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California Los Angeles California San Francisco Criminal investigation California San Francisco Drama Feature films Los Angeles (Calif.) Drama Obsessive-compulsive disorder California San Francisco Drama Police California San Francisco Drama San Francisco (Calif.) Drama United States Ventura County (Calif.) FictionSummary: Lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time ever, only to run afoul of a villain's evil plot!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2021
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BaCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BARSummary: Based on a true story of the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the two DEA agents that brought the famed Medellin Cartel to its knees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NARSummary: A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIMSummary: A bureaucrat becomes a suburban guru who marries a follower with a son who's a punk rocker named Charlie Hero. Consequently, the guru's son is propelled from his bland life into a series of erotic experiences in London. Set to a backdrop of politics, fashion, music, drugs, morality and race, Karim must negotiate adolescence, a dysfunctional family and his own sexuality, as he seeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BUDSummary: "Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken (Russell). His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DIESummary: This stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and Pagansim, humankind and nature, and love and violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: The biggest cases demand the best cops, so when a little girl goes missing or a Homeland Security official takes a long drive off a short cliff or a '90s serial killer revives his career in the 21st century, the LAPD knows to call Brenda Johnson and her crack team from the Priority Homicide Division.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in the ruthless world of San Francisco in the late 1800s, rival Chinatown crime families are pitted against each other, against the police, and against an overtly racist white working class.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WARSummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: He's the man in black willing to face any kind of trouble-for a price. Paladin knows countless languages, is a master of the fighting arts, and one of the fastest guns in the West. He appreciates fine food, beautiful women, and the refined lifestyle of San Francisco. But, at a moment's notice, this gunslinger will hit the trail, daring to do what few men would-or could. From the desolate desert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HAVRosenberg, Nancy Taylor.
Summary: After her daughter is hospitalized for mental evaluation, Lily Forrester, a tough judge, discovers the institution is far less interested in treating patients than it is with bilking the insurance companies out of extravagant fees. Lily's daughter may not only be in danger of losing her sanity but her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSSummary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLOSummary: In late 1960s Southern California, private investigator Doc Sportello is drawn into murky dealings with his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay, her current real estate mogul boyfriend, his wife and her boyfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA INHSummary: The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAMDi Prima, Diane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DI PRIMA, DIANE DIPRosenberg, Nancy Taylor.
Summary: Investigating a web site providing alibis for cheating spouses, Lily Forrester is again on the trail of a vicious criminal, and teams up with an FBI agent tracking a murderer who targets unfaithful husbands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSRosenberg, Nancy Taylor.
Summary: In Revenge of innocents, Carolyn Sullivan is back; and she is caught in web of lies. When her best friend and a fellow probation officer, Veronica Campbell, is killed, leaving behind a 17-year-old daughter, Carolyn joins forces with Venture homicide detectives Hank Sawyer and Mary Stevens to track down the killer. Carolyn is aware that Veronica's husband, Drew, has financial problems; but when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSRosenberg, Nancy Taylor.
Summary: In Revenge of innocents, Carolyn Sullivan is back; and she is caught in web of lies. When her best friend and a fellow probation officer, Veronica Campbell, is killed, leaving behind a 17-year-old daughter, Carolyn joins forces with Venture homicide detectives Hank Sawyer and Mary Stevens to track down the killer. Carolyn is aware that Veronica's husband, Drew, has financial problems; but when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ROSSummary: After returning the body of Gus McCrae to Lonesome Dove, Woodrow Call takes on the challenge of driving a herd of wild mustangs 2500 miles north of the Hat Creek Ranch in Montana. But tragedy, despair and deceit will greet him before he ever gets there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RETRosenberg, Nancy Taylor.
Summary: Investigating a web site providing alibis for cheating spouses, Lily Forrester is again on the trail of a vicious criminal, and teams up with an FBI agent tracking a murderer who targets unfaithful husbands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ROSSummary: Set in the future, a young man looks for a better life outside his small rural village in Mexico-- but finds himself facing a technological dystopia when he attempts to cross the border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SLESummary: Obsessive-compulsive sleuth Adrian Monk is back, solving crimes and keeping things immaculate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007