Summary: A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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

Summary: John P. Merrick, the world's richest man, gets word that someone is trying to unionize a department store he owns. To thwart this blatant act of democracy, Merrick changes his name and takes a menial job at the store to catch the union activists without detection. Once he himself is subjected to the humiliating treatment by the department supervisor, Hooper, Merrick starts to wise up-and soften...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2013

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

Lenhardt, Melissa

Summary: "Laura's worst fears have been realized: Kindle has been taken into custody and she is once again on the run. The noose awaits her in New York, but Laura is realizing that there are some things worse than death. Finally running out of places to hide, it may be time for Dr. Catherine Bennett to face her past"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook Books/Orbit 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEN

Summary: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ACR

Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007

Summary: Sam and Dean Winchester are hunters on the trail of the demon who murdered their mother, and of any other unholy agent of the supernatural. In the aftermath of the car crash, a shocking sacrifice cements the bond between the Winchester men forever. The brothers make a bone-chilling road trip across America and journey deeper into the mystery of their own destinies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

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

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

Finkel, Michael.

Summary: Follows the experiences of a journalist who, after fabricating part of a story and losing his job, was mistaken for a murderer and fled to Cancun, where he lived under an assumed identity and forged a complex relationship with the real killer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 FIN

Summary: In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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

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

Finkel, Michael.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 Finke

Summary: Domestic disturbance: A divorced father discovers that his 11-year-old son's new stepfather is not what he made himself out to be. The father's investigation into the man's past explodes into a terrifying mission to rescue his son from danger.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TRA

Herold, Benjamin

Summary: "Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can't escape the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 HER

Summary: A reporter assumes the identity of a dead man. The more he does this, the further he is from his true identity. When he finds himself in danger, will he be able to become himself once again, or will it be too late?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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

Summary: A calamity at Dante and Randal's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2006

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

White, April

Summary: "From a historian and senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 WHI

Lenhardt, Melissa

Summary: "When Dr. Catherine Bennett is wrongfully accused of murder, she knows her fate likely lies with a noose unless she can disappear. Fleeing with a bounty on her head, she escapes with her maid to the uncharted territories of Colorado to build a new life with a new name. Although the story of the murderess in New York is common gossip, Catherine's false identity serves her well as she fills in as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook Books/Orbit 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lenhardt 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY LEN

Raines, Howell

Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War, and how they were scrubbed from the history books. We all know how the Civil War was won: by courageous Yankees who triumphed over the South. But as veteran journalist Howell Raines shows, it was not only soldiers from Northern states who helped...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 RAI

Summary: Harold and Kumar take an ill-fated flight to Amsterdam, but Kumar's suspicious-looking bong is mistaken for a bomb. Their arrest prompts a racist Homeland Security official to send the boys to indefinite lockup at Guantanamo Bay. Once there, they watch as beefy guards sexually subjugate 'enemy combatants.' The guys manage to get away and make it back to the U.S., hoping the well-connected...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: Bob Fosse is a visionary filmmaker and one of theater's most influential choreographers and directors. Gwen Verdon is the greatest Broadway dancer of all time. Fosse/Verdon will tell the story of these two brilliant, complicated individuals and the love they shared, the art they created, and the price they paid in the pursuit of greatness.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Nye, Nelson C. (Nelson Coral)

Summary: "When "Slow-Down" Munn, deputy U. S. marshal, arrives one night in the hell-bending copper camp of Laughing Horse, it is with the intention of posing as a drifting smokeroo and hiring out his pistols to Sheriff Loma Jack, who it seems is powerless to check the turbulent stream of killings, robberies and other criminal acts which are swiftly giving his county seat a most unenviable reputation....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Nye 2021

Mosley, Walter

Summary: "A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones , the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi, into John Woman, an unconventional history professor while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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

Forbes, Lisa

Summary: "Riveting, honest, and raw, I Can Take It From Here recounts Lisa Forbes's harrowing journey into darkness -- including a fourteen-year-long stint in a maximum-security prison -- and her fierce resolve to understand the effects of the trauma she endured, to take personal responsibility for her actions, and to ensure that her history does not dictate her destiny. The youngest of six children,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press/Truth to Power Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORBES, LISA FOR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B FORBES FOR

Summary: A former heavyweight boxing champion comes out of retirement to fight a 10 round exhibition bout against an opponent who is thirty years younger than he is.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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