Summary: Based on the short story by Ernest J. Gaines. In rural Louisiana in the 1940's a young black boy journeys with his mother and absorbs valuable lessons of pride, charity and dignity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SKYSummary: The small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, boasts a wide array of colorful locals. Sookie Stackhouse is a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds. Bill Compton is a 173 year-old vampire who's just moved back to town. Sookie's brother Jason is a ladies' man who can't seem to stay out of trouble. Tough-as-nails Tara is Sookie's loyal best friend and Sam is the owner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: New Orleans. Arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana cross paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician. Tiana follows suit when she decides to kiss the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI RATED GSummary: Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, season five goes deep into the battle between the Vampire Authority and 'vampire fundamentalists': a political power play whose outcome could decide not only the fate of Sookie and her Bon Temps friends, but of all human existence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ANTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ANTSummary: Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: When Sara and her friends arrive at her family's Louisiana lake house, they quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of sexy fun in the sun. But they soon discover the lake is infested with hundreds of flesh-eating sharks, and a few equally dangerous human predators, that turn their killer vacation into a bone-crunching battle to stay alive!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHASummary: Lt. Terence McDonagh is a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is to scoring drugs while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BADSummary: A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crimes they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DOWGoodman, John
Summary: Follows the lives of a group of New Orleans residents in the Tremé neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRESummary: New Orleans, 38 months after. The city's musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and others continue to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But the promise of recovery, heightened by the historic election of a new president, is tempered by sobering economics, continued police corruption, and the ongoing specter of violence and crime. In these five final episodes of Treme,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRESummary: This drama set in antebellum New Orleans stars Vanessa Williams as Henriette Delille, the first African-American canonized by the Vatican. A mixed-race woman who repudiates the hypocrisy of race, class and convention, Henriette chooses to accept a divine calling to help the downtrodden by founding a combination medical treatment center and school for the French community's black population....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Ventures 2000
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Summary: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURWinfield, Paul
Summary: Tells the story of an African American boy, his dog, and his family overcoming adversity in Depression-era Louisiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2008
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOUSummary: Rampant crime and government ineptitude continue to cripple the city's recovery, with outside profiteers looking to cash in on short-term gains. The series' focus is still on ordinary people, but they no longer accept their lack of influence on the institutions that have controlled the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2013
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRESummary: Another supernatural force has come to light in Bon Temps, witchcraft, and life for its residents will never be the same. Sookie finds herself entangled in a love triangle, torn between a vengeful Bill, the new Vampire King of Mississippi, and Eric, who's not the former Viking he once was. Led by a charismatic witch named Marnie, who threatens to let no one living or dead stand in her way, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment, [2012] 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad") returns in the explosive second season of Your Honor. Disbarred, disgraced, and all but destroyed, ex-judge Michael Desiato is offered a ray of hope when a federal agent recruits him to take down the empire of corruption and vengeance that runs New Orleans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime 2023
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV YOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YOUSummary: The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Focuses on the complexities of human intimacy and deception in the modern age. Housewife Ann (Andie MacDowell) feels distant from her lawyer husband, John (Peter Gallagher), who is sleeping with her sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). When John's old friend Graham (James Spader) comes to town, Ann is drawn to the soft-spoken outsider, eventually uncovering his startling private obsession:...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEXSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: The Robertson family faces new challenges with their unique take on Southern living. Willie and Alan agree to help Miss Kay open up her own bakery, the Duck Commander team shows their support for two wounded veterans and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DUCSummary: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Curious 2009Summary: Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Networks 2002