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Action and adventure films California Los Angeles Corporations Corrupt practices Illinois Chicago Drama Criminals Kidnapping victims United States Drama Legal drama Sheriffs United States Drama Submarines (Ships) Drama United States United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation DramaSummary: Lisa is the last person some would expect to find in a highway-side 'sports bar with curves,' but as general manager at Double Whammies, she has come to love the place and its customers. An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects her girls fiercely, but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction. Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUPSummary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: A backup quarterback for a Texas high school football team must confront the pressures and temptations of being a sports star, including conflicts with his coach and his girlfriend, when the starting quarterback is injured.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sue Parker finds herself in a desperate battle to save her family's struggling business, which is on the brink of collapse due to her father's neglect. When a handsome drifter comes into town she sees him as the only chance to prevent their bar from falling into the hands of a ruthless local tycoon. What starts as a simple plan to save her family, quickly spirals into larceny, lawlessness, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DIR1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: Alexis is the girl of Dustin's dreams. After only five weeks of dating, the love-struck Dustin is coming on so strong that Alexis is forced to slow things down to a dead stop. Devastated and desperate to get her back, Dustin turns to his best friend, Tank, the rebound specialists. A master at seducing and offending women, Tank gets hired by freshly dumped guys to take their ex-girlfriends out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSummary: 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 ISummary: "Oliver, a university lecturer with an obsession for anagrams and crosswords, has been a question-setter for "Mastermind". When made redundant by the new Vice-Chancellor of the New University (his former Polytechnic) in a general restructuring of the university, Oliver decides to use his new-found freedom to search for his favourite crossword compiler, known only by the pseudonym of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 1995
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV OLISummary: A contemporary re-imagining of Marvel's original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FANSummary: We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMSummary: In Brooklyn, Sam Fisher and her father Frank form a band together, cleverly titled "We Are Not a Band" based off Sam's sarcastic remark about their endeavor. Sam plays keyboard, while Frank strums the guitar. The two end up achieving unlikely success, but must ultimately decide whether hitting the big time is worth the cost of their close relationship, as well as Sam's plans to head off to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gunpowder & Sky 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEA1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HEA
Summary: The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year's best offerings in short horror fiction. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Andy Davidson, Tananarive Due, Gemma Files, Jeffrey Ford, John Langan, Livia Llewellyn, Angela Slatter, and others. For more than four decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOR RATED PGSummary: After marrying 'Willy', a successful Parisian writer, Colette is transplanted to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation, inspiring additional Claudine novels. Colette's fight over creative ownership and gender roles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD COLCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COLSummary: "For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and creating the enduring I (heart) NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, Milton Glaser: to inform & delight. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos and brand identities, to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MILSummary: A popular California high school girl is selected by a mysterious old man to kill the vampires that are terrorizing Los Angeles. Although it could put a serious crimp in her shopping, Buffy takes on the ghouls with the help of a handsome drifter, and incurs the wrath of the chief vampire!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BUFSummary: Larry is a small town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue the woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big corporation corruption trial in Chicago. The agents, it turns out, are found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WITSummary: Resident evil (2002, 100 min.): A virus has escaped in a secret facility turning the staff into hungry zombies. The complex computer shuts down the base to prevent infection. The parent corporation sends in an elite military unit, where they meet Alice, who is suffering from amnesia due to exposure to nerve gas. The military team must shut down the computer and get out, fighting their way past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RESSummary: Ethically-challenged attorney Alan Shore settles in at a wealthy and powerful legal firm that focuses primarily on civil cases. With some help from veteran attorney Denny Crane, Shore quickly makes his mark winning cases no one would take. In doing so, he develops a rival in his colleague Brad Chase, who has been assigned to the office partly to keep an eye on the increasingly eccentric (and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Death wish 2: "Architect-turned-vigilante Paul Kersey is back, now living in Los Angeles and tracking down five street punks who murdered his daughter and housekeeper while keeping his brand of justice a secret from his newest girlfriend and co-workers"--Packaging.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An alien in the form of a voluptuous young woman combs the streets of Scotland in search of men. She lures a succession of lost souls into her otherworldly lair, where they are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2014
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI UNDSummary: A dark comedic thriller follows an art dealer who teams with a hitman and his boss for a money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KILSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004