Summary: Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CAS

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat and mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FOR

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Summary: When a body turns up in the elite community of Gryphon Gate, police investigator Diane Robards must unmask the killer, in a serial mystery featuring contributions by Linda Fairstein, Anne Perry, Rita Mae Brown, and other women novelists.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ID

Summary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007

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

Levy, Heather Lynn

Summary: "Rae Dixon is lucky to be alive. Fifteen years ago, she survived being trafficked and abused, escaping her captors to reclaim her life. Now, she's running a thriving business with her best friend and raising a teenage daughter on her own. Rae's finally in control--literally. As Mistress V, Rae is the one calling the shots catering to Oklahoma City's elite in her private dungeon, which is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LEV

Summary: 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 LOI

Summary: Set in the captivating world of 1960s New York, Mad Men continues to follow iconic ad man Don Draper, his colleagues and his family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAD

Summary: Lambeau Fields is an out-of-luck coach trying to lead a ragtag team of fumbling footballers to victory before his long-suffering wife leaves him and his sexy gymnast daughter gets herself bent out of shape.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COM

Summary: Death In a strange country. The body of a young man found floating in a Venetian canal has been stripped of all valuables, except for a very visible packet of cocaine. When the man is identified as a health inspector at the U.S. military base in nearby Vicenza, Brunetti's boss Patta gets worried about political reverberations and is eager to dismiss the case as a drug-related murder.--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2011

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

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

Summary: Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2002

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

Feather, Jane.

Summary: Hugh de Beaucaire is sent to investigate Lady Guinevere Mallory, a beautiful young widow who, at age twenty-eight, has married and buried four wealthy husbands under suspicious circumstances, to determine whether or not she is guilty of murder. .

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FEA

Summary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Feather, Jane.

Summary: With a brief touch of his hand and one glance of his knowing gray eyes, Lady Philippa Nielson felt a connection to the dark stranger who should have been her greatest enemy, the man who had been appointed guardian of both Pippa and the secret she unknowingly bore.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FEA

Feather, Jane.

Summary: Livia Lacey accepts Prince Alex Prokov's marriage proposal, but once she learns his reason for marrying her, will she feel wickedly betrayed?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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Yoss

Summary: The most successful and controversial Cuban Science Fiction writer of all time, Yoss (aka José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) is known for his acerbic portraits of the island under Communism. In his bestselling A Planet for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the nineties, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Restless Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOS

Summary: An unlikely friendship ignites between two baseball players. One is the team's ace pitcher and social charmer; the other is the catcher, a farm boy from Georgia who lacks sophistication. During their last season together, the two men grow in manhood and respect for themselves and each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

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

Lyons, Annie

Summary: Wanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, world-weary octogenarian Eudora Honeysett forges an unexpected bond with exuberant ten-year-old Rose, who drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees, and other social excursions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Lyons, David

Summary: "In this explosive debut thriller, a judge from the Louisiana bayou goes up against a company on the verge of causing an ecological disaster. Cajun-born Jock Boucher has overcome modest beginnings to assume the prestigious position of U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana. One of his first cases on the bench involves a scientist who has been hiding in mortal fear for more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYO

Feather, Jane.

Summary: In the "Brides" trilogy, three unconventional women vow never to marry, only to find themselves overtaken by destiny. The least likely bride is shy, bespectacled scholarly Olivia Granville, who is abducted by a ruthless privateer--and discovers love, adventure, and passion in his arms during the tense reign of Charles I of England.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEA