Summary: Sam is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah, frolicking in his apartment's swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspiracy in the City of Angels.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY UNDSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAISummary: Travis Block is a government operative coming to terms with his shadowy past. When he discovers a plot targeting U.S. citizens, Block finds himself in the crosshairs of the FBI director he once helped protect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BlacklightSummary: Scott & Bailey is a thrilling investigative drama series exploring the personal and professional lives of two female detectives. Janet Scott and Rachael Bailey are two detectives from the Major Incident Team of the Manchester Metropolitan Police Department. Despite their differences, impulsive, funny and single Rachel and reflective, married mother-of-two Janet, have a great partnership. Thrown...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SCOSummary: This drama chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OSASummary: What enables a simple arch bridge to support such great weight? What holds up a suspension bridge? Bridge the world with award-winning author-illustrator, and captivating storyteller, David Macaulay, and meet the brilliant designers who dared to extend roads and railways with ingenious but sometimes flawed designs. From the Golden Gate Bridge to some of the world's groundbreaking spans, you'll...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BRISummary: A stock broker, who is having financial troubles and in need of extra cash, and his younger brother conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. The only problem is that the owners of the jewelry store are their own parents. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BEFSummary: After his father, King Andragoras III, falls victim to a treacherous plot led by some of his most trusted retainers, Arslan, crown prince of the fictional kingdom of Pars, barely escapes with his life and rejoins his loyal servant, Daryun, and a few other companions to assemble an army strong enough to retake his homeland from the Lusitanian Army led by an elusive warrior known as "Silvermask."...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME HERSummary: In the spring of 1942, German troops advanced deep into the Soviet Union en route to Stalingrad. Hitler seriously misjudged the tenacity of the Red Army and was convinced that the city could be conquered before winter. Ordinarily foot soldiers, inadequately clothed and without sufficient food, struggled just to stay alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN STASummary: In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Walt Disney Productions
Summary: The animal friends of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves, escort him out of the jungle to keep him safe in Disney's version of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier Enterprises 1993
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE WALSummary: "In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Sterling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER SILSummary: Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THASummary: A young Englishman teaching in an outback school sets off to spend his summer vacation in Sydney but doesn't make it beyond the nearby mining town known as 'the Yabba'. He is engulfed by the slightly sinister mateship of the locals with its undertow of repressed sexuality and squalid violence. The excess of this alcoholic nightmare is held in check by rough humour.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madman Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA WAKWalt Disney Productions
Summary: A little elephant uses his enormous ears to become the star of the circus.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1978
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Detective Virgil Tibbs has been assigned to solve the murder of a prostitute. His pal, a political-minded minister who is spearheading a referendum on community control, is suspected of the homicide and Tibbs is faced with the decision of whether or not to invesigate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THESummary: 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: Now working at a private security firm in Berlin, Carrie is trying to start a new life, but she soon discovers she can't escape her past. Blindsided by stunning betrayals, and without Saul and Quinn to rely on, Carrie must uncover a deadly conspiracy that puts thousands of lives at risk, including her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: Edward is the only witness to his father's suicide and is a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: An ordinary married couple gets caught up in international intrigue and discovers that they have a knack for crime solving in this charming detective series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AgCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat and mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FORSummary: They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: Oliver is a penniless orphan at the Parish Workhouse. After he is forced by the other boys to ask for more food, he is sold as an apprentice to a miserly undertaker. He runs away and is taken in by Fagin, a thief who is in league with a murderous pair determined to see that Oliver never inherits the fortune he deserves. Life twists and turns again for Oliver, landing him in alternately...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2004