Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 974.71 Eggers 2018Summary: Sam Loudermilk is a recovering alcoholic and substance abuse counsellor with an extremely bad attitude about, well, everything. He is unapologetically uncensored and manages to piss off everyone in his life. Although he has his drinking under control, Loudermilk discovers that when your life is a complete mess, getting clean is the easy part.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOUSummary: The story of Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl who overcomes her impoverished Yorkshire beginnings in her quest to become an international retailing magnate and one of the richest women in the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2001
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WOMSummary: George is a very successful stand-up comedian who learns that he has less than a year to live. Ira, who is a struggling up-and-coming comedian works at a deli. One night the two perform at the same club, and George decides to make Ira his best friend. This lopsided relationship gradually takes on aspects of true friendship as Ira forces George to try to reconnect with the people in his life,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FUNSummary: Tom Dobbs makes an offhand comment on his late night talk show that he would be a better president than the leader who currently occupies the White House. A grassroots campaign conducted by his legions of fans finds him unexpectedly ushered into the Oval Office and forced to live up to his promise. Unfortunately for Dobbs, he finds out that his surprise victory was actually the result of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Man 2006Sornson, Robert.
Summary: "When Pete starts at a new school, he soon finds out that being a bystander to bad behavior is not tolerated."--Unedited summary from book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ferne Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JPB SOR BASKETSummary: Based on the unbelievable but true events, I, Tonya is a dark comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous and poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2018Macomber, Debbie.
Summary: While working in the toy department of a family-run department store in New York City, Mrs. Miracle seizes the opportunity to connect Holly, who is searching for the perfect robot for her nephew, with Jake, the store owner's son.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACLuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Luiselli 2019Summary: A musical film that follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FUNHale, Nathan
Summary: "The first American pilots to fight in World War I flew for the French military. France created a squadron of volunteer Americans called the Lafayette Escadrille (named after the great Marquis de Lafayette). Follow this squadron on their high-flying adventures: How they got into the French military. How they learned to fly. How they fought--and died. And how these American pilots would go down...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In Treatment season three continues to center around Dr. Paul Weston who continues to cope with the after-effects of his recent divorce, as well as his move to Brooklyn to continue his practice. In the midst of new emotional and physical challenges (including hand tremors he fears might be the onset of Parkinson's Disease, which killed his father), Paul will be treating three new patients, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INSmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIWhitney, Phyllis A.
Summary: In 1861 seventeen-year-old Abbie Garrett, living on Staten Island with her Southern mother and Yankee father, finds herself drawn firmly into the growing conflict between the North and the South with the arrival of her cousin Lorena from Charleston and the return from Atlanta of the two McIntyre brothers, the elder of whom has always had a special place in Abbie's heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHISummary: Richard Nixon is the disgraced president with a legacy to save. David Frost is a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. This is the legendary battle between the two men and the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after resigning from office, Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRO RATED RSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREColman, Alyssa
Summary: "Any child can spark magic, but only the elite are allowed to kindle it. Those denied access to the secrets of the kindling ritual will see their magic snuffed out before their thirteenth birthday. Miss Posterity's Academy for Practical Magic is the best kindling school in New York City--and wealthy twelve-year-old Emma Harris is accustomed to the best. But when her father dies, leaving her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLDiMartino, Michael Dante
Summary: "Relishing their newfound feelings for each other, Korra and Asami leave the Spirit World, but find nothing in Republic City but political hijinks and human vs. spirit conflict. A pompous developer plans to turn the new spirit portal into an amusement park, potentially severing an already tumultuous connection with the spirits. What's more, the triads have realigned and are in a brutal all-out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEGSummary: Tells the story of troubled nightclub comic Lenny Bruce, his wife Honey Harlowe, and his fatal decline through drug addiction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LENBurg, Ann E.
Summary: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BURSummary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIEConnolly, John
Summary: "John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension among the commercial demands, artistic integrity, and the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2018