Summary: It's 1914 and the British Empire's greatest supporter, Rudyard Kipling, is at the peak of his literary fame. Kipling's son, Jack, is determined to play his part in the immiment war with Germany but finds himself rejected due to his poor eyesight. Kipling uses his influence to land Jack a commission in the Irish Guards. Kipling's wife, Caroline, is bitterly upset, failing to see the glory in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MYSummary: This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SOUSummary: It's 1968 and Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech creates serious tension in Poplar, especially when a group of dockers march in support of Powell. The midwives welcome a new nun, Sister Veronica, who's an instant hit with everyone, except Nurse Crane. Meanwhile, Trixie's relationship with Matthew goes from strength to strength, while Nurse Crane helps Nancy with her financial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CALSummary: When Pop sells the crumbling mansion next door to waspish newcomers for more than it's worth, he celebrates with plans to build a swimming pool but his neighbors soon plot their revenge. Can the Larkin clan keep him out of prison?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LARSummary: The show follows high school sophomore Courtney Whitmore and her stepfather Pat Dugan as she leads an unlikely group of young heroes to take on the legacy of DC's very first superhero team, the Justice Society of America. In the thrilling second season, Courtney and her friends take on one of the most frightening adversaries in DC's mythology the dark entity of corruption known as Eclipso.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: Cinemax's first scripted primetime drama series returns. A high-octane, globe-spanning thriller, Strike Back focuses on two members of Section 20, a secret British anti-terrorist organization: Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester), a consummate British soldier still struggling to overcome tragedy in his life, and Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton), a disgraced U.S. Delta Force operative who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STRSummary: Likable, hardworking family man and astute detective Tom Barnaby is back with new mysteries in Midsomer County, and more murders to solve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDSummary: A world of adventure! Just, not for him. Kazuma Sato decides that today is the day to get out of the house for a bit. Since he dies, pointlessly, it's clearly a bad choice. The goddess who greets him in the afterlife, however, offers him a chance to be reborn in a world not unlike that of a video game, and as a bonus she'll even throw in a cool item or power! Can't possibly be a bad choice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME KONSummary: Based on the true story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a Vatican official, who, under threat of death from the Gestapo, saved prisoners of war and others from the German forces occupying Rome during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCASummary: It is 2153. The crew of the starship Enterprise are engaging in the third year of their mission under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. An alien probe has attacked the Earth, killing over seven million people. The Enterprise is sent to track down and stop the aliens from attacking again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: Vast dangers lurking in the fantasy realm navigate a path to Earth, becoming a threat in reality, and it's up to Dirk and the gang to stop them in their tracks. But first, they need to find each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC America 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DIRSummary: Don't panic! The British TV adaptation of Douglas Adams's cult science fiction book series follows the misadventures of Arthur Dent, sole survivor of the demolished planet Earth. Join Dent and interplanetary researcher Ford Prefect as they encounter bad alien poetry, a depressed robot, a two-headed spaceship thief, and the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HITSummary: Natsu Dragneel and his friends travel to the island Kingdom of Stella, where they will reveal dark secrets, fight new enemies, and once again save the world from destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation 2018
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME FAISummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Likable, hardworking family man and astute detective Tom Barnaby is back with new mysteries in Midsomer County, and more murders to solve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex rotescue? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: A look at what happened when Mr. Rochester met and married his first wife, and how she became the madwoman locked in the attic. A prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WIDSummary: Detective Salvo Montalbano solves crimes in Vigata with his always loyal, and sometimes effective, police squad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Detective Salvo Montalbano solves crimes in Vigata with his always loyal and sometimes effective police squad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A tale of best friends Lila and Elena, which started at the school in the 1950s. As an elderly woman, Elena tries to unravel the mystery of her brilliant friend, who also became her worst enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series My 2019Summary: In Tolstoy's timeless epic of love and loss, a circle of aristocrats finds their glittering world crumbling as war threatens imperial Russia. Set during the years of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace follows the changing fortunes of brooding hero Prince Andrej, his bookish friend Pierre, and the spirited but naive Natasha. As Napoleon's armies menace their privileged lives, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013