Summary: A former heavyweight boxing champion comes out of retirement to fight a 10 round exhibition bout against an opponent who is thirty years younger than he is.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: Despite her premature death at age 39, Flannery O'Connor left behind one of the most haunting and strikingly original bodies of work in 20th Century literature. With the rural South as her backdrop, she brought to life a string of eccentric characters torn between their worldly ambitions and the need for a more enduring truth. This film traces the people and events that shaped her remarkable...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNC

Contents: Disc one, December 23, 1938 concert. Swingin' the blues / Count Basie, Eddie Durham, (Count Basie and his Orchestra) (3:34) -- One o'clock jump / Count Basie, (Count Basie & his Orchestra) (1:11) -- Introduction / John Hammond (0:38) -- Blues with Lips / Count Basie, (Oran "Hot Lips" Page, with Count Basie Orchestra) (3:11) -- I never knew / Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn, (Kansas City Five) (3:11) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FRO

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHI

Dionne, E. J.

Summary: "Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver's licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So why not ask--or require--every American to vote? E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport argue that universal participation in our elections should be a cornerstone of our system. It would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.07 DIO

Summary: "When sad old Eeyore loses his tail, Owl sends the whole gang--Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Kanga and Roo--on a wild journey to help Eeyore and save Christopher Robin from the mysterious Backson"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY WIN

Summary: Quiet high school student, Meg, takes care of her troubled little sister, Lily. Her emotionally unavailable mom is busy at work or school. Meg unleashes her frustrations and pain through her poems, which she shares with her supportive English teacher, Mr. Auster. She wins a regional poetry competition and makes it to the finals in Florida. Meg goes to Florida by herself, where she meets Mr....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Finding 2005

Summary: Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIN RATED PG

Woods, Brenda (Brenda A.)

Summary: In August 1965, twelve-year-old Eden's older cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in Los Angeles, and while the Watts Riots erupt around them, they continue their investigation of the disappearance of Winter's father ten years ago.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOO

Benga

Contents: Zero m2 -- Night -- B4 the dual -- E trips -- Someone 20 -- Light bulb -- Crunked up -- Go tell them -- Cut -- Emotions -- 3 minutes -- Pleasure -- 26 basslines -- Loose synths.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tempa 1990

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BEN

Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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

Maier, Brenda (Brenda J.)

Summary: Loosely adapted from The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Ruby and her brothers want to cross a bridge to pick blueberries, but it is guarded by the bully Santiago--the boys manage to trick him, but clever Ruby takes a different tack, builds her own bridge, and turns Santiago into an ally and friend

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAI

Summary: Shortly before his father's death, Prince Akeem learns that he sired an illegitimate son during his last stay in the United States and now he has to return to Queens to retrieve him to ensure a male successor to the throne.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

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

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COM

Summary: After the wife of knight Jean de Carrouge accuses his squire of assaulting her virtue, King Charles VI declares that the men must fight to the death, leaving the truth to be revealed by God who will let the guilty man perish. This arrangement will leave the woman either berieved or besmirched, her life and position in society ruined no matter the result.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2021

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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LAS

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LAS

Woods, Brenda (Brenda A.)

Summary: Gabriel, twelve, gains new perspective when he becomes friends with Meriwether, a Black World War II hero who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOO

Summary: The story of a butler's daughter who must overcome her butler father's eccentricities to find a husband.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2004

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

Summary: July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2002

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

Summary: Clara is searching for the special key to unlock a box from her late mother. Inside that box is a priceless item that her mother left for her. During her godfather's yearly holiday party, Clara almost gets the key but it disappears. She embarks on a quest into a mysterious world which has four different realms: a snowflakes realm, flowers realm, sweets realm, and the challenging realm where the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2019

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NUT

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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD JUV NUT

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

Summary: What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? In this epic journey into the world of dinosaurs, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GOO

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOO RATED PG

Summary: Halloweentown High: To prove that humans have changed since the "dark times", Marnie invites Halloweentown teenagers to her school. When an evil knight shows up to destroy all things magical, Marnie must save her friends and her own magic. Return to Halloweentown: By now, everyone knows Marnie Piper is a witch. It comes as no surprise when she wins a full scholarship to prestigious Witch...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2019

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HAL

Maier, Brenda (Brenda J.)

Summary: In this adaptation of the Little Red Hen fable, Ruby wants to build a fort, but her three brothers refuse to help, so when the fort is finished Ruby will not let them join her--until the boys come up with a few embellishments for the fort, like a mailbox, a garden, and a fresh coat of paint.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MAI