Summary: Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Invictus 2009Summary: London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary. With most of the patients and staff evacuated to another hospital, Val is forced to work the night shift in the empty building. Within these walls lies a deadly secret, forcing Val to face her own traumatic past in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR POWSummary: Although people have told Rudy all his life he's not good enough, smart enough or big enough, nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUD RATED PGSummary: After she rescues dozens of children who survived a massacre in Jerusalem in 1948, Palestinian Hind Husseini establishes an orphanage that helps thousands of other children left homeless by violence. But the success of her peace-through-education institution is tested when pupil Miral gets a taste of radical politics in the region's refugee camps.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MIRSummary: In the heart of Paris, a kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to Duchess, her high-society cat. Duchess has three little kittens. A greedy, bumbling butler pulls off the ultimate catnap caper. Now it's up to the rough-and-tumble alley cat, Thomas O'Malley, and his band of swingin' jazz cats to save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ARISummary: Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. They are in this military prison because they once defied, rebelled and talked back to their superiors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie HillShukairy, Ream
Summary: Khadija Shami is a Syrian American high school senior raised on boxing and football. Saddled with a monstrous ego and a fierce mother to test it, she dreams of escaping her sheltered life to travel the world with her best friend. Leene Tahir is a Syrian refugee, doing her best to adjust to the wildly unfamiliar society of a suburban Detroit high school while battling panic attacks and family...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHUShukairy, Ream
Summary: Told in their separate voices, six Muslim teens are falsely accused of an alleged attack on a Los Angeles beach and must trust or turn their backs on each other to prove their innocence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A grown woman confronts an older man, her former neighbor, to find out why he abandoned her after they had a sexual relationship when she was thirteen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vision Films 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNASummary: The Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon comes to the big screen. Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim part of herself. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well-baked pie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After escaping an attack by what he claims was a 70-foot shark, Jonas Taylor must confront his fears to save those trapped in a sunken submersible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MEGSummary: It is the summer of 1927 and Bella Ainsworth is still devoting her considerable energies to the Hotel Portofino, which has overcome its early troubles and is starting to prosper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOTSummary: A former marine turned doorman must call upon all her lethal fighting skills to protect her sister's family and stop a group of vicious art thieves at a New York City high-rise.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOOSummary: Michelle Darnell a titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Boss 2016Tem, Steve.
Summary: Four diverse characters collide in an ancient world of darkness and magic: the amazon Gwynn, the princess Evonna, the wizard Alden, and the beast Thet. Out of that collision comes an unforgettable novel of endings and reconciliations, the death of magic and the birth of technology, and the eternal struggle between darkness and light.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Ream, Ashley
Summary: "'Ashley Ream has an absolutely astounding voice--she is one of the most compelling, sharpest writers working today. The 100 Year Miracle is already one of my favorite novels of 2016--Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl.' Once a century, for only six days, the bay around a small Washington island glows like a water-bound aurora. Dr. Rachel Bell, a scientist studying...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REAReam, Ashley.
Summary: "A new writer makes her fiction debut with a tale involving a renowned artist's impending suicide"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REALoud House Creative Team (COR)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Tem, Melanie.
Summary: Leila Blackwell is losing her sight. Nevertheless, she stubbornly tries to maintain a "normal" lifestyle, often forsaking the companionship of her lover Cathy to act independently. When Leila is kidnapped and confined in a basement, slowly and steadily losing her sight as she is forced to engage in a batlle of wills with a man who beleives he is acting to save her soul.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2011
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Tem, Melanie.
Summary: Her brother Ethan is dead. then why does he visit and why does he leave the doors open for Lucy and her sisters — doors that whisper of the place that claimed Ethan's body and mind? "Don't be afraid, Lucy." The world of sleepy houses and glimmering summer lawns is losing its hold on Lucy Brill. Her parents don't have the answers - they don't even have the questions. ethan has changed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Summary: A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude, and bravery to overcome the odds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Midway 2020Summary: A film about a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in reclaiming a mysterious, and other worldly, Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties L.A. punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Forced into an internment camp at the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated Japanese American regiment.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016