Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley's hero is naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau. So Sam decides to write a note to his folks, pack up some of his belongings and leave home for the challenge of wilderness living. Realizing his dream, Sam feeds himself, builds a makeshift home and learns to live in harmony with nature -- miles from civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MYDee, Janie
Summary: When Helena performs a miraculous deed for the King of France, she claims the conceited Bertram as her husband in payment, but Bertram agrees only if she fulfills two conditions that he thinks are impossible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2013
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ALLSummary: Erotic passions and vengeful jealousies are aroused when two men desire the same woman, the mute wife in an arranged marriage. Only one realizes that her heart can only be won through her beloved piano.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: LIVE Entertainment [distributor] 1992
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PIASummary: The son of a sheik is lured into a thieves' trap by a beautiful girl. When he escapes, he kidnaps the girl, they fall in love, and ride off into the sunset together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2000
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SONSummary: A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YEESummary: Novelist Joe and his actress wife Sally throw a party to celebrate the sixth anniversary of their turbulent marriage. At the party both guests and hosts start telling each other the truth-- something rarely heard in Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ANNSummary: Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Films 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: The tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. From the re-created towns to the vast plains to the expansive cattle drive and heart-stopping stampede, it is an inspiring and enlighting experience, certain to change your views of our American heritage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN LONSummary: While at their summer home on Golden Pond, the Thayer family is forced to renew their bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: LIVE Entertainment 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When rag doll 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone. It is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the newest member of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NINSummary: A suburban New York housewife has a chance encounter with a sexy stranger and it erupts into a full-blown affair, passion becomes obsession, and the true price of betrayal takes a shattering toll.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Unfaithful 2002Summary: His real name: Sir Percy Blakeney. His calling: rescuing French aristocrats from the guillotine during the Reign of Terror. Anthony Andrews is the Scarlet Pimpernel, master of disguises and formidable swordsman, in this swashbuckling story based on Baroness Orczy's classic novel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SCASummary: A New York attorney has a romantic fling while his wife is out of town, and then shrugs it off. But the woman involved with him won't be ignored, even if it means destroying his family to keep him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FATSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SENSummary: Stella, an uncouth, lower-class woman, marries wealthy, well-bred Stephen Dallas to escape her poor surroundings. When their class differences lead to divorce, she undergoes a self-sacrificing struggle to give their daughter a better life, away from her damaging influence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STESummary: A woman lives on a remote lake, selling food to fisherman by day, and her body by night. Her life changes forever though, when she becomes obsessed with a former police officer living on the lake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISLSummary: After one day together, July 15th, 1988, their college graduation, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew begin a friendship that lasts a lifetime. She's a working-class girl who dreams of making the world a better place. He's a wealthy charmer who thinks the world is his playground. Somewhere over the next two decades, these two very different people realize that the love they've been hoping for has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ONECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ONESummary: Edina and Patsy hide out in the south of France after they cause a grand stir with Kate Moss at a London Fashion Week event.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Rendition 2008Summary: A young man inherits a train station in rural New Jersey and moves there for a life of quiet solitude. He soon finds friendships and a sense of belonging that he never expected, and never thought he wanted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STASummary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRIDehaan, Dane
Summary: When three ordinary high school friends discover they have unusual powers, harmless pranks escalate to dangerous activities as their darker sides develop along with their powers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012