Summary: American Betty Mahmoody goes with her daughter and her Iranian-born husband to his native Iran for a vacation. Soon Betty discovers her husband doesn't intend to ever return to America. He will let her go, but her daughter must stay. As a stranger in a foreign police state, Betty has no money, no friends, no rights, and makes a desperate, heroic bid to escape with her child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOT RATED PG-13Summary: Set in the Pakistani community in south London, the film focuses on two youths--Johnny, a working-class white, and Omar, a Pakistani. Together they operate a laundrette, which Omar inherits from his uncle. While Johnny looks upon the laundrette as a life line on which to salvage his self-respect, Omar sees it as just the beginning step on the road to riches.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYCalogero, Pablo.
Contents: 1513 : the naked people -- The man in the blue turban -- Heyers -- Udalla : land of the giants -- Milton -- Satjah -- Frog king -- Iquitos.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fibre Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC CALSummary: A bureaucrat becomes a suburban guru who marries a follower with a son who's a punk rocker named Charlie Hero. Consequently, the guru's son is propelled from his bland life into a series of erotic experiences in London. Set to a backdrop of politics, fashion, music, drugs, morality and race, Karim must negotiate adolescence, a dysfunctional family and his own sexuality, as he seeks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BUDSummary: It is 1935. Three years have passed, and as the seasons turn, so too do the machinations of a rising revolution. As a new summer falls upon the foothills of India's Little England, Simla, political tensions reach fever point. With help from the scheming Cynthia, Ralph faces the most pivotal year of his career. Alice's husband has followed her to India, and Aafrin's ascending career may be in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INDSummary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: Indiana Jones, his sidekick Short Round, and nightclub singer Willie Scott go from high-flying action above the Himalayas to a nail-biting runaway mine car chase and finally a spine-tingling escape from a fortress-like mine in India while on the trail of a sacred stone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IND RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD InCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INDSummary: Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twenty-something Mina spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius, their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both of their families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MISSummary: Billionaire Thomas Crown loves courting disaster and winning! But when he meets his match in an intelligent, cunning, lady insurance investigator, a game of cat and mouse ensues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Thomas 2000Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD THORodhad.
Contents: Unleash -- Withheld Walk -- Escape -- Brief Respite -- Awash -- Glimmer Of Light -- Target Line (feat. Vril) -- Burst -- Left Behind -- Cast A Shadow.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dystopian Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC RODRoseau
Contents: Salt -- Kids and drunks -- New glass -- See you soon -- Florida -- Grab -- Hot box -- Accelerate -- You don't know -- Alright -- Lunch.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ROSRostam
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ROSSummary: In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AMMMonochrome Set.
Contents: Give Me Your Youth -- Stage Fright -- I Feel Fine (Really) -- Cyber Son -- Don't Wear That Look -- Mrs Robot -- Oh Yes, I'm Going To Be In Your Dreams Tonight -- Shallow -- Silence Is Rusty -- Maisieworld.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tapete Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MONSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARContents: American style / Weaker Youth Ensemble -- I hate mornings / The Exceptions -- Rude girl / Skolers -- Vasectomy / Johnny Socko -- Ye Olde House of Mutton / The Pacers -- It's time / International Jet Set -- Skankin' in moon boots / Ten Cent Fun -- Chuck Taylors / Tom Collins & the Cocktail Shakers -- Trouble again / Skapone -- Grow up / Mustard Plug -- Down in Jamaica / Heavy Manners -- G.I....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jump Up! 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AMESummary: Three American women working in Rome, Italy, share a spacious apartment and the desire to find love and marriage, each experiencing a few bumps in their journeys to romance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THRSummary: Guy Trilby is a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking the competition. While reporter Jenny Widgeon attempts to discover his true motivation, Guy finds himself forging an unlikely alliance with a competitor: awkward ten-year-old Chaitanya Chopra, who is completely unfazed by Guy's take-no-prisoners...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BADCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BADJunker, Patricia/ Lewis, Audrey/ Adams, Henry (CON)/ Baumgartner, Karen (CON)/ Crosman, Christopher B. (CON)
Summary: "Andrew Wyeth painted the landscapes and people in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where he grew up, and in mid-coast Maine, where he spent each summer--places that would inspire him for over seven decades. This centennial exhibition is a fitting moment to trace the threads that weave through the art of Andrew Wyeth, which never failed to engage viewers and confound critics through the long...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 702 WYETH ANDSummary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESKeletigui et ses Tambourinis.
Contents: Disc 1-Sabougnouma--Mariama--La Guinee moussolou--Fruitaguinee--Kadia blues--Famadenke--Cigarettes allumettes--Djoute wassa--Kesso--I boyein-boyein--Tambourinis sax parade--Quinzan--Il tomatero--Banankoro--La loma de belen--J.R.D.A.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Stearns Music 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KELSummary: After being brutally forced to fall under Negan's will, Rick now understands Negan can't be reasoned with, and any day could be the survivors' last. The communities join forces in the last stand against the Saviors as all-out war unfolds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: With the Whisperer War upon them, the collective communities must come together and possibly sacrifice all they have to find a way to silence the Whisperers once and for all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021