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Acosta, Alicia Borges, Gustavo Flaubert, Gustave Hoàng, Văn Loop, Liza. Murnau, F.W. Pon, CindySummary: Rather than depict Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature with a bulbous head and taloned claws.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOSSummary: In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI COMSummary: The story of a 21st century city run by a "super trustee" and his collaborators who live in a paradise-like garden. Workers are totally enslaved by machines and condemned to live underground. In the midst of this misery, a young woman, Maria, arises and attempts to inspire the workers to throw off their oppressors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corporation 2002
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI METMurnau, F.W.
Summary: The scholar Faust makes a pact with the forces of evil to gain higher truths, and must pay for what he has received.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FAUSummary: A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic-Film S.A. 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MSummary: To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHALoop, Liza.
Summary: An expressionistic drama about authoritarianism and revolt in an industrialized metropolis of the 21st century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment Group 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN METSummary: Follows the young man Manolo as he embarks on a quest across three worlds to save his village and reunite with his true love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A fast-paced, absurd collection of short films, parodies, animations, pranks, and musical numbers. Attempts to shock life back into the art of sketch comedy. Has grotesquely memorable characters and crude animation bits all wrapped up neatly. The apparent slipshod manner of each episode may or may not be part of the skit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TIMSummary: Outwit trolls with the Billy Goats Gruff, bake bread with the Little Red Hen, laugh at the pranks of Puss in Boots, and more, in these delightful animal adventures. Reports show that reading or being read to for ten minutes every day will significantly improve children's reading skills. This short story collection supports this - each story taking about ten minutes to read. Ideal for sharing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at his new public high school. The school is run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability gives him the position as the resident 'psychiatrist.' Along with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, Charlie dishes out advice and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at his new public high school. The school is run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability gives him the position as the resident 'psychiatrist.' Along with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, Charlie dishes out advice and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Charlie 2008Summary: After defeating the Reverse Flash once and for all, the ninth season of THE FLASH picks up one week later following their epic battle, and Barry Allen and Iris West-Allen are reconnecting and growing closer than ever before. But when a deadly group of Rogues descends on Central City led by a powerful new threat, The Flash and his team Caitlin Snow, Meta-Empath Cecile Horton, the light-powered...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FLABorges, Gustavo
Summary: A silent comic that tells the story of a family of foxes whose life is transformed by the arrival of a strange visitor during a harsh winter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kaboom! 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BORFlaubert, Gustave
Summary: Features short fiction by the French naturalist author that is introduced by an essay describing his life, works, and artistic abilities, as well as explanatory notes, a chronology, and suggestions for further reading.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1924
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLASummary: Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALIAcosta, Alicia
Summary: Ben liked painting his nails, until some of the kids at school started teasing him. When Dad realized why Ben was sad, he decided to paint his nails too.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: nubeOCHO 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACOSummary: Jamal Wallace is a talented young basketball player in New York City whose secret passion is writing. After an accidental meeting, Forrester, a reclusive novelist, becomes Jamal's unlikely mentor. Soon, both men learn lessons from each other about life and the importance of friendship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Finding 2000Hoàng, Văn
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Thom Ngho is keeping a secret: she's strong. Like suuuuper strong. Freakishly strong. And it's making it impossible for her to fit in at her new middle school. In a desperate bid to get rid of her super strength, Thom makes a deal with the Monkey King, a powerful deity and legendary trickster she accidentally released from his 500-year prison sentence. Thom agrees to help the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOAPon, Cindy
Summary: Jason Zhou is trying to survive in Taipei, a city plagued by pollution and viruses, but when he discovers the elite are using their wealth to evade the deadly effects, he knows he must do whatever is necessary to fight the corruption and save his city.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PONFlaubert, Gustave
Summary: A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a weak-willed woman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Heritage Press 1978