Summary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVSummary: Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRI RATED PGSummary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Centered around a small group of American soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq. Alternates points of view between these soldiers, the media and the local Iraqi people illuminating how each group is deeply affected by the current conflict and their encounters with each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF REDSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOIO'Dell, Tawni.
Summary: Coal mining community deputy Ivan Zoschenko remembers the injury that ended his football career, prepares for a former teammate's release from prison, and confronts a secret that has troubled his conscience.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODEO'Dell, Tawni.
Summary: Former police officer Shae-Lynn Penrose now drives a cab in the coal mining town she grew up in. Five of her friends still struggling with memories of being trapped in a mine two years earlier. Shae-Lynn finds herself facing harsh realities and reliving bad dreams of her own including her relationship with her brutal father, her conflicted passion for one of the miners, and the hidden identity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODESummary: The dark crystal: The Mystics fight to overthrow the evil Skeksis and take back control of their planet. When Jen, a member of the Gelfling tribe, sets out to find the missing shard of the crystal which powers the entire planet, his dangerous journey brings him face to face with monsters at every turn. Determined to restore peace to the planet, Jen will not back down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY DARSummary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRASummary: "Bette Midler portrays a Janis Joplin-like rock star whose success is laced with so much booze, drugs and hard living [that] it eventually causes her downfall"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Rose 2003Summary: "A close-knit team of six young men sailed away from Ireland in 1977 with dreams of a better life. Thirty years later, they reunite at the wake after one of them suddenly dies. Hardened by years of disappointment and drink, they quickly realize that their bonds of friendship have weakened, provoking regret, jealousy and tension. As they reveal their guilty feelings about their dead friend and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINO'Dell, Claire
Summary: "Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes, introduced in the acclaimed A Study in Hour, continue their dangerous investigation into the new American Civil War with the help of fresh allies, advanced technology, and brilliant deduction in this superb reimagining of Sherlock Holmes. It's been two months since Dr. Janet Watson accepted an offer from Georgetown University Hospital. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODEO'Dell, Scott.
Summary: Jim Lynne is idly playing darts in Liverpool when his brother, Ted, calls him over to a table to ask a question about the ship that he is working on. It seems the ship, enigmatically named the 290, is not the cargo ship that people are saying it is. Whatever its purpose, it is certainly built for speed. But Jim thinks he knows that purpose: it is being built for the Confederate navy. And so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008
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Summary: A novel on a dysfunctional family in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town. The mother is in jail for killing the father and the four children are on their own. They are supported by the eldest, Harley Altmyer, 20, who is having an affair with the mother of a friend of his sister.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC O'DESummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Summary: Bright Dawn must face the challenge of the Iditarod dog sled race alone when her father is injured.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1988
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ODECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction O'Dell 1988O'Dell, Tawni.
Summary: Shae-Lynn Penrose has spent years building a life for herself and her son in Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, the tiny coal-mining town in which she grew up, but her life is thrown into disarray by the arrival of the younger sister she had thought dead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ODESummary: Two determined California college students, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. The two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan. Dr. Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field and the human consequences of war becomes clear...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lions 2008Summary: Bob is a playboy who recklessly crashes his boat, necessitating the use of a resuscitator. While the equipment is used on Bob, a beloved physician dies of a heart atttack because the resuscitator was unavailable. To atone for this, Bob decides to become a doctor himself. He becomes involved with the doctor's widow, but an accident that causes her to go blind will shadow the rest of their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MAGFagan, Cary.
Summary: When Ella May finds a stone with a line going all the way around it, she decides a stone so special must grant wishes, but when her friends want to join in the fun she must use her imagination to make everyone's wishes come true.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FAGGrant, Cary
Summary: A reformed jewel thief is the prime suspect in a new rash of thefts, and in order to clear himself he sets out to find the real thief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TOO'Dell, Kathleen
Summary: In 1970's San Francisco, Julie is excited to take care of Ivy's talking parrot while her friend is on vacation, but strange things are happening at Ivy's house and an old friend of Julie may be to blame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2013
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Summary: The Spanish slavers came first, later the soldiers forced the Navajos of the Canyon to join their Indian brothers on the devastation long march to Fort Sumner; through the eyes of Bright Morning, a young Navajo girl, we see what can happen to human beings when they are uprooted from the life they know.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1998