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Summary: Algeria-born French intellectual Hélène Cixous is a feminist legend, a May 68 activist, and a major postmodern author. With friends like the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the artist Adel Abdessemed, and stage director Ariane Mnouchkine, Cixous examines the wounds of our time while allowing us to hear the cry of literature. In his "road movie" documentary EVER, RÊVE, HÉLÈNE CIXOUS, director...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC EVESummary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMSummary: The season picks up in the aftermath of Hannah's death and the start of our characters' complicated journeys toward healing and recovery. Liberty High prepares to go on trial, but someone will stop at nothing to keep the truth surrounding Hannah's death concealed. A series of ominous Polaroids lead Clay and his classmates to the discovery that Hannah wasn't the only one to suffer at the hands...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THISummary: Based on the true story of Mother Teresa, the film explores the life's work of the Nobel Peace Prize recipient and one of the greatest humanitarians of all time. Her selfless devotion to helping the poor changed hearts, transformed lives and inspired millions throughout the world. Told through a series of personal letters written to her longtime friend and spiritual advisor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LETCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LET RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LeSummary: Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALLSummary: The continuing story of British transplant Dr. Ruby Walker and the staff of the Good Karma Hospital as they work to heal their patients in modern-day rural India.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GOOSummary: A young British writer moves to Crete to find himself by working in his father's mine, and hires the playful Zorba. He falls in love with a lovely young widow. When she responds to him the townsmen attack her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ZORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZORSummary: A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat and mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FORSummary: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk ways were maintained well into the twentieth century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAUSummary: After a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farm, Nathan Gardner and his family find themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism as it infects their minds and bodies, transforming their quiet rural life into a living nightmare.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CoCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COLSummary: Twelve years afte the events in Frank Herbert's Dune, Maud'Dib--Arrakis emperor Paul Atreides--has become the unintended figurehead of a violent dictatorship, and his enemies are multiplying. Vanishing into the desert, he waits as destiny shapes his twin heirs Leto II and Ghanima, who must contend with their scheming aunt Alia while Princess Wensicia, of the enemy House Corrino, plots her own...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Bluth clan lives a life of excess, funded by the family credit card and paid for by patriarch George whose fortune came from the tract home development business. Oldest son George, nicknamed Gob, is an "illusionist" of minor importance who has anger management issues. Youngest son, Buster, wastes his days taking obscure graduate school courses. Daughter Lindsay is a vain socialite. The only...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ARRSummary: A hobo becomes an overnight celebrity. But, as usual, more fame leads to more power, and more power leads to more corruption. Will he be exposed as the fraud that he is?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Orlando Bloom stars as Balian, a young Frenchman in Medieval Jerusalem during the Crusades, who, having lost everything, finds redemption in a heroic fight against overwhelming forces to save his people and fulfill his destiny as a knight.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Spaceships appear and wonder turns to terror as they attack cities all over the earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF InSummary: The teachers are back at Willard R. Abbott Public School for development week, a time to prepare for the upcoming year before the students first day of school. Post-breakup, Janine is determined to start the year off right and leave her problems at home. Meanwhile, Ava runs a side hustle out of the school parking lot, and Gregory, now a full-time teacher, is in over his head with the curriculum.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ABBSummary: In this workplace comedy from writer/executive producer/star Quinta Brunson and executive producers Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker, a group of teachers is brought together in a Philadelphia public school, because they love teaching. Though outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do even if they don't love the school district's less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ABBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ABBSummary: An updated version of the 1961 Disney classic about separated identical twins. Hallie and Annie meet accidentally at camp and decide to reunite their divorced parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAR RATED PGSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: On the streets of Hollywood, a retired NFL player is saved from scandal by a homeless veteran suffering from PTSD. With their glory days behind them, the two men bond in search of true purpose and identity. Inspired by true events, it dramatizes the formation of Merging Vets & Players, and the film features veterans and former professional athletes both in front of and behind the camera.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MVPSummary: "Billy Batson--aka Shazam!--and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with having adult Super Hero alter egos, but a vengeful trio of ancient gods has arrived on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago. Now, Billy and his family are thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives and the fate of their world"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2023
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHASummary: Basil Rathbone portrays the deductive genius, Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce his mystified colleague, Dr. Watson in these fourteen classic films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010