Summary: "In 1946, Branch Rickey ... owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball's infamous color line when he signed Jackie Robinson ... to the team. The deal put both men in the crosshairs of the public, the press and even other players. Facing unabashed racism from every side, Robinson was forced to demonstrate tremendous courage and let his talent on the field win over...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA FORSummary: Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2022
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEASummary: Blocked on social media and concerned for his son's life, Chuck impersonates a waitress online and starts checking in with Franklin. But things begin to spiral when Franklin falls for this imaginary girl and wants nothing more than to meet her in person, as Chuck has inadvertently catfished his own son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IContents: Drum / Young Fathers -- Round the bend / The Tubs -- Oceans apart / The Coral -- Scapegoat / Anohni and the Johnsons -- Clear away in the morning / Lankum -- All of the people / Grian Chatten -- Portrait of a clear day / Julie Byrne -- Meant to be / Wilco -- FaceTime (Billy Woods & Kenny Segal feat. Sam Herring) -- Just in time / Rickie Lee Jones -- Baba Louie / Jaimie Branch -- Run a red light...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Best friends and criminals Durell Washington and LeeJohn are two thieves who haven't got a prayer. Sentenced to 5,000 hours of community service, Durell's life quickly goes from bad to worse. Realizing that the Lord helps those who help themselves, he eventually decides to help himself to the neighborhood church's building fund. Accompanied by LeeJohn, the two down-on-their-luck men are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIRSummary: The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DVD MOVIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FLA RATED RContents: [Set 1]. Crucible of horror / Michael Gough (1970) -- Double exposure / Michael Callan, Joanna Pettet, Cleavon Little (1983) -- Horror rises from the tomb / Paul Naschy (1973) -- The dungeon of Harrow / Russ Harvey (1962) -- The werewolf of Washington / Dean Stockwell (1973) -- They saved Hitler's brain / Walter Stocker (1963) -- The thirsty dead / Jennifer Billingsley (1974) -- The amazing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: Get ready for some really, really Big fun when Elmo is accidentally turned big and towers over Sesame Street! While Abby tries to figure out how to get Elmo small again, kids will learn all about measuring in this extra tall tale. Then, Elmo makes friends with a Monarch butterfly and cooks up even more big fun in a silly cooking competition! Featuring three full length stories, two engaging new...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD SeSummary: Daniel, a young teacher, decides to spend his summer at home in Hamburg. At the local flea market, he meets Juli, who is immediately attracted to him, a fact to which Daniel seems oblivious. On the same day, Daniel meets Melek, a young Turkish girl, with whom he is immediately smitten. Ignoring his earlier plans, he sets out in pursuit of her across the Balkans. Along the way he picks up a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSepetys, Ruta
Summary: "In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SEPBombay Rickey
Summary: "Electric Bhairavi continues Bombay Rickey's journey through psychedelic operatic imaginary film noir scores, with heavy doses of surf rock, Bollywood, Hindustani and Yma Sumac." -- Bandcamp.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cowboys & Indians
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT BOMSummary: The realities of submarine warfare during World War II in the Pacific is centered around two submarine officers who are destined to clash with each other from the first moment they meet.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Run 1999Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSTricky
Contents: Sun down (featuring Tirzah) -- Lonnie listen (featuring Mykki Blanco & Francesca Belmonte) -- Something in the way (featuring Francesca Belmonte) -- Keep me in your shake (featuring Nneka) -- The unloved (skit) -- Nicotine love (featuring Francesca Belmonte) -- Gangster chronicle (featuring Bella Gotti) -- I had a dream (featuring Francesca Belmonte) -- My Palestine girl (featuring Blue Daisy)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: !K7 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TRITricky
Contents: Money greedy -- Mellow -- Singing the blues -- Broken homes -- 6 minutes -- Analyze me -- The moment I feared -- Talk to me (angels with dirty faces) -- Carriage for two -- Demise -- Tear out my eyes -- Record companies.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TRISummary: What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUR RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MuContents: Freak levels / Brant Bjork and the Bros -- Reverberation / The 13th Floor Elevators -- Purple haze / The Flames -- Day of the change / Andromeda -- After gong / Flowers Must Die -- Let it be unknown / Endless Boogie -- Mothers of the sun / Black Mountain -- Liquid bridges / Hedvig Mollestad Trio -- London stone / The Bevis Frond -- Night witch / Wolf People -- Union of mind and soul / Goat -- I...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: When his estranged teenage daughter is targeted by a drug cartel, ex-convict John Link must call upon connections from his criminal past to save his daughter's future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: LG Premiere 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BLOBrandy
Summary: Brandy delivers a fresh sounding, well-crafted second album that sounds as much like pop as it does R&B. Mase makes an appearance on Top of the World. Includes the Grammy nominated track Almost Doesn't Count.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Recording 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BRABrandy
Summary: Special Disney presentation of the classic musical of Cinderella, who suffers the torments of her wicked stepmother and spoiled stepsisters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2000