Summary: When Roger, a delinquent boy, is sent to live with his grandfather for the summer, he discovers his grandfather is secretly protecting a friendly, turtle-like creature named Mel. Because of Roger's reckless behavior, his grandfather is put in jail, and a greedy land developer captures Mel. To free his grandfather and save Mel, Roger has to take responsibility for his actions and find the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2004

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MEL

Summary: 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

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DAR

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

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: London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ARO

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: From visionary new director Gareth Edwards comes a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature, when the awe-inspiring Godzilla rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GOD

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOD RATED PG-13

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Godzilla

Summary: New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2021

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

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

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

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD YOU

Summary: The production of a play is frought with drama and romance in and of itself, from its writing and casting to rehearsals and staging. Onstage, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events while each attendee and their family members deal with their own interpersonal issues.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AST

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

Summary: Set in the 1890's, the story of a lesbian love affair between a music hall male impersonator and a young woman smitten by the music hall life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2003

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

Summary: Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad") returns in the explosive second season of Your Honor. Disbarred, disgraced, and all but destroyed, ex-judge Michael Desiato is offered a ray of hope when a federal agent recruits him to take down the empire of corruption and vengeance that runs New Orleans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime 2023

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV YOU

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

Longo, Davide

Summary: In this dystopian, post-apocalyptic literary novel, Italy is on the brink of collapse: borders are closed, banks are refusing to distribute money to their clients, the postal service is shuttered, and food supplies are running short. Armed gangs of drug-fueled youth rampage through the countryside as the nation descends into chaos.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MacLehose Press 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LON

Summary: A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BRO

Summary: The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie 12 2021

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

Morosinotto, Davide

Summary: "Twins Viktor and Nadya are twelve years old when Hitler's Germany declares war on the Soviet Union. With little notice, the city's children are evacuated on trains that are meant to take them to safety. Shockingly, Viktor and Nadya are separated, and disaster befalls them both. As the terrible confilect rages, each embarks on a desperate race across snow and ice, struggling through the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOR

Summary: Warren Schmidt is about the taste the not-so-sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife, Helen, had big plans - but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is focused on his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABO

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie About 2003

Summary: It follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove, and the world, is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our heroes quickly discover they are the only ones who can save the planet. But to do so, they will have to overcome their real-life issues and before it's too late, band together...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2017

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Power 2017

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

Summary: After a mysterious group of individuals breaks into Laura's home and attempts to steal her eight-year-old son, David, the two of them flee town in search of safety. But soon after the failed kidnapping, David becomes extremely ill, suffering from increasingly sporadic psychosis and convulsions. Following her maternal instincts to save him, Laura commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive but...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: RLJE Films 2021

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

Summary: When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LIT

Summary: Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIT
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LIT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIT RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Little 2006

Summary: Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king. In the background of the celebration, Richard jealously views the proceedings. Soon afterwards, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king and, after proceeding with a succession of intrigues and duplicities, he finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004

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

Summary: Poldark, the drama that has become a cultural phenomenon, continues for a second season on the stunning beaches of Cornwall. It's 1790 and there is riot and revolution in the air. Ross Poldark, the character redefined by the smoldering Aidan Turner, must fight for his freedom when George Warleggan tries to have him hanged as a revolutionary. While Francis and Elizabeth watch on in horror, can...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV POL

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD POL NOT RATED

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Poldark 2016

Sornson, Robert.

Summary: "When Pete starts at a new school, he soon finds out that being a bystander to bad behavior is not tolerated."--Unedited summary from book.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ferne Press 2011

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JPB SOR BASKET