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: When Nate is invited to a big family reunion in Missouri, he sees it as an opportunity to reconnect with his estranged wife and growing children. Nate takes delivery on an expensive new SUV, persuades his wife, Dorothy, to tag along, and packs up his three kids for what he thinks will be a leisurely drive from L.A. to St. Louis. However, between his wary wife, arguing kids, angry police...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JOHSummary: Comedy television series using state-of-the-art puppetry and audioanimatronics to create the Sinclairs a family of very modern dinosaurs whose antics and family relationships provide a humorous look at our own society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DINSummary: Nearly 10 years after the original series ended, Gilmore Girls: a Year in the Life is here. Lorelai still runs the Dragonfly Inn, and now lives with Luke. Her daughter, Rory, now 32, juggles career complications and ex-boyfriends, while matriarch Emily adjusts to widowed life. In four memorable chapters studded with drop-ins by quirky Stars Hollow friends, the Gilmores confront long-standing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GILSummary: Follows four grown siblings of the far-from-perfect Braverman clan as they try to balance kids and careers, dreams and commitments, and romance or a total lack thereof. Join some of the best actors on television for a genuinely funny and heartwarming journey through the most challenging and rewarding role of a lifetime: being a parent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: NBC Universal Television 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PARSummary: Family dynamics are shifting for all three generations of Braverman's as Julia and Joel adjust to life with their adopted son, Crosby and Jasmine settle into married life, Sarah gets engaged, and Adam and Kristina react to news that changes everything.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PARFormat: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This contemporary drama is about romance between two imperfect, alcoholic, resentful ordinary people, neighbors in the suburbs, adults with enough money to support themselves in the discontent to which they have become accustomed. Terry Wolfmeyer, suburban Detroit mother of four girls, is suddenly abandoned by her husband, and sinks into depression and subsists on a steady diet of vodka tonics....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPSSummary: Join the Berenstain Bears, Papa, Mama, Brother and Sister, as they embark on many adventures. Brother and Sister learn simple life lessons and family values.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BERSummary: Follows four grown siblings of the far-from-perfect Braverman clan as they try to balance kids and careers, dreams and commitments, and romance or a total lack thereof. Join some of the best actors on television for a genuinely funny and heartwarming journey through the most challenging and rewarding role of a lifetime: being a parent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PARSummary: Rachel is a dedicated teacher who forms a deep bond with her boyfriend's young daughter, loving the family she's found but yearning for one of her own in this soulful, sexy, resolutely grown-up story of the elusive quest for belonging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OTHCallison, Zach
Summary: Adventures of a young boy and the Crystal Gems, his human-like alien friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Coraline Jones finds a magical world that is similar to her own, but when her "other parents" try to get her to stay, Coraline must summon her courage and resourcefulness to find her way home; a boy who can speak with the dead fights ghosts and zombies tosave his town from an ancient curse; an orphan boy who has been raised by a group of trash collectors known as the Boxtrolls, must help his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young girl walks through a secret door that she has found in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life, but much better. When her adventure turns dangerous, and her counterfeit parents, including the Other Mother, try to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, dermination, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CORSummary: When London transplant Mia moves with her family to a lion farm in South Africa, she forms a bond with the white lion cub Charlie, one that is tested when the two run away across-country, hoping to reach a lion sanctuary and life-long safety for Charlie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY MIASummary: Juggling a relationship, parental responsibilities, friendships, and a sick brother while earning a living would be difficult for anyone, but it's particularly difficult when you're a criminal for hire. Ray Shoesmith takes care of people collecting debts, relieving them of drugs and guns, and often taking care of them on a more permanent basis. Ray demands respect and does not tolerate it when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MR.Summary: A community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, 'into the light,' where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BoCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOXCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Blu-ray Family Boxtrolls 2015Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BOXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BOXSummary: The story of a 13-year-old girl who wants to be a mother, as told through different actors playing the same character and her journey in a variety of ways.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PALSummary: Lynn and her three youngest children attend the wedding of her estranged eldest son at her parents' Annapolis estate. Though she is hoping for a joyful reunion, her attempts at reconciliation veer quickly off-course when she is hurled into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ANOSummary: Ralphie is all grown up in this sequel to the annual holiday favorite in which he must deal with Christmas and all that comes with it, this time as a dad. Peter Billingsley returns to the role that has made kids of all ages anticipate Christmas morning like no other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2023
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD CHRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHR4 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Pearce, Erin
Summary: The Yo Gabba Gabba characters teach the importance of family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV YOSummary: Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home, both he and Hec go on the run in the bush. As a national manhunt ensues, the newly branded...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUN RATED PG-13Summary: Three weeks, six countries and one divorce? What was supposed to be the holiday of a lifetime becomes a desperate quest for Douglas Petersen to save his marriage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021