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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCOSummary: Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ChSummary: Aliens are everywhere, attacking Planet Earth! Rockets sent into space to probe for future space flights, but the rockets keep disappearing. They are being intercepted by an army of space aliens, who must be stopped.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Hering, Marianne.
Summary: Beth and her cousin Patrick travel in Mr. Whittaker's invention, the Imagination station, to 1000 A.D. Greenland, where they meet Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson and witness the spread of Christianity in that country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2010
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Summary: 1917… It was inexplicable, impossible, but it had to be true—didn’t it? When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, claim to have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when one of the great novelists of the time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, becomes convinced of the photographs’ authenticity, the girls become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAYCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P GAYVan Leeuwen, Jean.
Summary: A fictionalized account of the journey made by nine-year-old Mary Ellen Todd and her family from their home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon Trail in 1852.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1996
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Summary: "An audacious novel of feminine rage about one of the most prolific female serial killers in American history-and the men who drove her to it. They whisper about her in Chicago. Men come to her with their hopes, their dreams-their fortunes. But no one sees them leave. No one sees them at all after they come to call on the Widow of La Porte. The good people of Indiana may have their suspicions,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUDray, Stephanie
Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dray 2021Dray, Stephanie
Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC DRA (BOOK CLUB KIT-8 paperbacks)Guerra, Wendy
Summary: "A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUESummary: The year without a Santa Claus: When Santa decides to take Christmas off, two elves go to find children to convince Santa to come back, but first they have to get past the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD YEAMah, Ann
Summary: "From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon - before the world knew her as Jackie"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MahSummary: Don Rumata is one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to the planet Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet's political or historical development. Treated by the planet's natives as a kind of divinity, Don is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HARAtkins, Jeannine
Summary: A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Inspired by true events, it is a feel-good story about Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself, even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDDCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EDDMcLain, Paula
Summary: After meeting and falling in love while she covered the Spanish Civil War in Madrid, Martha Gellhorn is forced to choose between her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and her career as a war correspondent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCLCavill, Henry
Summary: Clark Kent confronts his extraterrestrial origins and fights to save humanity when Earth is invaded by General Zod and his army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eurpac 2013
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Man 2013Falco, Edie
Summary: Dramatizes the events of the 1994 criminal trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez for the murder of their parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LAWSummary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOHSummary: Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. Ruth is a hostess in a London nightclub, where she meets David Blakely. They begin an affair, but David is abusive. When David decides to leave her, she becomes intensely jealous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DANSummary: Ambitious and acclaimed series from The Queen writer Peter Morgan offers a comprehensive look at the adult life and reign of Elizabeth II over a projected six-season arc. The fifth season follows Elizabeth from the early to late '90s, as the fraying union of Charles and Diana ultimately came to separation, and John Major saw his tenure as prime minister end with the election of Tony Blair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CROSummary: Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALLRichards, Diane
Summary: When fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald's mother dies at the height of the Depression in 1932, the teenager goes to work for the mob to support herself and her family. When the law finally catches up, the "ungovernable" adolescent is incarcerated in the New York Training School for Girls in upstate New York--a wicked prison infamous for its harsh treatment of inmates, especially Black ones....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2024