Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Hank Hill is a propane salesman, his wife, Peggy, is a substitute teacher, and their 12-year-old son, Bobby, who is confused about the ways of life and the world, all live in a blue collar town in Texas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KINSummary: Hank Hill is a propane salesman, his wife, Peggy, is a substitute teacher, and their 12-year-old son, Bobby, who is confused about the ways of life and the world, all live in a blue collar town in Texas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KINSummary: "Outrageously funny but remarkably truthful, the series follows the exploits of propane salesman Hank Hill as he reigns over a family of underachievers, a group of beer-guzzling friends, and the everyday challenges of life in Arlen, Texas. Comprised of all 24 episodes from the thirteenth and final season, this three-disc collection features guest appearances by Andy Richter, Jake Steinfled,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KINShapiro, Kitt
Summary: In this unique combination of memoir and cultural history, we come to know one of the greatest stars the world has ever seen--Eartha Kitt--as revealed by the person who knew her best: her daughter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SHACurran, Kitty
Summary: Molly Dade has big problems. She's got an important violin audition coming up, she's been paired with her nemesis for a group project, and she's struggling to hide a life-or-death secret from...well, from everyone. It wasn't long ago that the Dades were just a regular Maine family living in their reportedly haunted house in the local cemetery. But then Molly's mom and twin brother Marty were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DisneyHyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURMass, Wendy
Summary: After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Summary: After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Audiobooks 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MASBrennan-Jobs, Lisa
Summary: A frank, smart, and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents, artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs, Lisa Brennan-Jobs' childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BRENNAN-JOBS BRESummary: Mollie (Kirstie Alley) is a single working mom who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James (John Travolta), a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late in this baby's-eye view comedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOOHess, Annette
Summary: "Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963 ... [this] is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator--caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power--as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation's past. For twenty-four-year-old Eva Bruhns, World War II is a foggy childhood memory. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HESSummary: The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CELHarvey, Kristy Woodson
Summary: "Four women. One family heirloom. A secret connection that will change their lives...and history as they know it. Present Day: Julia Baxter's wedding veil, bequeathed to her great-grandmother by a mysterious woman on a train in the 1930s, has passed through generations of her family as a symbol of a happy marriage. But on the morning of her wedding day, something tells Julia that even the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Victor's family moves into his grand-uncle's mansion filled with African masks, taxidermy crocodile mounts - and a dark secret: forty years ago a girl, at the same age that he is now, mysteriously disappeared. With his detective instinct kindled, Victor makes it his mission to solve the case. But after he finds the girl's diary, filled with mysterious drawings showing that the mansion may...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VICGross, Andrew
Summary: "February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell's Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman is reeling from the loss of his job and the demise of his marriage when a group draped in Nazi flags barges in. Drunk, Charlie takes a swing at one with tragic results and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GRODe Witt, Abigail
Summary: Over four long years, the Delasalle family has struggled to live in their Nazi occupied village in Normandy. Maman, Oncle Henri, Yvonne, and Françoise silently watched as their Jewish neighbors were arrested or wordlessly disappeared. Now in June 1944, when the sirens wail each day, warning of approaching bombers, the family wonders if rumors of the coming Allied invasion are true, and if they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DE WSummary: An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIFSummary: Set in a small Orlando-adjacent town in 1992, this dark comedy series stars Kirsten Dunst as Krystal Stubbs, a minimum-wage water park employee who lies, schemes and cons her way up the ranks of Founders American Merchandise (FAM)-the cultish, flag-waving, multibillion-dollar pyramid scheme that drove her family to ruin in the first place. Determined to make a better life for herself, Krystal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ONSummary: 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
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STAPatterson, James
Summary: Professor Brandt Savage, grandson of the legendary action hero Doc Savage, is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling as the perfect assassin.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PATHepinstall, Kathy
Summary: "The laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother and learn the truth of her mother's long-secret past...Willow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman who lives to shoot varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighbors--and she sticks...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEPSummary: All is not well for brilliant but boorish Dr. Martin Ellingham as the hit British dramedy returns. To Martin's utter disgust, his medical practice remains under official scrutiny because of his pre-existing blood phobia, and he is forced to attend refresher courses starting with phlebotomy. His wife, Louisa, and aunt Ruth urge him to take this risk to his career seriously, but events conspire...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Do 9Franzen, Jonathan
Summary: It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021