Summary: "A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks."--IMDB web site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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Summary: On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner SS St. Louis sailed away from Hamburg, Germany, bound for Havana, Cuba. On board were more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany. After being denied landing rights in Havana, the refugees were turned away by the United States and Canada and forced to sail back to Europe, where the gathering storm of the Holocaust awaited them. Two of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 GOLGoldsmith, Martin
Summary: Set amid the growing tyranny of German's Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of Gunther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courageous jewish musicians who strugged to perform under unimaginable circumstances - and found themselves falling in love in a country bent on destoying them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley & Sons 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 GOLSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIMerwin, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sport Water MerwinSummary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVIzaḳson, Meron Ḥ.
Summary: This collection of remarkably beautiful, daring and often surprising poems is the first by Israeli poet Miron C. Izakson to appear in a bilingual English-Hebrew edition. Izakson's poetry is many-sided: commonplace yet metaphysical in subject matter, concrete in its imagery yet inclined to abstraction, wildly anarchic yet internally coherent, seemingly secular yet wholly drawn from Jewish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toby Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 492.4 IZACOLDSMITH, DON
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantom Books 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLSummary: Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect escape from the Earth moments before its destruction and join forces with Zaphod Beeblebrox on board the ship Heart of Gold. They meet many people and aliens in their search for the ultimate question.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HITSummary: Movie promoter Lawrence Woolsey bring his unique brand of flashy showmanship to the unsuspecting residents of Key West, Florida. Fifteen-year-old fan Gene Loomis can't wait for Woolsey's arrival, who is in town to promote his latest offering of atomic power gone berserk. His vision takes on a sudden urgency as the Cuban Missile Crisis places the real threat of atomic horror just 90 miles off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MATMerwin, E.
Summary: What's that blue-faced animal with the pushed-in nose? It's a snub-nosed monkey! Beginning readers will learn all about these strange yet wonderful creatures in this delightful title. They will also learn basic information about snub-nosed monkeys, including where they live and the story behind their strange features. Each 24-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.8 MERMerwin, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Pub. 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1755 MERContents: Badge of honor (Jerry Goldsmith) / Jerry Goldsmith -- Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive (Johnny Mercer) / Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen -- Christmas blues (Dean Martin) / Sammy Cahn, David Holt -- Look for the silver lining (Chet Baker) / Jerome Kern, Bud DeSilva -- Makin' whoopee (Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker) / Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn -- Hit the road to dreamland (Betty Hutton) /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Restless 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC LASummary: They call themselves the Borg--a half-organic, half-machine collective with a sole purpose: to conquer and assimilate all races. Led by their seductive and sadistic queen, the Borg are headed to earth with a devious plan to alter history. Picard's last encounter with the Borg almost killed him. Now, he wants vengeance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1996
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TORSummary: An example of film noir which recounts the story of a man whose pursuit of the woman he loves is blocked by fate and another woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Licensed thru Corinth Films 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DETSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ESCSummary: The moment the Grace family moves into the dilapidated Spiderwick Estate, strange things begin to happen. Jared, a curious, adventurous boy, quickly seeks out and finds the hidden laboratory of his great great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. He unleashes a mysterious force when he locates a field guide full of the secrets of the magical creatures that inhabit the forest surrounding the mansion. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SPICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Chronicles 2008Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SPICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SpSummary: [Disc 1]: Star trek: the motion picture: A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space, destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everthing in its path and Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on. [Disc 2]: Star trek II: the wrath of Khan: On a routine inspection of the U.S.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After landing himself in jail trying to break out his friend, Jack Burns finds himself alone and on the run from the law. Leading the manhunt is Sheriff Morey Johnson, who must bring Burns to justice despite his own sympathy for the fugitive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN LONSummary: A former United States Air Force general and three other convicts escape from a military prison. The four men take over a nuclear base and proceed to hold America hostage, threatening to launch the base's missiles if they don't receive ten million dollars and if the president fails to release a top-secret document on the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWIMerkin, Daphne.
Summary: "A collection of essays on everything from handbags to John Updike, lip gloss to Michael Jackson, and everything in between"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MERColdsmith, Don
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: WESTERN ColdsmithColdsmith, Don
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1992