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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Farmers China Drama Filipino Americans Drama Interplanetary voyages Interplanetary voyages Drama Interstellar travel Drama Life on other planets Fiction Mars (Planet) Fiction Space ships DramaSummary: Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Lewis) is now a U.S. congressman, and former CIA agent Carrie Mathison (Danes) has returned to civilian life. But when a new and potentially devastating terrorist threat emerges, Brody and Carrie's lives become intertwined once again and they resume their delicate dance of suspicion, deceit and desire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM RATED NRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HomelandSummary: Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE NAKSummary: Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West's most likeable outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they set out for Bolivia with the law on their heels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BUTSummary: In this vibrant, funny, and heartfelt film, a widow and former songstress discover that life can begin anew at any age. With the support of three loyal girlfriends, Carol decides to embrace the world, embarking on an unlikely friendship with her pool maintenance man, pursuing a new love interest, and reconnecting with her daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ILLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I'll 2015Summary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYCalì, Davide
Summary: One morning, when George walks into his kitchen, he finds someone sitting at his table. "Who are you?" he asks. "I'm your shadow," answers the shadow. The shadow follows George--for a walk on the street, fishing on the pier at Coney Island, and everywhere else George goes. Who is this shadow? Is he an annoying pest? Is he a friend? Or is he both? -- amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CALSummary: U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission: to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield. However, his reputation is also growing behind enemy lines, putting a price on his head and making him a prime target of insurgents. He is also facing a different kind of battle on the home front: striving to be a good husband and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AME RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AmCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie American 2015Davies, J. D.
Summary: Beset by pirates, Knights of Malta, and saboteurs, Captain Matthew Quinton sails to Africa in pursuit of a mountain of gold. When a captured Barbary pirate saves his neck with a tall tale of a fabled mountain of gold, Quinton has his doubts. But King Charles II can't resist the chance to outstrip the Dutch with a limitless source of wealth. With the devious pirate O'Dwyer in tow, Quinton...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVSummary: A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOSummary: Presents a collection of mystery stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined that only a secret group of despicable individuals with nothing to lose can avert a potential apocalypse. So, she has assembled the world's most dangerous super villains, given them a powerful arsenal of weapons, and sent them off on a suicide mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SUICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SuSummary: The story of two women who search for meaning in lost loves and missed chances. As one monther looks to her past to gain the strength to face the future, a daughter investigates the emotional wounds which have kept her from finding love. Their stories come together in surprising and deeply moving ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SLESummary: Season One is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series features fan favorites from Season Two of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY: Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock. The series follows Captain Pike and the crew in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: In season two of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, confronts increasingly dangerous stakes, explores uncharted territories, and encounters new life and civilizations. The crew will also embark on personal journeys that will continue to test their resolve and redefine their destinies. Facing friends and enemies both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV STAGlass, Joe
Summary: "In The Pride, Fabman is sick of being seen as a joke. Tired of the LGBTQ+ community being seen as inferior to straight heroes, he thinks it's about damn time he did something about it. Bringing together some of the world's greatest LGBTQ+ superheroes, the Pride is born to protect the world and fight prejudice, misrepresentation, and injustice--not to mention a pesky supervillain or two. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GLASummary: Set in the 15th century, two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. Often interpreted as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France, during which it was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VISSummary: Ben is from a Filipino-American family who is soon to graduate from high school. Currently, most of his family is preoccupied with an elaborate coming-out party being thrown for Ben's sister Rose. Ben isn't too thrilled about having to attend, so he invites his best friends Rick and Doug. To their surprise, Rick and Doug find themselves having a great time getting a glimpse of Filipino culture,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DEBLevine, David D.
Summary: Arabella's wedding plans to marry Captain Singh of the Honorable Mars Trading Company are interrupted when her fiancé is captured by the French and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp on swampy Venus. Now, Arabella must find passage to an enemy-controlled planet in the middle of a war, bribe or fight her way past vicious guards, and rescue her Captain.To do this she must enlist the help of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVLevine, David D.
Summary: "Since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has sought the stars. When William III of England commissioned Capt. William Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, he proved that space travel was both possible and profitable. Now, one century later, a plantation in a flourishing British colony on Mars is home to Arabella Ashby, a young woman who is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVSummary: Same Genius. New World. Florence is thrown into chaos in the wake of the Pazzi conspiracy and Leonardo da Vinci must push the limits of his mind and body to defend the city against the forces of Rome. When the dust settles, friends are buried and rivalries are enflamed. While the Medicis go to unthinkable lengths to deal with new threats, da Vinci continues on his quest to find the fabled Book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DASummary: An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WiCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: WIN RATED RLevine, David D.
Summary: "Hail the conquering heroes! The tyrant Napoleon has been defeated with Arabella and the crew of the Diana leading the final charge. But, victory has come at a tremendous cost. Britain's savior, Lord Nelson, has not survived the final battle and the good people of the Diana must now return to London as both heroes and pallbearers. At last husband and wife, Arabella and Captain Singh seem to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVSummary: Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019