Summary: Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Mazas, Marie

Summary: "Nine-year-old besties Nour and August stumble upon the perfect place for their dream hideaway--a hidden garden full of majestic trees. Excited to build a tree house, they design blueprints, research plant care, and collect necessary tools and materials. What was intended to be a secret hideaway becomes the perfect place for a once-hidden garden to come to life for their families to celebrate a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Dot Kids Press 2024

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

Summary: A small nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman. When Atanarjuat falls in love with a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader, he has to fight for her. She is won by Atanarjuat and the leader plots to attack him in his sleep. Escaping, he sets off running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure of survival in the brutal wilderness. He returns stronger and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FAS

Summary: A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Summary: A family in 1630s New England faces destruction by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. When one of their five children goes missing and their life-sustaining crops fail, they fall victim to paranoia and fear as they begin to turn on one another.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR WIT

Summary: Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2022

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

Summary: "Sexy Brazilian drama chronicling a love triangle between two best friends, Deco and Naldinho, and a sultry, beautiful young girl, Karinna. Burdened with unbridled passion, the threesome navigates the "lower city" of tropical Salvador da Bahia, stumbling through a treacherous landscape of sex and jealousy. Suffocated and unable to go on, the three must accept one another as lovers, adversaries...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2005

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOW

Giles, Lamar

Summary: After Virgil Hawkins reveals his secret identity as Static to his girlfriend, Daisy, she breaks up with him, leaving him free to go to a big music festival with his best friend Richie Foley (also known as superhero Gear), but they soon run into girls who each have secret identities of their own.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2023

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 GIL

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 GIL

Summary: An original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. Porter looks back on his life as if it were one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and actions onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits, Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DEL

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DEL

Summary: Struggling with writer's block and a lackluster love life, once-famous novelist Calvin creates a beautiful fictitious character named Ruby who inspires him. But not only does this bring his work to life, it also brings Ruby to life, literally. Face-to-face with an actual relationship with his once virtual girlfriend, Calvin must now decide whether to pen this love story or let it write itself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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

Summary: When Playboy Bunny, Shelly, is tossed out of the Playboy Mansion, she has nowhere to go. She quickly falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. The members of the sorority, all seven of whom are socially inept, are about to lose their house. The girls need a dose of what only the eternally bubbly Shelley can provide. Eventually, the girls, and Shelly, learn to stop pretending to be...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: When the Morels' seventeen-year-old daughter Lea fails to return home after a night out celebrating her birthday, the family is unexpectedly thrown into their worst nightmare. Mother Florence tries to remain strong for her other children, while father Julien begins an investigation of his own.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2016

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DIS

Summary: When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum portrays an anxious era in West Germany amid a crumbling postwar political consensus. Katharina, though innocent, suddenly becomes a suspect, falling prey to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist that tests the limits of her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN LOS

Summary: The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIR

Summary: When Frank Goode's grown children cancel a family reunion, the recent widower sets off on a cross-country journey to reconnect with each of them. A family separated by physical and emotional distance finds a way to come together.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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

Lazar, Tara

Summary: When upper case letters disappear from Capital City, Question Mark calls on Private I to investigate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAZ

Lazar, Zachary

Summary: "Tells the story of Christopher Bell, a blocked painter on the East End of Long Island, and Ana Ramirez, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York ... He has retreated to a modest house near a patch of woods ... In the woods, he encounters Ana, who is trying to reinvent herself as the kind of person she'd been before the world she knew disappeared. A...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAZ

Lazar, Alexandra

Summary: Princess Jasmine is determined to learn more about the world outside the palace where she lives, and even after her efforts almost end in disaster, she keeps trying to find out more about the kingdom she will one day rule.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LAZ

Lazar, Tara

Summary: When 7 is accused of eating 9, worried 6 hires a detective to investigate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E Laz

Summary: Ivy is a twenty-year-old college student home for spring break. She's excited about a developing romance back at school and life is seemingly perfect. Her longtime friend finds himself looking for a place to stay, so Ivy and her mom take him in. Al and Ivy's friendship strengthens while her boyfriend grows more and more distant. An exquisite portrait of a young girl coming of age and finding a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2010

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

Summary: Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STA

Prineas, Sarah.

Summary: Young wizard's apprentice Connwaer travels to the city of Desh to find the source of the malevolent shadowmen who are plaguing Wellmet City.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PRI

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC PRI