Summary: The film features the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Acclaimed director Steve James tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves, and their bank's legacy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ABASummary: The extraordinary story of one American family's unique adventure running a cinema in one of the most isolated villages on the planet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REEColleen, Marcie
Summary: "When a few beavers come to town, the Grumpy Woods are even more grumpy than usual. These beavers are chewing down the trees and drying up their river water with a dam. Everyone gets even angrier when the Super Happy Party Bears throw a dance party to celebrate the new dam, but when they dance that dam right down the river, everyone admits the bears aren't so bad after all"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2016
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Summary: The Super Happy Party Bears are in awe of their new friend, Butter, a groovy caterpillar who's got the moves. This Jitterbug can breakdance, tango, and boogie-woogie. Butter becomes an honorary Super Happy Party Bear dedicated to being goofy and spreading the party spirit! When Butter mysteriously disappears, the bears frantically search for him, only to discover that the Jitterbug has morphed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Myron, Vicki.
Summary: Tells the story of Dewey Readmore Books, a kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box and nursed back to health by a librarian, who discovers that (like his librarian friends) helping people big and small is what he is meant to do.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MYRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MYRSummary: Returns to rural southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie, a troubled young boy from ten years ago. The film began as a way of discovering what forces shaped Stevie's life. Part way through the filming, Stevie is arrested for a serious crime, and tears his family apart. The modest profile turned into a chronicle of Stevie, his broken family, the justice system and the filmmaker himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STESummary: Straight from the front lines in Iraq, it is the first war movie filmed by the soldiers themselves. Steve is a wisecracking carpenter who aspires to be a writer. Zack is a Lebanese-American university student who loves to travel and is fluent in Arabic. Mike is a father and resolute patriot who rejoined the Army after 9/11. These soldiers captured over 800 hours of footage, providing a glimpse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WARColleen, Marcie
Summary: The Super Happy Party Bears are super. They are really happy. And they love to have a party. These bears are happy all the time--but their neighbors in the Grumpy Woods are grumpy all the time. Mayor Quill, Opal Owl, and the others are cranky pants, and they never want to join the party. Can the Super Happy Party Bears win the day by throwing a party?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017
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Summary: A funny chapter book series filled with full-color illustrations and adorable animals! It's the most wonderful time of the year in the Grumpy Woods--the Great Hibernation! Mayor Quill, Humphrey Hedgehog, and the rest of the animals are looking forward to some much-needed rest, but the Super Happy Party Bears want to add more YAY to the holiday--by delivering homemade presents! When the critters...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COLLEbert, Roger
Summary: Life and career of film critic Roger Ebert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIFColleen, Marcie
Summary: The Super Happy Party Bears are super. They are really happy. And they love to have a party. These bears are happy all the time--but their neighbors in the Grumpy Woods are grumpy all the time. Mayor Quill, Opal Owl, and the others are cranky pants, and they never want to join the party. Can the Super Happy Party Bears win the day by throwing a party?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Colleen, Marcie
Summary: "Flying Blind. The bat-only punk rock band. Coming to the Grumpy Woods. The Super Happy Party Bears love rock 'n' roll! The other Grumpy Woods residents do not. To them, this "music" sounds like BOOM! BOOM! REEN-REEN-WAAAHHHHH! And the band's nighttime shows are keeping everyone awake! When the bears join the band and get groovin', the rest of the Grumpy Woods townscritters go undercover to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents the story of Manhattan Project scientist Ted Hall, who shared classified nuclear secrets with Russia in an effort to save the world from nuclear annihilation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COMArtist Not Provided
Summary: Profiles three "violence interrupters" who work to protect their Chicago communities by intervening in disputes before they become violent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INTColleen, Marcie
Summary: "The Grumpy Woods residents find Wallace Woodpecker's pecking preposterously loud, but the bears think Wallace is beating a nice rhythm--it is great for early-morning dancercise"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a small village in the south of England, a handsome working man falls in love with the newly arrived schoolteacher from a wealthy family who happens to be the village beauty. Other richer men want to win her hand as well. Who will win her hand?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UNDSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURBaker, James Addison
Summary: A memoir by the former Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff describes his experiences during his thirty-five-year career in politics, discussing the Iran-Contra scandal, the Reagan assassination attempt, and other important events.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAKSummary: Fantasia: Features a blend of animation set to classical music, and live action scenes of the orchestra. Pieces include: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, The Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas, The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, The Pastoral Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, Dance of the Hours by Amilcare Ponchielli,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FANHamilton, Steve
Summary: When the FBI catch Martin T. Livermore, the key suspect in the abduction and murder of at least five women, in Scottsdale, Arizona, he insists he will only speak to retired police officer Alex McKnight.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMSummary: Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005