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Leerhsen, Charles

Summary: Bourdain had an irresistible personality, a dream job, a beautiful family, and international fame. His death by suicide in June 2018 shocked people around the world. Based on extensive interviews with those who knew him intimately, Leerhsen tells how the late celebrity chef and TV star battled with childhood trauma and addiction. His obsessions with perfection and personal integrity ruined his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOURDAIN, ANTHONY LEE

Finch, Charles (Charles B.)

Summary: "London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case. But when Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli offers him the opportunity to undertake a diplomatic mission for the Queen, Lenox welcomes the chance...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FIN

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Finch 2021

Summary: The series focuses on a single Harley Quinn, who sets off to make it on her own in Gotham City. Harley Quinn has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker and attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City in this half-hour adult animated action-comedy series. With the help of Poison Ivy and a ragtag crew of DC castoffs, Harley tries to earn a seat at the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Summary: Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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Summary: Based on a true story, Charles S. Gilpin was the first African-American to star in a leading role in a stage play during a time where roles of color were previously played by white men in blackface. As Gilpin rose to fame and recognition, tensions were high between him and playwright Eugene O'Neill which ultimately lead to parting ways, though his acclaimed performance has changed Broadway...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLA

Summary: This compilation of five early short films by Martin Scorsese offers a fascinating window onto his artistic development. Spanning the years from Scorsese's time at NYU in the mid-1960s to the late '70s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SCO

Summary: Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORP

Summary: A cantankerous taxi dispatcher and his varied collection of strange drivers form a special bond among themselves as they work for a New York City taxi company.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TAX

Summary: A cantankerous taxi dispatcher and his varied collection of strange drivers form a special bond among themselves as they work for a New York City taxi company.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TAX

Summary: A cantankerous taxi dispatcher and his varied collection of strange drivers form a special bond among themselves as they work for a New York City taxi company.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TAX

Summary: He has survived on the streets for twenty years. He's a gambler-- a thief-- a killer and a cop. Now he's investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth, his self-destructive past is closing in.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE BAD

Summary: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BAR

Summary: A dancer in a Brooklyn night club catches the eye of a magazine publisher, who sees in her potential as a future cover girl.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS COV

Summary: Fran Drescher stars in her defining role as street-smart Fran Fine, a down-on-her-luck diva who finds herself hired for a job for which she never even applied. Now, she's the nanny for a rich, sophisticated family in Manhattan, and when this blue-collar girl from the block moves in with a blue blood, widowed Broadway producer and his three children, the comedy is red hot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NAN

Summary: Life in Judge Harry Stone's court starts with a tear (as the gang says farewell to Selma) and a horselaugh (as they welcome wiseacre Flo to the municipal menagerie). Harry and his staff contend with New York's zaniest nuts and dolts: the usual winos, weirdos, hookers and con artists, plus an orangutan, a rock star, a man from Saturn and a gorgeous witch who has Harry under her spell.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIG

Summary: Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He is still trying to maintain order over his off-the-wall collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his "cage," they continue to form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TAX

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