Summary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Summary: Death In a strange country. The body of a young man found floating in a Venetian canal has been stripped of all valuables, except for a very visible packet of cocaine. When the man is identified as a health inspector at the U.S. military base in nearby Vicenza, Brunetti's boss Patta gets worried about political reverberations and is eager to dismiss the case as a drug-related murder.--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Lt. Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee, two officers of the Navajo Tribal Police, investigate the disappearance of an anthropologist suspected of selling ancient Indian artifacts on the black market.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THISummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Death at La Fenice : After a famous conductor dies from cyanide poisoning during the intermission of his concert, Brunetti probes into the maestro's past, and uncovers a shocking picture of immorality and ruthlessness, as well as a legion of bitter enemies, some of whom have held a grudge for many decades. Based on Donna Leon's first Comissarrion Brunetti novel which introduced Guido Brunetti...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHz Networks Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRISones, Sonya.
Summary: "I Feel Bad About My Neck meets Elizabeth Berg in celebrated YA novelist Sonya Sones's first adult novel, weaving together a seamless narrative in free verse--a funny, fierce and piercingly honest coming-of-middle-age story about falling apart and putting yourself back together"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Paperbacks 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SONSummary: This six tales of suspense examines the jealous, betrayals, and resentments that lead to tragedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After living her whole life in the city, 27-year-old Taeko decides to visit her relatives in the countryside. As she travels, memories of her youth resurface. And after meeting young farmer Toshio, she wonders if she's been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMASummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: Fatal remedies : In nighttime Venice, a woman shatters the window of a travel agency. When the police arrive, she puts up no resistance. The woman is Paola Brunetti, Inspector Brunetti's wife. She is convinced that the agency caters to paedophiles seeking sex in poor Asian and African countries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHz Networks Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Quietly in their sleep : Mysterious deaths in a Venice retirement community are brought to Inspector Brunetti's attention by a young nun who is then nearly killed herself. Brunetti's investigation turns up some unsettling connections to a secret church organization and to one of its charismatic members, a priest who is the community's resident confessor.--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHz Networks Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Vendetta : A high profile attorney and a prominent tax adviser are murdered within days of each other, and Brunetti's investigation leads to Senora Ceroni, and a human-trafficking syndicate within the cream of Venetian society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHz Networks Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Corduroy: Corduroy tries to find his lost button, so that someone will finally take him home from the department store. Yo! Yes?: Two boys become friends and they no longer have to play alone. Here comes the cat!: A village of mice is about to be visited by a cat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CORSummary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOLSummary: Childhood friends Brian and Paulie do whatever it takes to survive in the dog-eat-dog neighborhood they live in. As they grow up they find themselves involved in organized crime and jail becomes part of doing business on the streets they call home. Brian uses his time in jail to get clean while Paulie makes plans for one last job that requires Brian's help. Brian must decide if he should stand...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHAVerdi, Giuseppe
Summary: The action takes place in ancient Egypt, and tells of the love of Radames, the captain of the guard, for a slave girl, Aida. She is the daughter of the King of Ethiopia, who is captured by Radames and the Egyptian troops. Tricked into betraying military secrets, Radames is condemned to be buried alive. He is joined by Aida, who dies with him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca Music Group Classics 2011
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA AIDSummary: Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove: Two former Texas Rangers leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE LonCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN LONSummary: In The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard -- bodyguard Michael Bryce, hitman Darius Kincaid and his wife Sonia are back as the mismatched, high-octane trio -- that are once again forced together into another life-threatening mission to save Europe from a vengeful and powerful zealot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HITCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HITSummary: Academy Award winners Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman lead this riveting thriller set in the trucking industry and its seamy underbelly of human trafficking. To save the life of her brother, Sally, a truck driver, reluctantly agrees to smuggle illicit cargo: a girl named Leila. As Sally and Leila begin a danger-fraught journey across state lines, a dogged FBI operative sets out on their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PARSummary: A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020