Summary: Chess Records was located on the south side of Chicago. In 1947, it began recording blues music with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. This eventually gave birth to rock and roll in 1955 with Chuck Berry. Record producer, Leonard Chess has an ear for this different type of music and believes he can cash in by signing up new talent such as songwriter, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CADSummary: Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAJSummary: Gorky Park opens with the discovery of three mutilated bodies buried in the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park. Arkady Renko, the chief investigator of the Moscow Militia, is assigned to unravel this horrific crime, but he is confronted by an uncooperative and corrupt KGB.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GORSummary: Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Ray, a white woman and Lila, a Mohawk are both single mothers, both earning minimum wage and facing desperate circumstances, are drawn by the lure of fast money into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. New York...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRO RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FROSummary: Amy is a recent divorcee who seeks refuge in the suburban Connecticut home of her parents. Demoralized and directionless, Amy begins an affair with 19 year old actor Jeremy that reignites her passion for life and jumpstarts her independence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2013
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE HELSummary: A fire-breathing dragon terrorizes the sixth-century British countryside. The only hope for the beleaguered citizens is an aging sorcerer, but when he is killed before he can save the people, the task falls to his young apprentice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2003
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY DRASummary: Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STAColumbia Pictures
Summary: Agent Jay must call agent Kay out of retirement in order to help rid the earth of a Kylothian monster who is threatening humanity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Men 2002Columbia Pictures
Summary: Sean Porter was a football player who turned into a juvenile detention counselor. He wrestles a seemingly insolvable problem: the vast majority of young men who leave detention fall right back into crime. Looking for a way to give these not-yet-hardened kids a taste of self-esteem and discipline, Porter manages to persuade his superiors to let him teach the kids football - and then take on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRIParmount Pictures
Summary: Three childhood friends, after discovering a hidden treasure map that was left behind by a recently departed friend, go into the Oregon wilderness in search of lost treasure. They take a canoe upriver and everything that can go wrong, does. The three become hunted by two backwoods farmers, tree-hugging hippie chicks and a crazy old mountain man. All in the hopes of finding the D.B. Cooper...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Parmount Pictures 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WITSummary: Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DRESummary: Miracles happen in unexpected places, even on death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. There John Coffey, a prisoner with supernatural powers, brings a sense of spirit and humanity to his guards and fellow inmates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GSummary: Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FULSummary: Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 1995
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CUTSummary: An American family moves to England, to the infamous Canterville Chase, the ancestral home that's been haunted for 300 years by the ghost, of Sir Simon de Canterville. When Sir Simon and the family's teenage daughter Virginia start plotting together to get her family back to New York, she discovers that Sir Simon has been cursed to be bound to the estate. After she uncovers the beautiful and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: The rumor circling the halls is that Beecham House (the home for retired musicians) is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it's a star. Reginald, Wilfred and Cecily are in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean. Her subsequent career as a star soloist, and the ego that accompanied it, split up their long friendship...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUA RATED PG-13Summary: Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FULKirkwood, Jon.
Summary: Describes the physical characteristics, natural habitat, behavior, diet, and world distribution of cockroaches.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 595.728 KIR(COLUMBIA PICTURES PUBLICATIONS)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1985
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 786.2 BESMarwood, Alex
Summary: "A taut new psychological thriller from the Edgar Award-nominated author of The Wicked Girls Alex Marwood's debut novel, The Wicked Girls, earned her lavish praise from the likes of Stephen King, Laura Lippman, and Erin Kelly, and was shortlisted for an Edgar Award. Now Marwood's back with a brilliant, tightly paced thriller that will keep you up at night and make you ask yourself: just how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MARHarwood, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARYarwood, Doreen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hastings House 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.9 YARKirkwood, Kyra.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2009