Summary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC

Artist Not Provided

Summary: Based on true events, tells the story of Clemens Forell who escaped a Soviet prison in Siberia just after World War II and set out to trek 8,000 miles to return to his family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Cinema 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AS

Summary: An American widower in Paris, desolate at the unexplained suicide of his wife, plunges into a torrid sexual relationship with a stranger, a young French girl half his age.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998

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

Summary: Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2000

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAN

Gala, Marcial

Summary: "The story of an enormous cathedral constructed in a marginal, majority-black neighborhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, told by a chorus of narrators whose sometimes conflicting, overlapping accounts knit together to form a portrait of the neighborhood and the family of outsiders whose arrival in Cienfuegos sparks a series of dramatic events"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAL

Simone, Gail

Summary: "Collecting the series that led into INFINITE CRISIS! Six of justice's deadliest enemies band together to start a revolution. Together, they want to take a stand to stop the super-heroic community from tampering with their minds and to prove how deadly they can be! But not everyone agrees to this agenda. Six rogues are recruited by the enigmatic Mockingbird, charged with opposing the Society...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2015

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SIM

Summary: Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FUL

Summary: A gripping true story of six elite ex-military operators assigned to protect the CIA who fought back against overwhelming odds when terrorists attacked in the U.S. diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012. When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2016

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 13 H

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 13 RATED R

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THI

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

Summary: Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FUL

Summary: Easy-going Father O'Malley and iron-willed Sister Benedict find themselves in a subtle battle of wits over how the children should be educated at St. Mary's parochial school. Meanwhile, the skinflint businessman next door wants the school condemned.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2003

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

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Bells 2003

Summary: Join the Portokalos family as they travel to a family reunion in Greece for a heartwarming and hilarious trip full of love, twists, and turns. Opa!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

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

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

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: David is a 12-year-old boy who escapes from a Communist concentration camp. He has little more with him than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into a world free of Communism for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. For David, this is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where he slowly...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2005

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2005

Lustig, Arnost

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1986

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUS

Marias, Javier

Summary: "Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tom©Łs Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tom©Łs studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Lakemeier, Martijn

Summary: After helping a wounded British paratrooper towards the end of World War II, a young teenage Dutch boy becomes involved in the Resistance and matures as he confronts the realities of war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN WIN

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Summary: "T'Challa confronts a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman terrorist group calling itself The People sparks a violent uprising, the land famed for its incredible technology and proud warrior traditions will be thrown into turmoil. As suicide bombers terrorize the population, T'Challa struggles to unite his citizens,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 BLA

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC COA

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Summary: Shuri has returned, changed with mysterious supernatural powers, but Wakanda has changed too. She works to appease her restless countrymen, from conversing with philosophy professor Changamire whose teachings inspired rebel leader Tetu, and dealing with the rogue Dora Milaje, led by Ayo and Aneka, the Midnight Angels.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 0000

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC COA

Chau, Chan

Summary: Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC CHA

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Summary: "The Midnight Angels face-off against War Dogs under Tetu and Zenzi's control; T'Challa seeks Tony Stark's advice on finding the man behind the city square attack; Shuri learns a lesson from a griot resembling Ramonda in the Djalia"--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC COA

Martins, Sara

Summary: A British cop is out of his element after he is sent to the tiny island of Sainte Marie to solve a murder case.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV De 4

Summary: Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STA

Cerato, Mattia

Summary: When a young boy's father is worried about the crops and his mother loses her job, the boy worries as well. He tries counting sheep to help him sleep but they only multiply. Then he has a solution as a result of believing in his dreams.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Red Chair Press 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CER