Summary: 1970s, Flint, Michigan. Jackie Moon is a former pop sensation who somehow made enough money from a couple of hit records to buy Flint's semi-pro basketball team, the Tropics. The team consists of a bunch of disorganized losers with one genuine talent named Coffee Black. Despite knowing little about the game, Jackie is the Tropics' coach as well as a player. His greater love involves coming up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SEMKeno, Leigh.
Summary: Antique experts Leigh and Leslie Keno describe more than a dozen of their most fascinating treasure hunts and extraordinary discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 749.213 KENSummary: Shadows: Explores interracial friendships and relationships in the 1950's Beat-era New York City. Faces: Richard and Maria are attempting to escape the anguish of their dissolving marriage by falling in the arms of others. A woman under the influence: Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, but her madness proves to be a problem in their marriage. The killing of a Chinese bookie: To clear his debt,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A parody of reality dating shows in the vein of "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette". He's ready to settle down.. with a stranger! Follow firefighter Mark Orlando through champagne toasts, candles, heartbreak, bubble baths, chocolate, hair extensions, roller skating, betrayal, and spray tans as he looks for the perfect someone to give his hose to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BURAlterman, Eric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 ALTSummary: Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin: A lone trombone playing solo is joined by a trumpet in a duet until a French horn makes it a trio, and so on, as ten instruments, one by one, gather together for a joyous musical performance. Musical Max: When the neighbors start complaining, Max a hippo, stops practicing his trombone, bass, xylophone, flute, harmonica, cymbals and synthesizer, until everyone starts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2006
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD MuAlterman, Glenn
Contents: What is a cold reading? -- 48 basic requirements for all cold readings -- 25 technical rules for all cold readings -- 25 common cold-reading mistakes -- 50 things you need to know about cold reading for theater auditions -- Analysis of cold reading plays -- Exercises for cold reading plays -- 26 tips for cold reading monologues -- Analysis of cold reading monologues -- Exercises for cold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smith and Kraus 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 ALTAlterman, Sharon.
Summary: Congregation Beth El's centennial year reflects upon the history of Jewish life in the Grand Traverse Region: a history that was woven by the fabric of families that settled here. -Sharon Alterman
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Publisher / Publication Date: Congregation Beth El 1985
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3 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R GEN 929.377464 AltermanCall number: R NEL 977.464 Alterman
Summary: Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MCCSummary: "A satirical jab at network medical dramas, Childrens Hospital explores the lives of a group of self-absorbed doctors"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHISummary: Season three finds Chuck Rhoades and Bobby Axelrod in a world that has shifted on its axis. Both men are still determined to destroy the other, but must also battle for their own survival amidst new forces and powerful enemies. Wendy Rhoades, Chuck's wife and Axe's performance coach, is all in for both of them, an uneasy and dangerous position for her, and one that ultimately puts her to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BILSummary: Keeping one step ahead of their bookie, two L.A. gamblers embark on a winning streak that takes them to Reno, Nevada, where they enter a high-stakes poker game against the legendary Amarillo Slim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CALSummary: Eminent psychiatrist Frasier Crane leaves Boston to start life afresh in Seattle. Contains the entire 24 original episodes from the first season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FrasierSummary: U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades goes after hedge fund king, Bobby Axe Axelrod in a battle between two powerful New York figures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BILAlderman, Eric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osborne McGraw-Hill 1988
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Summary: "Sara was at the tender age of 12 when she found the skeleton in her prudish parents' closet: a series of novelty sex books crammed high up on a shelf in her childhood living room, all written by Sara's ordinary suburban dad, Ira. For decades the books were an unspoken secret in Sara's family until Ira developed early onset Alzheimer's disease...and announced he'd be reviving his novelty porn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALTERMAN, SARA FAITH ALTSummary: "Although Buffalo Bill has fought Indians and Civil War battles, nothing can prepare him for his newest challenge: show business! His 'Wild West Show' is hugely popular, but when he signs a former enemy, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, for a featured role, a hysterical clash of cultures reverberates far beyond the boundaries of their sprawling outdoor theater. And the complications only multiply when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRASummary: "Childrens hospital returns for its fifth season to find the doctors relocated to a pediatric clinic on a U.S. Army base in Osaka, Japan."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHIAlderman, Naomi.
Summary: Re-imagines the life of Jesus Christ as told by the four people who were closest to him before his death: his mother, his friend Iehuda, the High Priest of the Temple, and a rebel named Bar-Avo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013