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Alpha Alpha. Althea. Blondy, Alpha Islet Kupersmith, Violet Peto, Violet Sampha Violet, MiaSummary: In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UTA1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UTA
Summary: A deaf mute boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the "tribe". (imdb.com) An undeniably original and intense feature debut set in the insular world of a Ukrainian high school for the deaf. It unfolds through the non-verbal acting and sign language from a cast of deaf...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRIAlpha
Contents: Still (4:07) -- Eon (3:49) -- Dim (4:57) -- South (3:42) -- Almost there (4:36) -- Wise (6:23) -- Especial (5:26) -- Wishes (3:28) -- Clear sky (5:20) -- Al sation (3:20) -- Fort (5:44).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Astralwerks 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AlphaAlpha.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Melankolic/Virgin Records 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ALPSummary: Follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy and her predatory instructor. In a breakthrough role, Noée Abita plays 15-year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps who has been accepted to an elite ski club known for producing some of the country's top professional athletes. Taking a chance on his new recruit, ex-champion turned coach Fred decides to mold Lyz into his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SLASummary: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CAP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF CAP
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAPSummary: A 17-year-old Kurdish refugee, Bilal, has struggled his way through Europe in an attempt to reunite with his girlfriend, who has emigrated to England. When he is stopped in France, he decides to swim the English Channel to complete his journey. While training at a local swimming pool he meets Simon, a middle-aged swim instructor, who agrees to help Bilal, in order to regain the affection of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WELSummary: Based on a true story, "Second Chances" is the uplifting tale of a little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after a car crash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Omega Publications 1999
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Second 1999Summary: When Hades, the god of the underworld, takes his family, Perseus embarks on a mission to defeat him before he can seize ultimate power and unleash hell on earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CLA RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Clash 2010Summary: Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation to France as well as a camcorder. Boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves to be a barrier for Bean. He struggles to catch his train to the south of France. He orders a seafood meal and finds the consumption of the platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Russian film director Emil,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MR.Summary: A satirical drama reflecting the times, about the sense of community, moral courage and the affluent person's need for egocentricity in an increasingly uncertain world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SQUSummary: Follows the adventures of Dominic Da Vinci, coroner of Vancouver, British Columbia, as he investigates suspicious deaths along side the police.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed exclusively by Acorn Media 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Shunned by the township she was raised in, a young Amish woman finds herself enjoying an affluent life in the secular world and engaged to a successful businessman. When a long lost love unexpectedly returns from her past with a startling revelation, she is torn between her newfound modern life and the simplicity of her humble past, and must now choose the life, and the man, that will finally...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ReViolet, Mia
Summary: "This is the deeply personal and witty account of growing up as the kid who never fitted in. Transgender blogger Mia Violet reflects on her life and how at 26 she came to finally realise she was 'trans enough' to be transgender, after years of knowing she was different but without the language to understand why. From bullying, heartache and a botched coming out attempt, through to counselling,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2018
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Summary: "In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra. And in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend, disappears without a trace. Over the course...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Contents: Plastic 100°C -- Blood on me -- Kora sings -- (No one knows me) Like the piano -- Take me inside -- Reverse faults -- Under -- Timmy's prayer -- Incomplete kisses -- What shouldn't I be?
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SAMPeto, Violet
Summary: Simple text and colorful illustrations teach young readers to count from one to ten, inviting them to count the eggs of ten animals, guess their species, and lift interactive flaps to see what their hatched babies look like.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE PETSummary: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TESBlondy, Alpha
Contents: Masada (5:00) -- Multipartisme (MGediocratie) (4:15) -- Rendez-vous (3:30) -- God is one (4:10) -- YGeyGe (4:27) -- Desert Storm (4:23) -- Houphouet Yako (3:38) -- Peace in Liberia (3:43) -- Papa Bakoye (4:31) -- Les chiens (3:31) -- Sciences sans conscience (4:08) -- Fulgence Kassy (3:48) -- =Ca me fait si mal (3:45) -- Mystic night movie (4:00)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Pacific 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE BLOBlondy, Alpha
Contents: 1. Afriki -- 2. Jah houphouet -- 3. Apartheid is Nazism -- 4. Idjidja -- 5. Sahel -- 6. Sebe Allah y'e -- 7. Kiti -- 8. Come back Jesus -- 9. Djinamory.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE BLOSummary: As Eyal finishes the traditional Jewish week of mourning for his late son, his wife Vicky urges him to return to their routine. But just because the shiva has ended doesn't mean it's life as usual. Each coping in their own way, Eyal and Vicky both attempt to regain a sense of control over their future, as they struggle to discover that there are still things in life worth living for.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ONESummary: In the spring of 1942, German troops advanced deep into the Soviet Union en route to Stalingrad. Hitler seriously misjudged the tenacity of the Red Army and was convinced that the city could be conquered before winter. Ordinarily foot soldiers, inadequately clothed and without sufficient food, struggled just to stay alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This fantastically-twisted fairy tale is chock-full of curious characters and special effects. A sad and heartbroken madman, Krank, is aging prematurely because he can't dream. He kidnaps little children, hoping that eventually he will find a way to steal their sleeping thoughts. The story takes the form of a quest, as a sentimental harpooner-turned-fairground strongman, One, sets out to find...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CITAlthea.
Summary: Examines the nature and importance of truth, explains why telling the truth can sometimes be difficult, and describes the negative effects of lying.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 1998