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Berenson, Alex Berenson, Alex. Streep, Meryl Wells, Rosemary Wells, Rosemary. Young, LesterBerenson, Alex
Summary: It is the most dangerous mission of John Wells's career. Evidence is mounting that someone high up in the CIA is doing the unthinkable, passing messages to ISIS, alerting them to planned operations. Finding out the mole's identity without alerting him, however, will be very hard, and to accomplish it, Wells will have to do something he thought he'd left behind forever. He will have to reassume...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BERSummary: Spring roars like a lion in season three! Frank's latest schemes range from gigs as a drug mule and gay rights spokesperson to calling Child Services on his own kids. While Fiona finally finds relative stability in the corporate world, househusband Jimmy develops a full-blown midlife crisis. Lip does his best to handle an out-of-control love triangle, and Ian struggles with Mickey's impending...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: Scrappy, stubborn and strong, the Gallaghers are tested by changing times, but Season Six finds them older, wiser, and better at playing the system. Used to their natural state of chaos, the Gallaghers are as surprised as anyone at how life is turning out for them. But as they come into their own and find out who they really are is it really possible that they could grow apart for good?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Season Four finds the Gallaghers braving another brutal Chicago winter and waiting on the medical fate of their permanently pickled patriarch Frank. With oldest daughter Fiona in a stable job and relationship, and newly graduated Lip enrolled in college, it seems like the Gallaghers might finally have a shot at the middle class American dream. But when you're down and out, moving up isn't so easy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: The powerful tale of an unbreakable bond of friendship between a cheetah named Duma and a courageous young boy named Xan. Xan faces the true test of love when he must cross the wilds of Southern Africa to return his best friend to his rightful home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DUMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Duma 2005Streep, Meryl
Summary: After the death of their father, three grown daughters, each with their own personal issues, return to their Oklahoma home and dysfunctional mother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay 2014
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD AUGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AUG RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AUGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AUGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie August 2014Summary: The Gallaghers have always scraped by, but Season Seven finds them finally getting a leg up. When Frank awakens from a coma to learn that his family tossed him in the river, he declares war, Gallagher vs. Gallagher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: Frank comes out of a drug-induced haze and decides it's finally time to be a contributing member of society. Fiona faces hard decisions when she discovers her success as a landlord may mean someone else's misfortune. Lip struggles with staying sober, while Ian takes up a cause in hopes of getting back with Trevor. Debbie builds her future at welding school while juggling life as a single...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster homes before becoming her own person. Explores the strange relationship of Ingrid and Astrid, and includes Astrid's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHIBerenson, Alex.
Summary: Determined to bring a war instigator to justice, John Wells confronts obstacles in the form of political resistance, CIA agendas, and meddling by foreign interests before embarking on a high-risk solo mission.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERSummary: "Amin Jaafari ..., an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society, has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATTSummary: When his mother dies, a seventeen-year-old boy moves in with his relatives, a criminal family clan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The tenth season picks up six months after last season's finale: Frank uses his leg injury to collect as many prescription drugs as possible and his exploits lead him to an old friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward and Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD COMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COMSummary: Follow the re-election of President Bartlet to his second term and some crises both during and after the election in this 22-episode fourth season.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESWells, Rosemary
Summary: When Mrs. Jenkins proposes the class paint dinosaurs, Doris's unusual artistic talent is not recognized until the class visits a modern art museum.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Paperbacks for Children 2001
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE WELWells, Rosemary.
Summary: Noisy Nora finds a surprising new site for her birthday party when her mother will not let her invite all of her classmates to her house because it is too small.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR Purple Wells 2002Wells, Rosemary.
Summary: When Mrs. Jenkins proposes the class paint dinosaurs, Doris's unusual artistic talent is not recognized until the class visits a modern art museum.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2001
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR Purple Wells 2001Summary: Drama revolves around the President, Josiah Bartlet, and his staff at the White House, including his deputy communications director Sam Seaborn; his beleaguered press secretary, C.J. Cregg; the chief of staff, and recovering boozehound Leo McGarry who sacrifices his marriage to his career. Among the global crises Bartlet faces are a nuclear showdown between India and Pakistan, an American plane...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESSummary: Headed by President Josiah Bartlet, demonstrates that office politics are the same everywhere; things just have greater repercussions when your office happens to be the White House. Stories surround the President; his deputy communications director Sam Seaborn; his beleaguered press secretary, C.J. Cregg; the chief of staff, recovering boozehound Leo McGarry, who sacrifices his marriage to his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESYoung, Lester
Contents: Way down yonder in New Orleans / Creamer-Layton -- Countless Blues / M. Gabler -- Them There Eyes / Pinkard, Tauber, Tracey -- I want a little girl / Moll, Mencher -- Pagin' the devil / Page, Gabler -- I got rhythm / George & Ira Gershwin -- I'm fer it too / D. Wells -- Hello babe / D. Wells -- Linger awhile / Rose, Owens -- Just you just me / Greer, Klages -- I never knew / Fiorito, Kahn --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Definitive Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ YOUSummary: When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, seventeen-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his estranged relatives in a Southern California beach town. Heading up their petty crime dynasty are J's manipulative grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, whose iron-fisted, velvet-gloved tough love controls her four sons; adopted right-hand man "Baz"; intense, mentally disturbed Pope; tough, hyperactive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANISummary: The 22-episode third season whose storylines include the investigation into the alleged cover-up of President Barlet's illness, the early bid for a second term and confrontations with global terrorism. Reel- and real-life events profoundly intersect in the historic Isaac and Ishmael episode made in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. And must-see bonus features include a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WESContents: The Factory (England): Try a little sunshine -- Shy Limbs: Reputation -- Beatstalkers: Little boy -- Davis, Spencer: Letters from Edith / The Spencer Davis Group -- The Montanas (England): Roundabout -- Wade, Cliff: Sister -- Barclay James Harvest: Brother Thrush -- Wild Silk: (Vision in a) plaster sky -- Consortium: The day the train never came -- The Bliss (St. Alban, England): Lifetime --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2018