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Accidents Drama Animal heroes Drama Beagle (Dog breed) Drama Effectiveness and validity of law Drama Human-animal relationships Drama Judgments, Criminal Drama Male friendship Conduct of life Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Men Identity Drama Self-doubt Psychological aspects DramaSummary: Rita Leistner planted over half a million trees from 1984-93. She spent the next twenty years working as a documentary photographer and photojournalist, primarily in war zones, claiming the backbreaking work of tree planting and the logistical skills she acquired as a crew boss prepared her for thriving in challenging environments.0Returning to the cut-block (the vast swathes of land cleared by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FOROzias, Michael
Summary: Tracks four companies working on solving some of humanity's most important problems and examines the outdated regulatory systems impeding their progress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THESummary: After an accident in the lab of the maniacal Dr. Barsinister, an ordinary beagle named Shoeshine finds he has some unimaginable powers, along with the ability to speak. Underdog vows to protect the citizens of Capitol City, and one beautiful spaniel named Polly Purebred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY UNDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UND RATED PGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD UnderdogSummary: A young British writer moves to Crete to find himself by working in his father's mine, and hires the playful Zorba. He falls in love with a lovely young widow. When she responds to him the townsmen attack her.
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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 ZORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZORSummary: Inspired by the legend of Shields 'Emperor' Green, a descendant of African kings turned outlaw slave in the pre-Civil War South. Seeking freedom for his family, Emperor fights his way north, joining the daring raid on Harper's Ferry and helping alter the course of American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EMPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EmSummary: Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ICESummary: On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York's intellectual elite packed the city's Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay 'The Prisoner of Sex' and the backlash it received from leaders of the women's movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOWSummary: What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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4 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUR RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MuSummary: Even as Shiroe slowly learns the secrets behind the creation of the World Fraction spell, the origin of the Demi-humans, and how his own actions in the Real World have affected the world in which he now dwells, the seeds of thought he's planted in the minds of others begin to bear fruit. Game strategy and tactics may have been intended for amusement, but their origins were pulled from actual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME LOGSummary: With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN BUCSummary: In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Nancy is an iconic girl detective with a passion for mystery and all things old. Small-town Nancy is about to experience a serious case of culture shock as she heads to Hollywood on an extended business trip with her father Carson Drew. Having promised her father that she has given up sleuthing in favor of becoming a "normal" teenager, Nancy tries her best to resist the lure of the age-old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NAN RATED PGSummary: The comedic modern-day quintet takes on their 2003 counterparts when villains from each of their worlds join forces to pit the two Titan teams against each other. They'll need to set aside their differences and work together to combat Trigon, Hexagon, Santa Claus and time itself in order to save the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TEESummary: In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOR RATED PGSummary: Pilot Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. To rescue the passengers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PLASummary: On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain Chesley Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Hanks, Tom
Summary: After landing US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger faces criticism during the investigation into the crash while being hailed as a hero by the media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sully 2016Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SULCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUL RATED PG-13Summary: In 1928 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CROSummary: When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum portrays an anxious era in West Germany amid a crumbling postwar political consensus. Katharina, though innocent, suddenly becomes a suspect, falling prey to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist that tests the limits of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN LOSSummary: An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY VERSummary: Finn is looking for a lost Spanish galleon in the Caribbean. He believes he has found the galleon and has marked the location with his own sunken boat. He enlists the help of his ex-wife, Tess, who is intrigued until she finds he has no real proof of the Spanish ship's location. Fate has put the two together again, this time onboard the boat of multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycutt and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Fool's 2008Summary: It is a timely tale of what can happen when engaged citizens fight the power for the sake of a better world. Arguably, no one did more to shape our understanding of the modern American city than Jane Jacobs, the visionary activist and writer who fought to preserve urban communities in the face of destructive development projects. The film vividly brings to life Jacobs' 1960s showdown with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITSummary: When plans for Rita and Norman's long-awaited wedding begins falling apart days before the ceremony, their challenges inspire changes that make their wedding more meaningful. Meanwhile, Shane convinces Oliver that the team should urgently focus on finding clues to deliver a package containing a wedding dress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2019