Summary: At the dawn of the 20th century, Detective William Murdoch solves Toronto₂s trickiest cases with scientific insight and ingenuity in this award-winning mystery series. From flying early aircraft to infiltrating nudist communities, consulting with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to helping a young Winston Churchill, Murdoch has always been a man ahead of his time. In Season Six, he also confronts legal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MurdochSummary: The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CELSummary: Crime abounded in late Victorian and Edwardian times--from the streets of London to the country houses of nobility; from the royal apartments of Vienna to the hotel rooms of quiet Copenhagen. Sherlock Holmes took on many of the era's crooks, killers, blackmailers, and schemers, but so did the fictional sleuths of other celebrated writers of the time. (from container.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIVSummary: Like Sherlock Holmes and Watson before them, the brilliant but curmudgeonly Nero Wolfe and his streetwise sidekick Archie Goodwin are crime's greatest nemeses. With Nero preferring to solve crimes at home amid his orchid collection, it is Archie who does the legwork about town to allow Wolfe to unravel the most confounding crimes. Together the duo cracks cases of murder, deception, blackmail,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Studios Inc. 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NERSummary: Two ex-brothers-in-laws set off to Iceland in an attempt to reclaim their youth nightclubs, trendy spas, and rugged campsites. This adventure is a throwback to 1980s road trip comedies, as well as a candid exploration of aging, loneliness, and friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LANSummary: The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four contemporary British television mysteries. Death and dust: The impending marriage of a widowed doctor and a well-to-do divorcée motivates a murder of mistaken identity. Picture of innocence: In the midst of a "shooting war" between rival camera clubs, someone tries to frame Barnaby, and definitely not for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDSummary: Albuquerque: When Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his successful uncle John, he soon learns that family business is out to eliminate any local competition. Tiring of his uncle's underhanded tactics, Cole switches to rival operation run by Ted Wallace and his sister, Celia. But Cole soon learns John Armin is to a man to be crossed as the trio must fight for their business, and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLASummary: Pillow talk: Two single professionals find themselves sharing a party line - and a whole lot more - when they get their lines crossed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Going wrong: As wild teenagers, Guy Curran and Leonora Chisholm believed that they were soulmates. When they meet again eight years later, Guy aims to reclaim her, no matter who stands in his way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RUTSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BILSummary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLISummary: Three-disc set containing 10 classic westerns starring John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Audie Murphy, Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Aura is a recent college graduate who returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister. As painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TINSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Four years after agents J and K averted an intergalactic disaster J is still working for the MIB while K has returned to the comforts of civilian life. While investigating a seemingly routine crime, J uncovers a diabolical plot masterminded by Serleena, an evil Kylothian monster who disguises herself as a sexy lingerie model. It's a race against the clock as J must find and convince K--who not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Men 2002Summary: Tony is an undereducated Brooklyn teenager who is bored with his daytime job. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dance floor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony's attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SATSummary: On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, a tightly focused, intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with tension and mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD TCFF COHSummary: The series depicts a future in which Earth is dominated by a race of self-aware machines that was spawned from the creation of artificial intelligence. Conflict arose between mankind and machines, and in the war that followed, the machines emerged victorious. They devised a way to extract the energy they need to function from human bodies by enclosing people in pods. To keep humans compliant,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Contains four films about a computer hacker who realizes the world is an elaborate deception created by all-powerful machines of artificial intelligence. In Matrix, in an anti-utopian future, the "real" world is a computer construct, created by an all-powerful artificial intelligence. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct and is now fighting for the future of the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI MATSummary: "Return to the world of two realities: everyday life... and what lies behind it. To truly know himself, Neo must follow the white rabbit once again into the Matrix. Of course, Neo already what he has to do. What he doesn't know is that the Matrix is more dangerous than ever. Déja vu" -- Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MATSummary: "George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognize George as the missing millionaire Abe, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation"--Summary written by Lars J. Aas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Another 2002Summary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSSummary: When Christy's best friend dies of typhoid before they've had a chance to patch up a disagreement, Christy angrily questions her faith as she tries to reconcile her beliefs with the tragedy of a young, loving mother being taken away from her family and friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHRSummary: V.3 Goldfinger : From the opening bomb blast outside a steamy nightclub to a last-minute escape from the president's personal jet, James Bond's third screen adventure is an exhilarating, pulse-pounding thrill-ride! Sean Connery returns as Agent 007 and faces off with a maniacal villain bent on destroying all the gold in Fort Knox - and obliterating the world economy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Danjaq LLC, and United Artists 2006