Summary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRESummary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormenter. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man's fiancé, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression. A small-town fable about violence and redemption, it is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY MOOSummary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYErnaux, Annie
Summary: "Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ERNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ERNAUX ERNErnaux, Annie
Summary: "The Young Man is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time- together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ERNGrunberg, Arnon
Summary: "Jörgen Hofmeester had it all: a beautiful wife, a nice house with a garden in an upper-class neighborhood in Amsterdam, a respectable job as an editor, two lovely aughters named Ibi and Tirza, and a large amount of money in a Swiss bank account. But during the preparation for Tirza's graduation party, we come to know what he has lost"--P. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRUSummary: Kareem leads an aimless life between odd jobs and hanging out with his buddies in a crime-ridden Arab ghetto of the mixed Israeli city of Lyd. A family tragedy brings him closer to his singer girlfriend, Manar, and motivates him to do something more with his life. When Kareem and his group finally get a chance to perform in a Tel Aviv hip-hop club, the star potential of the 'first Arab rapper'...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JUNSummary: This contemporary drama is about romance between two imperfect, alcoholic, resentful ordinary people, neighbors in the suburbs, adults with enough money to support themselves in the discontent to which they have become accustomed. Terry Wolfmeyer, suburban Detroit mother of four girls, is suddenly abandoned by her husband, and sinks into depression and subsists on a steady diet of vodka tonics....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPSSummary: A story of two poets with bipolar disorder, whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they meet in a treatment facility, their chemistry is instant and intense driving each other to new heights. They pursue their passion which breaks outside the bounds of sanity, swinging them from fantastical highs to tormented lows until they ultimately must choose between sanity and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOUWilliams, Esther.
Summary: Cynthia must choose between her wealthy husband and the soldier she loves; Maria steps in for her twin brother when he abandons the bullfighting ring; a singing soldier abandons his pre-war life for love; an Ohio schoolteacher falls in love with a Tahitian girl; Williams portrays Australian swimmer and film star Annette Kellerman; swimming star Julie Hallerton falls in love with her boss who is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ESTSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRECarlton, H. D.
Summary: The manipulator. I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me. I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh. But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave. He's always there, watching and waiting. And I can never look away. Not when I want him to come closer. The shadow. I didn't mean to fall in love. But now that I have, I can't stay away....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Moyes, Jojo
Summary: In the wake of an accident that leaves her back at home and in a support group, Louisa meets paramedic Sam Fielding, a man who might finally understand her, but she is forced to change her plans when someone from her past reappears.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYSummary: After weeks of traveling through Europe, the immature William finds himself at a crossroads in Copenhagen, which also happens to be the birthplace of his father. Williams meets a pretty girl, and they set off to find his grandfather. He finds himself truly connecting with someone, and realizes if the girl of your dreams is half your age maybe it's time to grow up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Level 33 Entertainment] 2014