Summary: A comedic sci-fi drama based on the Dark Horse comic book series of the same name, this show follows a crash-landed alien who must take on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor and somehow find a way to fit in with the local human population. While attempting to complete his secret mission on Earth, he is forced to consider the possibility that humans might be worth saving after all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RESSummary: In a world where thought and faith are controlled, one man fights to set knowledge free. Leonardo Da Vinci is tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He finds himself in a conflict between truth and lies, religion and reason, past and future. His quest for knowledge nearly becomes his undoing, but Da Vinci's genius prevails and he emerges as an unstoppable force that lifts an entire era out of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Originals 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DASummary: 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: In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesus Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Producciones Iguana 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CROSummary: With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MILSummary: After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women, while at the same time searching for the right subject (and actress) for his next film.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IDESummary: 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: Inspired by true events, this is a wickedly comedic look at a bromance gone bad. Set in the opulence of early 1980s California, the story follows the meteoric rise of John DeLorean, and his iconic DeLorean Motor Company, through his friendship with charming ex-con turned FBI informant, Jim Hoffman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DRISummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPRaheem, Zara
Summary: To Leila Abid's traditional Indian parents, finding a husband is as easy as match, meet, marry. But for Leila, a marriage of arrangement clashes with her lifelong dreams of a Bollywood romance, where real love happens before marriage, not the other way around. Yet after twenty-six years of singledom, and still no sign of "Mr. Perfect," even Leila is starting to get nervous. And to make matters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAHSala, Sharon
Summary: "PI Charlie Dodge may be down, but he's most definitely not out. He's still reeling after a series of earth-shattering events, so when a desperate woman hires Dodge Investigations to find her missing sister, the head-scratcher of a case is exactly the distraction Charlie and his steadfast partner, Wyrick, need. Two days prior, Rachel Dean disappeared without a trace from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SALSarda, Julia
Summary: Once upon a time there were three sisters: Franca, Carmela, and Tomasina. This is their story of adventure and discovery. A tale of hidden mysteries and new wonders, of finding a strange world beyond home and unlocking the secrets inside themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Zgheib, Yara
Summary: "Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZGHStanisic, Sasa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAZgheib, Yara
Summary: Yara Zgheibs poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young womans struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZGHKrasikov, Sana
Summary: "When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow-and the promise of love and independence. But once in Russia, she quickly becomes entangled in a country she can't escape. Many years later, Florence's son, Julian, will make the opposite journey, immigrating back to the United States. His work in the oil industry takes him on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRASada, Daniel
Summary: In 1945 Oaxaca, an agronomist named Demetrio Sordo regularly visits a prostitute named Mireya even as he pursues a more pure form of love in his correspondence with a girl from his hometown named Renata, until problems arise with the arrangement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SADContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINGonzález, Saraí
Summary: Fourth grader Saraí Gonzalez can do anything. She can bake, dance, and run her own cupcake business. But when Saraí's grandparents are forced to move, even Saraí's not sure what to do. So she hatches a super-awesome plan with her younger sisters and cousin to buy back the house. Will Saraí find a way to save the day?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GONVara, Vauhini
Summary: "Will you, dear Shareholder, set Athena free? Athena Rao must reckon with the memory of her father, King Rao-literally. Through biotechnological innovation, he has given her his memories. His Dalit childhood on an Indian coconut plantation in the 1950s is as alive to her as her own existence in a prison cell, accused of her father's murder. Egocentric, brilliant, a little damaged, King Rao had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARSava, Ayegül
Summary: "After her mother's death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. M. is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAVWilson, Sari
Summary: Interweaving narratives that move between past and present follow a young ballerina whose life is upended when she falls in love with her much-older mentor, and a professor of dance at a Midwestern college who has a risky affair with a student.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCooper, Sari.
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Gillian had never been so scared as the bus wound its way toward Canyon Falls summer camp. She had been dreaming about a horseback riding experience like this for years, but now that she was actually on her way, she was terrified. She had never been away from her family, never mind for a whole month. Would she make friends? Would she be able to keep up with the other girls'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harbour Publishing 2019