Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Based on the true story of American Rangers who rescue the survivors of the Bataan Death March from the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during WWII. When the Philippines fell to the Japanese, the remnants of Gen. MacArthur's Army were forced down the Bataan Peninsula where they were surrounded and cutoff with no hope of rescue. They were starving and dying of disease. Gen. Wainwright eventually...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: If we knew how much longer we had to live, what would we choose to do with the time we have left? Set in a British hospital, it follows poised and put-together Hollywood star Julia Roth, who seems to be in the sunset of her career, as she begins her journey with a critical medical issue. Preferring to be incognito, Julia is instead thrust into a room with three remarkable women who, with humor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 19th-century "folklore collectors" Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm are con artists. They perform exorcisms of "evil enchantments" (for a healthy fee) while wandering about in French-occupied Germany during the Napoleonic wars. Wilhelm is a swashbuckling cad with an answer for everything, while Jacob is a dreamer who looks at life through fairytale-tinted spectacles. When French Gen. Delatombe gets wise...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2005
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY BROFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GAM RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ga 7Summary: Inspired by Charles Dickens's iconic novel Oliver Twist, this action-fueled crime-thriller set in contemporary London follows the journey of Twist, a gifted graffiti artist trying to find his way after the loss of his mother. Lured into a street gang headed by the paternal Fagin, Twist is attracted to the lifestyle and to Red, an alluring member of Fagin's crew. But when an art theft goes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: As the season begins, encouraged by the Red Wedding slaughter in the Riverlands that wiped out many of their Stark nemeses, the Lannisters' hold on the Iron Throne remains intact. But can they survive their own egos as well as new and ongoing threats from the south, north and east?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GAM RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ga 4Summary: Tracks maverick filmmaker Terry Gilliam's madcap mission to film "The man who killed Don Quixote". He struggles to complete his masterpiece, all the while beset by obstacles of such epic proportions that not even Hollywood could have concocted them. Capturing the mayhem on camera, filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe are granted unlimited, behind-the-scenes access to Gilliam's frantic but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOSSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The immortal Dr. Parnassus and his daughter Valentina travel the countryside with his imaginarium show, a mirror that audience members enter and are given two different paths to follow. If they choose correctly they will find joy and happiness, but choose wrongly and things will be quite the opposite. The doctor must also discover the right course to follow. After making a deal with Mr. Nick...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY IMASummary: Combines elements of analysis, history, biography, performance, and the personal passions of six presenters to tell the stories behind the stories of six Shakespeare plays. Includes interviews with actors, directors, and scholars; visits to key locations; clips from celebrated film and television adaptations; and illustrative excerpts from performances staged at Shakespeare's Globe in London...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHACleaver, William Jessup
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: R-Gen 929.2 CLEAVER CleaverWells, Junior
Contents: Snatch it back and hold it / Junior Wells (2:53) -- Ships on the ocean / Junior Wells (4:07) -- Good morning schoolgirl / Sonny Boy Williamson (3:50) -- Hound dog / Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller (2:12) -- In the wee hours / Bob Hilliard, David Mann (3:42) -- Hey lawdy mama (3:10) -- Hoodoo man blues / Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson (2:49) -- Early in the morning / Traditional (4:44) -- We're...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WELRehder, William J.
Contents: Smitty's mistake -- Everybody likes Eddie -- Casper -- The Hole in the Ground Gang -- Insiders -- Shoot-out in North Hollywood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1552 REHRehder, William J.
Contents: Smitty's mistake -- Everybody likes Eddie -- Casper -- The Hole in the Ground Gang -- Insiders -- Shoot-out in North Hollywood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1552 REHContents: Disc 1,1944-1953. Blues (JATP) ; Oh, lady be good! (JATP) ; I've found a new baby (Lester Young) ; Trav'lin' light (Billie Holiday) ; Repetition (Charlie Parker) ; Picasso (Coleman Hawkins) ; Tonga (Machito) ; Celia (Bud Powell) ; Just friends (Charlie Parker) ; Bloomdido (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie) ; Jeep's blues (Johnny Hodges) ; Drum boogie (Gene Krupa) ; Port of Rico (Illinois...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ VERSummary: "Examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing military agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Media Education Foundation 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIJSummary: FBI agent Will Graham captured the diabolical Dr. Hannibal Lecter but nearly lost his mind in the process and retired from the Bureau. When he is coaxed out of retirement to hunt a serial killer called "The Tooth Fairy" he is again faced with the horrors incumbent in entering a serial killer's mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MANSummary: "A diverse, inclusive young adult anthology featuring 15 short stories that re-imagine or subvert popular romance and rom-com tropes by some of the biggest names in YA"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Teens 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FOOContents: Disc one: Let no man steal your thyme / The Pentangle -- Willow's song (from The Wicker Man) / Magnet -- Come all your travellers / Wight -- Love is a funny thing / Spirogyra -- Images of passing clouds / Garry Farr -- Peek strangely and worried evening / Synanthesia -- Glass of water / Bob and Carole Pegg -- Winter is blue / Vashti Bunyan -- Winter is a coloured bird / Comus -- The Seagulls...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK DUSSummary: The stars play a pair of middle-aged, dating game dropouts as wary of romance as they are perfect for each other. Through rocky unsettling times, the pair lurch their way to companionship, friendship, and finally love. Contains all 26 episodes of this British comedy classic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FINWeaver, William Woys
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2000