Summary: Follows the lives of eight young Americans who share one goal: to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. The Bee is as intense a competition as any Olympic match, for both the spellers and their families. The unbearable pressure becomes even more extraordinary when it is felt by ordinary teenagers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SPESummary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHESummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARKalush, William.
Summary: After years of struggling on the dime museum circuit, Harry Houdini got a break that put him on the front page of a Chicago newspaper. Soon Houdini was performing for royalty, commanding vast sums, and exploring the new power of Hollywood. At a time when spy agencies frequently co-opted amateurs, Houdini developed a relationship with a man who would later run MI-5. For the next several years,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 793.8 KALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUDINI, HARRY KALSummary: As the public becomes aware of genetic mutants with special powers and prejudice grow against them, Professor Xavier brings them together to harness their powers for the good of mankind and to combat the evil Magneto; When a military leader hatches a plan to eradicate mutants, the X-men form an alliance with their old enemy Magneto to try and stop him; When science announces a cure for mutant...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE X-MEPARRY,ALAN,LINDA
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HUNT & THORPE 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PARRYSummary: "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: A stellar ensemble cast celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances, and fresh starts in intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NEWSummary: Jan Schlichtmann (Travolta) is a cynical, high-priced personal injury attorney who only takes big-money cases he can safely settle out of court. He takes on a case which at first appears straightforward, but soon becomes entangled in a labyrinthine legal battle involving industrial pollution, contaminated drinking water, and the deaths of innocent children in New England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999
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Summary: Emily, a beautiful attorney from the midwest finds herself deeply aroused by a self-made millionaire she meets while on a business trip to Rio de Janeiro. Several surprising encounters with him reveal that he controls everything in his world including her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Michael Peterson was 19 years old in 1974. Reckless, and hoping to make a name for himself, he picked up a homemade sawed-off shotgun and set off to rob a post office. Caught and arrested soon after, he was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison. Ultimately, Peterson ended up behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which were spent in solitary confinement. While incarcerated, his alter ego,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BROFlorida Georgia Line
Contents: Tyler got him a Tesla (featuring Brother Jervel) (skit) -- Can't say I ain't country -- Simple -- Talk you out of it -- All gas no brakes (featuring Brother Jervel) (skit) -- Speed of love -- Women (featuring Jason Derulo) -- People are different -- Toldyou -- Sack'a puppies (featuring Brother Jervel) -- Y'all boys (featuring Hardy) -- Small town -- Sittin' pretty -- Catfish nuggets (featuring...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY FloGreen, Larry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Publishing 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 731.462 GRESummary: Professional gunfighter Paladin was a West Point graduate who, now that the Civil War is over, has firmly settled into San Francisco's Hotel Carlton where he has been awaiting responses to his trademark business cards.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HAVSummary: Olive Oyl, Wimpy, Bluto and others join Popeye in his adventures in the harbor town of Sweethaven.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: During the 1988 presidential campaign, Democratic hopefuls spiritedly canvass the country, jostle for their party's nomination and the honor of opposing Republican Vice President George Bush. Then Senator Jack Tanner suddenly emerges from the shadows of a lengthy political hiatus to challenge candidates such as Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, and Michael Dukakis. Tanner is a fictitious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TANSummary: Biographical film about one of the most exciting and controversial figures of the '60s, Jim Morrison. With his rock and roll band, The Doors, he influenced the rock music scene as no other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BARSummary: In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault. Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage now finds himself thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same day over and over, fighting and dying each time. With each "life", Cage learns more fighting skills, so that when he and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LIVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiSummary: "Centuries after a fearsome race of giants was defeated in battle and banished to a sky kingdom, a young farmhand named Jack ... unwittingly causes an enormous beanstalk to take root. In the process, his beloved Princess Isabelle is carried miles into the clouds, straight into the clutches of the bloodthirsty giants. Now, with the help of the king's military commander ... this unlikely hero...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu3D DVD Movie JackSummary: With the emergance of the world's first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016