Summary: The biggest cases demand the best cops, so when a little girl goes missing or a Homeland Security official takes a long drive off a short cliff or a '90s serial killer revives his career in the 21st century, the LAPD knows to call Brenda Johnson and her crack team from the Priority Homicide Division.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A tough, CIA-trained detective with Southern charm has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. With her offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a force to reckon with.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sean Archer is a tough and rugged FBI Agent. He is still grieving for his dead son, Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is now his sworn enemy and happens to be the very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. Archer corners Castor. Their fight knocks Troy out cold. Archer finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FACSummary: Cutthroat defense attorney Sebastian Stark has made a career out of bending the rules, manipulating the system, humiliating prosecutors and getting ruthless criminals off the hook. But, with the blood of an innocent woman on his hands, Stark has a change of heart and takes a job with the Los Angeles District Attorney's high-profile crime unit, leading a promising but inexperienced team of young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: "A refreshingly hilarious look at what it means to be a family in today's hectic, unpredictable world. While fledgling fathers Cameron and Mitchell struggle with learning the ropes of parenthood, longtime parents Claire and Phil try to keep the spice in their marriage amid the chaos of raising three challenging children. Meanwhile, family patriarch Jay has more than his hands full with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV MODSummary: As the extended Pritchett/Dunphy clan faces an uproariously unpredictable array of family vacations, holiday hassles, troublesome in-laws, and surprising secrets, they still somehow manage to thrive together as one big, loving family even as they drive each other absolutely insane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MODSummary: Living in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead is a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counselor Madison Clark and English teacher Travis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FEASummary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUGSummary: Three cousins in East LA find their power and strength in different avenues, but are held together by their strong family ties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLOSummary: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DENCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DENSummary: For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary-- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: No matter who travels off into the sunset (or ties the knot ) this fierce group of friends and lovers are keeping it all in the family. Maybe this is their time to find 'the one' or just the one for right now. Either way, they're living their best life the only way they know how honestly and confidently proving time and time again queer life is real life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LSummary: Better Things is the story of Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon), a single mother and working actor with no filter, raising her three daughters, Max (Mikey Madison), Frankie (Hannah Alligood) and Duke (Olivia Edward) in Los Angeles. She also looks after her mother, Phil (Celia Imrie), an English expatriate with questionable faculties who lives across the street. Whether she's struggling to keep her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BETSummary: The misadventures of the Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan are as hilarious as ever in the celebrated comedy series' final season. When Phil and Claire babysit the twins, Haley and Dylan realize they're the more responsible parents. While Manny's still rebounding from heartache, Phil's still trying to bond with Jay. And although they're raising Lily with a positive self-image, Mitch and Cam discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The continuing story of Will and Katie and their family as they struggle to stay together in occupied Los Angeles in the wake of an alien invasion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COLSummary: The honeymoon is over, but the laughs continue in Season Six. As freshly hitched Cam and Mitch acclimate to the realities of wedded bliss, Phil and Claire find their marriage stressed by annoying neighbors, Thanksgiving dinner gone awry and Claire's online snooping. Meanwhile, a spy-camera drone wreaks havoc in Jay and Gloria's backyard and a close call on the highway leads to amusing changes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MODSummary: As the tenth season kicks off, Jay's slated to be grand marshal in a Fourth of July parade, prompting the Pritchett-Dunphy-Tuckers to set off a few too many fireworks. Phil stumbles into a new career opportunity, while Claire grapples with her potentially changing role in the family. Meanwhile, Gloria obsesses over Manny's relationship and Joe's extracurricular activities. The extended family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MODSummary: From executive producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Ryan Condal (Hercules), the critically acclaimed drama returns for it's third and final season. Colony Season 3 begins six months after the end of the previous season, with the Bowman's now living in a cabin in the woods and trying to rebuild a life outside of the walls. When they are reached by a group of Gray Hats, they are forced to run away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COLSummary: The outrageous ninth season revolves around the blended Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan, headed by Jay Pritchett. Jay and his vivacious second wife Gloria are raising their young son Joe and Gloria's college bound son Manny. Meanwhile, Jay's grown daughter Claire and her husband Phil are becoming empty nesters, while Clare's brother Mitchell and his husband Cameron fumble through nurturing their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MODSummary: Set in the very near future, it centers on one family's struggle to survive an occupied Los Angeles, now a dangerous world of divided ideologies. While some choose to collaborate with the occupation and benefit from the new order, others rebel and suffer the consequences. Will Bowman a former FBI agent, and his wife Katie have been separated from their son during the invasion and do whatever is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COLSummary: The Valachi papers: Former mob "button man" Joe Valachi turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese has put a contract out on his life. From thievery add extortion to vengeance and murder, Valachi spills the innermost workings of the Cosa Nostra, culminating in his riveting testimony before a Senate subcommittee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CHASummary: A popular California high school girl is selected by a mysterious old man to kill the vampires that are terrorizing Los Angeles. Although it could put a serious crimp in her shopping, Buffy takes on the ghouls with the help of a handsome drifter, and incurs the wrath of the chief vampire!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001