grandpa lives it up with women who are after his millions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: In a tale spanning four generations of the Moon family, matriarch Gammy Bess limits her kind nature to the days on which she wins at bingo, Allegra drives her daughter Mariah crazy with protest rallies, and twelve-year-old Lindsay struggles with her highIQ.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: In Jo-Ann Mapson's deeply felt, wise, and gritty novel, three people will find in each other an unexpected comfort, the bond of friendship, and a second chance to see the miracles of everyday life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPMapson, Jo-Ann.
Summary: After years of estrangement, two sisters reconnect on their parents' ranch in New Mexico. One is a widow with grown children, the other a career woman. The latter rekindles a romance with a high-school sweetheart by whom she had an abortion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFlamingo 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPSummary: The true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau and a celebration of friendship and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true. Based on the best-selling tell-all about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIS RATED RSummary: Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town's deadly past. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette return to their iconic roles in Scream alongside Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2022
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR SCRSummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELSummary: It's 1916 and British Captain Fred Roberts and his detachment of Sherwood Foresters discover an abandoned printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium. Roberts has an idea: he will produce a newspaper to raise the spirits of his soldiers, taking their minds off 'the attentions of Messrs Hun and Co.' They call it The Wipers Times, after the army slang for Ypres, and fill it with spoofs, jokes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WIPSummary: The third installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy tells the story of the overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights, and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PARSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023