Summary: Edith Piaf was raised in a brothel, wrested from the only life she knew by her father so they could join the circus, Edith spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, and, ultimately, her international success and final illness. She was always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental. She was often on drugs or...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VIE RATED PG-13Summary: Harutora may seem like an ordinary guy, but he's actually a descendant of an ancient and powerful clan of Onmyouji. Born without the family talent for magic, he'd always believed he was destined for a normal, boring existence. All that changed the day Natsume, a beautiful face from Harutora's past, barged back into his life and forever altered the course of his future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME TOKSummary: Seventh continent: The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke's chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the future it is thought that wolves have become extinct, but in reality they have taken human form; this story follows a pack of wolves as they attempt to find a mysterious paradise called "Rakuen" meant only for creatures of their kind. Contains entire series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bandai Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME WOLSummary: A comedic sci-fi drama based on the Dark Horse comic book series of the same name, this show follows a crash-landed alien who must take on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor and somehow find a way to fit in with the local human population. While attempting to complete his secret mission on Earth, he is forced to consider the possibility that humans might be worth saving after all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RESSummary: "Arata Kaizaki is a 27-year-old loser. While struggling to get a job, things have not been going well for him. When he meets a member of the ReLife Research Institute, he's offered a mysterious pill that could give him a chance to pull his life together. The catch? He must make it through another year of high school. Is being a teenager again worth a new life or will he end up failing again?"--
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME RELSummary: In the spring of 1942, German troops advanced deep into the Soviet Union en route to Stalingrad. Hitler seriously misjudged the tenacity of the Red Army and was convinced that the city could be conquered before winter. Ordinarily foot soldiers, inadequately clothed and without sufficient food, struggled just to stay alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN STASummary: For as long as they can recall, Grace and Frankie have been rivals. Their one-upmanship comes crashing to a halt, however, when they learn that their husbands have fallen in love with each other and want to get married. As everything around the ladies is coming apart, the only thing they can really rely on is each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GRA NOT RATEDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Grace 2016Summary: The story of a Paul Pena, a blind American blues musician, and his trek to Tuva to live among its inhabitants and compete in their triennial khoomei (throat singing) contest. He is accompanied by a documentary film team and Tuvinian throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GENSummary: Valentina is the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official. Frank Martin is given an offer he cannot refuse and ends up putting on his driving gloves to deliver Valentina from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to deal with the thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery. On top of that, he cannot let his personal feelings get in the way of his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC TRASummary: Just as Magda is diagnosed with breast cancer, she meets Arturo, a devoted husband and father in the midst of unspeakable loss. Their chance encounter leads both down a path of strength, grace, love, and rebirth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MASummary: Computer hackers demand ransom when they break into a computer system with a powerful and apparently unstoppable virus. A mysterious young woman quickly saves the business. She requests a meeting with the company's CEO and he ends up getting more than he bargained for. Lynn turns out to be a highly skilled assassin, who knocks off the CEO with the help of her younger sister Sue. Hong, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOSummary: Two nemeses become bonded jilted wives after their husbands reveal they have been having an affair with each other since the 1990s and now plan to get married. As Grace and Frankie muddle through ups and downs with their business, romantic relationships and families, they must face some realities of aging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRASummary: Gather 'round, it's time for an existential crisis! On TV, Uramichi and his coworkers play cheery characters on a children's program. But between the ABCs and 123s, they keep revealing the dark truths of adulthood. Remember, kids' life is exhausting!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME LIFESummary: William Burroughs: the Beats éminence grise, "literary outlaw," culture hero to generations of poets, musicians, artists, and filmmakers who had their minds blown by his 1959 classic, banned-in-America "Naked Lunch." This film covers his life in a straightforward manner, but the portrait drawn is at odds with the character who wrote in outlandish graphic detail about then-forbidden sexuality in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Yonilizer Productions 2011
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WILSummary: "Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy. Combining real life stories of people from around the world and interviews with the leading scientists in happiness research, Happy explores the secrets behind our most valued emotion." -- Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HAPSummary: "Grace and Frankie tackle the challenges of family and relationships - while driving each other crazy on a regular basis! Grace and Frankie visit the beach house while their worried kids try to track them down. Robert and Saul are caught in an embarrassing situation."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Ono, Yōko.
Contents: A story (2:38) -- Loneliness (3:33) -- Will you touch me (2:39) -- Dogtown (3:32) -- Tomorrow may never come (2:52) -- Yes, I'm a witch (3:11) -- She gets down on her knees (4:50) -- It happened (3:52) -- Winter friend (3:17) -- Heartburn stew (2:09) -- Hard times are over (4:37) -- Anatano te/Your hands (3:35) -- Extension 33 (1:27) -- Now or never (1:18)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ryko 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONOOno, Yōko.
Summary: Yoko Ono continues an astonishing bout of creativity with a new album. Among the special guests on Take Me To The Land of Hell are ?uestlove, Lenny Kravitz, Nels Cline, and tUnEyArDs.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Chimera Music 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ONODISNEY, WALT-PRODUCTIONS.
Summary: A treasure hunter must steal the Declaration of Independence in order to keep it out of the hands of a ruthless enemy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Buean Vista-Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NATOrso
Contents: 3 chimneys all different -- Ramdom butter -- Farmer was a paranoid man -- For lack of better words -- Tea eggs -- Stretch your money -- Rudra vina -- Burial at sea -- Spider's house -- Madagascar -- Tongue and voice -- Fireman's cough -- Cold rest -- bubble lady.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Perishable Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ORSWalt Disney Productions
Summary: The animal friends of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves, escort him out of the jungle to keep him safe in Disney's version of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier Enterprises 1993