Summary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Alison and Mike are working hard to bring their new 'guest house' plans to fruition, when the peace is disrupted by an unexpected visitor who arrives with a life-changing revelation. Alison questions everything she thought she knew, and the ghosts react with varying degrees of fear, mistrust, and in some cases, delight. Meanwhile, Mike is more intent than ever to put Button House on the map...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As the doors of crumbling country mansion Button House creak open once more, the haphazard house share between its living inhabitants and its restless dead is settling in a strange kind of daily routine. But cash-strapped Alison and Mike's plan to transform their unexpected inheritance into a bustling luxury hotel is still a distant dream. Could the exploitation of their troupe of ghostly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A look at members of a dysfunctional family that operates a funeral home in Pasadena. With the elder son returning home for the holidays to shattering news, the family must learn to deal with a death of their own, while figuring out how to go ahead with the business of the living. A funny and emotional look at a grieving American family ... that just happens to be in the grief management business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIXSummary: Two 1980s' feature films about Eddie Wilson, whose car took a dive off a Jersey bridge with the troubled rock idol at the wheel. His body was never found.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDDSummary: "Hoffman plays the likeable Columbia graduate student and marathon runner of the title, unwittingly trapped in a terrifying drama revolving around a murderous Nazi fugitive"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MARSummary: Michel, who wrote poetry, and Harry, a rich spoiled brat, were school chums. Now twenty years later, Michel, who is married with three young girls, meets up with Harry on the way to Michel's summer home. Harry "forces" his way into their lives and nothing will be the same again. Trying to make Michel's life "easier", Harry embarks on a path that will become self-destructive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WITSummary: Crumbling country mansion Button House is home to restless spirits who've died there over the centuries. Each a product of their time, they're thrown together for eternity, resigned to squabble over mundane daily gripes. But their lives or rather afterlives are thrown into turmoil when young urban couple Alison and Mike unexpectedly inherit the peaceful derelict house and plan to turn it into a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A sitcom following the comedy chaos of an unlikely house-share between the struggling living and the restless dead. Resident ghosts and cash-strapped couple Mike and Alison face life-changing events at Button House, their crumbling, haunted, stately home. Alison and Mike are determined to get the best reviews from the guests at their luxury new B&B. However, buried secrets, booking mix-ups...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GHOSummary: "With their guesthouse dream in ahses, Alison and Mike must find a new way to make money from their ailing estate, as a major revelation sees their plight become even more pressing. Meanwhile life (death) goes on for the Ghosts as they investigate Kitty's untimely demise, Food Club loses its appeal, Lady Button discovers hidden talents, and Robin makes a prediction that prompts the Ghosts to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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2 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GHOSummary: Celebrate Shakespeare's 400th anniversary with this hilarious comedy about the playwright's mysterious lost years. Bill Shakespeare is a hapless lute player with a big dream. When his bandmates kick him out of their group, Bill leaves his wife and kids behind to seek fame and fortune in the big city of London. He's written a great work for the stage and he's certain he'll prove all his doubters...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BILDave Matthews Band
Contents: Opening jam -- Pantala naga pampa -- Rapunzel -- Rhyme & reason -- The stone -- #41 -- Crash into me -- Jimi thing -- #36 -- Warehouse -- Too much -- True reflections -- Two step -- Granny -- Stay (wasting time) -- #40 -- Long black veil -- Don't drink the water -- All along the watchtower -- #41 -- Jimi thing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BMG Entertainment 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE REDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPASummary: Franck takes an internship in Human Resources at a factory where his father works. When Franck's efforts to better the company lead to the firing of many employees, including his father, a furious confrontation ensues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HUMMattiel
Summary: The second album from the Atlanta-based singer/songwriter.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MATMather, Matthew
Summary: A supernova threatens to destroy all life on Earth while humanity grapples with an entirely new kind of alien invasion never before imagined.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATMather, Matthew
Summary: Something big is coming ... big enough to destroy the entire solar system ... and it's heading straight for Earth.That's what Dr. Ben Rollins, head of Harvard's exoplanet research team, is told by NASA after being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. His first instinct is to call his daughter and wife, who are vacationing in Italy: something is coming, he tells them, a hundred times...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Summary: Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he hears the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris has invited the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He gathers together his former musicians and a young solo violin virtuoso to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. If they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CONSummary: Hank is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. One day everything changes when a corpse names Manny washes up onshore. The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SWISummary: When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The thrilling, eye-opening chapter you've been waiting for. Witness the beginning of the X-Men universe. Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE XCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE XMECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD XMESummary: Join Cory and the gang as they encounter the ups and downs of senior year at John Adams High School. Shawn unexpectedly finds a new love, and in the final episode, Topanga rocks Cory's world with a proposal at graduation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ABC Studios 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Bo 5Mattel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002