Summary: Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.Alender, Katie
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALEYates, Maisey
Summary: "Being his brother's best man is a privilege for Kit Carson. The rancher likes his future sister-in-law . . . and he really likes her sister, Shelby Sohappy. Now that he and Shelby are thrown together for wedding preparations, Kit can finally make his move. Shelby is still grieving her husband, so his offer is just one night with no strings -- he knows her heart can't handle more. Kit is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC YATAlexander, Kwame
Summary: Before Josh and Jordan Bell were streaking up and down the court, their father was learning his own moves. In this prequel to Newbery Medal winner The Crossover, Chuck Bell takes center stage, as readers get a glimpse of his childhood and how he became the jazz music worshiping, basketball star his sons look up to. A novel in verse with all the impact and rhythm readers have come to expect from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC ALEAlexander, Louise (Louise Shirreffs)
Summary: "Hearth's Warming Eve is a very special day. It is a time when families gather to remember when the three pony tribes joined in harmony and founded Equestria. When Applejack's and Pinkie Pie's families celebrate the holiday together, however, they soon realize that not everypony has the same traditions. What can the two different families learn from each other?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids, Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.McCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: It's not that poor Bertie Pollock is wishing his life away, but having anticipated his seventh birthday for so long he's now longing to be eighteen. But before then there's a lot of living to do and Bertie is not alone amongst the residents of Scotland Street in trying to do just that--with mixed fortunes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "In the microcosm of 44 Scotland Street, all of life's richness is found in the glorious goings-on of its residents. There s Domenica, whose anthropological training has honed her observations of her neighbors; Matthew, whose growing triplets are more than a handful; Bruce, whose challenge as ever is thinking of anything but himself; and Big Lou, who may just have found her shot at romance. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction McCall-Smith 2022Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: "Dr. Peter Guthrie and Joe Haskell break into Laura Murdoch Stockbridge's crypt at Eagle Hill Cemetery. David Collins informs Victoria Winters that he wants to go away with his mother, Laura. Guthrie arranges to conduct a seance at the Old House to contact Josette Collins' ghost. Victoria makes a bizarre discovery that leads her to believe David's life is in jeopardy after Laura summons him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARSummary: With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, this television program became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. In these episodes, when Victoria Winters searches the Old House for David Collins, she is abducted and held captive by Matthew Morgan, the Collinses' fugitive caretaker who is hiding following the death of family friend Bill Malloy. A massive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARSummary: Contains 35 of the series' rare, early episodes before Barnabas. Victoria Winters' journey begins as her train arrives in Collinsport. An orphan in search of her identity, Victoria is befriended by Burke Devlin. At the eerie Collinwood mansion, Victoria meets matriarch Elizabeth, her brother Roger, his son David, and Elizabeth's daughter Carolyn. David warns Victoria that she will regret she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARSummary: With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue, this television program became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. In these episodes, Collinwood's surly caretaker, Matthew Morgan, informs Victoria Winters that he believes the ghost of Josette Collins and other spirits inhabit the estate. In an attempt to settle the controversy surrounding the manslaughter...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARReynolds, Jason
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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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC REYReynolds, Jason
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: The story of the Henry family as they experience World War II in Europe and the Pacific, depicting the final years of the war and its impact on everyday people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WARSummary: Love is in the clear mountain air of Everwood. Back from Juilliard, Ephram commits himself to his music and to Amy, Dr. Jake Hartman moves to town and starts eating lots of pancakes, as long as Nina's serving them, and Hannah Rogers flips over Bright. But love can't conquer all, especially when the secret Andy kept from Ephram comes spilling out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiSummary: After skirting the horrors of an unidentified war being waged in an anonymous countryside, a beautiful young woman takes refuge in a remote farmhouse where she becomes embroiled in the surreal domestic odyssey of a mysterious family. Evocatively shot by cinematographer Sven Nykvist, 'Black Moon' is a Freudian tale of adolescent sexuality set in a post-apocalyptic world of shifting identities...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLASummary: Amy and the rest of the Bartlett-Fleming family embrace the future as they continue to heal. As each family member moves forward, they pull together to help each other...ending up stronger than ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV HEASummary: It centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside. The dynamic of their overcrowded household is disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy taken in as a farmhand and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family. Both intrusions are of particular interest to the eldest daughter, who is struggling to find her footing in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WONSummary: Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah, living right next door, and makes a quick friend in Champ. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah's mysterious dad is in fact R.L. Stine, the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. As Zach starts learning about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOO RATED PGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV GOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J JDVD GoosebumpsSummary: Goosebumps: Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets the next-door neighbor Hannah, daughter of the best-selling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. Stine is very mysterious and a prisoner of his own imagination - the monsters that his books made famous are real, and he protects his readers by keeping them locked in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018