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Summary: The team that refused to give up their manager in his final season A comeback that changed baseball After thirty-three seasons managing in Major League Baseball, Tony La Russa thought he had seen it all--that is, until the 2011 Cardinals. Down ten and a half games with little more than a month to play, the Cardinals had long been ruled out as serious postseason contenders. Yet in the face...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012
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Summary: "Robin Williams stars as Lance Clayton, a man who has learned to settle. He dreams of being a rich and famous writer, but has only managed to make it as an unpopular high school poetry teacher. His only son Kyle (Daryl Sabara) is an insufferable jackass and won't give his father the time of day. Lance is dating Claire (Alexie Gilmore), the school's adorable art teacher, but she doesn't want to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WORContents: Born this way (Lady Gaga) -- Tonight (I'm lovin' you) (Enrique Iglesias, featuring Ludacris and DJ Frank E) -- S&M (Rihanna) -- Hold it against me (Britney Spears) -- Blow (Ke$ha) -- Grenade (Bruno Mars) -- E.T. (Katy Perry, featuring Kanye West) -- F**kin' perfect (P!nk) -- Coming home (Diddy, Dirty Money featuring Skylar Grey) -- Look at me now (Chris Brown, featuring Lil Wayne & Busta...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWSummary: Set in Poland, Paris and Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War. At the French embassy in Warsaw, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of the city. At the same time, he is involved in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage. Risking his life, Mercier works in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SPISummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CACSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: Unraveling the hidden agendas of the world's richest men and most powerful art institutions, the documentary reveals how vested interests became all-important, and the truth secondary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOSSummary: Daniel Radcliffe is "Weird" Al Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WEISummary: Daniel Radcliffe is "Weird" Al Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDDong, Li.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN CHISummary: In 1920s China, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. Competition between the wives is fierce, as their master's attention carries power, status and privileges. Each night Chen must decide which wife to spend the night with and a red...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razor Digital Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Computer hackers demand ransom when they break into a computer system with a powerful and apparently unstoppable virus. A mysterious young woman quickly saves the business. She requests a meeting with the company's CEO and he ends up getting more than he bargained for. Lynn turns out to be a highly skilled assassin, who knocks off the CEO with the help of her younger sister Sue. Hong, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOContents: Volume 1. Dirty mother for you / (Roosevelt Sykes) -- So glad you're mine / (Arthur "Big BOy" crudup -- Too much alcohol / (J.B. Hutto & his Hawks) -- I wonder why / (Jimmy "Fast Fingers" Dawkins) -- Help me (A tribute to Sonny Boy Williamson) / (Junior Wells) -- I've got a mind to give up living / (B.B. King with Sonny Freeman and the Unusuals) -- John Henry / (Mississippi Fred McDowell) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ANNSummary: The Great returns in Season Two from Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee Tony McNamara (The Favourite). Catherine finally takes the Russian throne for her own- but if she thought coup-ing her husband was difficult, it's nothing compared to the realities of liberating a country that doesn't want to be. She'll battle her court, her team, even her own mother in a bid to bring the Enlightenment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRERoss, Tony
Summary: When Rita's mother refuses to get her a pet, Rita goes to the zoo and returns with a rhinoceros--but keeping a pet rhino a secret proves to be much trickier than she ever imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andersen Press USA 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROSRoss, Tony.
Summary: Little Princess discovers that she can have a lovely party with just one guest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andersen Press USA 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPSummary: A satirical interpretation of the biography of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRERoss, Tony.
Summary: The Little Princess begs to have her light left on at night, not because she is afraid of the dark but because of the ghosts that appear in the darkness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andersen Press USA 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROSSummary: An elegy of exile and an epic immersion into the world of rural Italy during the Mussolini years, Francesco Rosi's sublime adaptation of the memoirs of the painter, physician, and political activist Carlo Levi brings a monument of twentieth-century autobiography to the screen with quiet grace and solemn beauty. Banished to a desolate southern town for his anti-Fascist views, the worldly Levi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020