Summary: Mr. Smith is not the best idea for looking after a child, yet after stumbling upon a blazing shoot-out, helping to birth a child amidst a hail of gunfire, and seeing the mother die before his eyes, he becomes determined to protect the young innocent at all costs. His adversaries are equally determined, and they will not stop until the newborn is dead. Now, in order to ensure that maniacal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SHOSummary: For years, Mr. Meacham has told tales of the fierce dragon deep in the woods. To his daughter, Grace, these stories are little more than tall tales, until she meets Pete. Pete is a mysterious ten-year-old with no family who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Pete's 2016Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PETCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PETSummary: Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORPSummary: Young Louisa Ginglebusher is recruited from a local orphanage to become an usherette at a movie theater. Encouraged by her kindly guardian to spread her wings, Louisa decides to lead the life of a fairy tale angel and in her quest to do good she tries to redirect money from a rich playboy to a struggling lawyer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GOOSummary: The little orphaned swift Manou is adopted by a seagull couple and struggles for acceptance in the seagull's colony. When he meets other swifts, he suddenly finds himself torn between two worlds and must decide where he really belongs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follows the provocative life drama of orphan Anne Shirley, from her struggles as an adolescent to her triumphs as a young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 1995
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANNSummary: Cloud Strife struggles with his past, and decides to live a solitary life, in a peaceful town with orphans. Then one ordinary day, Cloud receives a phone call for a job asking protection from a mysterious man named Kadaj.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME FINSummary: A story of redemption, vengeance, and self-discovery set against the birth of England, this drama follows young warrior and outsider Uhtred on a fierce mission to reclaim his birthright. The series combines real historical figures and events with fiction, retelling the history of King Alfred the Great and his desire to unite the many separate kingdoms into what would become England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LASSummary: Season two explodes into action with the brash Cody bad boys in the midst of a high-adrenaline heist. Their haul is a dud, and the frustrated brothers rebel against their all controlling mother, Smurf, as well as each other. An external threat from Smurf's past adds to the chaos, jeopardizing her gift, and ominous responsibility.
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 ANISummary: This magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis, who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town's sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches. Based on the beloved children's classic book.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOU FamilyCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoSummary: Dark forces are moving outside the court and when a powerful Danish warlord Bloodhair attacks, Uhtred must lead Wessex's forces into battle. He captures Bloodhair's mysterious lover, the savage sorceress Skade, who throws a curse, and his world becomes blighted by tragedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: Though many years have passed, another orphan - this time a lonely American girl - makes an exciting journey to the enchanting manor where the magic began. Under the watchful eye of the keeper of the garden's key, the young orphan discovers that unlocking all the mysteries of the garden will take faith, courage and determination before life can bloom lavishly once again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BACSummary: The magical, musical story that shows believing can be the greatest gift of all. Follow the heartwarming journey of two orphan girls whose only wish is to find a home for Christmas. With a little help from their guardian angels, they discover that miracles really can happen when they find the power to believe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2019
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BUTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday BuSummary: Growing up in an orphanage in the British countryside, Earwig has no idea that her mother had magical powers. Her life changes dramatically when a strange couple takes her in, and she is forced to live with a selfish witch. As the headstrong young girl sets out to uncover the secrets of her new guardians, she discovers a world of spells and potions, and a mysterious song that may be the key to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EaSummary: "For a young girl living a 'hard-knock life' in a children's orphanage, things may seem pretty bad -- especially at Christmas. But feisty Annie carries a song in her heart and hope in her locket -- the only thing she has from her parents. One day, fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. Her adventure takes her from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, seventeen-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his estranged relatives in a Southern California beach town. Heading up their petty crime dynasty are J's manipulative grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, whose iron-fisted, velvet-gloved tough love controls her four sons; adopted right-hand man "Baz"; intense, mentally disturbed Pope; tough, hyperactive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANISummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: Anne Shirley is thirteen years old and finds that life in Avonlea is never simple. Torn between her free-spirited nature and her own perceived need to become sensible, Anne finds that the journey toward her goal is fraught with confusion and more than a few unfortunate yet amusing mishaps.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANN RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANNSummary: The adventures of a young orphan girl living in the late 19th century as she learns to navigate her new life on Prince Edward Island, in this new take on L.M. Montgomery's classic novels.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV An 2Summary: They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alcon Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOSummary: A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the only survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE LIFSummary: When four young orphans, Hikari, Ikuko, Ishi, and Takemura, first meet, their parents' bodies are being turned into dust. They are like zombies; devoid of all emotion. With no family, no future, no dreams, and no way to move forward, the young teens decide that the first level of this new existence involves salvaging a gaming console, an old electric bass, and a charred wok from their former...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WESummary: Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savanna, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe, and an orphan, just like him, as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GKIDS 2015