Summary: Borgen explores the insular world of high-stakes Danish politics and the press corps that covers it in instantaneous, relentless news cycles. Birgitte Nyborg, the idealistic head of the moderate party, becomes prime minister of Denmark through a political fluke and has to quickly learn the ways of power. She's an altruistic public servant in an old boys' club and must master the art of the deal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BORNilsson, Ulf
Summary: When Detective Gordon retires and Buffy is left alone at the police station, she hears strange noises and decides to call on Gordon to help her with the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED NILKvensler, Ulf
Summary: Agreeing to let Milena bring her boyfriend Jacob on their annual hiking trip, Anna and Henrik find their hike going terrifyingly wrong when all three of them realize that taking Jacob was a decision that could change their lives forever. Anna, Henrik and Milena's annual hiking trip is just around the corner. This year, however, Anna and Henrik have a hard time saying no when Milena asks if her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KVENilsson, Ulf
Summary: Detectives Gordon and Buffy take on the most important case ever investigated at their small police station, the disappearance of Buffys mother, which leads them beyond the edges of the forest to the mysterious Cave Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED NILSummary: Tina is a border guard who has the ability to smell human emotions, and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, she uncovers a dark secret about her own past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BORNilsson, Ulf
Summary: When one of the animals is saying nasty things about the other forest creatures, Detective Gordon and his assistant Buffy investigate to find the culprit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED NILStark, Ulf
Summary: Tonight Dad wants to show his son something very special: the universe. Of course, they can't possibly embark on such a daring adventure unprepared, so they wrap up warm, gather provisions, and then off they go. It's a long walk, but eventually they get there. Along the way, they learn that sometimes the journey is more important than the destination, and sometimes the biggest lessons happen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STANilsson, Ulf
Summary: When Vladimir the squirrel's stockpile of nuts disappears, the portly Detective Gordon deputizes his young, enthusiastic friend Buffy the mouse to help him discover the identity of the thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED NILNilsson, Ulf
Summary: Little Bunny's relaxing walk is interrupted by a hungry fox.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books, c1987. 1989
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Summary: Ulf Varg will need to solve both a sensitive crime and his own delicate dilemma if he hopes to preserve the peace.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Red wolf: In the dark winter of northern Sweden, a journalist is murdered. Annika senses that the killing is linked to a terrorist attack 40 years ago, about which the journalist knew too much. Her investigation brings her into a world of old loyalties that began with the 1960s leftists and extends into the liberal government of today. -- Lifetime: Lonely and divorced, Annika spends most of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANNSummary: Set against the stark beauty of the English moor, the mysterious gypsy boy Heathcliff, who has been adopted by the Earnshaw family, discovers his soul mate in his stepsister Cathy. As a man unable to have the love of his life, he seeks vengeance against anyone who comes between them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The girl with the dragon tattoo: A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing, or dead, for forty years by a young female hacker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRASummary: Tillsammans, ('Together' in English), is a commune in the heart of Stockholm, still going strong in 1975, long after most members of youth culture have abandoned their notions of free love, harmoniously integrated extended families, and naive political idealism in favor of jobs, discos, and TV sitcoms. The commune's 'leader' is sweet, conflict-avoiding Goran. The arrival of his conventional,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Memfis Film 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOGSummary: Nobel's last will: While covering the annual Nobel Prize Banquet, Annika witnesses the spectacular murder of two prestigious individuals right in front of her. She's a key witness, so she's bound by the police not to disclose anything. It's the story of a lifetime, and she can't write a word. -- Prime time: On her way to a family gathering, Annika has to leave her two children in the care of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANNSummary: He's got no style, he's got no flash and he's squarely in middle age. But Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away ... for a long time. His tightly-wound partner, Gunvald, is his opposite: an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap across. It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BECSummary: The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corruptgovernment institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIRSummary: Stockholm, the 1980s: Three teen girls decide to form a punk band, despite only one being a musician, not having any instruments, and being told by everyone that punk is dead. Focused on stirring things up in the world, but without a clue, the trio is a tribute to DIY culture and the power of rebellion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WESummary: After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WIFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wife 2019Copies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIFSummary: William Tell is a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past. Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CARSummary: A lovely gesture - a bouquet of roses - from husband to wife becomes the catalyst for a clash of long-repressed emotion. Their son has just come back from war, but is caught in the middle of their conflict.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUBGray, Luli.
Summary: In this variation of the old tale of the ant who gathers food for winter, and the grasshopper who does not prepare, there is an unexpected ending.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GRALandstrom, Olof
Summary: Will has a gigantic package from his uncle. His friends Karen and Peter come along to the post office to pick up the package. They wonder what it can be and how are they going to get it home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: R & S Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Landstrom 1994Ault, Sandi.
Summary: After witnessing a dramatic death in the Gorge, Jamaica Wild examines a secret, ancient religious group that reenacts Jesus' crucifixion and practices excessive penance, but is warned not to investigate too closely when someone makes an attempt on her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010