Summary: When a dangerous and powerful magic ring falls into his hands, a hobbit named Frodo gets caught up in an adventure. The mighty wizard Gandalf and a daring band of elves, dwarfs and warriors defend their enchanted land from the wicked sorcerer who would see it destroyed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD LordSummary: "Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MILBurgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
Summary: Granny teaches Reddy Fox many lessons about humility, selflessness, patience, and other virtues in stories about the animals that live in the Green Meadow and Green Forest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION BurSummary: 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
Summary: "Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper's hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood's second crack at Ernest Hemingway's To Have And Have Not. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, take on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BRESummary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: A naive young set designer seeks work in Tinseltown and falls in love with a wannabe actress who lives with her alcholic father, a former vaudevillian entertainer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAYSummary: Collects a series of adventures Captain America has with other super heroes, including battling Hydra with Rick Jones, fighting Ann'Var with Doctor Strange, and rescuing endangered animals with Spider-Man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC CAPBurgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
Summary: Chronicles the adventures of Paddy the Beaver and his animal friends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Published in association with the Thornton W. Burgess Museum and the Green Briar Nature Center, Sandwich, Massachusetts, by Dover Publications 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION BurBurgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
Summary: The adventures of Peter Rabbit, Johnny Chuck, Reddy Fox, the Merry Little Breezes, and all their companions in the fields, the woods, and the streams.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOIKnebel, Fletcher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1962
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Beloved dog Bailey is given an instruction by his boy Ethan -- no longer a boy -- to protect Ethan's granddaughter CJ at any cost. Again, Bailey takes this command to heart, through several lives, always finding his way home no matter what.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DoSummary: In this spectacular action-adventure inspired by the classic mythology of Egypt, the survival of mankind hangs in the balance as an unexpected mortal hero Bek undertakes a thrilling journey to save the world and rescue his true love. In order to succeed, he must enlist the help of the powerful god Horus in an unlikely alliance against Set, the merciless god of darkness, who has usurped Egypt's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GODSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Encyclopedia Brown, brilliant fifth-grade amateur detective, solves ten crimes. The reader may match solutions with those at the end of the book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBSobol, Donald J.
Summary: Encyclopedia Brown, boy detective, solves ten more mysteries. The solutions are given at the end of the book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SOBSummary: A nineteen year old girl spends the summer in Italy, determined to fulfill two dreams. The first, to consummate the romance with the Italian boy she fell in love with four years earlier, and the second, to discover the identity of her father through clues in her mother's diary.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STESummary: A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA GRESummary: Set in 1938, in a backwater corner of the South Pacific, a young American adventurer and his ragtag group of friends become involved in death-defying hijinks, transporting people-on-the-run in a well-worn Grumman Goose seaplane.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2010