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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JOHSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.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
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of love, hardship, and triumph that transcend borders and merge to form an American root system fortified by its diversity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FINSummary: This saga follows two families - the Hazards, from the North, and the Mains, from the South - through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields. When the South surrenders at the end of the Civil War, the families are reunited once again in friendship. In the final installment, the two families continue through Post-Civil War Reconstruction into pioneer Indian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NORSummary: 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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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: 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
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Downton 2015Summary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOHContents: The lucky one (2011, 101 min.) -- The notebook (2004, 124 min.) -- A walk to remember (2002, 102 min.) -- Nights in Rodanthe (2008, 97 min.) -- Message in a bottle (1999, 131 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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Summary: Wealthy banker Ignacio is convinced that his beautiful but bored young wife, Zoe, is having an affair with his younger brother, Gonzalo, a painter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Planeta Colombiana 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Join the Berenstain Bears, Papa, Mama, Brother and Sister, as they embark on many adventures. Brother and Sister learn simple life lessons and family values.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BERWolk, Lauren
Summary: Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful summer storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and help her learn about compassion and forgiveness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022
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Summary: Portico Reeves's superpower is making sure all the other superheroes, like his parents and two best friends, stay super. And safe. Super safe. And he does this all in secret. No one in his civilian life knows he's actually... Stuntboy! But his regular Portico identity is pretty cool, too. He lives in the biggest house on the block, maybe in the whole city, which basically makes it a castle. His...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Portico Reeves is the greatest superhero a lot of people have never heard of. He likes it that way--then no one can get in the way of his keeping of other other people safe. Super safe. He's Stuntboy. He's got the moves. And the saves. Except. There's been one major fail. He couldn't save his parents from becoming Xs. Which is a word that sounds like coughing up a hairball. But don't talk to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC REYSummary: A heartwarming look at family and friendship, and the poignant story of high school student Homer Macauley and the lives he touches while delivering telegrams throughout his small California town during the troubling years of World War II. Moving and timeless, a masterful celebration of the American way of life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUMWolfe, Taylor
Summary: "Birdie & Harlow is the story of a baby and a dog. But motherhood is never quite that simple. In Taylor Wolfe's case, it's a long, zigzagging and winding road. Meant to be a last-minute anniversary gift for her then boyfriend (and now husband), the highly-energetic and loud-mouthed Vizla puppy named Harlow turns out to be the best snap decision twenty-year-old Taylor ever makes--and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOLFE, TAYLOR WOLWolff, Alexander
Summary: "A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the twentieth century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOLPoole, Hilary W.
Summary: "This book looks at the problems of homelessness--not only the challenges, but also how families can meet and rise above them."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.5 POOMauleón, Daniel
Summary: Determined to be a great baseball player like others in his family, Fernando needs their help to regain his confidence after his coach tells him to steal a base and he fails. Includes discussion questions, information about baseball, and glossary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MADSummary: A feisty, Bangladeshi teen-aged painter sets out on a quest to save her ailing father. Her artistic gift has blossomed with his encouragement but hasn't yet proven financially rewarding. Naima's mother dashes such childish dreams, which sends the frustrated teen off to the big city, determined to earn money for the family's survival. And she does, by disguising herself as a boy to get a job as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RICMailer, Norman
Summary: The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of some extraordinary secrets, takes the young Adolf Hitler from birth through his adolescence. En route, revealing portraits are offered of Hitler's father and mother, and his sisters and brothers. tapestry of unforgettable characters, "The castle in the forest" delivers its myriad twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MAISummary: A family must use a magical box of animal crackers to save a run-down circus from bing taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUMSumner, Jamie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019