Summary: London's gambling world is the setting where aspiring writer Jack Manfred, suffering from writer's block, takes a job as a croupier to support his art. Knowing the dangers of the cards, Jack is adamant about remaining a professional outsider, but the temptations of the game inevitably swallow him deeper than he could have ever anticipated.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Croupier 2004Summary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GrCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Summary: [Disc 1]: Star trek: the motion picture: A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space, destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everthing in its path and Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on. [Disc 2]: Star trek II: the wrath of Khan: On a routine inspection of the U.S.S....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Basher, Simon.
Summary: Alliterative sentences and bold, colorful line illustrations introduce young readers to the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that they make.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2011
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE BASBasher, Simon.
Summary: Presents the numbers one through twenty alongside colorful images of animals corresponding to each number.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2012
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2 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE BASSummary: The bridges of Madison County: World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid is on assignment to photograph the bridges of Madison County, Iowa. He stops for directions at Francesca Johnson's farmhouse, and passion ignites. Defending your life: A man who is killed in a car accident ends up in 'Judgment City', a holding station for souls, where a person must defend themselves...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE 4FILSummary: Anna and Ben are a couple who can't stop fighting. Advised by their therapist to try and work through their grief unconventionally, they are reminded of their shared love of music. In a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, they decide to turn all their fights into song, and with the help of their neighbor Dave, they start a band.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BANSummary: General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COMSummary: A young woman searches for love in New York City in this romantic comedy based on the novel by Liz Tuccillo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOW RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOWSummary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Arthur Bishop is an assassin with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and he is the best in the business. But when Harry, his mentor and friend is murdered, Bishop wants those responsible dead. After Harry's son approaches him with the same vengeful goal, Bishop takes the impulsive student deep into his world and a deadly partnership...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MECSummary: For one 14-year-old boy, life can be a challenge sometimes. With all of the usual crises that accompany being an adolescent, foster kid Billy has some additional obstacles in life. A chance encounter with a mystical wizard completely changes everything. And it's not long before this boy discovers that one phrase grants him the ability to make a transformation into a superhero. In fact, it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACSummary: Cat people (73 mins.): A young woman becomes obsessed with the notion that she's a Cat Woman - a member of an ancient Serbian tribe that metamorphoses into panthers whenever aroused by jealousy. -- The curse of the cat people (70 mins.): A girl's vivid imagination and inability to get along with her schoolmates leads her father to worry that the she will start exhibiting the psychopathic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
Summary: As punishment for messing up a kidnap rescue and shooting a dog in the process, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman is re-assigned to the newly created unsolved murder squad. Due to a manpower shortage her team is made up of veteran detectives brought back onto the police force, bringing a 1970's mentality to modern policing. The team's first case is to re-investigate a twenty year old...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Foster, Simon
Summary: The Rough Guide to Taiwan is the ultimate guide to this fascinating island. Discover Taiwan's highlights with stunning photography, clear maps and detailed coverage of all the top attractions and lesser-visited sights. From the island's magnificent national parks and tranquil hot spring resorts, to its most lavish temples and the mind-blowing National Palace Museum.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides Ltd 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.3 TAISummary: A Serbian immigrant living in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CATSummary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRESummary: A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONVarious artists
Contents: Baby (Justin Bieber) -- Nothin' on you (B.o.B. feat. Bruno Mars) -- Your love is my drug (Ke$ha) -- Rude boy (Rihanna) -- OMG (Usher feat. Will.i.am) -- Winner (Jamie Foxx feat. Justin Timberlake and T.I.) -- My chick bad (Ludacris feat. Nicki Minaj) -- Imma be (The Black Eyed Peas) -- Solo (Iyaz) -- All the right moves (OneRepublic) -- Halfway gone (Lifehouse) -- Sweet disposition (The Temper...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI/Sony Music 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWSummary: A tale of adventure and fantasy, which sends a young boy into the pages of the world's greatest stories. Seeking refuge from a storm, timid Richard Tyler enters an empty library only to be swept away into the magical animated world of The Pagemaster, where legendary characters from literary classics come alive. Guided by a trio of talking books--Adventure, Fantasy and Horror--Richard must...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009