Summary: The story centers on Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern-day São Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers' needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val's estranged daughter Jessica shows up, the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SECSummary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MISSummary: Based on a true story, Darlene longs for love, family and passion. She leaves her small rural town to find the one man that can fulfill all of her desires. One child, still single and three years later, Darlene, comes back home. She accepts a marriage proposal from a neighbor who turns her into his personal slave. Her husband's cousin comes to live with them and she finds comfort with him. A...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MECash, Johnny
Summary: The Essential Johnny Cash was issued to commemorate Cash's 70th birthday. All of his very biggest hits are here in this 2-disc, 36 track collection.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL COUNTRY CASContents: Areia de Salamansa (Cesaria Evora) -- Nos morna (Ildo Lobo) -- Preto é mi (Tito Paris) -- Choros (Boy Gé Mendes) -- Sonho d'um criol (Fantcha) -- Jailza (Bau) -- D'Zemcontre (Marie Alice) -- Raiz (Simentera) -- Stancia (Mindel Band) -- Bengosin (Katchupa Rica) -- Diogo nos raça (Mobafuco) -- Tonte vontande (Téofilo Chantre) -- Anildo Morais (Luis Morais) -- Nha confisão (Celina Pereira) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tinder Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN SPISummary: Doug is the king, but his wife Carrie really rules the roost. Doug is the ultimate guy's guy from Queens, New York. A blue-collar husband who loves his wife so much he is willing to sacrifice his rec room so her father, Arthur, and sister can move in, a decision he's been regretting ever since. Doug's free time is split between quality time with his wife and play time with his buddies. This...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD KINRagana
Contents: Desolation's Flower (8:29 min) -- Woe (6:35 min) -- Ruins (5:55 min) -- DTA (4:04 min) -- Winter's Light Pt. 2 (7:10 min) -- Pain (3:57 min) -- In the Light of the Burning World (5:15 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Flenser 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RAGSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYFinder, Rena
Summary: "The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FINDavid-Guillou, Angèle
Contents: Valley of detachment -- A question of angels -- Absolutely not -- Akrotiri -- Forgetting trees -- Quid pro quo
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Village Green 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DAVSummary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: When two fathers find themselves out of work, they decide to start a day care center. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing prestigious children's academy tries, with hilarious results, to put them out of business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DADCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Daddy 2003Summary: Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Mini-series about Octavius and Marc Anthony's struggle to control ancient Rome following Julius Caesar's assassination.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMPSummary: Inspired by the legend of Shields 'Emperor' Green, a descendant of African kings turned outlaw slave in the pre-Civil War South. Seeking freedom for his family, Emperor fights his way north, joining the daring raid on Harper's Ferry and helping alter the course of American history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EmSummary: In these all-new episodes, the doctor continues his practice in the picturesque seaside town of Portwenn, while raising his son with wife Louisa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Do 8Summary: All is not well for brilliant but boorish Dr. Martin Ellingham as the hit British dramedy returns. To Martin's utter disgust, his medical practice remains under official scrutiny because of his pre-existing blood phobia, and he is forced to attend refresher courses starting with phlebotomy. His wife, Louisa, and aunt Ruth urge him to take this risk to his career seriously, but events conspire...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Do 9Various Artists
Contents: Space odyssey. -- Think twice. -- Revelation. -- Baby needs new shoes. -- There is a God. -- Church. -- Enterluud. -- Vernors. -- Too high. -- Highest. -- Midnight at the twenty grand. -- A taste of tribe. -- The way we make music. -- Revelation reprise.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ropeadope Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ DETSummary: Two people meet in Las Vegas and form a bond based on unconditional acceptance and mutual respect that will change each of them forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LEASummary: On the night of the dedication ceremony of the world's tallest skyscraper, a raging blaze breaks out, threatening the party-goers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Contents: 1. Loss (Regis version) / Ike Yard -- 2. He was human and belonged with humans (Regis version) / Dalhous -- 3. Blood witness (original 12" mix) / Regis -- 4. Church of all images (Regis version) / Vatican Shadow -- 5. Manbait (Regis version) / Family Sex -- 6. Blinding horses (original 12" mix) / Regis -- 7. C U 1 (original mix) / Cub -- 8. Blood witness (downward extended version) / Regis --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC REGSummary: Young Louisa Ginglebusher is recruited from a local orphanage to become an usherette at a movie theater. Encouraged by her kindly guardian to spread her wings, Louisa decides to lead the life of a fairy tale angel and in her quest to do good she tries to redirect money from a rich playboy to a struggling lawyer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002