Summary: A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FLICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flight 2003Lee, Andrea
Summary: "Gorgeously evocative, Red Island House follows two decades in the life of Shay, an African-American professor whose husband Senna, a brash and wealthy Italian businessman, builds her a dream house in Madagascar"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEEStilton, Thea
Summary: The Thea sisters are off to Madagascar for Adventure Camp. While on the nature preserve, they discover that endangered animals are under threat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STISummary: Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PLESummary: It had been less than a year since the first man walked on the Moon, but to the American public, Apollo 13 was just another "routine" space flight. That is until the words pierced the immense void of space: "Houston, we have a problem." Stranded in a crippled spacecraft 205,000 miles from Earth, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Apollo 2005Summary: Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PLEGreenlaw, Rachel
Summary: "On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRESummary: 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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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMAnderson, Taylor
Summary: "Matt Reddy's old Asiatic Fleet destroyer USS Walker has been mysteriously transported to an alternate version of earth. Here WWII is no longer raging, and Reddy and his crew have been trying to find a new place for themselves in this strange new world. Now, along with the felinoid Lemurians and Imperial allies, they fight to keep the reptilian Grik, a race growing in supremacy, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDSummary: The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLO'Connor, Joseph
Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCOSummary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and the other mole are suddenly thrust...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEP RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Departed 2007Roberts, Nora.
Summary: Whitney McAllister, a reckless heiress with a penchant for adventure, joins forces with Doug Lord, a professional thief with a stolen treasure map on a search for a treasure trove of priceless jewels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBSteele, Michael Anthony.
Summary: "It's another day at the zoo. Alex the lion is ready to make his entrance, while Marty the zebra is keeping it fresh. But Marty thinks there has to be more to life than entertaining the crowd..."--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Steele 2005Summary: The zoo is closed for Christmas eve and the Penguins are on a very merry mission to throw a Kids-mas celebration for the littlest zoosters. But when everything turns to chaos, Skipper realizes the only one who can help them is Santa. However, will they be able find him before time runs out? Includes three double-length episodes, plus three winter-themed episodes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamworks Animation 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Seth and Evan are accepting the fact that they will be going to different colleges in the fall. Now, it seems more important than ever that they go to a high school party, and achieve some of their long time goals. This includes, but is not limited to, losing thier virginity with the girls of their dreams by getting them wasted and being their "regret hookup." Their friend Fogell gets a fake...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: While Scott struggles to find his place as an Alpha, he, Allison, and Stiles begin to experience strange side effects as a result of reigniting the power within Beacon Hills. They soon discover that the answer to their problems may be found in a new student named Kira, a girl with remarkable powers of her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TEESummary: In season five, Dexter goes from happily married husband to guilt-ridden single dad. How will it affect his ability to maintain an average-guy facade while satisfying his need to kill?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEXSummary: Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DISBruchac, Joseph
Summary: Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARFarook, Nizrana
Summary: Razi, a local fisherboy, is watching turtle eggs hatch when he sees a boat bobbing into view. With a chill, he notices a small, still hand hanging over the side. Inside is Zheng, who's escaped a shipwreck and is full of tales of sea monsters and missing treasure. But the villains who are after Zheng are soon after Razi and his sister, Shifa, too.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FARGolding, William
Summary: This much-acclaimed debut novel uses a group of shipwrecked children to show the strengths and weaknesses of adult society.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alianza Editorial 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH GOLLassieur, Allison
Summary: An interactive adventure where the reader determines their fate aboard the doomed RMS Titantic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024