Summary: When Nate is invited to a big family reunion in Missouri, he sees it as an opportunity to reconnect with his estranged wife and growing children. Nate takes delivery on an expensive new SUV, persuades his wife, Dorothy, to tag along, and packs up his three kids for what he thinks will be a leisurely drive from L.A. to St. Louis. However, between his wary wife, arguing kids, angry police...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JOHGreenberg, Mark
Summary: Back in 2007, when Barack Hussein Obama announced his campaign, his election seemed to be a long shot. But he won in a decisive victory, also garnering a record 69.5 million votes, and on January 20, 2009, he became the 44th president of the United States and its first African American chief executive. Now, after two terms, this book explores Obama's journey in pictures, from his remarkable...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 OBAMA, BARACK GRECody, Matthew
Summary: "For the Bright family, rocket science is no big deal, but learning how to be a family is a real challenge! When a dimensional portal sends Mom and Dad who-knows-where, it's up to Nia and Jayden (and their robot nanny, Dusty) to bring their parents home. The question is, where in the multiverse could they possibly be?"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC COD (graphic novel)Summary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: As Season Five begins in 1924, the radio is the latest miracle, a new Labour government heralds changes through the land, and Downton's traditional ways are besieged on all fronts. Robert, Mary, and Branson must navigate these shifting sands together to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOW NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Downton 2015Summary: Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiSummary: The wealthy Recchi family has undergone sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. has named a successor to the reins of his company, and surprised everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi and grandson Edo. But Edo had always dreamed of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio. To make matters worse, the very foundation of the entire family may be totally shattered after Tancredi's wife Emma...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IJennings, Patrick.
Summary: "Rufus has been dreaming of getting a dog. His best friend has one. His worst friend has one. But his dad has a few objections: They whine. They gnaw. They bark. They scratch. They beg. They drool. Rufus pays no attention when his mom offers her think-outside-the-box suggestion, because she can't be serious. She can't be. She can be. And she actually comes home with a guinea pig. And if Rufus's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JENSummary: It's Christmas and Miranda leaves Seattle with a suitcase full of presents to join her long lost family in Carlton Heath, where she will experience the joyful traditions she missed as a child. But this Christmas, she fears the warm welcome she received from the Whitcomb family will soon turn cold when Miranda receives an anonymous text from someone who threatens to expose her identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD EnSummary: A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ARMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ARMSummary: Caravan of courage: the Towani family are separated when their shuttlecraft crashes on Endor. While the parents are soon captured by the giant known as Gorax, Mace and Cindel, the son and daughter, are missing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STALouis, Rick
Summary: "A graphic novel memoir recounting one parent's unique and wrenching journey caring for a child with a terminal diagnosis. When Rick and Emily's infant son Ronan is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, an incurable neurological disorder, they are faced with the practical and emotional hurdles of parenting and loving their son--despite the shadow of inevitable loss. Rick Louis narrates this original...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LOUSummary: The story of a 13-year-old girl who wants to be a mother, as told through different actors playing the same character and her journey in a variety of ways.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PALSummary: Set in the 1960s South and shot on location in Louisiana, THE BLIND shares never-before-revealed aspects of Phil Robertson's life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, addiction, and complicated family dynamics, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place. "It was important to us that the film be real," said Willie Robertson, Phil's son. "The transformation of Phil proves that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDBragg, Rick
Summary: Presents a food memoir, cookbook, and tribute to the author's mother, sharing classic family recipes--many of them pre-dating the Civil War--and preparation secrets for such traditional fare as short ribs, biscuits, and perfect mashed potatoes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 BRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 641.59 BRASummary: Presents the Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROMSummary: A small-town family travels to the Iowa State Fair. The father is looking for a blue ribbon for his prize hog, Blue Boy, mom is looking for glory in her cooking, and the kids are looking for love. Lyrics and music by Oscar Hammerstein.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STASittenfeld, Curtis
Summary: Equal parts homage to Jane Austen and bold literary experiment, Eligible is a brilliant, playful, and delicious saga for the twenty-first century.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Sittenfeld 2016Coulter, Catherine
Summary: A young wife is forced to confront a decades-old deadly secret when a medium connects her to her dead grandfather. A vicious psychopath wants ultimate revenge against Savich, but first, she wants to destroy what he loves most, his family. A series of three red boxes are delivered personally to Savich at the Hoover Building, each one containing puzzle pieces of a town only FBI agent Pippa...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COUSummary: After musical mogul Lucious Lyon is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease, he must choose which of his three sons with succeed him at the legendary Empire entertainment company. The game changes when ex-wife Cookie returns from prison. This groundbreaking series features a pulsating soundtrack from legendary music hit maker Timbaland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMPChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her sister Mary, widow of President Lincoln, has attempted suicide. If Mary's sisters can put past grievances aside, will their love be powerful enough to save her?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIThayer, Nancy
Summary: A woman's second act on the beautiful island of Nantucket delivers much more than she expected in this hopeful novel by New York Times best selling author Nancy Thayer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC THASummary: When Frank Goode's grown children cancel a family reunion, the recent widower sets off on a cross-country journey to reconnect with each of them. A family separated by physical and emotional distance finds a way to come together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010