Hough, Julianne

Summary: Katie, a newcomer in a small southern town, forms relationships with Alex, a young widower, and Jo, her plainspoken single neighbor, who help her overcome her fearful past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAF

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE SAF

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAF

Summary: Ali, is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BUR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BUR

Summary: A Londoner of lower class befriends and begins a romantic relationship with an aristocrat that becomes complicated when the aristocrat introduces his new friend to his sister.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2009

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BRI

Summary: Based on the novel from Nicholas Sparks, a young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAF RATED PG-13

Wormald, Kenny

Summary: City boy Ren McCormick moves to a Southern town where dancing has been banned and encourages his friends to fight for the right to dance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012

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1 available in Equipment, Call number: DVD

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FOO

Cruise, Tom

Summary: In 1987, a small town girl travels to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a famous singer and finds herself working at "the Bourbon Room," a popular nightclub on the Sunset Strip.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROC RATED PG-13

Summary: Francesca and Calvin are actors performing in a motion picture directed by David Fincher and co-starring Brad Pitt (who play themselves). Woven in and out of the film production story thread are several other subplots including one about a lovelorn woman, Linda; the self-absorbed Gus; and a husband, Carl, whose wife is falling for Calvin.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY Ful

Summary: Based on the true story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a Vatican official, who, under threat of death from the Gestapo, saved prisoners of war and others from the German forces occupying Rome during World War II.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCA

Summary: A group of six friends, in Sacramento, gather to distract themselves from loss - a newly dumped Sylvia, Prudie's repressed disappointment, or Jocelyn, who has a life of unrealized dreams. All are devoted Jane Austen fans, except the lone man, Grigg, who has an ulterior motive for joining the chick-lit gang. There's plenty of pride (Prudie), prejudice (Jocelyn), sense (Sylvia), and sensibility...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JAN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAN

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JAN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jane 2008

Summary: "As a dwarf, Toulouse-Lautrec believes he's too ugly to ever fall in love. So he loses himself in painting ... and cognac. A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-of-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, Lautrec meets a girl from the street ... who breaks his heart"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MOU

Summary: Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life. Then one night she surprises her husband Frank having sex with another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond--a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAR

Summary: Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mona 2004

Dee, 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 ALL

Summary: Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JUL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUL RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Julie 2009

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JUL

Summary: The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD B

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEC

Summary: Two men in New York's Washington Heights district wrestle with ambition and identity. They fight to overcome the violence of their neighborhood and their struggle to find a better life is fueled with brutality and disappointment.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAS

Summary: "A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1870's"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AGE

Summary: Its the Battle of Berlin, during World War 2, two women find each other. One is single, AimGee, the other, Jaguar, is unhappily married with 4 children. In war torn Germany it was not safe to be Jewish, it was just as unsafe to be a lesbian. When Jaguar's husband, who is a German soldier, finds out about the relationship of his wife to AimGee, nothing but trouble becomes the result.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AIM

Summary: When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake the controlled world of the professor. The lessons learned will last a lifetime.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMP

Summary: The notorious Pepe le Moko is a wanted man--women long for him, rivals hope to destroy him and the law is breathing down his neck at every turn. On the lam in the Casbah of Algiers, Pépé is safe from the police until a Parisian playgirl compels him

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PEP

Summary: A timeless masterpiece of love and loss, focusing on the consequences faced by three Russian families during the Napoleonic Wars.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: KOCH Vision 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAR NOT RATED

Summary: "Sleepless night tells the story of Vincent, a respected and dedicated police officer--or so it seems. After he and a colleague are recognized while stealing a massive bag of cocaine from drug dealers employed by local mob boss Marciano, Vincent quickly finds himself trapped in a situation that no parent would envy: his son had been kidnapped with the promise of execution if he doesn't...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tribeca Film 2012

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SLE

Summary: After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women, while at the same time searching for the right subject (and actress) for his next film.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IDE