Milman, Oliver
Summary: "A devastating exploration of how the collapse in insect populations around the world threatens everything from wild birds to the food on our plate. From the ants scurrying under leaf litter to the bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are seemingly everywhere. Three out of four of the planet's known species are insects, but a torrent of recent evidence suggests this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.97 MILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 639.97 MILMellan, Olivia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker and Co. 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8584 MellaSummary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: Based on real events that occurred in between 1980 and 1982. Dan Mahowny is a quiet, unassuming assistant manager at a bank in Toronto. He is a compulsive gambler and runs up a massive debt with his bookie. Dan's bank responsibilities include approving loans. Needing to cover his debts, Dan starts approving loans to non-existent clients and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to other...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OWNSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: It is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London. This time around, she's coping with her father's upcoming nuptuals, and her attraction to the hot priest they've chosen to officiate, while the brother-in-law escalates everything around him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FLESummary: Our narrator's healing continues as she struggles to accept her father's upcoming wedding and the feelings she develops for the Hot Priest they've chosen to officiate. Things finally come to a head with the brother in-law, and Claire grows closer to her sister through unexpected events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FLESummary: A dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman hurls herself at modern living in London. She often escapes into momentary fantasy asides -- letting an imaginary audience hear her unspoken gibes -- as she navigates her father's emotional distance, her godmother-turned-stepmother, her perfect sister and horrible brother-in-law as well as her seemingly-doomed love life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD FLECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FLECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FEASummary: Based on the true story of Ron Kovic, a young man who volunteered for the Vietnam War, was wounded, and returned paralyzed from the mid-chest down. He later became a new voice for those disenchanted with the war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BORRöehrig, Tilman
Summary: Exiled from his homeland of Norway as a boy, Erik Thorvladsson wants nothing more than to honor his father's legacy and to figure out where he belongs in the world. Navigating natural disasters, violent clashes, and banishment, he seeks his fortunes in an Iceland on the brink of change. When a conflict over property erupts into violence, Erik is outlawed from the country for three years and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis, W1-Media, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROESummary: The result of the Brexit referendum in the summer of 2016 caused a political earthquake that laid waste to the normally stable British establishment and sent political tremors across the world. This punchy and provocative feature length drama goes exclusively behind the scenes of the 'Vote Leave' campaign, unpacking the personalities, strategies, and feuds of the winning side, and exploring the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BRESummary: "Focusing on the loves, careers, ambitions and relationships of a group of gay men and women" in Pittsburgh, PA--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV QUESummary: After a monstrous storm on the Island of Sodor, a landslide unearths some very unusual footprints. Thomas and Percy are eager to find out what could have made these marks but obstacles and danger seem to appear around every bend in the track. With the help of new friends, a little digging, and a heap of courage, they discover the surprising answer and, along the way, uncover the true meaning of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2014
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD Juv TSummary: "An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TALSummary: After a lengthy spell in a wellness center, Stephen returns to his provincial pub, refreshed and re-energized. Thankfully, Andrew, the formerly prodigal foster brother, has been managing affairs. But despite Stephen being back it's not all plain sailing. Stephen's sister Cass, resenting her mum's relationship with young boyfriend Julian, packs up and leaves home. Blunt and uncompromising Uncle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BACSummary: Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford this engaging biopic follows the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia from the tragic death of his mother when he was just nine years old, through his strained relationship with his father, to the nightmare of the trenches of World War I to Oxford University, where friends like J.R.R. Tolkien challenged his unbelief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOSSummary: The stage is set in 1970s Glasgow. On the brink of adolescence, John is a bright and sensitive boy, eager to learn and full of promises. But the cards are stacked against him. Most of the adults in his life fail him in one way or another. His father, drunken, violent bully and his teachers, punishing him for the sins of his older brothers. John takes to the savage life of the streets with a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tribeca Film 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NEDSummary: Two strangers agree to carpool across the country for the chance to participate in a controversial study about the afterlife once a scientist has conclusively proven she can follow people's continued existance after their physical presence has been terminated. Teddy thinks he'll be more successful while Rose just wants a way out, but both are leaving people behind and have secrets that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI NEXMcLean, Jackie.
Contents: Action / Jackie McLean (10:51) -- Plight (7:37) ; Wrong handle (7:32) / Charles Tolliver -- I hear a rhapsody / Fragof, Baker, Gasparre (4:41) -- Hootnan / Jackie McLean (7:34).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MCLMcLean, Jackie.
Contents: Cancellation (7:44) -- Das' dat (6:25) -- It's time (6:33) -- Revillot (7:50) -- 'Snuff (7:45) -- Truth (6:30).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MCLSummary: Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009