Summary: A backup quarterback for a Texas high school football team must confront the pressures and temptations of being a sports star, including conflicts with his coach and his girlfriend, when the starting quarterback is injured.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed and await death"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHIKlise, James
Summary: While running a con in 1934 Chicago, sixteen-year-old Joe splits his time between Eddie, a handsome flirt, and Raymond, a carefree rich kid who shows Joe the queer life of the big city, but as danger closes in, Joe must decide who he wants to be before disappearing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KLISummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: Two childhood friends are reunited in their middle age and one learns she is dying of a fatal disease.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Hauser, Paul Walter
Summary: Security guard Richard Jewell saves thousands of lives from a bomb at the1996 Atlanta Olympics, but soon becomes the FBI's number one suspect after false reports in the news.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2020
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY RICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RICSummary: One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA GRESummary: Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HomelandCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: "Follow Jason Voorhees as he cuts and hacks a swath of fear from Crystal Lake to the mean streets of Manhattan." Friday the 13th: Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Janes, James.
Summary: Other Marvel Comics characters are included.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Publications International 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 1995
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CUTSummary: In 1607, the Virginia Company sends a ship from England to America to stake a claim on the New World and bring back the gold that is rumored to be abundant there. Ambitious Governor Ratcliffe is head of the expedition, but well-known explorer and adventurer John Smith is the natural leader. Well-armed, the men anticipate easily fighting off any one they encounter, but John Smith's first meeting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Co. 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY POCSummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare people for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring the world back from the brink of extinction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IND RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD InCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Independence 2016Summary: Disney's fantastical adventure Oz The Great And Powerful, from the director of the Spider-Man trilogy, follows Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics. When Diggs is hurled away to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he's hit the jackpot--until he meets three witches who aren't convinced he's the great wizard everyone's expecting. Reluctantly drawn into epic problems facing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Oz 2013Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OZCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OzSummary: Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Films 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: The complete story of Lieutenant Ellen Ripley's recurring battles with members of a parasitical extraterrestrial species.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI ALISummary: Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children's extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a dark paternity secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Alice's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie FamilyBrinkley, Jamel
Summary: In the nine expansive, searching stories of A lucky man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRISummary: A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States. Rising from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How he used Christianity to turn his life around, met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WSummary: "'Plain arithmetic. Money splits better two ways instead of three,' smooth-talking outlaw Ben Vandergroat reasons to his captors, three bounty hunters thrown together by chance. They're taking him to justice in Abilene, but Ben has other ideas." -- Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN NAKBrinkley, Jamel
Summary: In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRISummary: Everyone's favorite animated family is back for another season. Includes all 21 episodes of Season 12.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIMSummary: This is the story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Xenon Pictures 2001