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Benedictines Rules Comedy films Feature films Great Britain History Henry II, 1154-1189 Drama II, King of England Henry 1133-1189 Drama Nebraska Fiction of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England Eleanor 1122?-1204 Drama Racism in motion pictures United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California Drama Video recordings for the hearing impairedCather, Willa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cather 1992Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Summary: Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURHughes, Langston
Summary: Langston Hughes's poetry launched a revolution among black writers in America. The poems in this volume were chosen by Hughes shortly before his death in 1967 and encompass work from his entire career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 HUGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 HUGChekhov, Anton Pavlovich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.73 CHESummary: With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) was born to be a star. Aided by American movie director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), she attains great success and fortune in Hollywood's land of dreams. But, though she gives her all for stardom, there is one thing Maria will never compromise - her soul.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM/UA Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BARSummary: A dramatization of the story about the struggle of a Boston teacher, Annie Sullivan, to communicate with and teach the deaf, blind, and mute child, Helen Keller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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Summary: Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CATCather, Willa
Summary: Set in seventeenth-century Canada, an evocation of North American origins highlights the men and women who struggled to adapt to the new world even as they clung to the one they had left behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CATHughes, Langston
Summary: Powerful poems dealing with the most compelling issues of this African American's time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 HUGSummary: An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY APASummary: Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Moby 2001Summary: The prime minister of Grand Fenwick convinces the U.S. government to give him a million-dollar grant for the country's nonexistent space program.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MOUSummary: Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere. Australia is the only civilized area spared from destruction. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1996
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ONSummary: In Amsterdam of 1642, master painter Rembrandt Van Rijn enjoys a full life until the sudden death of his wife. Bankrupt and bereft, he finds comfort in a pretty servant in his home. Can he summon the courage to overcome his demons or will tragedy continue to haunt him?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REMGaskell, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GASSummary: Cary Grant stars as an angel who materializes in answer to the prayers of a harried young bishop, David Niven. Niven's efforts to raise money for a new cathedral have endangered his marriage to beautiful Loretta Young. Grant enters the bishop's household hoping to end the problems plaguing the family, but instead the bishop's negelected wife becomes infatuated with him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY BisCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Bishop's 1947Summary: A detective gives a ride to a half-naked girl, who is abruptly killed by thugs. Almost killed himself, the detective tries to solve the murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anthing to achieve success"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWESummary: Depicts a jury of men who must decide the fate of a teenage boy who has murdered his abusive father. The jurors are from all walks of life, and bring with them their own opinions, prejudices, fears, and personal demons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The true story of a convicted killer who avoids the depths of despair by becoming a world-renowned authority on birds during his imprisonment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BIRSummary: "Joker Jackson (Tony Curtis) and Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier) are two convicts on the run. Escaping from a Southern work gang, the two men are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated by an unbridled hatred towards the other"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1996
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEFBenedict
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 255.106 BENSummary: Historical drama of the conflict between King Henry II of England and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine over Henry's successor to the British throne.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001