Summary: A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Stuart Palmer's immortal crime-solving school teacher Hildegarde Withers came to the screen courtesy of a series of mysteries from RKO Pictures. Memorably played by character great Edna May Oliver in three features, Hildegarde was ably paired with her flirty foil of Inspector Piper in the person of James Gleason. Gleason would go on to anchor the series, appearing in all six, alongside Helen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HILSummary: "Contains strong language, violence, sexual situations, drug use, and disturbing images"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012
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Summary: In a rhythmic read-aloud by the author of Papa Fish's Lullaby, a little girl rummages through her dress-up trunk for ideas for a Halloween costume and uses her imagination to consider a range of creative options.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE EAD1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE EAD
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EADSummary: After the death of her husband, Claire Underwood becomes the first female President of the United States, but faces formidable threats to her legacy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 2000
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Summary: A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer's market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: "When Nigel looks up at the moon, his future is bright. He imagines himself as...an astronaut, a dancer, a superhero, too! Among the stars, he twirls. With pride, his chest swells. And his eyes, they glow. Nigel is the most brilliant body in the sky. Butit's Career Week at school, and Nigel can't find the courage to share his dreams. It's easy to whisper them to the moon, but not to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE EADLoupas, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOUSummary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Summary: A young Puritan woman travels to the New World with her unwanted new husband. Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician and code breaker, writes letters to his best friend's mother. A Jewish refugee and professor of computer science struggles to reconnect with his increasingly detached wife. An isolated and traumatized young girl exchanges messages with an intelligent software program. A former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALMorgan, Louisa
Summary: "There hasn't been a witch born in the Orchière clan for generations. According to the elders, that line is dead, leaving the clan vulnerable to the whims of superstitious villagers and the prejudices of fearmongering bishops. Ursule Orchière has been raised on stories of the great witches of the past. But the only magic she knows is the false spells her mother weaves over the gullible women...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMorgan, Louisa
Summary: "Barrie Anne Blythe and her aunt Charlotte have always known that the other residents of their small coastal community find them peculiar -- two women living alone on the outskirts of town. It is the price of concealing their strange and dangerous family secret. But two events threaten to upend their lives forever. The first is the arrival of a mysterious abandoned baby with a hint of power...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook Books/Orbit 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOROnomé, Louisa
Summary: Summer Uzoma's parents went on the run after they were accused of committing a crime, leaving her behind. She has been alternating stays with her friends' families, and secretly visits her old home. But she's fine: she has her skateboard and her bus pass. She just has to turn eighteen in a few weeks and then she'll truly be free. Then a nosy social worker arranges for Summer to be living with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ONOSummary: Wedding planning puts a strain on Lois & Clark as they not only cope with caterers and orange blossoms, they also battle mad scientists, Lex Luthor, revived World War II Nazis and other diabolical foes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOISummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSlater, Teddy.
Summary: Tom and Lucy Little have an incredible adventure when they are accidentally taken to school with Henry Bigg's gerbil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PetWayne, Teddy
Summary: Presents the hilarious and incisive story of Paul, a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, who, outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, is plagued by indignities as he tries to right the world's wrongs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAYWayne, Teddy
Summary: Shy, witty David Federman arrives at Harvard fully expecting to embrace, and be welcomed by, a new tribe of like-minded peers. But at first, beyond the friendly advances of a plain-looking Sara, his social status seems devastatingly unlikely to change. Then he meets Veronica Morgan Wells. Struck by both her beauty and her brains, David falls feverishly in love and is determined to stop at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016