Summary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMSummary: When Sal's husband dies suddenly of a heart attack, Sal and her best friend, Tip try to find some fun among the knitting and cake-baking of The Ladies' Guild in the small West Country town of Clatterford St. Mary. The Guild members are certainly an eccentric bunch: leader Eileen, who takes her position--and chains--very seriously; cheese-mad Rose (or Margaret, depending on whether she's taken...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMSummary: The House of Batiatus has towered above the city of Capua for many years. Explore its deadly history before the arrival of Spartacus, and the death he carried with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPASummary: Take an unforgettable journey with the students of Cyprus-Rhodes University as they navigate the social minefield of college life. Join Casey, a sorority social climber, as she vies for president of Zeta Beta Zeta. Her world gets more complicated when her nerdy little brother, Rusty, arrives on campus and risks her reputation by joining a fraternity and trying to go from geek to Greek. On top...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRESummary: The hit series based on Lev Grossman's best-selling novels returns for season three as Quentin Coldwater and his magician friends now face a world without magic. Deprived of their special powers, Quentin and the other magicians are desperate to find a way to restore magic. But in order to regain what has been lost, they must embark on an epic quest that cannot be accomplished alone. Now more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAGSummary: "Set in a small West Country town, Jennifer Saunders' enchanting comedy follows the continuing exploits of ex-practice nurse Sal Vine and the memorable, and not a little eccentric, members of the local Guild"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: A grad student at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, has been fascinated by the magical fantasy world since he was young. But as he has gotten older, Quentin and his 20-something friends have discovered that the magical world they read about as children is not only real, but it poses dangers to humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAGSummary: "From acclaimed screenwriter Steve Thompson (Sherlock), this thrilling crime drama is set in 1900s Vienna -- a hot bed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. When Max Liebermann, a disciple of Sigmund Freud, meets Oskar Rheinhardt, a Detective Inspector struggling with a strange case, he agrees to help Oskar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Vienna 2020Summary: Freshman Rusty Cartwright arrives at college and decides he no longer wants to be the boring geek from high school. He decides to pledge a fraternity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRESummary: After the fall of the Galactic Empire, a lone gunfighter makes his way through the lawless galaxy's outer reaches, earning his keep as a bounty hunter. When he refuses to deliver a specific bounty, he makes himself a target for some of the most powerful forces in the fallen Empire and unwittingly becomes entangled in the remnants of the rebellion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 1900s Vienna is a hotbed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. Brilliant Dr. Max Liebermann is a student of Sigmund Freud, and together with Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt, they investigate a series of unusual and disturbing murders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Vienna 2022Summary: It₂s 1905 in Stockholm, and Swedish lives are changing rapidly because of the introduction of new food safety technologies. Miss Friman believes firmly in equal rights for women. She and her friends set out to open Swedish Homes, a grocery cooperative with unspoiled food at affordable prices. It₂s a store for women, run by women, and a revolutionary idea for its time. When the all-male board of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MISSummary: Cid doesn't want to be a flashy hero or a dastardly villain. He wants to operate in the shadows and pull the strings of society through wit and cleverness. So, when he's isekai'd to another world armed with magic powers (and an overactive imagination), he forms Shadow Garden, an underground organization that fights an evil cult he made up. But while Cid happily roleplays his favorite antihero...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Anime, Call number: BLU-RAY ANIME EMISummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: Fox Mulder and Dana Scully track suspicious cases that may be attributed to the supernatural or involve interplanetary activity. Memorable moments from this season include Mulder's appearance on Jerry Springer's talk show and Scully working with her partner to fake Mulder's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The TARDIS arrives by accident in the middle of Terminal One at Heathrow Airport. One of the supersonic Concordes has disappeared midair, and the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa soon become involved in a hunt for the missing airplane. But what connects its disappearance to prehistoric Earth, and why is a mysterious sorcerer so interested in the Doctor's TARDIS? A flight through time will reveal all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: Based on the best-selling novels by Lev Grossman, The Magicians centers on a group of friends who discover they have magical abilities and must ward off evil creatures who threaten to destroy the world. After embarking on the epic quest of the seven keys, our Magicians may have restored magic but not without a great cost. With their memories erased and new magic-free identities, they're more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Clifford loves lending a helping hand, especially when his friends, T-Bone and Cleo, start looking for ways to be helpful around the island. The two worry about being too small to help out. But after saving the day, they learn that you don't have to be big to be a BIG help!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Season Six returns following the battle between brothers which left Bjorn Ironsides a hero to the people who have been under the tyrannical rule of Ivar for so long. As the new leader of Kattegat, Bjorn struggles to fill his late father's shoes as king, while facing critical dilemmas and wrestling with the idea that power overshadows morals. Meanwhile, Ivar travels to Russia and meets his match...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VIKSummary: A hard-hitting police drama set in the vice unit of the Metropolitan Police, based in the heart of London's West End. Prostitution, pornography and murder are all part of the workload for the vice team as they investigate the capital's darker secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MPI Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The life and times of a group of midwives working at Nonnatus House--a nursing convent serving the impoverished of East London in the late 1950s and early 1960s--are chronicled in this appealing British series based on true events. The women learn powerful lessons about life's struggles while visiting with expectant mothers and poor children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CALCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ca 9Summary: While some journeys end, others are just beginning. Season Fourteen of Heartland finds horses healing Amy as much as Amy heals horses. While Amy struggles with a life-changing challenge, the entire town of Hudson will have to deal with an unexpected disaster that threatens to derail Lou's first term as mayor. But, the family will pull through together and be stronger as a result. Family is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SDS 2022