Summary: In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie To Kill 2012Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TO NOT RATEDSummary: After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women, while at the same time searching for the right subject (and actress) for his next film.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IDESummary: Charles Bronson demonstrates exactly what tough is in this two-fisted action drama about a drifter suddenly caught up in the fight game during the Great Depression. Chaney, a down-on-his-luck loner, hops a freight train to New Orleans where, on the seedier side of town, he tries to make some quick money the only way he knows how-- with his fists. Chaney approaches a hustler named Speed and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HARSummary: Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PARSummary: "Saga of high school chemistry teacher-turned-meth kingpin Walter White ... a family man who turns to crime after a lung cancer diagnosis unravels his bland but simple life. Recruiting former student and small-time drug dealer Jesse Pinkman to be his partner in crime, Walt rises to the top of the meth trade, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. But he can't keep his dogged DEA agent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TODiMartino, Michael Dante
Summary: On the eve of its first elections, the Earth Kingdom finds its future endangered by its past. Even as Kuvira stands trial for her crimes, vestiges of her imperial ambitions threaten to undermine the nation's democratic hopes. But when Korra, Asami, Mako, and Bolin don't all see eye-to-eye as to the solution, drastic measures will be taken to halt a new march to war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEGSummary: When Shadow Moon is released from prison, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday and a storm begins to brew. Little does Shadow know, this storm will change the course of his entire life. Left adrift by the recent, tragic death of his wife, Shadow is hired as Mr. Wednesday's bodyguard. He finds himself in a hidden world where magic is real, where the Old Gods fear irrelevance and the growing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: Driver is a Hollywood stunt driver by day, and moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver for hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene. When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best, Drive!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRISummary: Even though his cancer's in remission, chemistry teacher turned meth maker Walter White still can't catch a break. His wife has filed for divorce, his DEA agent brother-in-law is out to bust him, and a Mexican cartel just wants him dead. But with his family's future still at stake, Walt cooks up a deal that will make him a fortune, a scheme with a terrible price. Contains thirteen episodes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BREDiMartino, Michael Dante
Summary: What will it take to stop a war? King Wu's dreams of peacefully transitioning the Earth Kingdom into a democracy are in danger when Commander Guan throws his political hat in the ring, hoping to subvert the new system from the inside out. But playing fair was never part of his plan; Guan and Dr. Sheng are using terrifying new technology to cement Guan's win! In a desperate attempt to save the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2019
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 LEGDiMartino, Michael Dante
Summary: "Kuvira's true nature is revealed, and the Earth Kingdom will feel the consequences! Thanks to Commander Guan and Doctor Sheng's brainwashing technology, all hope for a fair election in the Earth Kingdom is lost. Korra works with Toph, Su, and Kuvira to plan a means to rescue not just the brainwashed Mako, Bolin, and Asami, but everyone else caught up in Guan's plan! With the Earth Empire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEGMoore, Bryce
Summary: In 1918 New Orleans, seventeen-year-old Gianna Crutti's worries about her family's grocery, the Great War, and influenza are overshadowed when a murderer returns to terrorize the city--years after he attacked Gianna's parents and left her with a psychic connection between them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2022
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Summary: Story of Peekay, an English boy, living in South Africa during World War II whose dream is to become a winner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COUMoore, Bryce
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Zuretta Palmer travels to Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair to find her missing sister, but when the police and the Pinkertons refuse to help her, Zuretta begins her own investigation by becoming a maid at the notorious Castle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MOOGilligan, Shannon.
Summary: When a valuable tea bowl is stolen from Ura Senke, the Japanese tea ceremony school, the reader sets out to recover the missing treasure, encountering the vicious Yakuza, kidnappers, and other deadly perils in this multiple-plot tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GILGilligan, Shannon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2005
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GILSummary: In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CROMilliken, Kate
Summary: "Rory Ramos is a dutiful teenager with a love of photography who works as a ranch hand at the stable her stepfather manages in Topanga Canyon, a dry, dusty place reliant on horses and hierarchies. There she rides for the rich clientele, including twins June and Wade Fisk. June begins to take an interest in Rory--but she is more drawn to Vivian Price, the beautiful teenager with the movie-star...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MillikenGilligan, Shannon.
Summary: You are in Japan and a valuable tea ceremony bowl has been stolen from the Ura Senke School of Tea. What you choose to do next in your search for the tea bowl known as Yukisoo will take you all over Kyoto and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GILPryce, Trevor
Summary: The Spider Queen is dead, but the powerful scorpion Lord Marmoo and his fearsome army are still a threat to the Amphibilands, especially as the Rainbow Serpent has told the frogs that they must lower the veil that protects them--so the young wood frog Darel and his friends must search the Outback for answers in the quest to bring peace and water to their land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2015
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC PRYSummary: "Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the Olympics. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi ... and Shun ... but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: distributed in the U.S. by Cinedigm Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME FROSummary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014