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 PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Lithgow, John
Summary: Actor John Lithgow performs two short stories, and explains the special significance each story holds in his life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 LITHGOW, JOHN LITAnthony, David
Summary: The heroes' baseball team, the Traverse City Salmon, are playing the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. The Sprouts throw a curve ball and turn into pinch-hitting plant monsters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sigil Pub. 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ANTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ANTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTSummary: Desperately seeking Stanley: On his birthday, Arthur's favorite present was Stanley, his teddy bear. Stanley protected Arthur when he was afraid of the dark and even when his new baby sister D.W. arrived. But Arthur is 8 years old now and doesn't need his furry friend anymore ... right? Tales from the crib: Vicita is upset at having to trade in her cherished crib for a big-girl bed, so D.W....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Our Time Family Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD GROSummary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLIBerry, Steve
Summary: After former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone witnesses the theft of one of the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder. The price of admission is one of the relics, so Malone is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERSummary: Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein: Chick and Wilbur are two railroad clerks who are assigned to checking a shipment of two crates, the last remains of Dracula and Frankenstein's monster. Of course the monsters are still alive in their coffins and so the comedy chase begins, with both a stray mad scientist and the Wolfman getting involved before very long.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BESMontt, Alberto
Summary: "Este libro es un homenaje a la raza que desde tiempos inmemoriables impulsó la construcción de pirámides, inspiró a dioses, propició memes y acompañó a nuestros solteros y solteras empedernidos hasta el fin de los tiempos." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 MONSummary: Danny is an average guy who uses gags and pranks to liven up his blue-collar life. While his friends watch helplessly from below, Danny accidentally ends up taking off in a deck chair strapped to giant helium-filled balloons. He decides to start a whole new life in the town where he crash-lands. That is until his old life catches up him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DANSummary: The owner of Montmartre's most notorious nightspot, the Café Le Bal Du Paradis, Simone Pistache spends a great deal of her time in court, thanks to the banning of that "lewd and lascivious" dance, the Can-Can. So when her nightlife-loving lawyer and boyfriend, François Durnais, refuses to settle down and marry her, Simone decides to play up to his rival in romance, Parisian judge Philipe...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CANBrowne, Meghan P.
Summary: "A nonfiction picture book that tells the fascinating story of the honeybee colonies that lived on the roof of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and survived the devastating 2019 fire"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.79 BROSummary: Discharged from the Navy with his duffle bag and service rifle in hand, Elvis sets out for the town of Corpus Christi. He is trying to track down the father he has never met. He soon learns that his father, David, is now the pastor of a thriving Baptist Church and wants nothing to do with Elvis. David orders his family to stay away from the stranger, but Elvis has already befriended the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KINSummary: Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to live with his divorced father and womanizing, slacking younger brother, Jonathan. With little success, his carefree sibling and doting father try to cheer him up with women, wine, and home-cooked meals. When, in the midnight hour, Paul is forced to entertain one of his brother's desperate girlfriends, he begins to realize that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DANSummary: Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BADSummary: Clavius, a powerful Roman Military Tribune, and his aide Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RISCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RisenCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RiRomberg, Sigmund
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Williamson Music Inc. 1944
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: For the first time on Blu-ray, go nuts over Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers, with all 65 episodes of sleuthing fun. Chip and Dale lead an eccentric group of animals solving mysteries in the human world and in their own. Tackling whodunits that fall through the cracks, these intrepid detectives are on the case!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FAMILY CHINainy, Mamta
Summary: "Ammi weaves the most beautiful saris but never gets to wear any of them. Her two little daughters decide to do something about it--break their piggy bank! But when there isn't enough money to buy Ammi a sari, the two girls must work together to find a solution. Will they be able to buy Ammi the gift she so deserves? With a text full of heart, and bright, cheerful artwork, this story brings...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAISummary: A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen of one of Paris' most exclusive restaurants,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAT RATED GCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV RATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE RATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RATSummary: Don Rumata is one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to the planet Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet's political or historical development. Treated by the planet's natives as a kind of divinity, Don is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HARChowdhury, Bernie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 363.14 CHOWDCruise, Tom
Summary: In 1987, a small town girl travels to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a famous singer and finds herself working at "the Bourbon Room," a popular nightclub on the Sunset Strip.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2012