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Dundy, Elaine. Garey, Juliann. Gunty, Tess Gurley, Jason Gurney, James Gurney, John. Lunney, TessaSummary: An offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon, who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank, a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying band mate Clara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRASummary: A thief escapes from a rehab clinic and convinces a local family that he's Zonad, a voyager from outer space. Ensconced in their comfy home, the pretend alien finds that the most tempting pleasure is Jenny, the family's beautiful teenage daughter. Anxious to experience love, but unable to convince her rich boyfriend Guy to go all the way, Jenny finds Zonad a more-than-willing lover. But soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Buff 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ZONSummary: In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. During the early days of the agency's criminal profiling unit, FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier met with the incarcerated Ted Bundy in the hopes of understanding the psychology of the serial killer and providing closure for the victim's families....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY NOSummary: A woman returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DISSummary: Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KILSummary: John lives with his mother, Jean, in a social housing suburb and ekes out a meager existence as a taxi driver. After finding his mother unconscious from yet another night of binge drinking, John learns that without treatment, she will not have much longer to live. Desperate to save their broken family, he offers his services to a petty criminal in order to pay for Jean's costly rehab treatment,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLASummary: The tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ROOSummary: Early eighteenth-century England is at war with the French. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne, and her friend Lady Sarah tends to her ill health. When a new servant Abigail arrives, Sarah takes her under her wing, and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become time-consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps in to fill in as the Queen's companion....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Favourite 2019Summary: Rory, an ambitious entrepreneur, and former commodities broker persuades his American wife, Allison, and their children to leave the comforts of suburban America and return to his native England during the '80s. Sensing an opportunity, Rory rejoins his former firm and leases a centuries-old country manor, with grounds for Allison's horses and plans to build a stable. Soon the promise of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films/Shout Factory 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NESSummary: After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RoomCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROO RATED RSummary: "Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With seven-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYSummary: Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV StephenSummary: DI Neville Parker and new recruits Naomi and Darlene continue to investigate cases on and around the Caribbean island of Saint Marie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEASummary: The sun-soaked, smash-hit whodunnit returns for more murder mysteries with a light touch and a warm heart. DI Neville Parker has more crimes to solve on the blissful island of Saint Marie, kicking off with the mysterious death of a celebrity astronomer. And on a quiet hillside on the island, a bunch of Preppers is digging in for the apocalypse when one of them is killed. There's also a baffling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEAGunty, Tess
Summary: The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck. C8 harbors an extraordinary fear. But C4 is of particular interest. Here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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5 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GuntyGurney, James
Summary: Four years after being shipwrecked on the island of Dinotopia, sixteen-year-old Will Denison, now a Skybax Corps pilot, explores the skies over the island while his scientist father explores the legendary caverns of the World Beneath.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calla Editions 2012
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Summary: "Professor Denison and his saurian companion, Bix, set out on a perilous journey to the forbidden empire of Chandara. When their personal invitation from the emperor goes missing, they are forced to cross the border penniless and in disguise. Every step of the way, Denison documents in exquisite detail the creatures, characters, and architecture he encounters."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2007
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Summary: In 1862, after being shipwrecked in uncharted seas, Professor Arthur Denison and his twelve-year-old son Will find themselves washed up on a strange island where people and dinosaurs live together peacefully.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998
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Summary: Jesse gets to ride on a dinosaur train.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GURLunney, Tessa
Summary: In October, 1922, Kiki Button returns to Montparnasse, where she drinks with friends, takes handsome lovers, and mingles with artists, communists, and anyone interesting. But 1920s Paris is not all enchantment, and Kiki is on another spy mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNGarey, Juliann.
Summary: In a look at mental illness that weaves togther three timelines, Greyson Todd leaves his successful Hollywood career and wife and young daughter to travel the world, giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he has been forced to keep hidden for almost twenty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARGurley, Jason
Summary: Off the coast of the small California town of Orilla del Cielo, the silhouettes of oil rigs loom. To Zach, they are a reminder of loss-- his father, an oil worker, drowned years earlier. With his family struggling to make ends meet, Zach feels he's destined for the same bleak future. Then he meets Vanessa, an optimistic girl from a wealthy family whose sights are literally set on the stars....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Book Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GURDundy, Elaine.
Summary: The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy's Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking. Charming, sexy, and hilarious, The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status when it was first published and it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2007