Summary: One of the world's great cinema artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite being banned from filmmaking by the Iranian government since 2010. In No Bears completed shortly before his imprisonment in 2022, Panahi plays a fictionalized version of himself, a dissident filmmaker who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOSummary: DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan face an impossible cold case. A lawyer. A nurse. A schoolteacher. A police officer. These four suspects are the pieces of the puzzle. But as Cassie and Sunny put this picture together, the more blurred it becomes. The investigation will question their assumptions about the most damaged and destructive in society. When a victim becomes a criminal, is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UNFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UNFAzeem, Bakhtawar
Summary: When Madame Gazelle asks her class to bring in their favorite healthy snack, Peppa searches for the juiciest, shiniest apple of them all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE AZMAkhtar, Ayad
Summary: A deeply personal novel about about finding identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging in post-Trump America and with each other.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AKHAkhtar, Ayad.
Summary: A young Pakistani boy, whose parents left the fundamentalists behind when they came to America, finds transformation and a path to happiness through a family friend, Mina, who shows him the beauty and power of the Quran.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AKHAkhtar, Amina
Summary: Dunia Ahmed lives an ordinary life--or she definitely used to. Now she's the subject of a true crime podcast. She's been missing for over a year, and no one knows if she's dead or alive. But her story has listeners obsessed, and people everywhere are sporting merch that demands "Find Dunia!" In the days before her disappearance, Dunia is a successful pharmacist living in New York. The daughter...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mindy's Book Studio 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AKHAkhtar, Ayad
Summary: A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AKHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AKHSummary: Mr. Badii, ceaselessly driving through the red-brown hills around Tehran in search of assistance in his suicide, receives from each of the men he asks for help a viewpoint on life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TASSummary: The detectives are on a mission to uncover the mystery behind an unsolved murder that occurred 39 years ago. Beneath the ground of a demolished house, the bones of the victim are found. With this evidence, the modern police team opens a case to unearth the history that has remained buried for decades. Four main suspects emerge, and as their dark past is unraveled, the truth behind the events of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UNFSummary: Alicia Florrick stood by her husband on his tumultuous path to the governor's office, but now she's entering the world of politics on her own terms by running for state's attorney. As Election Day approaches, Alicia must balance the demands of her firm and campaign as she supports her partner Cary during shocking developments that could end his career; and life as he knows it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GOO RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOOSummary: A tour-de-force performance from Mark Ruffalo leads this family saga, which follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th-century America. The six-episode limited drama series is based on Wally Lamb's New York Times bestseller and award-winning book, I Know This Much Is True.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ISummary: "Inspired by real events, The Indian Doctor is the award winning BBC drama that is a warm and humorous fish-out-of-water story about a dedicated doctor who moves to the UK with ambitions to work in a top London surgery, only to find himself practicing in a small Welsh village. It's now 1966, three years after Dr. Prem Sharma and his wife Kamini's arrival and in their different ways, they have...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INDSummary: DSI Stella Gibson continues to hunt serial killer Paul Spector in the second series of this smart psychological thriller. As Gibson tries to help Spector's surviving victim remember the identity of her attacker, Spector deals with loose ends that he left behind in Belfast. When he realizes that someone from his past has been helping the police with their inquires, Spector changes his plans with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FALSummary: A gripping blend of courtroom drama, politics and steamy personal relationships that stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a wife and mother who reclaims control of her personal and professional lives after her husband, Peter, is embroiled in a sex and political corruption scandal. As Alicia adapts to changes at home and at work as a defense attorney,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GOO RATED RSummary: When FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to point back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down. The inter-agency task force looking into the case meets with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER TRASummary: The BAFTA-winning hit series returns, as DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan investigate a cold case with alarming links to the police force. A corpse is discovered in a scrapyard. Four suspects emerge; all have links to the law and attended the same police training course back in 1989. Since then their lives have gone in very different directions. But exactly who is fighting for justice? Can...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UNFSummary: Rory, an ambitious entrepreneur, and former commodities broker persuades his American wife, Allison, and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the '80s. Sensing an opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison's horses and plans to build a stable. Soon the promise of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films/Shout Factory 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NeSummary: Meet Mahmud Nasir, loving husband, doting father, and something of a relaxed Muslim. He may not be the most observant, but in his heart he is a true Muslim. After his mother's death, Mahmud finds his birth certificate, which reveals that he was adopted at birth and he's Jewish, with the real name of Solly Shimshillewitz!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INF1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INF
Summary: Follows a politician's wife who pursues her own career as a defense attorney after her husband is sent to jail on charges of political corruption. Alicia Florrick not only deals with her career but also with keeping her family together as she provides a stable home for her two children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Paramount Network Television 2010
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A wife and mother boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal. In Season 3, Alicia continues balancing her professional and personal lives as she strives to provide a stable home for her children in the midst of separating from her husband and contemplating finally giving in to her feelings...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2012
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GOO RATED RSummary: Alicia Florrick and Cary join forces to launch their own law firm. As they sever ties with Lockhart/Gardner, tensions escalate and explode as the new rivals go into attack mode, battling each other both in and out of court. Alicia's new venture leads her to volatile showdowns, altering every major relationship she's cultivated. Season five witnesses Alicia's complete transformation from a good...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017