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Arizona History To 1912 Drama da Vinci Leonardo 1452-1519 Drama Fraud Arizona Drama Korean War, 1950-1953 Drama Land grants Arizona Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Man-woman relationships United States Drama Orphans Korea Drama Race relations Drama Soldiers United States DramaSummary: When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DAV RATED PG-13Summary: A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER AMESummary: The hallucinations of Philip Marlow, a mystery writer stricken with a crippling skin disorder interweave memories of his past with a plot casting him in the role of a suave sleuth who croons with a big band.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2003
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SINSummary: Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IRISummary: An unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the making of the coveted September Issue of Vogue in 2007, which was the largest and most sold to date. An intimate, funny and surprising look at the legendary editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her team of larger-than-life editors. This is the captivating story of how they create the must-have bible of fashion. At the eye of this hurricane is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEPSummary: A group of six friends, in Sacramento, gather to distract themselves from loss - a newly dumped Sylvia, Prudie's repressed disappointment, or Jocelyn, who has a life of unrealized dreams. All are devoted Jane Austen fans, except the lone man, Grigg, who has an ulterior motive for joining the chick-lit gang. There's plenty of pride (Prudie), prejudice (Jocelyn), sense (Sylvia), and sensibility...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jane 2008Summary: The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD REM RATED PGSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm, LLC 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NANSummary: Follows the follies of a stressed-out guy in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal "brain cloud." A zany jillionaire then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to a Pacific Island and leap into a volcano. Is Joe doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of imagination, romantic comedy, and the charm of Ryan...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOESummary: "A star-studded cast in a stop-the-presses comedy that brings the fast paced, cutthroat, frequently hilarious world of newspaper journalism vividly to life"--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PAPSummary: Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king. In the background of the celebration, Richard jealously views the proceedings. Soon afterwards, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king and, after proceeding with a succession of intrigues and duplicities, he finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RICSummary: Rose Lorkowski is a single mother attempting to support her son Oscar and her unreliable sister Norah. She works a mundane job as a maid. Once the head cheerleader in school with plenty of prospects, Rose now has little to show for her life. She still sees the former head football player, but it is little more than a despondent affair. When Oscar is expelled from public school, Rose takes a job...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sunshine 2009Summary: Frankie is an African-American go-go dancer with dissociative identity disorder (DID). She struggles to retain her true self while fighting against two very different personalities: a seven-year-old girl named Genius, and a Southern white racist named Alice. Inspired by a remarkable true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRASummary: Because of unique genetic mutations, children with extraordinary and dangerous powers are born into a world filled with prejudice. Under the tutelage of Professior Xavier, these and other outcasts learn to harness their powers for the good of mankind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE XMESummary: A musical revolving around the ten-year reunion of three war buddies who discover that while friendship changes over time, having fun definitely does not!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ITSSummary: A siamese cat helps an FBI agent solve a kidnapping.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY THACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family That 2005Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THASummary: Off to a resort with summer jobs, the gang stumbles onto a mystery when the Frog Monster of Lake Erie makes an unexpected appearance, scaring away all the guests. Only Mystery Inc. can save the day, but with a creature on the loose, mystical moonstones and summer romance in the air, will they be able to work as a team and solve the crime?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: Sammy is a single mom living in a small Catskill town with her eight-year-old son. A lot happens all at once to Sammy as she, sort of, picks up with an old boyfriend, gets a new boss and her wayward brother finally shows up after months of no communication. A crisis of sorts ensues when the son meets his estranged father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Classics 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUSummary: Simon Grim, a nerdy young sanitation worker who lives in Queens with his depressed mother and promiscuous sister, turns out to be a brilliant poet and an overnight literary sensation, after being encouraged to write down his ideas by Henry Fool, a boozy pseudo-intellectual who rents the Grim family basement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HENSummary: The Emerald Forest: Bill Markham, an engineer, returns to the Amazon year after year searching for his son who had disappeared into the jungle. After ten years of searching, Markham finds the man that had once been his boy, but now is a warrior from a different world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOHSummary: A noted child psychologist attempts to help a frightened 8 year old boy who is experiencing terrifying visions of the dead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sixth 2000Summary: Sarah Pierce is a new stay at home mom struggling with the solitude of her new role. Spending every moment with a three year old tests the patience of the one-time English scholar. One day, at a local playground, she interacts with a group of moms and the differences are clear. They embrace motherhood and seem to relish all that their new role brings. One day, Brad, a stay at home dad brings...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007