Summary: A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TAXSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALSummary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: Perfect man: Holly Hamilton is on a mission to find her single mom a perfect man ... even if she has to make the man up. One crazy mishap after another leads the two of them to discover that sometimes what you want is right in front of you.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRISummary: In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FEN RATED PG13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Fences 2017Summary: Go behind-the-scenes of a live sketch comedy show. Watch as Jack comes back to GE; Liz gets a visit from an adoption agency caseworker; Liz sits next to Oprah on her flight from Chicago to New York; Tracy and Jenna conduct a 'social experiment;' Jack hooks up with Liz's psycho ex-roommate; Liz thinks she has found the perfect mate; Don Geiss wakes from his coma; Jack falls in love with his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THIContents: The one after "I Do" -- The one with the red sweater -- The one where Rachel tells Ross -- The one where Joey dates Rachel -- The one where Chandler takes a bath -- The one with the secret closet -- The one with the birthday video -- The one where Joey tells Rachel -- The one with the tea leaves -- The one in Massapequa -- The one with Joey's interview -- The one with the baby shower -- The one...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD FRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Fr 8Rose, M. J.
Summary: "New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most women reporters are still delegated to the fashion and lifestyle pages. But Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a man's world of serious journalism. Shortly after the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ROSRyan, Renee
Summary: "With only two months before Elizabeth sets sail for London to marry a British lord, she resolves to live a lifetime of adventure. Lucian Griffin, her dearest friend's brother, intends to protect Elizabeth from letting her adventures forever sully her reputation. Soon his earnest fondness gives way to deep affection."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RYACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Ryan 2017Steel, Danielle
Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STESummary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIECameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMSummary: The creators and star of Borat bring you the hilarious comedy about what happens when the world's worst dictator comes to America. Stuck in New York and stripped of his power, Aladeen is finally forced to live his ultimate nightmare, the American dream. Featuring never-before-seen footage, that's outrageous and shamefully funny!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DICClaridge, Laura P.
Summary: "Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KNOPF, BLANCHE CLASummary: The Valachi papers: Former mob "button man" Joe Valachi turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese has put a contract out on his life. From thievery add extortion to vengeance and murder, Valachi spills the innermost workings of the Cosa Nostra, culminating in his riveting testimony before a Senate subcommittee.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018