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Summary: A poor African-American family make the best of things in the Chicago housing projects.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOO

Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PRO

Mingus, Charles

Contents: Solo dancer : Stop! Look! and listen, sinner Jim Whitney! -- Duet solo dancers : Heart's beat and shades in physical embraces -- Group dancers : Freewoman ; Oh, this freedom's slave cries -- Trio and group dancers : Stop! Look! and sing songs of revolutions! -- Single solos and group dance : Saint and sinner join in merriment on battle front -- Group and solo dance : Of love, pain and passioned...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse 1963

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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ MIN

Morris, Dick.

Summary: Now, for the first time, Fox News political analyst and former Clinton advisor Dick Morris turns his sharpe eyed gaze on Hillary, the longtime first lady, current New York senator, and bestselling author.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 MOR

Summary: In the late 1980s, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian launched a crusade to provide what he considered a humane and dignified option for the terminally ill--assisted suicide. Aided by his loyal friend Neal Nicol, and his older sister Margo Janus, Kevorkian begins offering his "death counseling" services to a grateful and burgeoning clientele. He earns the support of Hemlock...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Films 2010

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie You 2010

Beck, Alison

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Summary: Tim Wood is a third-generation Michigan horticulturist and author of this beautiful calendar and month-by month guide to gardening in Michigan. He brings a wealth of information to this valuable new tool for maintaining and improving your garden throughout the year. The format allows you to keep your own notes on such variables as weather, insect and disease appearances and treatments, as well...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lone Pine Pub. 2004

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Summary: Its January 1977 and Gary Gilmore is about to become the first convicted murderer to be executed in a decade. Gary's youngest brother, Mikal, can help prevent the execution, but first he has to get to know the brother he barely remembers. Born of a brutal father, raised in a family haunted by death, religion and superstition, the brothers discover their shared past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002

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

Summary: A modern day version of the Dickens' classic finds an aspiring artist (Hawke) reunited with his love (Paltrow). When she agrees to model for him, his dearest hopes may be realized, along with his darkest fears.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: The true story of a young man falsely accused of rape and sentenced to six years in a maximum security prison. He must rely on survival skills and an unlikely bond with an infamous inmate to prove his innocence and regain his freedom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Vision Films 2014

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Summary: It's check-up time! Barney teaches that doctors are our friends and shows how pediatricians, dentists, and veterinarians keep people and animals healthy and strong! Through song, dance, and play, Barney and his friends share the importance of brushing teeth, washing hands, eating healthy food, exercising, and more. Join Barney, BJ, Baby Bop, and Riff as they make learning about healthy habits...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hit Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BAR

Summary: Columbo, a disheveled, cigar-chomping, trench coat-wearing police lieutenant, who appears to be an incompetent bumbler. Despite his appearance, Columbo is the shrewdest, most resourceful detective in the LAPD.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2004

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Summary: When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FAT

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

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Father

Summary: Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2003

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MY

Summary: When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000

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

Weintraub, Aileen

Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018

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Summary: It is the headline-making true story about the deceptions, lies and betrayals of Bernie Madoff, the man who masterminded the most heinous financial swindle of our generation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2017

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WIZ

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

Alison, Jane

Summary: Autobiographical novel told by J, a woman who lives in a glass tower on one of Miami Beach's lush Venetian Islands. After decades of disaster with men, she is trying to decide whether to withdraw forever from romantic love. Having just returned to Miami from a monthlong reunion with an old flame, "Sir Gold," and a visit to her fragile mother, J begins translating Ovid's magical stories.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALI

Summary: The true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau and a celebration of friendship and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true. Based on the best-selling tell-all about...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2018

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DIS

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

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Summary: In National Lampoon's Animal house, the members of Delta Tau Chi fraternity offend the straight-arrow and up-tight people on campus in a comedy film which irreverently mocks college traditions. In The Blues Brothers, Jake Blues, recently released from prison, and his brother Elwood reassemble their blues band and stage a concert to raise money for the orphanage where they grew up. The jerk is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012

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Summary: "John Waters' gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous sequences. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Summary: Michael Cera plays Scott Pilgrim, a jobless bassist for an average garage band. He just met the girl of his dreams, and now her seven evil ex-boyfriends are coming to kill him. The soundtrack features music from Beck, Metric, and Broken Social Scene.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal/ABKCO 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC SCO

Contents: Let's fall in love (Louis Armstrong, trumpet, vocals; Oscar Peterson, piano) -- Dancing in the dark (Bill Evans, piano) -- La Rosita ; Shine on, harvest moon (Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, tenor saxophones) -- Memories for the Count (Harry "Sweets" Edison, Buck Clayton, trumpets) -- The moon is low (Roy Eldridge, trumpet; Benny Carter, alto saxophone) -- Close your eyes ; Playboy Peterson ; The...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ VER

Summary: Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escape from their planet as it is being destroyed and land on 20th century Earth where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities. However, when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ESC

Summary: "Hollywood legend Barbara Stanwyck saddled up with writer-director Samuel Fuller for the pulp maestro's most audacious western, a boldly feminist spin on the genre that pivots effortlessly between ribald humor, visceral action, and disarming tenderness. High-riding rancher Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck) commands a forty-strong posse of cowboys, ruling Cochise County, Arizona, without challenge....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

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