Summary: Jazz legend Chet Baker's tumultuous life is thrillingly re-imagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BORBaier, Bret
Summary: "Becca, Zack, Cam, and Thomas are best friends who may seem like an unlikely group on the surface but who have something very important in common: a love of history! Together, they make up their school's history club that has an all-important secret mission: stop the villainous History Twister's plot to destroy the past, forever altering the future. Knowledge of history is their superpower as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC BAISummary: Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Worlds 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STASummary: Creed: Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: SDS 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRESummary: Life has become a balancing act for Adonis Creed. Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight, he is up against the challenge of his life. Facing an opponent with ties to his family's past only intensifies his impending battle in the ring. Rocky Balboa is there by his side through it all and, together, Rocky and Adonis will confront their shared legacy, question what's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CRESummary: Chronicling the extraordinary life of Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Biggie transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to a pregnant woman) to superstardom. He has to juggle the increasing demands of fatherhood, marriage, and a music career that is strife with chaos and controversy. On March 8, 1997, in Los...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOTSummary: Alan Swann is a legendary movie idol forced by the IRS to face the music--deportation or a TV appearance to pay up. Benjy is in charge of making sure Swann shows up sober. You are taken behind the scenes during the early days of live variety shows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOCheek, Chip
Summary: "Late September 1957. Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon only to find the town is deserted. Feeling shy of each other and isolated, they decide to cut the trip short. But before they leave, they meet a glamorous set of people who sweep them up into their drama. Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHESummary: Wayne Wang's follow-up to his watershed indie Chan Is Missing is a family portrait that gracefully combines the director's signature gentle humanism and eye for poignant detail. Offering another fresh perspective on San Francisco's Chinese American community, Wang takes a bittersweet look at the generational pas de deux between an aging immigrant widow and her devoted daughter, torn between...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY DIMLaker, Rosalind.
Summary: Nikolai and Juliette are separated by circumstances when he is called home to take up family duties and she finds herself trapped by the Great War in Italy. Not until peace has been restored can they be reunited in Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAKSummary: "The Man of Steel Stars in DC's New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC's iconic Eisner Award-winning Batman: Black & White anthology series, DC proudly announces Superman: Red & Blue, a new anthology mini-series presenting fresh new takes on the Man of Steel. Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red and blue streak in the sky, it's not a bird...it's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUPBacker, Sara
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACLaker, Rosalind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LAKSummary: "By the early-1970s, Chang Cheh was already Shaw Brothers' most prolific and well-known director with a plethora of box office hits (including the One-Armed Swordsman franchise) to his name and renowned for discovering the hottest young talents to star in his films. Three of those stars - David Chiang, Ti Lung and Alexander Fu Sheng - all feature in Five Shaolin Masters and Shaolin Temple, two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SHACheek, Chip
Summary: "It's 1957, and Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon. It's September, though, and the town is deserted. Feeling shy of each other and isolated, they decide to cut the trip short. But before they leave, they meet a glamorous set of people who sweep them up into their drama. There's Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CHESummary: Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008. Then he encounters police officers in a transit station. They kill him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FRUBanker, Ashok
Summary: In a world where demigods and demons walk among mortals, the Emperor of the vast Burnt Empire has died, leaving a turbulent realm without an emperor. Two young princes, Adri and Shvate, are in line to rule, but birthright does not guarantee inheritance: For any successor must sit upon the legendary Burning Throne and pass The Test of Fire. Imbued with dark sorceries, the throne is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANChau, Chan
Summary: Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC CHAChew, Ruth.
Summary: When Nora and Tad observe a squirrel reading a little newspaper and their dog behaving strangely, they decide their new neighbor is a witch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CHESummary: After an accident in the lab of the maniacal Dr. Barsinister, an ordinary beagle named Shoeshine finds he has some unimaginable powers, along with the ability to speak. Underdog vows to protect the citizens of Capitol City, and one beautiful spaniel named Polly Purebred.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY UNDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Underdog 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UND RATED PGChan, Reika
Summary: Based on the hit Nick Jr. TV show, this Level 1 reader, which comes with a sheet of stickers, follows Peppa as she goes to the eye doctor and takes an eye test.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CHAWilliamson, Chet.
Summary: The story centers around a renovated theater in Pennsylvania and is arranged in three acts, plus overture and curtain call. The tension in Act I heightens as the reader must decide if this is a murder mystery, psychodrama, horror or fantasy, with the author offering clues to support each possibility. Theaters have a history of ghosts and accidents, but as the number of deaths at the Venetian...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Press 2010
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Summary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016