Summary: 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 TWI

Summary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEA

Summary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MY

Summary: Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAY

Anderson, C. W. (Clarence William)

Summary: A little boy who loves horses gets a special birthday present.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2000

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3 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AND

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AND

Anderson, C. W. (Clarence William)

Summary: A youngster outgrows carved ponies and stuffed ponies, and finally he wants a gray pony, with spots, please, and alive.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 1997

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3 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AND

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AND

Anderson, C. W. (Clarence William)

Summary: Billy and his loyal pony Blaze attempt to tame the wild horse Thunderbolt.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1993

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3 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AND

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AND

Anderson, C. W. (Clarence William)

Summary: Billy and his pony Blaze get lost in the woods with a storm approaching.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2000

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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AND

Anderson, C. W. (Clarence William)

Summary: When Billy and his pony Blaze discover a small forest fire, they ride over a dangerous trail to give the alarm at the nearest farmhouse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1992

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AND

Anderson, C. W. (Clarence William)

Summary: While riding through the open country near his family's ranch house, Billy and his pony Blaze come across a dangerous mountain lion.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2000

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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AND

Anderson, C. W. (Clarence William)

Summary: Billy and his friend Tommy enter their ponies in the pair jumping contest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1994

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3 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AND

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AND

Anderson, C. W. (Clarence William)

Summary: Billy and his pony Blaze discover the way to an abandoned quarry where they perform a brave deed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 1994

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AND

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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AND

Summary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOI

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: A nineteen year old girl spends the summer in Italy, determined to fulfill two dreams. The first, to consummate the romance with the Italian boy she fell in love with four years earlier, and the second, to discover the identity of her father through clues in her mother's diary.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STE

Summary: Kresten is enjoying life as a successful businessman and a newlywed (he's just married the boss' daughter). But when he receives a phone call informing him of his father's untimely passing, his comfortable new life is thrown into turmoil. He's kept his poor, small-town past a secret from his new wife and her family and must sneak away to settle family business before his cover is blown.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2000

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIF

Summary: The once-lawless frontier settlement has grown into a town on the threshold of South Dakota's statehood and modernization. Still, the past isn't easily dismissed as old feuds are revived, sins recalled, and allegiances tested.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEA

Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOP

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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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RAN

Bernhard, Susan

Summary: "When the spring thaw of a frozen Minnesota lake brings about shocking revelations that lead to violence, 15-year-old Wes Ballot embarks on a search for his missing father, the truth about his mother's death and a future he must claim for himself."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BER

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1 available in Adult, Call number: P BER

Summary: Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2000

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOP