Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: Pathological liar Clifford Irving stages a complex hoax. In the 1970's Irving managed to fool a major publisher and LIFE magazine into thinking he was writing an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Irving and his best friend and partner, Dick Susskind, go to extreme lengths to pull off the hair-brained scheme. The more outrageous the lies they concoct, the more believable they become and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Malotru has been promoted to Deputy Director of the Bureau and is a newly recruited double-agent for the CIA. He delivers highly classified information to his CIA contact, Dr. Balmes, during fake psychoanalysis sessions. In exchange for Malotru's cooperation, the CIA has guaranteed that they will rescue the love of his life, Nadia, now imprisoned by Syrians in a secret location.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BURSummary: Based on a true account and New York Times best-selling book comes the feature film adaption. Don Piper experienced love, joy and life like he₂d never known during the 90 minutes he was declared dead after a traffic accident. But when he finally wakes in the hospital, Heaven's bliss was replaced by excruciating pain and emotional turmoil. With the support of his family and community, Don clings...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 90 RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: In season three Malotru has been taken hostage by the Islamic State. Moved from camp to camp, tortured and weakened, he's close to despair. In Paris, the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) faces a dilemma: should they use all of their resources to save Malotru, who betrayed the service, his country and friends when he became a double agent working for the CIA?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BURSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREAtwell, Debby.
Summary: After burning their Thanksgiving dinner, Ann and Ed head for the local cafe, where they are welcomed by an immigrant family into an unusual celebration that gives everyone cause to be thankful.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ATWSummary: In and out of rehab for the past 10 years, Kym Buchman returns to the family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel. She brings with her a long history of personal crisis and family conflict. The wedding party, friends and relatives have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym's passion for the dramatic incites tension in the family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RACSummary: Charlotte's web: When Wilbur the pig is terrified that he'll end up on the dinner table, his friend Charlotte the spider weaves words into her web to try and convince the farmer that Wilbur is too special a pig to kill.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHADerby, Cindy
Summary: "When etiquette coach Ms. Picklepop teeters off her stool and spills a bucket of paint, a creature emerges. Not a scary one, or an evil one, or anything of the sort. Instead, what comes alive is... BLURP! She'll have to carry on with her lesson, despite Blurp's many, messy distractions. But paint splotches and burps aren't all that disrupt Ms. Picklepop's decorous class. Perhaps through an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DERIrvin, Kelly.
Summary: Phineas King knows better than to expect anything but shock and pity wherever he shows his face. Horribly scarred from the tragic accident that claimed his mother's life, he chooses to keep his distance from everyone, focusing his time and energy on the bees his family raises. If no one sees him, no one can judge him. So why does he start finding excuses to seek out Deborah Lantz, the beautiful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC IRVWelsh, Irvine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWelsh, Irvine.
Summary: After accidentally setting free two serial pedophiles, Lucy Brenna, a once heroic Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, is transformed into a villain who cannot stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, and imprisons her client, Lena, who is obsessed with her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWelsh, Irvine.
Summary: Chronicles the misadventures of Mark Renton and his friends as they cope with economic uncertainties, family problems, drug use, and the opposite sex in 1980s Edinburgh.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA FIC POWEdwardson, Debby Dahl.
Summary: Native Alaskan teens shipped off to a Catholic boarding school find an unexpected way to survive when the ways of the white community are imposed on them
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2011
View online at OverDrive
Derby, Cindy
Summary: A whimsical tale about the power of community, inclusion and empathy depicts a tree with a 100-bird capacity strictly monitored by a feathered guard that enforces rules against everything from bird baths to nesting, before an unexpected hatch leads to newperspectives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DERDerby, Cindy
Summary: Panda tries to follow a butterfly over a mountain, but the slippery, snowy slope makes it difficult to climb.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DERIrvine, Jeremy
Summary: Follows the activity of the CIA black ops program known as Operation: Treadstone, which uses behavior modification to turn recruits into deadly assassins and sleeper agents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRECrying Wind.
Summary: "Artist--frelance writer--lecturer--Crying Wind gives insights into American Indian culture and the cultural barriers an Indian must hurdle when he accepts Christ."--P. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House 1980
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 970 CRYSummary: The Villain Kids are back in a high-stakes adventure that's badder than ever! When the pressure to be royally perfect becomes too much for Mal, she flees Auradon only to have Evie and the rest of the gang sneak onto the Isle to retrieve her. But there's a new, self-proclaimed queen of evil in town: Mal's archenemy Uma, daughter of Ursula. Together with her pirate crew, including Captain Hook's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kerby, Mona.
Summary: In 1888, Owney, a stray terrier puppy, finds a home in the Albany, New York, post office and becomes its official mascot as he rides the mail train through the Adirondacks and beyond, criss-crossing the United States, into Canada and Mexico, and eventually traveling around the world by mail boat in 132 days.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC KERIrvin, Kelly.
Summary: It's been seven years since her husband died, but Helen Crouch is doing just fine. She's selling her jams and canned goods at the bakery and making a tidy living. But her whole world goes topsy-turvy when a new family moves to town. Gabriel Gless has brought his children to Bliss Creek to escape the worldly influences in Indiana. Helen and Gabriel have so much in common -- the loss of their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013