Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: Mick St. John is a private investigator 'living' in Los Angeles. Mick's bride turned him into a vampire on the couple's wedding night fifty-five years earlier. In the present day, he struggles with his love for a mortal woman, his dealings with other vampires and other criminal elements.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOOSummary: More thrills and chills in the steamy second season of the supernatural drama. Home to psychics, vampires, witches and other outcasts, the remote town of Midnight is a mysterious safe-haven for those seeking refuge from the outside world. As the town members' bond is stronger than ever, the mysterious arrival of new hotel owners threatens the balance of Midnight.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIDSummary: Welcome to a place where being normal is really quite strange. Based on the best-selling book series from Charlaine Harris, comes a journey into a remote Texas town where no one is who they seem. From vampires and witches to psychics, angels, and assassins, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIDSummary: Trading Christmas: Emily Springer is disappointed in her daughter, Heather, won't make the cross-country trip from Harvard to visit at Christmas. Emily decides to surprise Heather and trades houses with Charles Brewster, a college professor. Emily is the one who is surprised when she finds out her daughter left for Florida with her boyfriend and has only Charles' brother for company. In this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HALSummary: The recently divorced Nina Taylorson and her young son Mason move to a small Georgia town to start a new life. Mason befriends Gaitus Stevens, a recently widowed older gentleman, and together they attempt to save several abandoned puppies hiding in the thick Kudzu bush. Their love, faith and determination help them cope with loss and separation and realize the blessings they share during the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Urban Works Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Verging on adolescence, Joe finds himself more and more aggravated by his dad's attempts to control his life. Declaring freedom, Joe and his best buddy Patrick, along with an odd kid called Biaggio, escape to the woods, where they construct a house, just for them, with no parents or responsibility. There they discover that they are in control of their destinies, all alone out in the forest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KINSummary: A year has passed since the explosive finale of Riviera Season Two. Georgina has abandoned the Riviera and reinvented herself as Georgina Ryland. She has partnered up with charismatic art restitution expert, Gabriel Hirsch, and together they scour the world for stolen artworks. However, when Gabriel confiscates an artifact from a corrupt dealer, this catapults them into a dangerous conspiracy....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RIVSummary: The inspiring and extraordinary true story of the Teague family: journalist Matt, his vibrant wife Nicole and their two young daughters, and how their lives are upended by Nicole's heartbreaking diagnosis of terminal cancer. As Matt's responsibilities as caretaker and parent become increasingly overwhelming, the couple's best friend Dane Faucheux offers to come and help out. As Dane puts his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OuSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: A reimagining of the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. A diverse team of explorers are brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, as beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KONSummary: It's l968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind, but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ScSummary: A young Eskimo boy is taken from his people for medical treatment, and although he returns to the land of his birth, he remains forever lost between 2 cultures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAPSummary: Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ADOCopies Available at Peninsula
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ADOSummary: Grey Trace and his wife suffer a brutal mugging which leaves him paralyzed and results in her murder. After the horrific crime, a special new technology is brought to him with a chip implanted in his spine called Stem. With that chip, he now has a new upgraded control over his body and abilities. Set in the near-future, Grey embarks on an exhilarating quest to gain revenge by using his new skills.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE UPGSummary: While raising the ruins of a long-buried Chinese kingdom, billionaire inventor Tony Stark digs up far more than he bargained for. He unleashes an age-old prophecy that foretells the resurrection of the Mandarin, the emperor of China's darkest and most violent dynasty. In order to confront destructive forces, Tony creates an armored suit infused with high-tech weaponry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE IROSummary: Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade: As Chicago gears up for its annual Thanksgiving Day parade, Emily Jones, an eager parade coordinator is shocked when Henry Williams, a wealthy new development consultant, is brought in to analyze the parade's finances. Faced with the challenge of teaching him that the parade means so much more to her than dollar signs, she suddenly finds herself reluctantly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HALSummary: After the death of her husband, Police inspector Maria Wern seeks to start her life over and moves to the picturesque Swedish island of Gotland with her two children. While struggling as a single mother and mourning her husband's death, Maria manages to sustain her female perspective and approach to life in a harsh and male-dominated environment. She constantly encounters rage, death and evil...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: When Sharpe hears of Napoleon's return from exile he goes back to the Army. Placed on staff of the incompetent Prince of Orange he reunites with the Chosen Men and organises the defences for the Battle of Waterloo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 1997
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: The detectives of the Fifteenth Precinct are back to keep the streets of America's greatest city safe. Includes All 22 episodes from the penultimate eleventh season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NYPSummary: His picture is on magazine covers, his name in lights. Ex-con artist and gangster Dan Quigley is "doing all right in this movie racket," a big man in Hollywood. But if his criminal past resurfaces, he could end up in the big house.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LADSummary: During planting season in Northern Italy's Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker falls in with a small-time criminal who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BITSummary: Andy Sipowicz is experiencing several dramatic developments in his life, including a long-overdue promotion, a surprising new romance with Detective Connie McDowell, and a new partner in the form of John Clark. The 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City are also employed into the series, reflecting both the evolving emotions about our public safety as well as the steadfast strength and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016