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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSSummary: Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WISSummary: While on vacation, a married couple unwittingly befriends a flamboyant and charismatic Russian named Dima, who, unbeknownst to them, is a kingpin money launderer for the mafia. When Dima confides to his new friends that he plans to escape from the mob, they're quickly swept into the dangerous world of international espionage. The unlikely companions must undertake a perilous journey through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WUSummary: With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CIESummary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROSummary: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana Spencer, struggling with mental health problems, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SPECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPESummary: An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHRBarry, Quan
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upons Sticks-a luminous novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia, as a pair of estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty, conflict, and renewed understanding. Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a great lama somewhere in the vast Mongolian landscape, the young monk Chuluun seeks the help of his identical twin, Mun, who was recognized as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARSummary: 1619. The British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, is shaken up when the first women in twelve years land in this breathtaking wilderness. While love triangles, bitter rivalries, and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents and the native inhabitants, the Pamunkey, they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ja 3Summary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELSummary: From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction VandriverSummary: Lois, Harry, Marilyn, Sandy and Jack live in an "Active Adult" community in Boynton Beach, Florida. Their lives intersect when they meet at a local Bereavement Club where they go to find the emotional support needed after lossing a loved one. New love and romance do not end before retirement, but can bloom long after. These five do not see themselves as becoming old, and these residents of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BOYSummary: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GrSummary: They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcon Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOQuin, Tegan
Summary: "Before Tegan and Sara took the music world by storm, the Quins were just two identical twins trying to find their place in a new home and new school. From first crushes to the perils of puberty, surviving junior high is something the sisters plan to face side by side, just like they've always faced things. But growing up also means growing apart, as Tegan and Sara make different friends and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It's been almost a year since the sudden death of philandering chef Leo Vincent, but his presence at the Penrose Hotel is more palpable than ever. His ex-wife, Gina, and widow, Sam, have the business, but they continue to have professional and personal disagreements.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DELSummary: When Supergirl, Wonder Woman, and Batgirl can't remember their Monday at Super Hero High, they must retrace their steps to uncover who stole their memories and why!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV LEGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LeSummary: A twisted tale told by Harley Quinn herself, as only Harley can tell it. When Gotham's most nefariously narcissistic villain, Roman Sionis, and his zealous right-hand, Zsasz, put a target on a young girl named Cass, the city is turned upside down looking for her. Harley, Huntress, Black Canary and Renee Montoya's paths collide, and the unlikely foursome has no choice but to team up to take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIRSummary: The Wonder Pets head to India to save a Bengal Tiger who's got a thorn stuck in her paw. Then, travel to Costa Rica for a play date with a Baby Gecko who can't seem to stay out of trouble and help the heroes save a mystery animal. Next, fish out a little Ladybug trapped inside a Venus flytrap and head off to Japan to help a Baby Sea Turtle find a path to the ocean. Last, A gaggle of Goslings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WONSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
Summary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHEQuan, Betty
Summary: "Grandmother lives with Grace's family. She teaches her how to measure water for rice. She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother says goodbye when she drops Grace off at school every morning and hello when she picks her up at the end of the day. Suddenly, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and the door to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2018