Summary: Jonathan Pine is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with an English billionaire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NIGSummary: The legendary life of Fidel Castro, from exiled revolutionary to the world's most controversial and longest serving head of state. As seen through the eyes of his wife, mistress and female cohort, this film reveals the untold story of Fidel's rise to become one of the world's most powerful leaders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIDFernando Trueba
Summary: Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMSummary: Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he hears the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris has invited the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He gathers together his former musicians and a young solo violin virtuoso to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. If they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CONSummary: Based on an ancient Indian poem, Sakuntala, the story concerns Nikia's love for Solor, who loves her in return, and Solor's obligation to wed Gamzatti. Gamzatti murders her rival and the inconsolable Solor envisions Nikia inviting him to join her in the Kingdom of the Shades. This performance exhibits the perfection achieved by the Kirov corps de ballet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BAYPiazzolla, Astor
Summary: The enhanced (multimedia) portion contains videos and interviews with Yo-Yo Ma.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MASummary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNSummary: The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIRSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WISSummary: "The first German film devoted to life and death in a concentration camp tells the story of organized resistance by political prisoners in the Buchenwald concentration camp. When one of the prisoners smuggles a child into a camp, the men are faced with the question of how many lives may be endangered in order to save the life of the child. Based on a true story"--Cover text.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NAKSummary: "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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUFactor
Contents: Out of the same thing (feat. the Gaff) -- One record -- Home again (feat. Nomad) -- More rude than handsome (feat. Awol One) -- The leen (feat. Josh Martinez) -- Electric furs of a lynx (feat. Noah 23) -- Moonlight (feat. Josh Fischel) -- Lonely city (feat. Moka Only) -- New day -- Time of the year (feat. Sadat X) -- Good old Smokey (my kanine [sic]) (feat. Myka 9) -- On my way (feat. Kirby...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fake Four 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP FACBakshi, Ralph
Summary: Frodo the Hobbit and his friends fight to save Middle-Earth from the Dark Power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Filmed at a rare 96 frames-per-second, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth's most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia's Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela's mighty Angels Falls,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC AQUSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARAlba, Víctor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Heritage Pub. Co. 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972 ALBArtist Not Provided
Summary: The Shoppies journey to the jungle with two movie stars and find the world of Pawville and meet the Shoppets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SHOSummary: "Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots. With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ISLReyes, Sonora
Summary: "Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers--despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. Luis's attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party--while Ari didn't say no, she definitely didn't say yes. Before she has a chance to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REYReyes, Gabrielle.
Summary: A baby dolphin found off the coast of Florida is brought to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium for help. There Sawyer and Hazel name her Hope and work to help her. Will Winter accept her as a friend, and will Hope's health improve?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC REYReyes, Megan
Summary: An ancient prophecy has put a boy-turned-dragon, his reluctant dragon rider, a runaway witch, and a young soldier, on a collision course with destiny--and with each other--in a mission to heal the fractured realm once known as Haven.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Labyrinth Road 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC REYContents: I remember you / Victor Schertzinger, Johnny Mercer (6:45) -- I've told every little star / Victor Young, Oscar Hammerstein II (6:30) -- It could happen to you / Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke (3:25) -- Oleo / Sonny Rollins (3:15) -- Will you still be mine? / Matt Dennis, Thomas Adair (4:15).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ROLReyes, Dolores
Summary: Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins 2020