Summary: Writer-director Stuart Howes's beautiful and poignant debut film tells a nuanced story about the complexity of our most basic relationships. After having an affair, a mother tries to win back the respect of her oldest daughter, Nicole, while keeping the truth a secret from Nicole's younger sister, Lou. Despite their best efforts to maintain the picture perfect facade of their family life, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: When he set off for the Capital, all Tatsumi wanted was a way to make money. Instead, he finds himself rescued from a fate worse than death by a group of assassins known as Night Raid, and thrust into the middle of a bloody revolution. On the one side: Prime Minister Honest, his secret police, elite squad of assassins, and the armies of the Empire. On the other: Night Raid and a handful of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME AKASummary: Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story begins when ace private eye Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, prompting his 21-year-old son Tim to find out what happened. Aiding in the investigation is Harry's former Pokémon partner, Detective Pikachu: a hilariously wisecracking, adorable super-sleuth who is a puzzlement even to himself. Finding that they are uniquely equipped to communicate with one another, Tim and Pikachu...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV POKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POKSummary: Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles "Tails" Prower. Best friends through thick and thin, they've always got each other's backs. Celebrate the terrific twosome with these three high-speed, high-flying tales full of action and adrenaline. First, Dr. Eggman is missing, but his rogue robots are still running amok, and only Sonic can stop them. But he can't do it without Tails! Then, the best buds are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Idea & Design Works 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC SONSummary: From director Gaspar Noe comes a hypnotic, hallucinatory, and ultimately hair-raising depiction of a party that descends into delirium over the course of one night. A troupe of young dancers gathers in a remote and empty school building to rehearse. Afterward, they begin an all-night celebration that turns nightmarish as they discover they've been pounding sangria laced with potent LSD....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLISummary: When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Sight and Sound Rotating Display, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR VIDSummary: When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on real events that occurred in between 1980 and 1982. Dan Mahowny is a quiet, unassuming assistant manager at a bank in Toronto. He is a compulsive gambler and runs up a massive debt with his bookie. Dan's bank responsibilities include approving loans. Needing to cover his debts, Dan starts approving loans to non-existent clients and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to other...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OWNSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 POEFlynn, Ian
Summary: In the aftermath of his latest battle with Dr. Eggman, Sonic and his friends must defend small villages around the world against robot attacks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Can you make the most marvelous jeweled egg? Gem hens is a set collection Game in which players send out chickens to collect precious gems to fill the Facets of a spectacular egg. Each round starts with players frantically rolling their chicken dice simultaneously over the span of 20 seconds, saving results they like while re-rolling the rest until time expires. Some dice results provide...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Social Sloth Games 2019
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME GEMAndrews, Daryl
Summary: An easy to learn game, with a bit of "take that" chaos, about training your creatures by feeding them cupcakes.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Social Sloth Games 2018
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME CRESummary: In Australia's red heart with all of its precarious beauty, the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROYXavier, Clément
Summary: "In the early 20th century, English suffragist group the Women's Social and Political Union formed an all-women security unit. Trained by Edith Garrud, these 'jujitsuffragettes' fought against abuse and arrest while pursuing long overdue rights"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 324.6 XAVSummary: Edith Piaf was raised in a brothel, wrested from the only life she knew by her father so they could join the circus, Edith spent her teen years on the streets. She is finally "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, and, ultimately, her international success and final illness. She was always frail, sickly, malnourished, and wildly temperamental. She was often on drugs or...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VIE RATED PG-13Summary: Madagascar: A lion and zebra and two other of their pampered friends, from New York's Central Park Zoo, accidentally find themselves on a ship heading for Africa. When their vessel is hijacked, they become shipwrecked on the exotic island of Madagascar where they discover it really is a jungle out there!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MADSummary: "In this deeply personal tale of estrangement and reconciliation between two rebellious brothers, set in a dreamlike and timeless Tulsa, Francis Ford Coppola gives mythic dimensions to intimate, painful emotions. The director's "art film for teenagers" was his second adaptation of young-adult novelist S. E. Hinton's work in a single year, after the more classically styled The Outsiders. Graced...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RUMSummary: Jerry and Rachel are two strangers who are thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. Now they must carry out a high-tech assassination plot of an unscrupulous artificial...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EAG RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EAGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER EAGSamite.
Contents: Just for you -- Ngwino rukundo -- Wasuze otya? -- Ndere -- Bandekawo -- Kalimba -- Silina musango -- Webake -- Nalubale -- ekibobo.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Green Linnet Records 1996