Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: 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 ROOShakespeare, William
Summary: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spark Notes 2003
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 822.33 SHASummary: A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Home Pictures Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MIDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Midnight 2011Summary: "In the murky alleyways of New York City, homeless Maxx huddles in his box and dreams of crushing evil villains. But when he bursts into the colourful netherworld of the Outback, the Maxx is a hero, in full purple splendour. His friend Julie, a freelance social worker, thinks the Maxx's alternate reality is just an escape from the harsh reality of New York - not realizing that she, too, roams...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MTV Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAXSummary: Bob is a playboy who recklessly crashes his boat, necessitating the use of a resuscitator. While the equipment is used on Bob, a beloved physician dies of a heart atttack because the resuscitator was unavailable. To atone for this, Bob decides to become a doctor himself. He becomes involved with the doctor's widow, but an accident that causes her to go blind will shadow the rest of their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MAGSummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: Mollie (Kirstie Alley) is a single working mom who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James (John Travolta), a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late in this baby's-eye view comedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOOSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACShakespeare, William
Summary: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SparkNotes 2003
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Summary: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SparkNotes 2003
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2 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 822.33 SHAShakespeare, William
Summary: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spark Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Play ShakespeareCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 822.33 SHAShakespeare, William
Summary: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spark Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Play ShakespeareCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 822.33 SHASummary: An aging film star retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse to recover from surgery. While there, mysterious forces of revenge emerge from the land where witches were burned.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR SHESummary: As Season Five begins in 1924, the radio is the latest miracle, a new Labour government heralds changes through the land, and Downton's traditional ways are besieged on all fronts. Robert, Mary, and Branson must navigate these shifting sands together to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOWCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Downton 2015Summary: The complete third season of what the New York Post calls 'the best detective show to come along in decades'. Tony Shalhoub plays obsessive-compulsive detective Monk, who assists police in their most baffling cases.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MONSummary: Television's favorite defective detective returns to DVD to solve a new batch of baffling mysteries with his trademark wit, wisdom ... and hand wipes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MONSummary: He's ingenious, he's phobic, he's obsessive-compulsive. Monk's hilarious, offbeat antics have made him unfit for duty, but he's back as a police consultant to help out on their most baffling cases.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MONSummary: When it comes to her three free-spirited daughters, Daphne is just your normal over-protective, overbearing, over-the-top mother. Worried that her youngest daughter, Millie, will end up alone, Daphne meddles in her daughter's love life until she ends up doing all wrong things for all the right reasons - and all in the name of motherly love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BecauseSummary: Two years after the events of season one, Dr. Gemma Foster's husband Simon returns and brings unwelcome complications and instability to Gemma's life and that of her teenage son Tom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: "Victoria Winters and Frank Garner anxiously search for clues to Laura Collins' strange origins and are led to a series of bizarre discoveries. Elizabeth Collins Stoddard orders Laura to leave Collinwood, but Laura secretly visits Elizabeth while she sleeps and places her in a trance. Laura warns Victoria that she will take control of her son, David Collins, but becomes frightened when the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARSummary: Collection of episodes of the television Dark Shadows about a two hundred year old vampire named Barnabas Collins living on his family estate in Maine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARSummary: Little big league: An inspiring family comedy adventure about a boy's determination to put the fun back into baseball after inheriting the Minnesota Twins.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011