Summary: Ouran Academy: An institution of extravagance and prestige where learning is secondary to luxury. Haruhi began the year as an out of place scholarship student, but she's found new popularity as a member of the Host Club. Playing the part of a sensitive suitor and wooing the ladies of the school has become a full-time job. Of course, now that Tamaki and the other boys can no longer deny the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation 2010
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME OURHall, Jake
Summary: "The history of drag has been formed by many intersections: fashion, theatre, sexuality and politics--all coming together to create the show stopping entertainment millions witness today. In this extensive work, Jake Hall delves deep into the ancient beginnings of drag, to present day and beyond. Vibrant illustrations enhance the rich history from Kabuki theatre to Shakespearean, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 HALFitzgerald, Tom (Thomas)
Summary: "A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the popular pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 FITSummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PAPSummary: "Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots. With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture."--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ISLSummary: Asa is a young Russian naval service dreamer who returns to his sister's nomadic brood on the desloate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles, his alluringly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Accompanied by his girlie magazine-reading sidekick, Asa will stop at nothing to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TULSummary: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIMSummary: In the spring of 1864, a desperate young farmers wife enlists in the Confederate Army posing as a man. She must battle the Union Army, the men of her unit and her own identity in the quest to find her missing husband.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Christian 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINSummary: To avoid jail time, street racer Sean Boswell is sent to live with his father, who is in the military and serving in Tokyo. There he discovers drift racing. After losing a race to Yakuza-connected D.K., the Drift King, Sean has to enter the Tokyo underworld to find a way to pay his debt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FASSummary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRINordberg, Jenny.
Summary: An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden Afghan custom that will change your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl. Expanding on her widely read New York Times article "Afghan boys are prized, so girls live the part," in which she uncovered the phenomenon of bacha posh (literally "dressed up like a boy" in Dari), the practice of disguising and raising young girls as boys,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 305.3 NORTomory, David.
Summary: David Tomory traces the continuous western influences at work on Goa from the time of the Portugese to the present day. This entertaining and informative tour through the totality of western contact with Goa reveals what Goa is actually like for both westerners and Goans, and catches Goa as it stands at the brink of a complicated future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.799 TomorPearlman, Robb
Summary: Mr. Stephen is a great librarian, but when it comes to crafts and story time no one does it better than substitute librarian Ms. Stacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PEABrookes, Maggie
Summary: "Inspired by a true story, a daring deception plunges a courageous and desperate young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. Czechoslovakia, 1944 In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married, and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BROSummary: The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DVD MOVIESummary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shawshank 2007Summary: Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAMSummary: When two fathers find themselves out of work, they decide to start a day care center. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing prestigious children's academy tries, with hilarious results, to put them out of business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DADCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Daddy 2003Summary: Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Summary: From the brilliant imagination of video game auteur American McGee comes a dazzling reenvisioning of Red Riding Hood set in the wondrous world of Japanese folklore! Justin Aclin and Vasilis Lolos take Kani--a young woman torn between two cultures--on an epic adventure battling devious yokai for the fate of her world!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ACLSummary: Yūji and Mamoru are good friends, who work at the same factory. Mamoru murders the factory owner and his wife, and then commits suicide in the jail. Mamoru's father visits Yūji, and they search for their future, keeping a jellyfish Mamoru left.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Uplink [production company] 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BRIYomtov, Nelson
Summary: Of all the places to explore on Earth, remote places are often said to be the most challenging. Yet brave explorers travel to the most remote corners of the world, pushing through vast forests, icy polar regions, and other landscapes. Who are these adventurers and why do they do it?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2021