Summary: In a Parisian theatre after a day of auditioning actresses for the play he is preparing to direct, Thomas is distraught that none has what it takes to play the lead female character. He is getting ready to leave when Vanda appears: an unbridled and brazen whirlwind of energy. Vanda embodies everything Thomas hates. She is crude, idiotic, and will stop at nothing to get the part. But when Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VENSummary: A collection of seventeen short stories from young adult authors, includes a story in which an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OUTSummary: Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot, individual tableaus that parallel Christ's journey to his own crucifixion, this film is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STASummary: When Paul Mason is recruited into a group of thieves looking for a big score, he has no idea their target is the famed Monte Carlo casino. Taking the reins of the operation, Mason guides the band in their carefully organized plan to life $4 million from the heavily guarded vault. But even the best plans can hit snags, and the team quickly find out that getting into a vault is only half the game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Seven 2007Summary: In this candid look at our relationships with our mothers, fifteen authors write about subjects that they wish they had talked to their mothers about. While some of the writers in this book are estranged from their mothers, others are extremely close. Topics vary widely: from growing up with a deaf mother, to seeking a conversation that won't be interrupted, to relationships affected by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JULCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUL RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Julie 2009Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JULSummary: Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man. Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOWSummary: 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"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Steiger, Brad.
Summary: Do ghosts exist? Real ghosts, restless spirits, and haunted places expertly reports the evidence. More than a collection of true ghost stories, it's a defining work on spirit phenomena written by renowned "ghost-writer" brad steiger-whose resume begins where stephen king's and dean koontz's imaginations end. The culmination of steiger's 50 years of paranormal research, real ghosts is a bold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Makos, Adam.
Summary: Relates the true story of two World War II airmen, one American and one German, who put aside the conflict and helped each other to safety in the wake of a damaged aircraft and describes their meeting again forty-seven years later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Caliber 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 MAKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MAKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.544 MAKSteiner, Max
Contents: Now, voyager. Fanfare and main title ; Love scene and finale (5:51) -- King Kong. The forgotten island ; Natives ; Sacrificial dance ; The gate of Kong ; Kong in New York (7:16) -- Saratoga trunk. As long as I live (2:30) -- The charge of the light brigade. Forward the light brigade (2:37) -- Four wives. Symphonie moderne (Earl Wild, piano) (8:06) -- The big sleep. Main title ; Marlowe ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC NOWSteiger, Brad.
Summary: Amazing true stories to inspire every horse enthusiast! From Seabiscuit to Black Beauty to The Horse Whisperer, horses have always captured our imaginations with their extraordinary beauty, sensitive personalities, and deep connections to human beings. In Horse Miracles, the bestselling authors of Dog Miracles and Cat Miracles offer more than fifty amazing true stories of the blessings horses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.1 STEAlexandre, Frédérique
Summary: "At last, a baby knits collection specifically designed to make pattern instructions as easy as can be! Take your pick of 34 designs for a baby's wardrobe that couldn't be simpler. With even the most complicated pattern instructions, finishing techniques, and sizing changes laid out using Marie Claire's straightforward, easy-to-understand method, knitters of all levels of experience can create...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.432 ALEDesplat, Alexandre
Contents: The midnight sky (3:31) -- Aether spaceship (3:32) -- Mission (4:22) -- Iris in the stars (4:30) -- Evacuation (2:46) -- Families & friends (2:29) -- In the Milky Way (2:54) -- A child (1:55) -- Peas battle (3:20) -- First alert (3:51) -- Crashed plane (5:20) -- The ice breaks (3:07) -- Visual on Earth (3:03) -- Survivors (3:12) -- Is there hope? (7:42) -- Changing route (3:54) -- Asteroids...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MIDBruchac, Joseph
Summary: "Through poems that capture the essence of each person's life, acclaimed Native American writer Joseph Bruchac introduces readers to famous indigenous leaders from The Peacemaker in 1000 A.D. to modern day dancer Maria Tallchief and Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller. Each poem is illustrated by a modern-day tribally enrolled artist."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Desplat, Alexandre
Contents: We are here (1:49) -- Torrance tornado (2:56) -- Coming home (2:17) -- Olympic kick (3:47) -- God made the stars (1:40) -- Surprise Mac attack (1:39) -- Albatross (1:01) -- Mac's death (2:40) -- Solitary (1:43) -- Making gnocchi (1:11) -- Drive to Radio Tokyo (1:19) -- Japanese attack (3:30) -- Trip to Omori (2:52) -- Bombing Tokyo (1:43) -- Rain (1:28) -- Dead comrades (2:20) -- To Naoetsu...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC UNBDesplat, Alexandre.
Contents: The Queen -- Hills of Scotland -- People's princess I -- A new prime minister -- H.R.H. -- The stag -- Mourning -- Elizabeth & Tony -- River of sorrow -- The flowers of Buckingham -- The Queen drives -- Night in Balmoral -- Tony & Elizabeth -- People's princess II -- Queen of hearts -- Libera me / Verdi (Lynne Dawson, soprano; the BBC Singers; recorded at the funeral service for Diana, Princess...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Milan 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC QUEDumas, Alexandre
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUMDumas, Alexandre
Summary: Edmund Dantes, unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after fourteen years of imprisonment and seeks revenge in Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013