Summary: "What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of 'good society'? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MRSSummary: A woman, ostracized by Victorian society and abandoned by her French lieutenant lover, fascinates a man who resolves to unravel the mystery of her clandestine past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BLESummary: A new year comes with new pledges and new challenges. Rusty's life take some interesting twists as he climbs the fraternity ladder, and Casey finds herself torn between two very provocative offers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV GRESummary: Take an unforgettable journey with the students of Cyprus-Rhodes University as they navigate the social minefield of college life. Join Casey, a sorority social climber, as she vies for president of Zeta Beta Zeta. Her world gets more complicated when her nerdy little brother, Rusty, arrives on campus and risks her reputation by joining a fraternity and trying to go from geek to Greek. On top...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents the story of a victorious Roman general whose rigid code of honor and duty proves to be his downfall. A shocking journey into the depths of the human heart, a place where vengeance and passion reign supreme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TITSummary: This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FACSummary: Charlotte Bronte's story of an orphan who grows up to become governess of a mansion, and who carries a tormented love for a man named Mr. Rochester.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JANSummary: Sense and sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SENSummary: Sy works in photo processing. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family. Sy dotes on the Yorkins whenever they drop off film to be processed and they are indulgent of Sy's attentions. What the Yorkins don't know is Sy has been obsessively making copies of their photos, imagining himself to be "Uncle Sy," a member of the family. Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse when he develops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ONESummary: In the small town where his father, a former pro football player, is in prison, Greg Cima experiences discrimination and taunts. When he is unfairly cut from the high school football team, a mysterious native American elder offers to coach him, teaching him to believe in himself and his dreams. Greg finds that to achieve his goals, he must also learn to accept and forgive his father's failings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WINSummary: A London photographer's model proceeds from an immature marriage into a series of shady affairs-- first with a television talker, then with a slick promotion man, and ultimately in a palazzo as the loveless wife of an Italian prince. After becoming a prisoner of her own success through these disastrous affairs, she realizes the awful price she has paid for happiness. This is a slashing social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DARSummary: Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather- beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: A cowboy is unable to prevent three wandering travellers from being unjustly lynched for murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OXCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN OXSummary: A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD DAWSummary: In a remake of the original film, after an astronaut crash-lands on an uncharted planet he finds himself at odds with a society in which apes are the rulers--and humans are little more than slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Planet 2001Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI PLASummary: Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Haras' Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GON RATED GSummary: A young woman on her way to a new life in the 1800's suddenly finds herself a widow. Now she must live with a recently widowed young man and his daughter. Can any of them find love again?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVSummary: Miss Matty's house is full of life and bustle. Her dream of having a child in the house has been realized in the birth of Tilly, daughter of her maid Martha and carpenter Jem. Elsewhere, the shadow of the railway still looms, but the line has been halted five miles outside Cranford, a disaster as far as Captain Brown is concerned. Meanwhile, as Mr. Buxton returns to town with his son, William,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CRA NOT RATEDSummary: Juno MacGuff is sixteen years-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she's pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides to have an abortion, but can't go through with it. So she decides to have the baby and give it up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Juno 2008Summary: Nashville interweaves the stories of 24 characters over 5 days during a political rally in the capital of country music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAS1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NAS
Summary: The 80's were a time when everybody was making the big bucks. When F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his company, no one is prepared for what hits the fan. What follows is a down-to-the-wire battle to see who is really king of the Wall Street jungle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BARSummary: Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003