Summary: Season two explodes into action with the brash Cody bad boys in the midst of a high-adrenaline heist. Their haul is a dud, and the frustrated brothers rebel against their all controlling mother, Smurf, as well as each other. An external threat from Smurf's past adds to the chaos, jeopardizing her gift, and ominous responsibility.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANISummary: Fasten your sofa belts for another fiendishly futile attempt at world domination for Stewie and a diaper full of fun. Television's most outrageous animated family finds itself in all sorts of comically compromising situations, including Chris doing chores for a dirty old man, Meg working as Mayor West's intern, Lois reuniting with her homicidal brother, Brian attending college, Stewie attacked...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAMSummary: 15-year old Mia is a foul-mouthed, belligerent teen living on an Essex estate [public housing] with her mother Joanne and precocious little sister Tyler. She has been excluded from school and is awaiting admission to a referrals unit, spending her days aimlessly. Her only escape--besides smoking, drinking an occasional swiped bottle of booze, and fist fighting with the neighbor girls--is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FISSummary: Imprisoned vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better and are in need of his protection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Dark 2012Summary: When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIXJodorowsky, Axel
Summary: A young man who was traumatized as a child by his family of circus performers escapes the mental hospital he is in to rejoin his armless mother and, with the son becoming his mother's arms, the two go on a murderous campaign of revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin Films 2011
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SANSummary: Witness panicky Peter's first prostate exam; see lovable Lois jump into bed with Bill Clinton; watch miserable Meg get a crappy job at the local superstore; hear crazy Chris sing in a goth band; follow boozing Brian all the way to Iraq and back; and glimpse smitten Stewie as he hooks up with a very young old flame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Willy Loman is the iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with greatness and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 812.52 MILSummary: Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KILSummary: Charismatic but conceited Victoria 'Sando' Sandringham made a name for herself as the 'package deal queen' of her furniture empire. But after an outrageous indiscretion at the wedding of her daughter, Susie, Sando's family cut her out of their lives. Ten years later, Sando is being forced out of her company, too. With nowhere to go, she tries to worm her way back into her family's good graces,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SANStrout, Elizabeth.
Summary: Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lay the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STRSummary: When Cam has a manic breakdown that lands him in a mental hospital, his wife Maggie applies to business school and is accepted. Seeing this as her chance to build a better life for their daughters, Maggie asks Cam to become the primary caregiver for the girls while she completes her degree in New York. After all, routine is what the doctor ordered and the girls miss their dad. Cam agrees,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INFSummary: After being abused by their dysfunctional families, pre-teen neighbors Dylan and Kylie decide to run away from home on Christmas Eve. The two set off in search of Dylan's brother who had made his own escape two years prior. At first Dublin is a colorful kaleidoscope of wonder and mystery, but as the night wears on, the city takes on a darker character, and the two must rely on the kindness of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this hysterical assortment of twenty-three uncensored Family Guy episodes, Peter has another painful encounter with the angry Giant Chicken, Quagmire tries to get giggity with Meg, and Brian and Stewie are beside themselves when they travel back in time to the show's pilot episode.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAMSummary: Tillsammans, ('Together' in English), is a commune in the heart of Stockholm, still going strong in 1975, long after most members of youth culture have abandoned their notions of free love, harmoniously integrated extended families, and naive political idealism in favor of jobs, discos, and TV sitcoms. The commune's 'leader' is sweet, conflict-avoiding Goran. The arrival of his conventional,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Memfis Film 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOGSummary: When seventeen year old J's mother dies of an overdose, he calls his grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, who invites him to come live with her. A Ma Barker camouflaged as a cheery suburban grandmother, she dotes on her roguish boys, and looks to add J to the mix. The oldest is Pope, a gunman off his meds, unhinged drug dealer Craig, and baby-faced youngest Darren. The brothers, along with Pope's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ANISummary: Season Four finds the Gallaghers braving another brutal Chicago winter and waiting on the medical fate of their permanently pickled patriarch Frank. With oldest daughter Fiona in a stable job and relationship, and newly graduated Lip enrolled in college, it seems like the Gallaghers might finally have a shot at the middle class American dream. But when you're down and out, moving up isn't so easy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Scrappy, stubborn and strong, the Gallaghers are tested by changing times, but Season Six finds them older, wiser, and better at playing the system. Used to their natural state of chaos, the Gallaghers are as surprised as anyone at how life is turning out for them. But as they come into their own and find out who they really are is it really possible that they could grow apart for good?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: "Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone as his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE WRISummary: Joe is searching for the family that left him behind at the Grand Canyon when he was a boy. Along the way he meets up with a shock jock DJ, who targets Joe as the butt of his show. But his plucky spirit and ability to keep it real, has the listeners cheering him on and helps him find a better family than the one he thought he wanted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOESummary: A collection of fourteen episodes in which Peter needs a new kidney, Lois becomes a boxing champ, Chris finds a new hobby, and Brian and Stewie unravel the space-time continuum in an effort to save the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012