Metz, Melinda
Summary: Jamie Snyder is thirty-four and single, but not ready to mingle. She's ready to celebrate the year for herself, and MacGyver, of course. MacGyver is an adorable tabby with a not-so-adorable habit of sneaking out at night and stealing things from the neighbors. He's still the only male Jamie trusts-and the only companion she needs. But MacGyver knows his human is lonely. He can smell it. It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC METSummary: This 1949 movie lavishly takes us on the journey of Jay Gatsby (Alan Ladd) who worked his way from poor fisherman to extravagant millionaire. Travel back in time to the roaring 20s, a time of flappers, bootlegging, art deco architecture, and jazz music, through this classic tale of love and betrayal, deception and mystery. This is the second film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREBelle, Kimberly
Summary: Jade and Cam Lasky are by all accounts a happily married couple with two adorable kids, a spacious home and a rapidly growing restaurant business. But their world is tipped upside down when Jade is confronted by a masked home invader. As Cam scrambles to gather the ransom money, Jade starts to wonder if they're as financially secure as their lifestyle suggests, and what other secrets her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREBlackstock, Terri
Summary: "Criminal attorney Jamie Powell will accept the consequences for defending her lifelong friend, Dustin, when he's accused of setting the bombs that killed dozens at a local political rally. But she hasn't seen him since he aged out of foster care, and he's always lived on the edge. Can she still trust him? As Jamie investigates his case and the people in his life, she realizes the facts coming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Sterling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSummary: Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KISSummary: Daisy Kenyon is a lovelorn commercial artist caught in a romantic triangle with two men-- one she loves but cannot have and one whose love she cannot return. While in an emotionally draining love affair with married attorney Dan O'Mara, who refuses to leave his wife, she meets returning Army sergeant Peter Lapham-- a decent and gentle man who instantly falls in love with her. Although she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAISummary: A successful film director leaves his pregnant wife at home when he attends the annual festival for advertising awards, and begins an affair with a young British woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SLOSummary: A successful middle-aged ad executive suddenly find himself working for a young hotshot half his age, who also develops a romantic interest in his daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INSummary: Twelve-year-old Anais is fat. Her sister, Elena, is a beauty. Elena meets an Italian law student, who seduces her with promises of love, as the ever-watchful Anais bears witness to the corruption of her sister's innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FATSummary: Perfect man: Holly Hamilton is on a mission to find her single mom a perfect man ... even if she has to make the man up. One crazy mishap after another leads the two of them to discover that sometimes what you want is right in front of you.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRISummary: The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIVSummary: An original comedy series that takes a modern look at love and happiness through two people who haven't been successful with either. After a whirlwind courtship and devastating break-up, Jimmy and Gretchen struggle to move on while constantly being pulled back toward one another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUSummary: Meet Gretchen and Jimmy. She's a cynical PR rep for rappers and he's a narcissistic British novelist. Impressed by each other's bad behavior at Jimmy's ex-girlfriend's wedding, they begin what they swear is a casual sexual relationship, until it turns out to be more than that.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Calcutta: Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILTerry, Angela.
Summary: Harvard-educated corporate attorney Jasmine "Jae" Phillips promised herself that she wouldn't date anyone at the office. She's too focused on the job, and her meh dating history can be summed up with a shrug. Then came Brad Summers. When Jae's colleague Brad enters her office--boyish and handsome with his tousled hair and sparkling green-gold eyes--and asks if she'd like to grab a drink, she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Girl Friday Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jane Eyre, a mistreated orphan, becomes a governess and learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A switchboard operator gets caught up in the personal lives of the clients of an answering service, including that of a playboy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BELSummary: In the second hilarious season of this audacious and witty comedy series, music biz PR rep Gretchen and struggling novelist Jimmy move in together. As domestic and career challenges take their toll on the cynical couple, Gretchen's depression inspires her to stalk her more together neighbors. And a visit from Jimmy's trashy, unsupportive family proves that for all his faults, Jimmy's the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUSummary: After a whirlwind courtship and rough post-cohabitation period, Season Three finds Jimmy (Chris Geere) and Gretchen (Aya Cash) trying to keep the good times rolling while confronting the F- word ... "family". Meanwhile, Edgar (Desmin Borges) searches for therapy to combat his PTSD, and Lindsay (Kether Donohue) faces a big decision in this original comedy series that takes a modern look at love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017