Summary: Could the source of the world's deadliest viruses hold the secret to a healthier and longer life? Bats have a sinister reputation as potential sources for some of the deadliest disease outbreaks: Ebola, MERS, SARS, and most recently, SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BATSummary: From crunchy cricket chips to nutty black soldier fly grubs, leap across cultural and culinary boundaries to explore the insect food industry and how it could benefit health and the warming planet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EDISummary: When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by a new Secretary of Commerce, 'The Great Humanitarian' Herbert Hoover, an operation hailed for its efficiency, grit, and generosity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRESummary: In this episode of Nova, three women at risk of developing Alzheimer's join a groundbreaking study to try to prevent the disease, while sharing their ups and downs, anxiously watching for symptoms, and hoping they can make a difference.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DETSummary: The film tells the story of a 1980 accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas, in minute-by-minute detail through the accounts of Air Force personnel, weapon designers, and first responders who were there, revealing the incredible chain of events that brought America to the brink of nuclear disaster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COMNew, Elisa
Summary: People from all walks of life discuss various American poems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POESummary: 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 ROOSummary: Follows unapologetic and free-spirited Inez, who kidnaps her six-year-old son, Terry, from the foster care system. Holding onto their secret and each other, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability in a rapidly changing New York City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THOSummary: After his dog is killed in Skid Row, Jake Rosser plummets deep into a sinister underworld to uncover the truth about who may be responsible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJE Entertainment, Inc. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: A homeless orphan in Kenya becomes a lucrative businessman, only to give it all up and open an orphanage that today serves over 2,000 Kenyan children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Brainstorm Media 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MULSummary: Four Hispanic high school students organize a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and big dreams, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Spare 2015Summary: Hang on for the adrenaline rush of a lifetime as Jack Bauer unveils darker secrets, faces deadlier conspiracies, and is thrust into more extreme action than ever before! As Day Eight unfolds, Bauer races against the clock to prevent the assassination of a Middle Eastern leader on a vital peace-making mission. Meanwhile, a deadly terrorist threat against New York City intensifies and builds...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWESummary: Apple dumpling gang: A roving bachelor inherits three young orphans and a wealth of problems. When the kids discover a gold nugget they must fend off the greedy townspeople, so they join forces with bumbling outlaws to stage a robbery of the gold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ApSummary: Charlie is seventeen and bored. Her estranged parents are too caught up in their own drama to pay her much attention. Enter Sarah, a confident and charismatic new transfer student who brings with her an alluring air of boldness and danger. The two form an instant connection, and through shared secrets, love interests and holiday getaways their relationship deepens to levels of unspoken intimacy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BREThomson, Erik
Summary: When an Australian newspaper columnist quits his job, he moves with his two teenage children to a remote seaside town in New Zealand.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Entertainment 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV EIGSummary: After the death of his wife, newspaper columnist George Turner decided to move his family from Sydney to the small New Zealand seaside town of Weld. He wanted his kids, Shay and Arlo, to have a fresh start, but all did not go according to plan. In Season Two George must reunite his family and bring Shay home from her self-appointed exile in Australia. George is also finding out what it means to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV EIGSummary: Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GHOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GHO RATED PG13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GhCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GHOSummary: Carol Danvers gets her powers entwined with those of Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau, forcing them to work together to save the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Studios 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie MarvelsCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hopes of winning the state championship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIRSummary: Balto is a true American hero. Join this courageous canine and his daughter, Aleu, as they embark on a thrilling journey of adventure and self-discovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BALSummary: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TeSummary: After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAL RATED GSummary: Almanzo Wilder comes to Walnut Grove with his sister Eliza Jane, the new schoolteacher. The Ingalls decided to adopt Albert. Nels Oleson is reunited with his estranged circus-sideshow sister. Laura and Mary are held captive by escaped convicts. Albert and a friend accidentally set fire to the school for the blind. Almanzo proposes marriage to Laura.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015