Summary: "Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MILSummary: On a secluded farm, a man is bedridden and fighting through his final breaths while his wife slowly succumbs to overwhelming grief. Siblings Louise and Michael return home to help, but it doesn't take long for them to see that something's wrong with mom too. Gradually, they begin to suffer a darkness similar to their mother's, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that an evil entity...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2020
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR DARSummary: Take an unforgettable journey with the students of Cyprus-Rhodes University as they navigate the social minefield of college life. Join Casey, a sorority social climber, as she vies for president of Zeta Beta Zeta. Her world gets more complicated when her nerdy little brother, Rusty, arrives on campus and risks her reputation by joining a fraternity and trying to go from geek to Greek. On top...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRESummary: A new year comes with new pledges and new challenges. Rusty's life take some interesting twists as he climbs the fraternity ladder, and Casey finds herself torn between two very provocative offers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV GRESummary: Freshman Rusty Cartwright arrives at college and decides he no longer wants to be the boring geek from high school. He decides to pledge a fraternity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRESummary: Two family films about a remarkable beagle named Shiloh who is rescued from an abusive owner by Marty, but it's Shiloh who teaches Marty about kindness and forgiveness when he heroically saves the life of the man who mistreated him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SHISummary: The incredible untold story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SNOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SNO RATED RSummary: A police captain methodically unravels the truth behind the brutal murder of an innocent Jewish man by a World War II soldier with a rabid hatred of Jews.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CROSummary: An exquisitely mounted and deeply affecting story about one man's determination to create a home for his ailing wife as they enter their twilight years. Based on actual events, that proves love is the ultimate triumph.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STILazar, Zachary
Summary: "Tells the story of Christopher Bell, a blocked painter on the East End of Long Island, and Ana Ramirez, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York ... He has retreated to a modest house near a patch of woods ... In the woods, he encounters Ana, who is trying to reinvent herself as the kind of person she'd been before the world she knew disappeared. A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAZShapiro, Zachary.
Summary: After being on the ark for months and months, the ants get antsy, the bees bored, and the llamas livid, and Noah must find a way to make everyone get along.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHASchott, Ben
Summary: Jeeves and Wooster embark on another elegantly uproarious escapade as spies in service to the British crown.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHBrowne, Zachary.
Summary: Marty, a seventh-grader, has runs-in with a neighbor who mistreats his dog. Thanks to his caring father and genial Doc Wallace, Marty learns to confront his troubles. But it is Shiloh who teaches Marty best about kindness and forgiveness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SHIPullen, Zachary.
Summary: A father and son find an old Radio Flyer wagon when cleaning out the attic and, through the course of a week, turn it back into a wonderful toy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PullMoore, Scotto
Summary: "In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scott Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages. Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of "power...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOSlott, Dan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Publishing 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 SPISergi, Zachary
Summary: The reader makes choices for five solo pop artists who must learn to navigate overnight success after their group performance at a competition becomes a viral hit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SERMason, Zachary
Summary: Although the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, it's still a good time to be in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn't rich, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs, which are complex to the point of opacity....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASSergi, Zachary
Summary: The reader makes choices for four college-bound best friends who take an occult-centered road trip and embark on a mystical scavenger hunt across the West Coast, uncovering the mysteries of their tarot deck.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RP Teens 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SERWigon, Zachary
Summary: In the wake of inheriting his father's hotel chain, Hal attempts to end his long and secret relationship with a dominatrix. A battle of wills ensues to keep the upper hand as the power dynamics swing wildly back and forth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SANSchott, Ben
Summary: As a member of the Junior Ganymede Club--an association of butlers and valets that is in reality an arm of the British intelligence service--Jeeves must ferret out a Fascist spy, with the help of his hapless employer, Bertie Wooster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSummary: Two strangers' lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash. Based on the airline accident that occurred in July of 2002 and on the events that took place 478 days later.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AFTMoore, Scotto
Summary: "Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire world. Carissa loves her elevator. Up and Down she goes, content with the sometimes chewy food her reality fabricator spits out, as long as it means she doesn't have to speak to another living person. But when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOUnderhill, Scout
Summary: "Four adorable dogs are tail-waggingly excited to play their favorite role-playing game in DnDoggos: Get the Party Started, the middle grade graphic novel debut from online comic creator Scout Underhill. They've picked their characters and favorite dice, and are ready to set off on the adventure their game master Magnus has created for them. Pickles, a rough and tumble fighter; Tonka, a playful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024