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Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Summary: Luciano Pavarotti stars in the vivid staging of Giordano's opera set during the tumultuous French Revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2011

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA AND

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Summary: Three Latin American folktales include the story of the Iara, a mermaid who lures men to her underwater domain, the tale of La Lechuza, an enormous owl with the face of a woman, and two gauchos' encounter with La Luz Mala, a spooky light that terrorizes travelers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Summary: "When Henrietta's mother gives her a box of colored pencils, she sets out to draw a terrifying and fantastic adventure"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TOON Books, an imprint of RAW Junior 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LIN

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LIN

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Summary: "After being played with all day, Planet, a friendly stuffed animal, comes to life at night and goes on a moonlit adventure with a dog and a mouse"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Toon Books, and imprint of Raw Junior, LLC 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LIN

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Summary: "Matilda promises her little sister Clemmie an amazing weekend spent playing outside. But the weather's rainy and Clemmie can't bring her new balloon along. Matilda teaches Clemmie all the delights of a wet Saturday"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Toon Books, is an imprint of Candlewick Press 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LIN

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LIN

Summary: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TES

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Te

Summary: A collection of stories inspired by fairy tales, but all featuring a dark and sinister twist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Teen 2014

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRI

Summary: A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle is the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA AME

Summary: The Baby Carriage: Infused with a jazzy, nouvelle vague-inspired energy, Bo Widerberg's feature debut has the freshness of youth. Building on his film criticism's call for a socially relevant Swedish cinema, the writer turned director offers a vivid portrait of a young factory worker finding her way toward independence as she weathers unexpected pregnancy, learns hard lessons from relationships...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: Complete second season, 1960-1961, of Rod Serling's classic, groundbreaking series exploring the fantastic and frightening.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Singer, Marilyn.

Summary: Tallulah takes ballet lessons and eagerly awaits her coveted tutu, which, she learns, she must work hard to earn.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011

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Singer, Marilyn.

Summary: Tallulah strives for perfection during ballet class and dreams of dancing a solo in the upcoming recital, but her little brother, Beckett, who misbehaves all during class, gets a better role than she does.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013

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2 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE TAL

Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KIL

de la Peña, Matt.

Summary: A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE LAS

Summary: An undercover CIA operative gets stuck in hostile territory in Afghanistan after his mission is exposed. Accompanied by his translator, he must fight enemy combatants as he tries to reach an extraction point in Kandahar.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KAN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KAN

Mitchell, Adrian

Summary: An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: D. Kindersley 1994

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MIT

Kristian, Isaiah

Summary: Follows the intense family life of three brothers living in the shadow of their parents' passionate love, and their own profound sense of family unity and belonging.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2018

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WE

Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV O

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Summary: Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIN RATED PG

Summary: Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Finding 2005

Summary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRE

Summary: "Return to the world of two realities: everyday life... and what lies behind it. To truly know himself, Neo must follow the white rabbit once again into the Matrix. Of course, Neo already what he has to do. What he doesn't know is that the Matrix is more dangerous than ever. Déja vu" -- Container

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAT

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