Summary: Season 3: "The Great War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. As other great houses are crippled psychologically and financially in the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his duty to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: A Depression-era woman meets a miserable millionaire in Central Park and accompanies him on a giddy, glamorous birthday whirl through Manhattan. Enchanted, the millionaire installs her in his mansion where the rags-to-riches story becomes a laugh riot as she grabs his selfish, suspicious family by the scruff of the neck and shakes sense into them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIFSummary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOUSummary: Sebastian is encouraged by his fiancé to bring his Italian hairdresser father Salvo to a weekend get-together to meet her wealthy and eccentric family. As the weekend turns into an outrageous clash of cultures, Sebastian and Salvo discover that the great thing about family is everything about family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ABOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABO1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABO
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ABOSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Monsieur Ladmiral is a widowed painter in his twilight years who welcomes his bourgeois son Gonzague and free-spirited daughter Irene and their families to his home for a lazy afternoon lunch. Over the course of the day buried resentments come to the surface. The passage of time has left no family member unscathed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SUNSummary: A 40-year-old father of two still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves from Paris to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him, so he decides to move there as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHISummary: The compelling and unpredictable film from director Davy Chou (Diamond Island). Freddie has returned to South Korea for the first time since her adoption and move to France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country where she knows very little, including the language, to learn about where she was born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RETSummary: From the town of Bedrock, modern stone-age family Fred and Wilma Flintstone and their goofy best-friends and neighbors Barney and Betty Rubble comically trudge through prehistoric daily lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FLISummary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLISummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When sisters Dana and Ali suspect their father is having an affair, cracks in their family façade begin to surface. The two sisters bond as they discover the reality of love while trying to uncover the truth about their father without their mother knowing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LAN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAN
Summary: Two young girls are sent to live with relatives when their mother searches for their missing father. When their mother doesn't come back, they are left at their grandparent's house where they finally learn the importance of family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRESummary: Broken Trail: An aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader, saving them from a life of prostitution and indentured servitude.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures 2017
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLASummary: The monster family embarks on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel. It's smooth sailing for Drac's Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer. But the dream vacation turns into a nightmare when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the mysterious captain of the ship,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2018
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOTCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HOTSummary: This season, Bob's Burgers serves up even more greasy fun. In the hilarious musical milestone 150th episode, Tina tries to connect with her (latest) soulmate at boy band auditions. Power, betrayal and revenge are on the menu when Louise becomes Principal for a Day, Gene gets ditched by his BFF, and Bob befriends a vengeful quilter, and loses his ability to flip burgers. Meanwhile Linda gets a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "This set includes the first three seasons of this Golden Globe and multi-Emmy Award-winning series, bringing Downton Abbey from pre-war England through the storms of World War I and into the social upheaval of England in the 1920s as the lives of its inhabitants are shaped by romance and heartbreak, ambition and betrayal."--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV DOWNSummary: The single-camera series is inspired by Jim Gaffigan's real life, exploring one man's struggle in New York City to find a balance between fatherhood, stand-up comedy and an insatiable appetite. Ashley Williams co-stars in The Jim Gaffigan Show as Jim's wife, and cult comedy favorites Adam Goldberg and Michael Ian Black also star as Jim's best friend and his wife's meddling confidante,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JIMSummary: Widower Andy Taylor divides his time between raising his young son Opie and his job as sheriff (and Justice of the Peace) of the sleepy North Carolina town, Mayberry. Andy and Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bee, who serves as a surrogate mother to both father and son. Andy's nervous cousin, Barney Fife, is his deputy sheriff whose utter incompetence is tolerated because Mayberry is virtually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ANDSummary: "The fourth season of the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers returns with Bob and his quirky family. Bob subs as the home economics teachers at the kids' school, Linda goes to her high school reunion and ends up singing there, the family tries to create a local Super Bowl advertisement, and the kids set up a trap for Santa Claus."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOBSummary: "Bob eagerly enters a "Best Burger" contest, Linda goes blonde, eldest daughter Tina romances a ghost, Gene directs a musical, and bunny ears-wearing youngest daughter Louise infiltrates the Thundergirls youth club."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016