Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there₂s enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GIR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GIR RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIR

Summary: As the dust settles from the explosive finale of the first series, Aksel has the answer he so desperately sought. Finally, his search for justice appears to be over and his reconciliation within the local community can begin. But Aksel's hopes are short-lived. As Eva and William close ranks and deny the truth, a new struggle begins for Aksel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: Andre "Dre" Johnson has it all...a job as a top ad exec, a beautiful doctor wife, four great kids and a lovely, well-appointed house in the suburbs. And he's not about to let his family forget how they got there. Keeping cultural identity alive is not without its challenges for this man on a mission. With perpetual pushback from clueless coworkers, an outspoken father, and even the wife and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveals their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking. But what starts as innocent soon takes a dark and violent turn in this gripping supernatural thriller.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR INN

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

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

Summary: Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. They are in this military prison because they once defied, rebelled and talked back to their superiors.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hill

Summary: The tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WIT

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WIT

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

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

Summary: It's been more than ten years since our last appointment at Calvin's Barbershop. Calvin and his longtime crew are still there, but the shop has undergone some major changes. Most noticeably, our once male-dominated sanctuary is now co-ed. The ladies bring their own flavor, drama and gossip to the shop challenging the fellas at every turn. Despite the good times and camaraderie within the shop,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: Shortly before his father's death, Prince Akeem learns that he sired an illegitimate son during his last stay in the United States and now he has to return to Queens to retrieve him to ensure a male successor to the throne.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

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

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

Summary: Jordan is a take-no-prisoners mogul who torments her long-suffering assistant and employees daily. She soon faces an unexpected threat to her personal life and career when she magically transforms into a thirteen-year-old version of herself after the pressures of adulthood become too much to bear.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIT

Summary: An untested American submarine captain teams with US Navy SEALs to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a rogue general.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: Glorious gardens and classic whodunits combine in a hit British series seen on public television. Rosemary Boxer is a former professor. Laura Thyme is a former policewoman. They share a passion for horticulture and a talent for sleuthing. Filmed on location in English and European countryside settings, the collection includes all 3 series. Bonus features include: Interview with Felicity Kendal...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2011

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROS

Summary: Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

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

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Lost

Wells, Kendra

Summary: "People are going missing in a small mountain town. The city guard are blocked from a real investigation. The notorious Underguild has assigned Michel a secret mission: find the missing villagers and bring whatever kidnapped them to justice. Unfortunately for Michel (and his fellow adventurers, Ani and Hocus), they're short a fighter and need one more party member to foil this plot. Even more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2022

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WEL

Dorris, Michael.

Summary: Moving backward in time, Dorris's critically acclaimed debut novel is a lyrical saga of three generations of Native American women beset by hardship and torn by angry secrets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Dor

Summary: Czarist Russia, 1897 - war and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But, both Yury and Lara are haunted - he by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, the powerful man who means to have her any way he can.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2003

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

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOC

Kenda, Joe

Summary: In this first novel, rookie Detective Joe Kenda, mentored by his veteran partner Detective Lee Wilson, investigates a 1975 case that begins with the murder of a beloved Colorado philanthropist and society figure whose husband, a gambler and womanizer, appears to have an air-tight alibi.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KEN

Dorris, Michael.

Summary: Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1992

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOR

Hendra, Tony.

Summary: Johnny Greco, a jaded journalist who nurses a few grudges along with his cocktails, stumbles onto a story that intrigues him. It seems a young man named Jay is driving about New Jersey in a beat-up van preaching radical notions like kindness and generosity, while tossing off a few miracles. Johnny sees an opportunity to rekindle his career and writes a headline-making story announcing Jay as...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HEN

Elliot, Kendra

Summary: "FBI special agent Mercy Kilpatrick has been waiting her whole life for disaster to strike. A prepper since childhood, Mercy grew up living off the land - and off the grid - in rural Eagle's Nest, Oregon. Until a shocking tragedy tore her family apart and forced her to leave home. Now a predator known as the cave man is targeting the survivalists in her hometown, murdering them in their homes,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ELL

Elliot, Kendra

Summary: "When an eleven-year-old is abducted on her way to school, the FBI immediately responds. Special Agent Ava McLane and local detective Mason Callahan work together to hold the family together and find themselves drawn to each other"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Elliot 2017

Summary: Aspiring stand-up comedian Will is forced to face the realities of relentless hecklers, drunk comedy groupies and hard-to-impress morning radio DJs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Enterainment 2020

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OPE

Portis, Charles

Summary: "Charles Portis is now recognized as a singular American genius, a writer whose deadpan style, picaresque plots, and unforgettable characters have drawn a passionate following among readers and writers. 'His fiction,' Roy Blount Jr. has said, 'is the funniest I know.' Library of America now presents the definitive Portis collection, featuring all five of his novels -- Norwood (1966), The Dog...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POR