Summary: Where his prior film, the acclaimed epic AQUARELA, was a reminder of the fragility of human tenure on earth, in GUNDA, master filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky reminds us that we share our planet with billions of other animals. Through encounters with a mother sow (the eponymous Gunda), two ingenious cows, and a scene-stealing, one-legged chicken, Kossakovsky movingly recalibrates our moral...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GUN

Summary: Based on the seminal novel by John Edward Williams, Gabe Polsky's epic frontier adventure, Butcher's Crossing, is a riveting commentary on human nature, ambition, masculinity, and man's relationship to his natural environment. A gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller, a mysterious frontiersman offering an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Butcher's

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: Bill Hixon has been America's Top Metropolitan Police Chief three years running. Looking for a new posting, a new challenge, he settled on Boston. But not that Boston. Bill arrives in England with his 14 year-old daughter Kelsey in tow, hoping for a fresh start. Headhunted for his numbers-driven approach, Bill is tasked with tackling East Lincolnshire's league-topping crime figures. But he's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WIL

Summary: With Emily Byrne's suspension from the FBI nearing its end, a criminal case hits close to home, sending Emily on a dangerous journey that threatens the lives of the family she is desperately trying to hold together.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ABS

Summary: Two religious ladies, who witnessed brutal murders, are forced to go on the run and find themselves under the wing of two morally gray outlaws who ferry them to safety.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMO

Summary: Quigley down under: "Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes instead that his mission is murder - to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Golden-Mayer Studios Inc. 2008

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD QUI

Summary: Based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Eden Robinson, Trickster tells the story of Jared, an Indigenous teen struggling to keep his dysfunctional family above water. Jared holds down an after-school job and cooks ecstasy on the side to support his separated parents - partying mom Maggie, who self-medicates an undiagnosed mental illness, and unemployable dad Phil, who has a painkiller...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRI

Summary: Travel with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from John O'Groats to Cape Town descending through Western Europe and Africa before arriving at the southern most tip of the continent. On their journey their endurance, biking skills and friendship are tested to the limit.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LON

Summary: Sue Parker finds herself in a desperate battle to save her family's struggling business, which is on the brink of collapse due to her father's neglect. When a handsome drifter comes into town she sees him as the only chance to prevent their bar from falling into the hands of a ruthless local tycoon. What starts as a simple plan to save her family, quickly spirals into larceny, lawlessness, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DIR

Summary: A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LON

Summary: "This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CIN

Szymborska, Wisława.

Summary: "In this collection of contemplative, witty, and always surprising poems, Wislawa Szymborska writes with verve about everything from love unremembered to keys mislaid in the grass, from small-scale naughtiness to the happiness of skating on thin ice, from the district firemen's ball to the cosmos."--Jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.85 SZY

Munsch, Robert N.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 1988

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE FRENCH MUN

Fields-Schneider, Penny

Summary: Searching for Sofia is the third book in the Portraits in Blue Series. In Book One: The Sun Rose in Paris, and Book Two: Shattered Dreams we accompany Jack Tomlinson's foray into the world of artists in the early twentieth century, and his experiences in Paris, Spain and living in an artist's retreat in Australia. In Searching for Sofia, his story continues. Having experienced tragedy beyond...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PFS 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIE

Hò̂, Xuân Hương.

Summary: Hò̂ Xuân Hương, whose name means Spring Essence, was an eighteenth-century concubine who wrote subtly risque poems that used double entendre and sexual innuendo as a vehicle for social, religious, and political commentary. Her attacks on male authority were shocking and risky, but she and her work survived because of her exquisite cleverness and skill at poetry. Translated from the older...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.9 HO

Contents: A love supreme, pt 1 / John Coltrane -- 8 miles high / The Byrds -- Starship / MC5 -- In silent way / Joe Zawinul -- Aht uh mi head / Shuggie Otis -- Sweetback's theme / Melvin Van Peebles -- Black woman / Sonny sharrock -- Life & death in the q&a suit / Chairmen of the Board -- Ungena za ulimwenga (Unite the world) / The temptations -- Zu zu mamou / Dr. John -- Jimi's guitar raps / Jimi Macon...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES RUN

Maxwell, Lisa

Summary: In an alternate version of present-day Manhattan, magic is dying, and Esta, a Mageus with a talent for manipulating time, travels back to 1901 to stop the destruction of a book that can possibly restore magic, but in Old New York, Esta must navigate gangs, secret societies, and her feelings for another magician in order to save the future of magic.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAX

Sheeran, Ed

Contents: Beautiful people / feat. Khalid -- South of the border / feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B -- Cross me / (featuring Chance the Rapper & PnB Rock) -- Take me back to London / feat. Stormzy -- Best part of me / feat. YEBBA -- I don't care / with Justin Bieber -- Antisocial / feat. Travis Scott -- Remember the name / feat. Eminem & 50 Cent -- Feels / feat. Young Thug & J Hus -- Put it all on me /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Asylum 2019

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHE

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHE POP/ROCK

Smith, Colby Cedar

Summary: Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's maternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as she and her family emigrate from Greece to Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMI