Summary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIO

Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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

Whyte, Jack

Summary: "Some men strive for greatness. And some men find themselves thrust into the role of their nation's saviors. Such are the two heroes who reshaped and reconfigured the entire destiny of the kingdom of Scotland. Wallace the Braveheart would become the only legendary, heroic, commoner in medieval British history; the undying champion of the common man. The other, Robert Bruce, earl of Carrick,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHY

Summary: In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAP RATED R

Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC RATED PG-13

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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOC

Summary: Paris, 1930. The infamous surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel is left penniless after the scandalous release of L'Age d'Or leads to a falling out with collaborator Salvador Dalí. On a whim, Buñuel's good friend, sculptor Ramón Acín, buys a lottery ticket and promises to devote his winnings to fund Buñuel's next film. Incredibly, Ramón wins the 20,000-pesos jackpot, sending the two friends to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN BUN

Garwood, Haley Elizabeth.

Summary: This is a tale of a warrior, Empress Matilda, daughter of King Henry I of England and granddaughter of William the Conqueeror.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Writers Block 1998

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FAN GARWO

Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOC

O'Brien, Anne

Summary: Orphaned at a young age, Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, seeks a strong husband to keep her hold on the vast lands that have made her the most powerful heiress in Europe. But her arranged marriage to Louis VII, King of France, is made disastrous by Louis's weakness of will and fanatical devotion to the Church. Eleanor defies her husband by risking her life on an adventurous Crusade, and even...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBR

Weir, Alison.

Summary: The author harks back to the twelfth century with a sensuous and tempestuous tale that brings vividly to life England's most passionate and destructive royal couple: Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II. Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor has spent the past dozen frustrating years as consort to the pious King Louis VII of France. For all its political advantages, the marriage has brought...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEI

Summary: Television miniseries chronicling the lives of the Kennedys during the 1960s. Dramatizes the scandal, tragedy, public greatness and private frailty of America's first "royal" family during one of the most momentous decades in history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kennedys Production (Ontario), inc. 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD KEN

Summary: Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2009

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

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

Summary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: At the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency, SOE, to recruit and train women as spies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CAL

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

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

Wiles, Deborah

Summary: One night after a storm, environmental activist Rachel Carson takes her nephew Roger out for a walk by the sea. Includes notes about Rachel Carson, the story, and bioluminescence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WIL

Gaynor, Hazel

Summary: 1917… It was inexplicable, impossible, but it had to be true—didn’t it? When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, claim to have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when one of the great novelists of the time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, becomes convinced of the photographs’ authenticity, the girls become a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAY

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GAY

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1 available in Adult, Call number: P GAY

Summary: Two amateur TV hosts land an interview with the North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un, and are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Chadwick, Elizabeth.

Summary: Fictionalizes the life of William Marshal, who is appointed tutor to Prince Henry, heir to the throne, after he rescues the queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, but William quickly learns of the dangers that are attached to his reward.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Buckley, William F.

Summary: A historical novel that chronicles the life and activities of controversial Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy as seen through the eyes of his faithful follower Harry Bontecou.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUC

Lester, Natasha

Summary: "New York City/Paris, 1942: When American model Jessica May arrives in Europe to cover the war as a photojournalist for Vogue, most of the soldiers are determined to make her life as difficult as possible. But three friendships change that. Journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules. Captain Dan Hallworth keeps her safe in dangerous places so she can capture the stories that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LES

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lester

Summary: A silver-tongued swindler cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying expensive musical instruments and uniforms for a planned boys' marching band. His scam is complicated by his feelings for the local librarian, who is also the only person in town who knows anything about music.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MUS

Summary: Takes place in the 1950's America, during the early days of broadcast journalism. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOO

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

Malmont, Paul.

Summary: A sequel to "The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril" finds Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and their literary associates confronting a powerful adversary who threatens to tip the balance of power during World War II.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAL

Benjamin, Melanie

Summary: "A novel about New York's "Swans" (socialites) of the 1950s--and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEN