Summary: Probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran of the Baltimore Fire Department under the watchful eye of his mentor Chief Mike Kennedy. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. As Jack reflects on his life - seeing his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, the impact his job has had on his wife and kids - Chief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LADCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LADSummary: Originally produced as episodes of the television program Homicide, life on the street in 1993 & 1994.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The men and women of the Baltimore Police Homicide Division keep pace with the killers who ensure thier skills will always be needed. Includes all 22 episodes from season four.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: An urban epic set in Baltimore, where police detectives investigate cases involving the illegal drug trade, the seaport system, the city government and its bureaucracy, the school system, and the print news media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2010
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIRSummary: 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: With dark humor and edgy determination, the men and women of the Baltimore Homicide Division battle one of the nation's top murder rates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: Considered the most realistic cop drama ever aired, Homicide: life on the street gives viewers a unique cops'-eye view of one of the most challenging jobs imaginable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: When gambling debt and an expensive courtship place working-class brothers in a financial bind, a rich uncle offers them an out in exchange for committing murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: Propelled by his best friend's impending move out of state and inspired by Ferris Bueller's Day Off, sixteen-year-old Harrison plans a farewell through Baltimore that includes a road trip, their first Pride, and a rooftop dance party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOSummary: NYFD fire fighter Tommy Gavin and company face new challenges and old demons. As the season begins, Tommy is in the fight of his life, defending himself against arson and insurance fraud. He struggles to raise his new baby while facing paternity questions and fighting to keep his family together. Franco seems ready to settle into a steady relationship, but is shaken when he loses custody of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RESSummary: Based on a true story, an inner-city Baltimore family copes with ever-present drug traffic and violence in their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Chuck and Larry are the pride of their fire station. Two guy's guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Widower Larry wants just one thing, to protect his kids. His buddy Chuck also wants on thing, to enjoy the single life. Grateful Chuck owes Larry for saving his life in a fire, and Larry calls in his marker when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY I NOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD I NOWWise, Leo J.
Summary: "In 2015 and 2016, Baltimore was reeling after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody and the protests that followed. In the midst of this unrest, a violent, highly trained, and heavily armed criminal gang roamed the city. They robbed people, sold drugs and guns, and divided the loot and profit among themselves. They had been doing it for years. But these were not ordinary career...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 WISSummary: "A bourgeois woman is driving alone on a dirt road when she becomes distracted and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she becomes dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. The police confirm that there were no accidents reported in the area and everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEAGiffels, David.
Summary: "Award-winning author and journalist David Giffels explores the meaning of identity and place, hamburgers, hard work, and basketball in this collection of wry, irreverent essays reflecting on the many aspects of Midwestern culture and life from an insider's perspective.The Industrial Midwest built modern America, thrived for almost a century, then profoundly collapsed. But for cities like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0977 GIFBartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.52 BARSummary: Follows a single sprawling drug investigation in Baltimore, against the backdrop of the mayor's reelection campaign. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, where easy distinctions between good and evil are challenged at every turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIRCoates, Ta-Nehisi
Summary: "A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 COASummary: Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation to France as well as a camcorder. Boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves to be a barrier for Bean. He struggles to catch his train to the south of France. He orders a seafood meal and finds the consumption of the platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Russian film director Emil,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: "At nine-years-old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad's lotto numbers, keeping his Nikes free of creases, and being a man. Directly in his periphery is east Baltimore, a poverty-stricken city battling the height of a crack epidemic just hours from the nation's capital. Watkins, like many boys around him, is thrust out of childhood and into a world where manhood means...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WATKINS, D. (DWIGHT) WATSummary: Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DINMoore, Wes
Summary: Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Baltimore. New Year's Eve. A talented but troubled police officer is recruited by the FBI's chief investigator to help profile and track down a disturbed individual terrorizing the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023