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African American college students Drama Cardiff (Wales) Drama College radio stations Drama College students United States Drama College students, White Drama Detective and mystery stories Extraterrestrial beings Drama Human-alien encounters Drama Intelligence officers Wales Cardiff Drama Serial murder investigation FictionSummary: A black comedy about a rich, disturbed, young man, fascinated with death and funerals, who has an affair and a series of adventures with an eccentric and independent 80-year-old woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HARSummary: Troy, Gabriella, Chad and Sharpay are getting ready to graduate from high school. Troy is the school basketball champ who secretly wants to sing and dance. His girlfriend is Gabriella, but is going to a college that is far away from Troy. Troy's bestfriend is Chad. He doesn't want high school to end. The evil Sharpay wants Gabriella's part in the school play. As college approaches, the senior...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HIGSummary: For Troy, Gabriella, Chad, and Taylor, summer vacation is no day at the beach. Thanks to Troy, they are all working at a country club founded by Ryan and Sharpay's family. The club's annual talent show is right around the corner and Sharpay's competitive instincts are sizzling. She dumps Ryan as her singing partner and starts wooing Troy to join her onstage instead. Gabriella is not very happy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family High 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HIGAshby, Madeline
Summary: "New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd. Hwa is of the few people in her community to forgo bio-engineered enhancements, but her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASHSummary: When their village is invaded by the grumpy Bergens, two mismatched friends must work together in perfect harmony to save the day. Featuring hit songs performed by Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TROSummary: Poppy and Branch discover that they are but one of six different Trolls tribes scattered over six different lands and devoted to six different kinds of music: Funk, Country, Techno, Classical, Pop and Rock. A member of hard-rock royalty, Queen Barb, aided by her father King Thrash, wants to destroy all other kinds of music to let rock reign supreme. With the fate of the world at stake, Poppy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Trolls 2020Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TrFordon, Kelly
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction SC Fordon 2015Fordon, Kelly
Summary: If you thought the suburbs were boring, think again. Kelly Fordon's I Have the Answer artfully mixes the fabulist with the workaday and illuminates relationships and characters with crisp, elegant prose and dark wit. The stories in Fordon's latest collection are disquieting, humorous, and thought-provoking. They might catch you off guard, but are always infused with deep humanity and tenderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORSummary: Based on the acclaimed movie, this is an episodic series that tells the story of a group of black students navigating the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly as post-racial as it thinks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEASummary: Led by Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible. From an underground base built on a rift in time and space, the team responds to any alien threat-- a meteorite crash landing, sightings of extra-terrestrial technology, an unusual autopsy report, the spread of a deadly alien virus. Everyone who works for Torchwood is under 35. Some day that's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TORSummary: Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, to the good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Momentum Pictures 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Ithaca 2016Summary: When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHISummary: A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUSSummary: When a brilliant video game maker named Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world and becomes part of the very game he is designing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TROHirschfeld, Corson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIRRedwood, Jordyn.
Summary: Dr. Lilly Reeves is a young, accomplished ER physician with her whole life ahead of her. But that life instantly changes when she becomes the fifth victim of a serial rapist. Believing it's the only way to recover her reputation and secure peace for herself, Lilly sets out to find--and punish--her assailant. Sporting a mysterious tattoo and unusually colored eyes, the rapist should be easy to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kregel Publications 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDSummary: New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHESummary: During a road trip with her husband, a woman is abducted by a methodical, calculating psychopath. Her husband becomes obsessed with learning her fate, and neither time nor the love of another woman can end his tormented quest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VANVerdon, John.
Summary: Recently retired after a prestigious career with the NYPD, homicide detective Dave Gurney is pulled back into service when an old college friend receives threatening letters from a murderous sender who has an uncanny ability to read a person's thoughts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERGodden, Rumer
Summary: A story of Rumer Godden's life after her return from Indai to England with her daughters in 1945, the period from war's end to the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 GODGárdos, Péter
Summary: July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence: his lungs are filled with fluid and in six months he will be gone. But Miklos has other plans. He didn't survive the war only to drown from within, and so he wages war on his own fate. He acquires the names of the 117...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARGarden, Nancy.
Summary: Liza puts aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at school, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARVerdon, John
Summary: "It's always a pleasure to watch a keen mind absorbed in a difficult puzzle, which is how Dave Gurney distinguishes himself in John Verdon's tricky whodunits." -- The New York Times Tensions have been running high in White River as it approaches the anniversary of a fatal shooting of a black motorist by a local police officer. The racially polarized city is on edge, confronted with angry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerdon, John
Summary: "Could a nightmare be used as a murder weapon? That's the provocative question confronting Gurney in the thrilling new installment in this series of international bestsellers. The former NYPD star homicide detective is called upon to solve a baffling puzzle: Four people who live in different parts of the country and who seem to have little in common, report having had the same dream-a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2016