Summary: An undercover FBI agent falls in love with a recently widowed mafia wife, who is trying to restart her life following her husband's murder, while being pursued by a libidinous mafia kingpin seeking to claim her for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MARSummary: "The public enemy": A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. "White heat": A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn. "Angels with dirty...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment/Warner Bros. Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GANSummary: Armed with ruthless, streetwise tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts sets out to bring down Lucas's multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation. Inspired by a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie American 2009Obama, Michelle
Summary: "Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE OBACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ObamaSummary: A SWAT team arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord named Tama. The building has never been raided before, never been touched by police. Seen as a no-go zone, it has since become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists, and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched. Making their move in the break of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNISummary: When a police informant is gunned down, a determined vice cop must recruit a new stool pigeon - one that can finally take down the unassailable mob boss. The line between the cops and gangsters becomes blurred as Dédé, a charismatic pimp, is forced to 'rat out' his former boss and nemesis, the elusive Massina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BALSummary: The time is 1998. The setting is Macau. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money before the Portuguese colony ushers in a new era under the Chinese rule. A relationship is formed between an ex-gangster trying to turn over a new leaf with his wife and newborn baby and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EXIObama, Michelle
Summary: "This volume for young people is an honest and fascinating account of Michelle Obama's life led by example. She shares her views on how all young people can help themselves as well as help others, no matter their status in life. She asks readers to realize that no one is perfect, and that the process of becoming is what matters, as finding yourself is ever evolving. In telling her story with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OBASummary: Set in 1930's Chicago, this story deals with two con men who seek revenge on a big-time gangster who was responsible for the murder of their friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STISummary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOIObama, Michelle
Summary: Protagonista de una vida plena y exitosa, Michelle Obama se ha convertido en una de las mujeres más icónicas y cautivadoras de nuestra era. Como primera dama de los Estados Unidos de América, y primera afroamericana en desempeñar esa función, contribuyó a que la Casa Blanca alcanzara sus mayores cotas de apertura y pluralidad de la historia; se erigió en destacada defensora de las mujeres y las...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plaza Janés 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 OBASummary: O2 is an ex-con who is trying to go straight. His life takes a deadly turn when his son gets kidnapped in a carjacking and held for ransom by a ruthless druglord. With a street-smart hustler as his partner and his shady cousin along for the ride, O2 races through the violent streets of Los Angeles in a desperate attempt to outsmart rival gangs and save his son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAIObama, Michelle
Summary: An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBACopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBAMA, MICHELLE OBAObama, Michelle
Summary: Il y a encore tant de choses que j'ignore au sujet de l'Amérique, de la vie, et de ce que l'avenir nous réserve. Mais je sais qui je suis. Mon père, Fraser, m'a appris à travailler dur, à rire souvent et à tenir parole. Ma mère, Marian, à penser par moi-même et à faire entendre ma voix. Tous les deux ensemble, dans notre petit appartement du quartier du South Side de Chicago, ils m'ont aidée à...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fayard 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 OBABrill, Marlene Targ.
Summary: A biography of Michelle Obama, the first African American First Lady of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OBAHernández, Anabel
Summary: "Este libro forma parte del largo recorrido periodístico de Anabel Hernández en su incesante búsqeuda por entender el complejo imperio del crimen organizado y los cárteles de la droga en México, los cuales desde hace décadas tienen sumida a la nación en una espiral de violencia en la que todos los días son explotadas, desaparecidas o asesinadas decenas de personas inocentes, muchas de ellas del...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grijalbo 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 HERObama, Michelle
Summary: "Becoming" ist eines der am meisten erwarteten Bücher in diesem Jahr. Aufrichtige und inspirierende Memoiren der ehemaligen First Lady der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika haben sich bereits mehr als 3 Millionen Mal verkauft, wurden in 32 Sprachen übersetzt und standen 10 Monate an der Spitze des prestigeträchtigsten Buchrankings Amazon. In ihrem Buch teilt Michelle Obama zum ersten Mal die...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bombora 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 OBAObama, Michelle
Summary: "When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton, where she learned for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goldman 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 OBASummary: His picture is on magazine covers, his name in lights. Ex-con artist and gangster Dan Quigley is "doing all right in this movie racket," a big man in Hollywood. But if his criminal past resurfaces, he could end up in the big house.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LADSummary: The Valachi papers: Former mob "button man" Joe Valachi turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese has put a contract out on his life. From thievery add extortion to vengeance and murder, Valachi spills the innermost workings of the Cosa Nostra, culminating in his riveting testimony before a Senate subcommittee.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CHASummary: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants! Follow the adventures of this enthusiastic, optimistic sponge whose good intentions inevitably lead him and his friends into trouble.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019