Summary: In 1930's Britain, in the wake of a bloody civil war, the younger brother of the new King sets in motion a monstrous scheme to claim the throne for himself. Updated version of Shakespeare's tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RICSummary: Adaptation of the stage production which relocates the action to a nameless 20th-century underground facility, offering a parable of the quest for power in the modern world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS MACSummary: Daniel Deronda is sensitive and charming, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Beautiful, vivacious Gwendolen Harleth is a gambler and short on cash. When they meet at the roulette table, sparks fly. But above all, Gwendolen needs money, and the icy aristrocrat Henleigh Grandcourt is more than happy to provide. As her situation becomes more and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DANSummary: With her caustic wit and singular charm, DCI Vera Stanhope and her trusted right-hand man DS Joe Ashworth face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VERSummary: "In these stories, lesser-known Christie heroes and heroines solve crimes of the heart as well as puzzling cases of larceny and murder. With just the right mix of danger and deception, romance and revenge, innocence and intrigue, these classic adaptations are Christie at her best"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of the three Sackett brothers, Tye, Orrin, and Tell, who leave Tennessee to start new lives in the West; not being a man to settle down, cowhand Conn Conagher drifts in and out of widow Evie Teale's life; career outlaw Catlow attempts to take some Confederate gold, with his friend, a U.S. marshal, and a ruthless bounty hunter on his tail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie L'Amour 2010Summary: "The fortunes of the MacDonalds have always been up and down, but now Paul, Archie's brother, is newly installed as master of Glenbogle. Can this town come to terms with the new monarch?"
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MONSummary: The ramblings, adventures and travels of the members of the Pickwick Club as they wander about the countryside, getting into trouble wherever possible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Intent on escaping the clutches of his indomitable Aunt Agatha and the perpetual threat of wedlock, Bertie once again flees his native England for New York accompanied, as ever, by the unflappable Jeeves. Yet even the waters of the Atlantic cannot keep the witless Wooster safe, and he is soon up to his ears in a frightful tangle of wayward cousins, stolen babies, unwanted engagements and even...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Je 4Summary: A police superintendent asks Hercule Poirot to investigate a case where a man may have been convicted for a murder he didn't commit; the headmistress at an all girls' school asks Poirot to solve the murders that have been committed there; the cast and crew of "Poirot" discuss the making of the episodes and bringing the detective to the screen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUSummary: The gruffalo: Forced to rely on his wits for survival, Mouse invents an imaginary monster ... but what happens when he becomes face-to-face with his own creation?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: NCircle Entertainment, a division of Alliance Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD Children's GrSummary: A hauntingly atmospheric and star-studded adaptation of Henry James' classic gothic horror story. A young, inexperienced governess is hired to look after two small children abandoned by their uncle, following the death of their parents, at his grand country house. Unsettled by glimpses of ghostly figures that only she can see, she quickly believes that something malevolent is stalking the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GHOSummary: Jesse Stone is a down-and-out former L.A. police detective whose biggest battle is now against the bottle, as the demons of his past rise to haunt him while he drives himself to distraction by pursuing a decade-old murder case. Finding refuge in the small town of Paradise, Chief Stone reopens an unsolved murder case, digging up clues in an old grave and pursuing the ghosts of a forgotten crime....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 4Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jesse 2008Summary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOSummary: Apt Pupil: After he discovers that an elderly neighbor was a notorious Nazi death camp officer, a teenager obsessed with the Holocaust blackmails the man into graphically recounting the horrors of his past crimes. The cat-and-mouse game between the two reaches a murderous intensity in this suspenseful adaptation of Stephen King's story from director Bryan Singer ("The Usual Suspects"). Ian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STESummary: Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PERSummary: Jack, Amy, Ty, Tim, Lou and Peter struggle to overcome new challenges and attempt to navigate uncharted territory. Amy is struggling to understand why Ty hasn't said a word about the engagement ring she discovered in his pocket in the Season Five finale. She also has to deal with Ty's acceptance to vet school and the new friends who take him away from her. Working with horses remains the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HEASummary: "Tokyo is abuzz with persocoms - humanoid computers that are virtually perfect. The socially and technologically inept Hideki is dying to get his hands on one. When he finds Chi abandoned in the trash, she's cuter than any current model he's ever seen, but when he gets her home and turns her on, she has no data and only a single learning program installed. While Hideki puts his whole heart into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation 2011
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME CHOSummary: Set amid the teeming bustle of Victorian England, Dombey and Son is Dickens's story of a powerful man whose coldhearted neglect of his family causes his professional and personal downfall.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Domby 2006Summary: Agatha Christie's astute Belgian detective is on the case in these four feature-length mysteries from the hit series. Beautifully remastered, these definitive adaptations capture the unrivaled elegance of the Art Deco era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Lt. Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee, two officers of the Navajo Tribal Police, investigate the disappearance of an anthropologist suspected of selling ancient Indian artifacts on the black market.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THISummary: In Tolstoy's timeless epic of love and loss, a circle of aristocrats finds their glittering world crumbling as war threatens imperial Russia. Set during the years of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace follows the changing fortunes of brooding hero Prince Andrej, his bookish friend Pierre, and the spirited but naive Natasha. As Napoleon's armies menace their privileged lives, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013