Summary: Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Nim's 2008Copies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NSummary: With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN BUCSummary: After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROOCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RoomCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROO RATED RSummary: After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: The Rescuers: Two brave mice try to rescue a kidnapped young orphan from the hilariously evil Madame Medusa, who is obsessed with getting her hands on the world's largest diamond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Quigley down under: "Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes instead that his mission is murder - to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Golden-Mayer Studios Inc. 2008
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Summary: An ancient rivalry is rekindled when a Hollow Earth scholar receives private funding and wants to use Kong to discover the origin of the Titans. Protected inside a biodome since his discovery in the 70s, Kong was the only kaiju who did not participate in the epic battle against King Gidorah, and Godzilla is determined to become the final apex predator. Meanwhile, the humans begin to suspect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE GODCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GODSummary: When a brilliant video game maker named Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world and becomes part of the very game he is designing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TROSummary: Set in 1919 but based on a real incident from 1906. A coal mine collapses on the frontier between Germany and France, trapping a team of French miners inside. Workers on both sides of the border spring into action, putting aside national prejudices and wartime grudges to launch a dangerous rescue operation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KAMSummary: A typical night for a group of war veterans at the local VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a teenage girl runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. Suddenly under attack from a gang of punk mutants looking to get back what's theirs, at any cost, the vets use every weapon they can put together to protect the girl and their VFW in the biggest fight of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY VFWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VFWSummary: A beautiful and aristocratic vampire named Selene falls in love with a Lycan, a werewolf, whose people are involved in an ancient war with the vampires; the vampire Selene, known as a "death dealer," fights to stop the release of the original Lycan; a Lycan slave gathers his fellow werewolves to rise up against the vampires holding them captive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HORROR UNDSummary: Conan the barbarian: Cimmerian Conan is captured as a child after his parents are murdered by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom. After years of enslavement, Conan is freed to learn the "riddle of steel" and to kill the arch-villain Thulsa Doom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CONSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSlate, Jenny
Summary: Batman works on his social skills as he tries to team up with Alfred, his adopted son who dresses as Robin, and police commisioner Barbara Gordon to save Gotham from the Joker's clutches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LEGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV LEGCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LeSummary: In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by a wealthy warlord, The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has run away. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days if he doesn't find the missing girl, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman, and his own path to redemption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRISummary: Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody, Anna is the world's most skilled contract killer. However, when Moody is brutally killed, she vows revenge for the man who taught her everything she knows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PROSummary: It is the Middle Ages, and nothing is more feared in England than Viking warriors. In one of many raids, Viking leader Ragnar kills the English king and forces himself on the Queen. With the King dead, his brother takes the thrown but unknown to anyone but a trusted servant, the Queen is now with child. In order to protect the boy, he is sent away to be raised in safety away from the new King....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2002
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE VIKSummary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIESummary: The story begins when ace private eye Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, prompting his 21-year-old son Tim to find out what happened. Aiding in the investigation is Harry's former Pokémon partner, Detective Pikachu: a hilariously wisecracking, adorable super-sleuth who is a puzzlement even to himself. Finding that they are uniquely equipped to communicate with one another, Tim and Pikachu...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV POKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POKSummary: After one experiment, Johnny turns into a monster and everyone else becomes human. Now it has to be seen whether they will be able to reverse this experiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HOTSummary: Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, a nurse operates a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Global Road Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOTSummary: Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular TV series. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne's rescue of a young Bedouin girl leads her on a globe-trotting adventure to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse, with the help of handsome detective Jack Robinson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020