Summary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Another supernatural force has come to light in Bon Temps, witchcraft, and life for its residents will never be the same. Sookie finds herself entangled in a love triangle, torn between a vengeful Bill, the new Vampire King of Mississippi, and Eric, who's not the former Viking he once was. Led by a charismatic witch named Marnie, who threatens to let no one living or dead stand in her way, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment, [2012] 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Lucifer Morningstar has decided he's had enough of being the dutiful servant in Hell and decides to spend some time on Earth to better understand humanity. He settles in Los Angeles - the City of Angels.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LUCSummary: 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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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ODDSummary: Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILSummary: When a 30-something fashion photographer agrees to a date with a precocious teenager, he gets far more than he bargained for.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HARSummary: Roger and his friend Charlie audition at a saloon in San Francisco's Barbary Coast. The number "Alexander's ragtime band" proves to be a sensation. Charlie soon falls in love with Stella who is the singer of the band. When Roger returns from World War I, he meets Stella and learns she and Charlie have married.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ALESummary: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRASummary: When an underground radio DJ makes fun of a fading pop star who happens to listen to his show, the two begin an unlikely relationship. But difficult life and career crossroads jeopardize their idyllic New York romance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BSISummary: The fourth and final season of the drama finds Lucas working with Veronica Dawson, a FBI profiler. An ex-con assumes the identity of the sheriff of a small, out-of-the-way Pennsylvania town, where he continues his criminal ways while trying to keep off the radar of ruthless mobsters he double-crossed years before.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BANSummary: During a tough economy, beautiful people elect not to have plastic surgery. So don't expect McNamara/Troy to reject any cash-flow opportunities, no matter how dicey. Maybe the docs will need to think about the state's request to lipo a morbidly obese Death Row inmate so he can be executed. Matt sets out to earn coin at the beach as a mime; Kimber laments the decline of her line of sex toys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIPSummary: Flash and cash. Sex and style. Power and prestige. All it takes is a Nip/Tuck. The acclaimed series continues in this 16-episode season two set.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIPSummary: It's 1999, and freshly minted detective Jay Swan arrives in a dusty Outback town. Although he's the new copper on the beat, he grew up nearby, and his estranged family still lives here as does the woman who will change his life forever, Mary. Before Jay can even report for duty, he finds himself in the middle of an armed holdup, one of a series being perpetrated by a masked gang. The heists...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MYSSummary: Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LaSummary: When the manager of an American chain restaurant is selected to attend a special training program in Italy, her head swims with dreams of European glamour and romance. But the trip turns out to be much different and possibly more dangerous than the exotic getaway she imagines.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SPISummary: Charlie Harper is a bachelor in paradise, complete with Malibu beach house, overpaid job and a very active dating life. Then his uptight brother Alan, in the throes of a divorce, moves in, bringing his 10-year-old son Jake with him. Together they start a new family of two adults, one kid, and no grown-ups.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWOSummary: In this hilarious fifth season, Charlie tops the charts as kiddie-song sensation Charlie Waffles, Alan at last meets the perfect woman, Jake starts junior high, armed with 'helpful' advice from Alan and Charlie, and Evelyn ties the knot for the fifth time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWOSummary: Passions ignite and culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torrid encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INDSummary: In the sixth and final season of Lucifer, we close the chapter on our crime-solving Devil. With Los Angeles no longer the battleground for his angelic siblings, Lucifer's relationship with Chloe has never been stronger. Life is good. But if we know anything about this fallen angel, it's that his past always finds a way of catching up to him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LUCSummary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009