Summary: A touching story about women whose emotional lives are as rich as their surroundings are poor. Maria is a troubled woman who drinks, smokes, and steals, desperate for oblivion and angry at the entire world. Emotional rescue comes in the form of her own mother who comes to visit while her father is in the hospital. Her mother cooks, crochets and befriends the gentlemanly neighbor who lives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOLSummary: As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw is a young man who is captured for sacrifice, but flees to avoid his fate. He is taken on a perilous journey to a world that is ruled by fear and oppression, where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: From crime stories in the classic hard-boiled style to the vividly experimental, from the determination of those risking everything to the desperation of those with nothing left to lose, Detroit Noir delivers unforgettable tales that capture the city's dark vitality -- From publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DETSummary: It is the haunting, hypnotic tale of a mysterious disappearance set in a little Sicilian village on the edge of a forest. Thirteen-year-old Luna, always dreaming, has a crush on her handsome classmate Giuseppe; they begin a tentative romance. But one day Giuseppe fails to show up at school. As the days pass with no sign of him, Luna tries to raise concern with family and friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SICSummary: A soccer player and three other prisioners awaiting execution in a horrific detention center, risk their lives to escape. Based on the memoirs and testimony of two of the prisoners, who were later witnesses at a war crimes trial.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHRSummary: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FASSummary: "Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian ... and his cynical producer Costa ... arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EVESummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATKirk, Rahsaan Roland
Contents: Disc one. Wham bam thank you ma'am / Charles Mingus (4:41) -- Conversation (:58) -- Bye bye blackbird / Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson (2:42) -- Horses (Monogram/Republic) (:16) -- If I loved you / Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II (8:37) -- Old rugged cross / trad. arr. Rahsaan Roland Kirk (7:13) -- Ain't no sunshine / Bill Withers (2:26) -- Volunteered slavery / Roland Kirk (5:42) -- Seasons....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ KIRMonk, Thelonious.
Contents: Liza (All the clouds'll roll away) (3:11) -- Memories of you [piano solo] (4:15) -- Honeysuckle rose (5:32) -- Darn that dream (6:30) -- Tea for two (5:52) -- You are too beautiful (4:53) -- Just you, just me (7:59).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverside 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MONSummary: The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris. Find yourself transported by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic, and beautiful stories.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PARSummary: In this all-new movie, we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with "scream time." To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ADDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADDSummary: "An impassioned group of men and women risk everything for family, faith and the very future of their country--as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War--the daring people's revolt that rocked 20th century North America. ... General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife ......
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by ARC Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA FORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FoCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD/Blu Movie ForSummary: A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for single mom Karla Dyson when her son suddenly disappears. Without a cell phone and knowing she has no time to wait for police help, Karla jumps in her own car and sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers. Karla will stop at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KID RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KiSummary: Starship troopers: Charts the lives of elite members of the Mobile Infantry, a corps of dedicated young men and women soldiers fighting side by side in the ultimate intergalactic war ... the battle to save humankind. The enemy is mysterious and incredibly powerful with only one mission: survival of their species no matter what the human cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: An English governess is hired to teach the King of Siam's children, but ruins the country's traditions during her work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS KINSummary: An English schoolteacher finds herself at odds with the King when she is the teacher at the royal court in the 1860s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. 1999
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS KINTosca
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Fernández, Kelly
Summary: "Set at a magical school for girls, a funny and heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel adventure about friendship, defying expectations, and finding your place. Manu is always getting into trouble. The headmistress at school believes Manu has the potential to help people with her magic, but Manu would rather have fun than fit in. The other students claim she's secretly a demon and that she was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FERFernández, Alejandro
Contents: Te Quiero, Te Quiero (3:24) -- A Pesar De Todo (3:20) -- Concavo Y Convexo (4:23) -- Hoy Tengo Ganas De Ti (4:51) -- Procuro Olvidarte (4:06) -- ?Porque Te Vas? (3:13) -- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (3:51) -- Cenizas (4:03) -- Desahogo (2:46) -- Me Olvide De Vivir (5:26) -- Olvidarte (3:21).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Latino 2013
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Fernández, Eduardo
Contents: Homenaje a Tárrega (Garrotin (2:37) ; Soleares (2:11)) / Turina -- La maja de Goya / Granados (4:04) -- Torre bermeja / Albéniz (4:33) --Sonatina / Torroba (11:26) -- Three Spanish pieces (Fandango (3:44) ; Passacaglia (5:20) ; Zapateado (3:02)) / Rodrigo -- Homenaje: Le tombeau de Claude Debussy / Falla (3:19) -- Rumores de la caleta (3:50) ; Cádiz (4:14) / Albéniz -- Farruca: The miller's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: London 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL FERFernández, Alejandro
Contents: Concavo Y Convexo (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (5:50) -- Se Me Va La Voz (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (4:14) -- Estuve (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (4:09) -- Te Amare (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (3:46) -- Me Hace Tanto Bien (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (3:12) -- Hoy Tengo Ganas De Ti (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (4:44) -- Te Quiero, Te Quiero (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (3:35)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: UMLE - Latino 2014