Eire, Carlos M. N.
Summary: "Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era-tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft-even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2023
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Summary: A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 45,000 years ago, six people searched for a new home in an inhospitable landscape. When night falls, hope turns to fear as they realize they are not alone. Stalked by a terrifying enemy, the group fractures as everyone fights for survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Eire traces the concept of eternity from ancient times to the present. He examines the rise and fall of five different conceptions of eternity, how they developed, and how they have helped shape individual and collective self-understanding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 236.21 EIRSummary: It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSBrown, Jenny
Summary: Traces how the author lost a leg to bone cancer in childhood before connecting with farm animals and questioning her Southern Baptist upbringing to expose what she has learned about slaughterhouse abuses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, JENNY BROSummary: Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel's The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie, marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel. Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALISummary: In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky, the hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable, and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviors. No one quite knows why, and no one foresees the strangest and most dangerous repercussion that will soon start plaguing the town. The dead rise from their graves and savagely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEASummary: A sixteen-year-old boy heads west on a journey across nineteenth century frontier America in search of the woman he loves. He encounters a mysterious traveler named Silas, who protects him from the savage elements and outlaws in a lawless land. But is Silas really watching out for him, or is he tied to the band of thieves tracking their every step?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SLOSummary: The true story of Moe Berg, professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney, and a top-secret spy who helped the US win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CATSummary: When Yvette's second husband suddenly dies days before Christmas, she turns to her three daughters from her first marriage to console her during the holidays. Not wanting their father to be alone, one of the girls invites him to Christmas dinner, forcing their parents to speak to eachother for the first time in 25 years. As their complicated lives converge, secrets are revealed that will test...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUCSummary: The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIN RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie King's 2011Summary: What starts out as a weekly anonymous tryst between a divorced man and a married woman turns into a searing portrait of loneliness and emotional need.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTSummary: On Christmas Eve, psychologist Marcia Fieldstone asks her radio audience to share their dreams for the holiday season. Eight-year-old Jonah calls in from Seattle, with a wish for his dad to find a new wife. Mom died a year-and-a-half ago. Baltimore Sun reporter Annie Reed also hears the broadcast, when Jonah's architect father Sam gets on the air. Sam talks about the magical moment he met his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tri-Star Pictures 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLESummary: Female journalist Arezoon Rahimmi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the 'Spider Killer' Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOLSummary: Divided into two chapters, director Bogdan George Apetri's Miracle begins with the young, beautiful Cristina Tofan sneaking away from an isolated convent. Working in the style of the Romanian New Wave, Apetri withholds key information about her motives as we follow her enigmatic journey, allowing tension to steadily build to a wavering precipice. The film's second part follows Marius Preda, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIRSummary: In the early 1960s in Paris, two young women become friends. Pomme is an aspiring singer. Suzanne is a pregnant country girl unable to support a third child. Pomme lends Suzanne the money for an illegal abortion, but a sudden tragedy soon separates them. Ten years later, they reunite at a demonstration and pledge to keep in touch via postcard, as each of their lives is irrevocably changed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ONESummary: Adam Farmer is 14 and seeks to uncover a secret lost in his subconscious that will help him to locate his parents, who mysteriously disappeared. Adam pieces together fragments of the story that uncovers government corruption and espionage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ISummary: Set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution, two city-bred teenage best friends are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BALSummary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLASummary: A rookie cop inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLAGailey, Sarah
Summary: "In the first arc of WILLOWVERSE, trying to help Buffy heal from her trauma proves to be more than Giles and Willow bargained for! She's left without her powers or identity, and it's up to an unprepared and inexperienced new Slayer to take up the mantle--Willow. But thankfully Willow isn't alone, as the spell also leads to another newly-activated Slayer, serving as a guide for this speed-run of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc. 2023