Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Convicted by a military court for a crime they didn't commit, a daring team of former Special Forces soldiers must utilize their unique talents to break out of prison and tackle their toughest mission yet. It's going to take guts, split-second timing and an arsenal of explosive weapons, this is a job for The A-Team!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD ATESummary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A new arrival in British-occupied Hong Kong wants to open a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style. But a corrupt cabal of martial arts masters, led by Master Hung, refuses to allow him to teach in peace until he proves himself in a series of fights against the local master, which Ip does, in style. But even after earning the respect of the local masters, Ip's troubles are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPSummary: A group of seemingly "perfect" high-school buddies lead double lives. They fly high in a world of petty crime and material excess - a free-wheeling lifestyle that soon takes a downward spiral, leading to an unexpected, violent end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BETSummary: Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchanan butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BAY RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BAYYoung, Dawn
Summary: "A humorous counting book about misbehaving sheep on the eve of Easter"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOUYoung, Dawn
Summary: Bo tries to sleep by counting sheep, but the sheep will not let him sleep and wreak havoc on the eve of the first day of school.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOUSummary: In the wake of his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Batman 2005Summary: Four young men form Jamaica's first bobsled team, in hopes of competing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Loosely based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 1998
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COO RATED PGSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONCYoung, Erin
Summary: "A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields is a dynamite debut-crime fiction at its very finest. Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body-a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YOUSummary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARBourg, B. J.
Summary: Embattled former detective Clint Wolf is the newly appointed police chief for Mechant Loup, a small swampy town in southeast Louisiana. Usually a quiet town, the tranquility of the place is shattered when a human arm is found in the jowls of an alligator. Once it’s determined the arm belongs to a reputable business owner, the race is on to find the man and figure out what happened to him....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BJ Bourg 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOUYoung, Erin
Summary: "It starts with a body--a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield--on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agricultur e. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office, arrives on the scene, an already horrific crime becomes personal as she discovers the victim was a childhood friend...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC YOUYoung, Erin
Summary: "A brilliant and addictive thriller for fans of Tana French and Liz Moore, FBI rookie Riley Fisher must navigate a brutal serial killer as well as a kidnapping plot against the governor. It's a brutal winter in Des Moines, Iowa, and the city is gripped by fear. A serial attacker known as the Sin Eater is stalking women and has just struck again. It's a tough time and a tough place for Riley...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bunn, Cullen
Summary: With the original five X-Men lost in space, Emma Frost, Havok, Bastion and Miss Sinister hatch their devious plans -- and unleash Project: Mothervine! Meanwhile, Jimmy Hudson and Bloodstorm feel the wrath of Polaris -- once again a victim of the body-stealing Malice! And with his mutant charges missing, Magneto mobilizes against his enemies. His first target: Sebastian Shaw! But Magneto will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 XMESummary: The world famous thief, Carmen Sandiego, plays an intricate game of cat and mouse with teen ACME detectives, Zack and Ivy. Based on the award-winning line of educational computer games, the energizing series is rich in both excitement and education as Carmen Sandiego attempts to steal the most valuable objects in the world. It's up to the detectives and the audience to figure out where in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cookie Jar 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHESummary: "In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEYChung, Eve J.
Summary: "A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civilwar ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLOWong, Janet S.
Summary: Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WONG,Wong, Janet S.
Summary: A Chinese American child fears that the food her parents are preparing to sell on the Fourth of July will not be eaten.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002