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 ROOSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) is left to care for the kids while Helen (Elastigirl) is out saving the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 CLISummary: An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIFCarter, Stephen L.
Summary: "She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in the New York of the 1930s--and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia boss in history, would never have been convicted. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected twenty lawyers to help him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A Victorian-era, coming-of-age series that follows the free-spirited, orphaned Emily, whose vivid imagination and romantic nature clash with her strict adoptive family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Emily 2010Summary: Anne of Green Gables, a new adaptation of the classic series, set in 1907 on beautiful Prince Edward Island. Anne Shirley is sent there to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who wanted to adopt a boy. Anne must make her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and in Avonlea to ensure she is never sent back to the orphanage again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANNSummary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRASummary: Cheaper by the dozen: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD CHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family CheaperSummary: When an unannounced, uninvited and unwelcome family of fun-loving misfits converge upon a lakeside resort to join their relatives for a summer of relaxation, the result is anything but restive in this raucous comedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GrCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GreatBlevins, Wiley.
Summary: A young girl adopted from China sees that her hair and skin color are different from that of her parents. She finds, however, that there's much more to making a family than sharing red hair and freckles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Chair Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLECurran, Kitty
Summary: Molly Dade has big problems. She's got an important violin audition coming up, she's been paired with her nemesis for a group project, and she's struggling to hide a life-or-death secret from...well, from everyone. It wasn't long ago that the Dades were just a regular Maine family living in their reportedly haunted house in the local cemetery. But then Molly's mom and twin brother Marty were...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DisneyHyperion 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows the story of a Federal Marshal with the Witness Protection program who must hide her high-risk, high-impact job from her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INSummary: "U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon . . . works for the Witness Protection Program (WITSEC). Putting her life on the line as she relocates and protects both innocent people and ruthless criminals, Mary struggles to find a balance between work and her personal life"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INKinney, Hilary
Summary: "Project Management for Parents helps strengthen families, reduce stress, and streamline busy lives with techniques used by billion-dollar companies. Hilary Kinney provides an accessible, repeatable project management framework that can transform anyone's approach to household, school, and work tasks in three steps: (1) Build Teamwork, (2) Establish Your Approach, and (3) Succeed as a Family....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan James Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 KINBrennan-Jobs, Lisa
Summary: A frank, smart, and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents, artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs, Lisa Brennan-Jobs' childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BRENNAN-JOBS BRESummary: To those that know her, Mary Shannon is a glorified meter maid, but her real job as a federal marshal is to oversee federal witnesses who have been relocated to Albuquerque through the program. She has to balance her job as a marshal and the secret identity she must use to hide her high-risk, high-impact job from her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INRiley, Lucinda.
Summary: It has been twenty-four years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell in love for the first time. When the now crumbling house, 'Pandora', is left to her by her godfather, she returns to spend the summer there with her family. Yet Helena knows that the idyllic beauty of Pandora masks a web of secrets she has kept from William, her husband, and Alex, her son. At...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2016