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Anthony, David Grippando, James Jackson, Glenda Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma Steel, DanielleSummary: 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: Pop singer Mima Kirigoe looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually charged murder mystery, Mima's life begins to fall apart. Reality and hallucinations merge into a terrifying netherworld where innocence is lost and dreams turn into nightmares. Quickly descending into a dangerous state of paranoid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PERSummary: The final season continues the story of high-spirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, and her friend, Georgiana Lambe. What adventures, scandals, intrigue and above all else - romance - await them?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV SANSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ACRSteel, Danielle
Summary: "When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print in association with Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STESummary: When a woman's lover leaves her, she discovers that the police are looking for her because of his criminal activities. After talking to a female lawyer, she discovers that her lawyer is her old lover's new girlfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN WOMAnthony, David
Summary: The heroes' baseball team, the Traverse City Salmon, are playing the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. The Sprouts throw a curve ball and turn into pinch-hitting plant monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sigil Pub. 2009
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ANTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ANTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTSummary: 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...
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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: A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOSummary: Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets and falls in love with the devout Christian, Lygia. She doesn't want to have anything to do with the warrior. Though Lygia grew up Roman, and as the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia is not happy about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Quo 2008Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma
Summary: "A groundbreaking historical novel from a heralded author that explores the seldom discussed Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade. At a time when importing humans from Africa had been prohibited by the Spanish Crown, Pola and other slave women provide their master with babies who are immediately taken away and sold on the auction block. Her serial rapes by a number of men are routine and often...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LLAGrippando, James
Summary: Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublsihers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRIGrippando, James
Summary: "Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRISummary: "[H]andsome young Tariq is about to marry Bilquis, eldest daughter of a prominent and powerful judge. But as he wanders the ancient city of Sana'a late one night, he spots a beautiful young woman dancing in the street and falls madly in love with her. Before long, the young groom must choose between following his heart and protecting his family's honor."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NEWSummary: Larry David has it all - except, perhaps, his identity. This season, Larry takes a sentimental journey in search of his roots, stepping on a few toes along the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CURJackson, Glenda
Summary: Maud, an elderly woman struggling with dementia, becomes convinced that her best friend Elizabeth is missing and something terrible has happened to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ELICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELISummary: A switchboard operator gets caught up in the personal lives of the clients of an answering service, including that of a playboy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BELSummary: A recently paroled ex-convict, Dell, strikes up an unusual and unlikely friendship with a quadriplegic billionaire, Philip Lacasse, in this funny and warm-hearted buddy comedy. From worlds apart, Dell and Philip form an unlikely bond, bridging their differences and gaining invaluable wisdom in the process, giving each man a renewed sense of passion for all of life's possibilities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD+Blu Movie UpsideSummary: A recently paroled ex-convict, Dell, strikes up an unusual and unlikely friendship with a quadriplegic billionaire, Philip Lacasse, in this funny and warm-hearted buddy comedy. From worlds apart, Dell and Philip form an unlikely bond, bridging their differences and gaining invaluable wisdom in the process, giving each man a renewed sense of passion for all of life's possibilities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPSSummary: Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" in Central Park and fall in love with the beautiful Sheila. Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger, and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Sheila, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAISummary: The battle for the student body begins as Tara and her alters return to college. Her alternate personalities further complicate her life as they turn the school upside down and send her family into a ridiculous tailspin. Will Tara and her alters push through their boundaries in pursuit of academia? Join Tara and the Gregson family as they dramatically navigate the halls of higher education....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011