Summary: CIA agent Jack Ryan finds himself in a race against time to stop terrorists who plan to ignite a war between the U.S. and Russia by detonating a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl game.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sum 2002Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SUMRosten, Leo
Summary: More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, this book brings Leo Rosten's masterful work up to date.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 422.4391 ROSSummary: In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER NEGSummary: Examines the life of the controversial master of the Broadway musical and ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins. Features excerpts from Robbins' work, including never-before-seen rehearsal footage, and interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Laurents, Peter Martins, Frank Rich, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harrick, Joseph Stein, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS JERSummary: A botanist has spent three years aboard the space freighter "Valley Forge" preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, he rebels and hijacks the space craft, killing his fellow crewman and injuring himself. He plunges the ship into the gaseous Rings of Saturn, where he embarks on the loneliest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI SILLowry, Lois.
Summary: At the annual Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas is chosen for something special as his life assignment. This leads him to The Giver, a man who holds all the memories of the past. Through this man, Jonas learns the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2000
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD YA FIC LOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LOW1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD LOW
Summary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAJLowry, Lois
Summary: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other. He then learns the terrible truth about the Community.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013