Summary: Based on true events, the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FOXSummary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMBSchlitz, Laura Amy
Summary: Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She's sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She's sick, sick, sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents won't let her have a dog. But when she writes to her fairy godmother for help, she doesn't expect that help to come in the form of a crocodile--a crocodile who does not behave properly.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Schlitz 2017Schlitz, Laura Amy.
Summary: Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She's sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She's sick, sick, sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents won't let her have a dog. But when she writes to her fairy godmother for help, she doesn't expect that help to come in the form of a crocodile--a crocodile who does not behave properly.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE PRISummary: 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 DARSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Chan, Crystal S.
Summary: "Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables - instead, they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anne turns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Manga Classics, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ANNSummary: "Capped by one of the most famous speeches ever written, Shakespeare's Henry V recalls a truly great English victory. With comic sub-plots to be found among Henry's soldiers, the production boasts some terrific performances - including Sam Cox as the 'splendidly unhinged' Pistol (The Daily Telegraph). In the title role is Jamie Parker, who 'casts such a rapt spell that you feel the entire...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2013
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HENSummary: Pilot Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. To rescue the passengers,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PLASummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: The gambler: Kenny Rogers stars as the high-rolling frontier gambler Brady Hawkes, who has been summoned to Yuma, California, to rescue the son he never knew. Along the way, he befriends Billy Montana, a young Easterner who fancies himself a professional poker player. Brady teaches Billy a few lessons--about cards and also about life--and the two men end up forming a strong team.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WESTERN GAMHarrison, David L. (David Lee)
Summary: "Rrrrh!" means "Let's be friends" in tiger talk, but the other animals don't understand him and run away! Maybe the gentle "rum-pum-pum" of the drum can help him. The lonely tiger finds a drum. He strikes it with his tail--and friends start to follow: a monkey who says "chee-chee-chee" which means "I will come too" in monkey talk, a rhino who says "ouggh" which means "I will come too" in rhino...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Summary: When Dog wakes up early, in the middle of the night, he launches all the other farm animals in a worried search for the missing sun.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR GREEN HARHarrison, David L. (David Lee)
Summary: "'Rrrrh!' means 'Let's be friends' in tiger talk, but the other animals don't understand him and run away! Maybe the gentle 'rum-pum-pum' of the drum can help him find a friend"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HARLindsey, David L.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINLindsey, David L.
Summary: The assault began innocuously enough. Four envelopes delivered through the U.S. mail, four mysterious photos, and then a picture that would draw Houston detective Stuarty Haydon into a nightmare world of grisly death and dark obsession. For the fifth photograph was of Hayden himself . . . with a carefully drawn bullet exploding through the back of his head.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINLindsey, David L.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINLindsey, David L.
Summary: A police spy story starring Arnette Kepner, a former CIA agent in the Far East, now an independent operator. She is hired by the criminal intelligence division of the Houston Police Department for an undercover investigation of crooked cops involved in drugs and arms smuggling. By the author of Body of Truth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINSummary: Andre "Dre" Johnson has it all...a job as a top ad exec, a beautiful doctor wife, four great kids and a lovely, well-appointed house in the suburbs. And he's not about to let his family forget how they got there. Keeping cultural identity alive is not without its challenges for this man on a mission. With perpetual pushback from clueless coworkers, an outspoken father, and even the wife and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLASummary: James White is a troubled twenty-something trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. He retreats further into a self-destructive, hedonistic lifestyle, but as his mother battles a serious illness James is forced to take control of his life. As the pressure on him mounts, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JAMSummary: An escaped convict has his own gun pointed at his head, desperate to remember what happened to each bullet as the empty rounds click away, he also needs to come up with an escape plan before a full chamber is fired by his unknown assailant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HEAPearce, Erin
Summary: DJ Lance Rock, four friendly monsters, and one robot become super spies, uncover mysteries, explore DJ Lance Rock's house, and teach preschoolers simple life lessons and encourage exercise through music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012