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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Buried treasure Fiction Man-woman relationships Drama Miami (Fla.) Fiction Pirates Fiction Public prosecutors Fiction San Juan Island (Wash.) Fiction Serial murderers Fiction Women lawyers FictionSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A documentary-style drama chronicling the rise and fall of the title character, a real-life Mob chieftain who rose to prominence in post-WWII Sicily.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SALSummary: "This season begins with a power vacuum that protagonists across Westeros and Essos look to fill. At Castle Black, Jon Snow struggles to balance the demands of the Night's Watch with those of the newly-arrived Stannis Baratheon, who styles himself as the rightful king of Westeros. Meanwhile, Cersei scrambles to hold on to power in King's Landing amidst the Tyrells and the rise of a religious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GAM RATED RSummary: A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's epic story of passion, betrayal and revenge. The president of the Denmark Corporation is dead, and already his wife is remarried to the man suspected of his murder. No one is more troubled by this than her son, Hamlet. Now, after this hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passion is on the rise and vengeance is in the air.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HAMSummary: Daniel Kremer's Overwhelm the Sky is an epic odyssey of a spiritually shell-shocked man searching for answers in a world of loners, mourners, kooks, seducers, deceivers, and sleepwalkers. The San Francisco Chronicle aptly describes it as 'part noir, part epic journey from inner mind to outer expanses.' Loosely adapted from the 1799 gothic novel Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleepwalker by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OVESummary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOIKillian, Alex
Summary: "This moving picture book traces a table and its transformation: from a seed to a tree to a treasured object in a home. Strong and stable through the years, the table becomes a space for being together: for birthday parties and science projects, and meals big and small. With captivating text and lush illustrations, This Table will inspire conversations about the everyday, ordinary objects in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE AVASummary: Joss Whedon's sexy and contemporary spin on Shakespeare's classic comedy about the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a sensual, tragic and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUC RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MUCGilligan, Paul
Summary: Seventh-grader Doug Underbelly strives to be a normal middle-schooler, but as secret King of the Mole People, weird things are attracted to him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GILGilligan, Ruth
Summary: "Every year, Úna prepares for her father to leave her. He will wave goodbye early one morning, then disappear with seven other men to traverse the Irish countryside. Together, these men form the Butchers, a group that roams from farm to farm, enacting ancient methods of cattle slaughter. The Butchers' Blessing moves between the events of 1996 and the present, offering a simmering glimpse into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILGillman, Melanie
Summary: In this new feminist, queer fairy tale collection, the princesses, mermaids, barmaids, children, and wise old women who have been forced to sit on the sidelines in classic stories take center stage to fulfill their own dreams and find the love, power, and happiness they deserve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Graphic 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Hoban, Lillian.
Summary: Bored with spring vacation, Arthur decides to go alone on an overnight field trip in the woods behind his house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 1994
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Summary: "Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives-or before they are found out. Relying on the island for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILHoffman, Jilliane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HOFGilligan, Shannon.
Summary: You are in Japan and a valuable tea ceremony bowl has been stolen from the Ura Senke School of Tea. What you choose to do next in your search for the tea bowl known as Yukisoo will take you all over Kyoto and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GILGilligan, Alison.
Summary: The reader becomes caught up in the search for the "Onyx Dragon," a treasure ship that sank mysteriously more than a century before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2011
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Summary: The prosecutor: Julia Vacanti. Young, ambitious, and facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant: David Marquette. A successful Miami surgeon and devoted family man. The victims: Marquette's wife and three small children. The plea: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. The perfect father and model husband, David Marquette seemingly just snapped one night. Or did he? To bring a killer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOFHoffman, Jilliane
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFSummary: "A deadly epidemic is spreading through the remote Cornish village of Clagmoor Heath. As darkness falls its victims are found foaming at the mouth with savage wounds upon their necks. After his brother becomes another fatality, Harry Spalding travels to Clagmoor to investigate his sibling's mysterious death. With little help from the superstitious locals, Harry follows a trail of macabre...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR REPHoffman, Jilliane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HOFGellman, Ellie.
Summary: A boy makes a Braille Hanukkah dreidel for his father, who is blind. Includes instructions for making different types of dreidels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GELHoffman, Jilliane
Summary: Heading a task force that is investigating a series of police officer murders, agent Dominick Falconetti pursues leads related to a missing gang member with drug connections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005