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 TWISummary: They met in the dark: Discharged for treason, a former Navy commander sets out to expose the espionage ring that destroyed his career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BRISummary: Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escape from their planet as it is being destroyed and land on 20th century Earth where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities. However, when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ESCSummary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend's lavish weekend party, a wealthy London couple is involved in a tragic accident with a local boy. But when they attempt to cover up the incident, the boy's father arrives seeking justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FORSummary: Thrilling mystery tales about the brooding and disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander, set in the beautiful landscape of southern Sweden. In Faceless killers, an elderly couple are attacked at an isolated farmhouse and the town witnesses an outbreak of racist violence. In The man who smiled, Wallander is contacted by an old acquaintance who is suspicious about his father's death. In The fifth...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAL NOT RATEDSummary: Hit men Ray and Ken have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: Mike Tyson, once the 'baddest man on the planet', is hell-bent on becoming the 'goodest man on the planet', one mystery at a time! But he can't do it alone and the Mike Tyson Mystery Team is back for more hilariously banal mystery solving.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIKVaughan Williams, Ralph
Contents: Toccata marziale (4:32) ; Variations for wind band (14:00) / Vaughan Williams -- Konzertmusik : für Blasorchester, op. 41 / Hindemith (14:00) -- Quiet city / Copland (with Wynton Marsalis, trumpet ; Phillip Koch, English horn) (10:52) -- Music for Prague 1968 / Husa (24:00).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Records Masterworks 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL EASSummary: Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a mysterious murder at Buckingham Palace. It seems like an open-and-shut case as all signs point to Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind and longtime nemesis of the crime-solving duo. When new twists and clues begin to emerge, the world's greatest sleuth and his trusted assistant must now use their legendary...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Holmes 2019Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Burrell, Kenny.
Contents: Soulero / Richard Evans (4:34) -- Sails of your soul /Grover Washington Jr. (5:21) -- Day dream / Duke Ellington, B. Strayhorn, J. Latouche (4:55) - A beautiful friendship / Stanley Styne, Donald Kahn (4:46) -- Togethering / Kenny Burrell (4:35) --Romance dance / Kenny Burrell (3:26) -- Asphalt canyon blues / Kenny Burrell (6:18) -- What am I here for /Duke Ellington, Frankie Laine (4:44)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BURSummary: An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during his Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRO RATED RAlpha.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Melankolic/Virgin Records 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ALPEmerson, Ralph Waldo
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1965
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 EMESummary: Brilliant but befuddled Professor Phillip Brainard is on the brink of inventing a revolutionary energy source and missing his wedding for the third time! He develops a miraculous elastic goo flubber that enables anything it's applied to, to bounce super high and fast.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex rotescue? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGAMacDonald, Donald
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1980
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Place a hold to request this item.Alpha
Contents: Still (4:07) -- Eon (3:49) -- Dim (4:57) -- South (3:42) -- Almost there (4:36) -- Wise (6:23) -- Especial (5:26) -- Wishes (3:28) -- Clear sky (5:20) -- Al sation (3:20) -- Fort (5:44).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Astralwerks 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AlphaRelph, Ingeborg.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Pub. 1991