Summary: As World War II ends, thousands of British soldiers get 'demobbed', demobilized and sent back into civilian life. Among them are Captain Ian Deasey and Lance Corporal Dick Dobson. Deasey and Dobson have had a 'good war, ' much of it spent entertaining the troops with their bawdy stage routines. But after serving four years in the North African desert, they find it hard to adjust to peacetime...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEMSummary: Valentine Wilmot, the owner of the popular Picadilly Club finds his lead male attraction, Victor Smiles, has quit and that the public has judged Victor's partner Mabel as over the hill. Though they are lovers, Valentine must find another dancer to replace Mabel or face an uncertain future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PICSummary: Follows James "Ghost" St. Patrick as he seeks vengeance, aims to get even with Tommy, builds the Queen's Child Project to consecrate Raina's legacy, and works to achieve a legitimate lifestyle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV POWSummary: As Ghost mourns his daughter's death, he searches for vengeance and throws himself into his work, reaching new professional heights. But his quest for blood threatens to dismantle his legitimate legacy. He's blind to new enemies, and as the feds grow closer to unmasking his true identity. Ghost must remain vigilant toward those wanting to take him down for his past criminal enterprises.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Originals 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV POWCruise, Tom
Summary: In 1987, a small town girl travels to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a famous singer and finds herself working at "the Bourbon Room," a popular nightclub on the Sunset Strip.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROC RATED PG-13Atkinson, Kate
Summary: "1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ATKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ATKDavidson, MaryJanice.
Summary: The newly crowned queen of the undead, Betsy Taylor continues her reluctant reign while trying to uncover the truth about some troublesome family secrets.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DavidDavidson, MaryJanice.
Summary: In between running her vampire nightclub and hunting down the perfect pair of shoes, Betsy learns her long-lost half sister Laura is actually the spawn of Satan. Complicating matters, prophesy states that the devil's offspring and the queen of the vampires are destined to rule the world together. Tracking Laura down, Betsy finds a mild-mannered and warmhearted college student--whose father...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Sensation 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVGrossman, David
Summary: "A stand-up comedian recalls some of his darkest moments and traumatic memories from childhood on stage in front of a live audience"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROLopez, Jennifer
Summary: A crew of savvy former employees at a New York City strip club band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD HuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUSSummary: New York City, November 1988. Bobby Green is the manager of a Russian nightclub owned by Marat Buzhayev. The club is frequented by gangsters like Buzhayev's nephew Vadim. Despite Bobby's hedonistic and amoral lifestyle, he is committed to his girlfriend Amada. Bobby has a secret, however, which he guards closely. His brother is Police Captain Joseph Grusinsky and his father, Bert, is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WELepionka, Kristen
Summary: A late-night phone call is never good news, especially when you're Roxane Weary. This one is from her brother Andrew whose evening was interrupted by a visit from Addison, a hip young DJ he knows from the hotel bar where he works. She was drunk, bloody, and hysterical, but she wouldn't say what was wrong. After using his phone, she left as quickly as she appeared, and Andrew is worried. That's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lepionka 2019Summary: 1950, rural Alabama. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint and away from the rival club across the way. He lays off his regular talent and hires the famous electric guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a one night only gig. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HONDavidson, MaryJanice.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAVHayder, Mo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYSchellman, Katharine
Summary: "The rumor went through the Nightingale like a flood, quietly rising, whispers hovering on lips in pockets of silence. Life as a working-class girl in Prohibition-era New York isn't safe or easy. But Vivian Kelly has a new job at the Nightingale, an underground speakeasy where the jazz is hot and the employees look out for each other in a world that doesn't care about them. Things are finally...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHStandiford, Natalie
Summary: "New York's last bohemia-the glittering, decadent downtown club scene of the 1980s-is the setting for this brilliantly winning novel about a smart, vulnerable young woman taking a deep dive into her dark side, essential for fans of Sweetbitter, Fleabag, and books by Patti Smith. New York, 1984: Twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Hayes is a young woman in search of excitement and adventure. But the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASummary: Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAF RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CAFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cafe 2016Summary: "Set in the 1890s, West plays a brash barroom entertainer with a soft spot for men in trouble, especially the mission director, young Cary Grant. She unknowingly gets caught up in a murder, as well as a white slavery ring, and sets about clearing things up as only Mae can. In between rescues she manages to perform some of her heated, hip-swinging classics including a steamy belting of 'Frankie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SHEBertino, Marie-Helene.
Summary: "Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, rebellious nine-year-old who also happens to be an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the recent death of her mother, and caring for her grief-stricken father, she doesn't realize that on the eve of Christmas Eve she is about to have the most extraordinary day--and night--of her life. After bravely facing down mean-spirited classmates and rejection at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBertino, Marie-Helene.
Summary: "As three lost souls search for love, music and hope on the snow-covered streets of Philadelphia, together they will discover life's endless possibilities over the course of one magical night"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERFerrell, Monica.
Summary: Determined to achieve his goal of becoming "cool," Matthew Acciaccatura begins his freshman year at NYU in 1995 and lands the much coveted job of promoter at one of New York's hottest clubs during the heyday of rave music, Ecstasy, and the out-of-controlclub scene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERKernick, Simon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004