Summary: The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CACSummary: Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighboring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards. But Sam's relationship with the cruel and ill-tempered Harry quickly deteriorates, culminating in a violent shootout in which Sam kills Harry in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SWESummary: 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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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGAThomson, Sarah L.
Summary: During the fire season in Australia, a wombat allows its underground shelter to become a place of refuge for other vulnerable animals in need. Discusses Australia's devastating 2019-2020 fire season, in which many animals lost their lives or their habitats.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOSummary: Set one thousand years ago in Australia, a young man covets one of his older brother's wives and is told a mythical story about why this is wrong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TENSimsion, Graeme C.
Summary: Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important challenge. Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he's socially awkward and not fitting in. Don's spent a lifetime trying to fit in, so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs? The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSummary: Samson and Delilah are two teens living in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes, they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone, they discover that life isn't always fair, but love never judges.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IndiePix 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE SAMSummary: 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: A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA WALGrenville, Kate
Summary: "It is 1788. Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her the earth one midsummer's night, she believes him. But Elizabeth soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Her new husband is reckless, tormented, driven by some dark rage at the world. He tells her he is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Text Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRESummary: In various episodes from the second season, Hank rallies the town after a lawsuit by a fundamentalist shutters the local haunted house and abolishes trick or treating. The tenacious Hank is forced to immerse himself in the world of adult video after a video store computer's falsely claims that he rented and did not return a movie and it sullies his credit rating. Hank continues to look for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KINSummary: Hank Hill is a propane salesman, his wife, Peggy, is a substitute teacher, and their 12-year-old son, Bobby, who is confused about the ways of life and the world, all live in a blue collar town in Texas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KINSummary: For old friends Roger and Frank and their wives, it was supposed to be the best vacation they ever had. But their RV road trip takes a deadly detour at a secluded campsite when they accidentally witness a satanic sacrifice. Now horror hits the highway as the couples are pursued by satanic cultists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RACClark, Georgia
Summary: A messy, loud Australian family and an aloof, snobby American family who have nothing in common except the marriage of their daughters are stuck for six weeks on a tropical island off Queensland when a nearby volcano erupts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLASummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONSummary: "Outrageously funny but remarkably truthful, the series follows the exploits of propane salesman Hank Hill as he reigns over a family of underachievers, a group of beer-guzzling friends, and the everyday challenges of life in Arlen, Texas. Comprised of all 24 episodes from the thirteenth and final season, this three-disc collection features guest appearances by Andy Richter, Jake Steinfled,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KINSummary: A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CER1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CER
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CERBowen, Rhys
Summary: Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWSummary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GrCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Summary: When two boys disappear from a remote cattle station, local police sergeant Emma James calls in Indigenous detective Jay Swan to help find out what happened. As Emma and Jay butt heads over their conflicting methods, the unexpected arrival of Jay's troubled daughter only inflames the tension. But when their investigation uncovers other crimes haunting the backwater town, the detectives must...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MYSSummary: Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail. Oliver and Jenny continue to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2007
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE LOVSummary: A hilarious slice of middle-class life in small-town America, this has become one ofthe most beloved and long-running prime-time animated series in television history. Outrageously funny but remarkably truthful, the series follows the exploits of propane salesman Hank Hill as he reigns over a family of underachievers, a group of beer-guzzling friends, and the everyday challenges of life in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015