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China Drama Effectiveness and validity of law Drama Intrigue China Drama Judgments, Criminal Drama Male friendship Conduct of life Drama Married people England Drama Men Identity Drama Multiple personality England Drama Self-doubt Psychological aspects Drama Teacher-student relationships DramaSummary: " ... A women's shared, near orgiastic pleasure in their freedom and friendship."--New York Times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BADCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BAD RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BaCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BADCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bad 2016Contreras, Jorge L.
Summary: "The gripping true story of a Supreme Court civil rights battle to prevent biotech companies from owning the very thing that makes us who we are-our DNA"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.7304 CONGelman, Laurie
Summary: "In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Laurie Gelman's "irreverent and hilarious" (The New York Post) hit Class Mom, brash, lovable Jen Dixon is back with a new class and her work cut out for her. If you've ever been a room parent or school volunteer, Jen Dixon is your hero. She says what every class mom is really thinking, whether in her notoriously frank emails or standup-worthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GELScott, Kieran
Summary: "Paige Lancaster, single mom and prodigal daughter, has returned to the East Coast from her prestigious, well-paid job in LA, writing for the smartest detective series on television. Something terrible happened to her back in Hollywood. Okay, two terrible things, one featuring a misplaced tire iron -- and now she's broke and homeless and living with her widowed mother and eight year old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOSummary: When it comes to her three free-spirited daughters, Daphne is just your normal over-protective, overbearing, over-the-top mother. Worried that her youngest daughter, Millie, will end up alone, Daphne meddles in her daughter's love life until she ends up doing all wrong things for all the right reasons - and all in the name of motherly love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BECCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BecauseSummary: When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake the controlled world of the professor. The lessons learned will last a lifetime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EMPDonovan, Sam
Summary: "Daddy is the Mystery Reader at Tori's school today, and he's coming dressed as Miss Rita! Tori helps Daddy gloss, glitter, glamour, and glimmer to get ready. It takes time--because sparkle is serious business! Tori loves helping Daddy become Miss Rita. But will the other kids at school love Miss Rita like Tori does? Luckily, a last-minute idea helps Daddy and Tori find a way to make story time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DONSmiley, Jane.
Summary: One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ATANASOFF, JOHN V SMIMontanari, Eva
Summary: "A little crocodile explores the beach and campsite in this colorful, noisy book filled with sounds and new experiences that are sure to delight toddlers. For fans of Bark, George."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MONSummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMSummary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSSummary: Sue works in a library; her son Daniel eats chips and listens to Metallica. When his father and stepmother cancel his summer plans to visit them in Florida at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war of wills ensues in the unassuming battleground of their suburban home as they each reckon with private tragedies, and pursue their passions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DAYWest, Kathleen
Summary: "Class Mom meets Small Admissions in this wryly observed debut about the privileged bubble that is Liston Heights High--the micro-managing parents, the overworked teachers, and the students caught in the middle--and the fallout for each of them when that bubble finally bursts. Isobel Johnson can't stand helicopter parents like Julia Abbott, a stage mom whose world revolves around interfering in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESSummary: Matilda is a super-smart little girl who's woefully misunderstood by her parents, her brother, and an evil school principal. But with the help of a brave best friend and a wonderful teacher, Matilda discovers she doesn't have to get mad to get even.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MATSummary: Blade on the feather: Jason is a reclusive author who is visited by Daniel. Daniel is a young admirer of Jason's. After Daniel seduces Jason's daughter, dark secrets to emerge. Both men are more than they claim to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Vision 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DENSummary: On the last day of high school, mild-mannered English teacher Andy Campbell tries to keep it together amidst senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration, and budget cuts that put jobs on the line. Then he accidentally crosses his much tougher and deeply feared colleague, Ron Strickland, who challenges Campbell to an old-fashioned throw down. News of the fight spreads like wildfire and it ends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FISWait, Lea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAISummary: A widowed professor, trying to raise his overachieving teenage daughter on his own, learns about relationships from a former student and an unexpected visit from his brother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SMASummary: A look at the life of Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spends two years in prison before leaving for the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEFSummary: A new Dr. Jekyll has an old problem: Mr. Hyde. But they have a deal, a body share, and an impossible life is somehow lived. What Hyde doesn't know is that Jekyll is married. There's a wife and two children that Dr. Jekyll will do anything to protect from his dark side. What neither of them know is an ancient organization is monitoring their every move, and a plan over a century in the making is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2 entertain 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JEKSummary: Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Smart 2008Summary: A sane woman is locked up in an asylum by a fraudulent English aristocrat who is afraid she may expose his 'secret.' Escaping while wearing a white gown, she runs into a youthful hero who becomes haunted by his brief meeting with this 'woman in white.'
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WOMSummary: When a new friend and co-worker begins a passionate affair with a male student, schoolteacher Barbara Covett decides to keep the affair secret as a means to manipulate her friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NOTLevin, Yuval
Summary: "Americans are living through a social crisis. Populist firebrands -- on left and right alike -- propose to address the crisis through acts of tearing down. They describe themselves as destroying oppressive establishments, clearing weeds, draining swamps. But, as acclaimed conservative intellectual Yuval Levin argues, this is a misguided prescription, rooted in a defective diagnosis. The social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020