Summary: Fulfilling his beloved wife's dying wish, a man restores an abandoned building they own into a reading room for a depressed community notorious for its ineffectual high school and street gangs. He is determined to give them a sense of self-respect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REASummary: The heroic life story of rodeo legend Lane Frost, the bull-riding champion who fights to achieve his childhood dreams--both in and out of the rodeo ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 8Summary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Georges Simenon's Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world famous novels. This BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon₂s books have been adapted many times, Davies₂s celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV MAISummary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Georges Simenon₂s Maigret (1960- 1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon₂s world famous novels. This BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon₂s books have been adapted many times, Davies₂s celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV MAISummary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world-famous novels. The BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon's books have been adapted many times, Davies's celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon himself, who stated: "At...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV MAISummary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Georges Simenon₂s Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world-famous novels. This BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon's books have been adapted many times, Davies's celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV MAISummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: A small-time hood kills a police officer and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police, leading to a deadly conclusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BRESummary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALSummary: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLESummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: In the heart of Paris, a kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to Duchess, her high-society cat. Duchess has three little kittens. A greedy, bumbling butler pulls off the ultimate catnap caper. Now it's up to the rough-and-tumble alley cat, Thomas O'Malley, and his band of swingin' jazz cats to save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ARICopies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ARISummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Greek fisherman Demetrios guides a lost princess home to Atlantis, but is imprisoned there and must fight for his life, before rescuing the princess again as they flee the doomed realm.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY ATLGospodinov, Georgi
Summary: "An award-winning international sensation-with a second-act dystopian twist-Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. "At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOSSoli, Tatjana
Summary: Traces the intertwining stories of Civil War hero George Armstrong Custer, his frontierswoman wife Libbie, and fifteen-year-old Anne Cummins, a captive of the Cheyenne after surviving a homestead attack.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLSummary: A man washes up on the beach with no memory of who he is, but with an array of alarming skills; after being framed for the death of a CIA operative, Jason Bourne is forced to use his skills as a former assassin to save himself; super secret weapon Jason Bourne comes out of hiding one last time to learn about his past, risking assassination by the government that made him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURES BOUSummary: Bourne is once again brought out of hiding. This time, inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Simon is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar which is an upgrade of Project Treadstone, by writing about it in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne sets up a meeting with Ross and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BOUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOU RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BoSummary: Jason Bourne finds himself up against a new generation of trained assassins and relentless CIA operatives who will stop at nothing to prevent him from finding out about his past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Pete Garrison is on the presidential protection detail when another Secret Service agent is murdered. An informer tells Garrison about an elaborate assassination conspiracy that is related to this murder and is well underway. Garrison also happens to be having an affair with the First Lady, the stress of which causes him to flunk a lie detector test when word of the plot to kill the president...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006