Hamilton-Edwards, Gerald Kenneth Savery

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1986

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.341 Hamil

Summary: Based on the true story of "Boston Strangler" Albert De Salvo, the man who terrorized the city for a year and a half when he murdered 13 women.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BOS

Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROO

Summary: In the fictional village of Tilling-on-Sea circa 1920, two formidable matrons vie for social supremacy, using unconventional weaponry such as gardeners and lobster recipes. Each episode serves up an exquisite dish of quirky characters and razor-sharp satire.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MAP

Summary: Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife's money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty's name,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino On Video 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCA

Summary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOU

Summary: Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which the evil Iago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OTH

Contents: First recorded promotional message on the Edison Phonograph (1906) / Len Spencer -- The German peril (1917) / Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany James Gerard Watson (i.e. James Watson Gerard) -- Address from France (1918) / General J.J. "Black Jack" Pershing -- On Lindbergh's return to the U.S. (1927) / President Calvin Coolidge and Charles Lindbergh -- Abdication address (1936) / King Edward...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1991

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN GRE

Summary: Crime abounded in late Victorian and Edwardian times--from the streets of London to the country houses of nobility; from the royal apartments of Vienna to the hotel rooms of quiet Copenhagen. Sherlock Holmes took on many of the era's crooks, killers, blackmailers, and schemers, but so did the fictional sleuths of other celebrated writers of the time. (from container.).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIV

Summary: "In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Sterling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY THRILLER SIL

Summary: When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007

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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SIL

Summary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROO

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROO

Summary: Follows the adventures of two young men and a young woman in the 1960's who are undercover police officers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MOD

Summary: Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with huge hair, a big grin, and all the right moves, becomes the queen of Baltimore's number one dance revue.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hairspray 2002

Summary: Fierce, funny, and cathartic, John Osborne's classic 'kitchen sink' drama as directed by Academy Award winner Judi Dench is a masterpiece of ensemble acting.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOO

Summary: In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CAP

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAP RATED R

Stampp, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Milton)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1965

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.81 STA

Summary: In times of national emergency, a team of Britain's leading experts, crisis contingency planners and most senior politicians from the corridors of Whitehall to the salons of No. 10 Downing St. assemble under the name COBRA to coordinate the response.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COB

Grant, Richard E.

Summary: Sir Percy Blakeney poses as the Scarlet Pimpernel and risks his life to save the innocent from unjust punishments.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SCA

Summary: A crime-thriller about judicial cover-ups and corruption in Argentina, told through flashbacks.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEC
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEC

Summary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TOD

Summary: At New York's hottest restaurant, things are really heating up. Owner and bookie Louis Cropa lost a friend to a mob hit and now his chef's gambling problem has brought the unwelcome mobsters into their restaurant.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DIN