Summary: Gordon Dunn, a visionary scientific pioneer, is found dead shortly after he unveils his newest work: a device able to extract, record, and play a person's memories. Soon, a mysterious man shows up at his widow's door, claiming to be a friend of her late husband. After stealing the machine from the house, the man uses it to try and solve the mystery of Gordon's death, beginning an investigation...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE REMSummary: Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Du 3Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Durrells 2018Summary: Nancy is pregnant with the child of a powerful politician turned dangerous drug lord, or is she? Doug and Silas are trying to branch out on their own, Andy is looking to score, and Celia attempts to turn the tables on her kidnappers. With enemies out to smoke the Queen of Green, Nancy's sure to find a whole new crop of trouble.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WEESummary: After her husband's unexpected death and subsequent financial woes, suburban mom Nancy Botwin embraces a new profession: the neighborhood pot dealer. As it seems like everyone secretly wants what she's selling, even city councilman Doug Wilson, Nancy is faced with keeping her family life in check and her enterprise a secret from her best friend/PTA president, Celia Hodes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WEESummary: Last time we saw her, Nancy's business and house were going up in smoke. So the Botwin bunch has relocated near the border for a fresh start with some new buds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WEESummary: An alcoholic novelist meets a widowed hairdresser. He begins to wonder if she murdered her former husbands and if he'll be next.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOUSummary: Five years after the death of her beloved husband Garrett (Ed Harris), Nikki (Annette Bening) meets Tom, a man who seems to be Garrett s exact duplicate. Not only does Tom possess the same physical characteristics, but he also shares Garrett's kindness, humor, and passion for art. And yet he is a stranger. As romance blossoms between Nikki and Tom, she finds she can't bring herself to tell him...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the heart of Chinatown, New York, an ornery, chain-smoking, newly widowed 80-year-old grandma is eager to live life as an independent woman. When a local fortuneteller predicts a lucky day in her future, Grandma decides to head to the casino, only to land herself on the wrong side of luck, attracting the attention of some local gangsters. Desperate, Grandma employs the services of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Good Deed Entertainment 2020
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2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GHOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GHOSummary: At the turn of the century, a time when women had few choices, Bess Steed Garner inherits a legacy - not only of wealth but of determination and desire, making her truly a woman of independent means. Adapted from the epistolary novel, this film follow the life of Bess Steed Garner from her childhood in 1899 to her death in 1977. Bess endures life's trials and triumphs of life with unfailing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WOMSummary: An alien, from a distant planet, lands in Wisconsin and arrives at the remote cabin of Jenny Hayden, a distraught young widow. The alien (Starman) convinces her to drive him to Arizona, explaining that if he is not picked up by his mothership in three days he will die. En route, Starman demonstrates the power of universal love, while Jenny rediscovers her human feelings for passion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The future's looking bright for the eccentric Durrells; catch up with their lives on the beautiful island of Corfu in the fourth and final season. Most of the family struggles with individual business ventures from running a guest house, attempting to get published, starting a beauty salon, and opening a zoo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Du 4Summary: Northern England, the early 1960's. Frank Machin is a coal miner who is mean, tough and ambitious enough to rise up and become an immediate professional rugby star. The rugby league team is run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: "Nancy and her family hit the road with blood on their hands and the Mexican Mafia hot on their tail - and they're not looking back! But even with new looks and new identities, the newly minted 'Newman' family is bound for a whole new crop of trouble. Can the Queen of Green turn over a new leaf before her past catches up her...again?"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WEEWilliams, Tennessee
Summary: Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2004
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult, Call number: 812.54 WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: 812.54 Williams 2004Summary: Tells the story of a young mother who loses her husband in Afghanistan and struggles to raise their young daughter in his absence. The film combines elements of faith, country music, and stock car racing while paying tribute to those who serve in the United States Military.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GoSummary: In a land torn apart by war, two men on opposite sides are about to find out they have one thing in common. Wounded and emotionally tortured, they are taken in by Anni, a young war widow. None of them understands the others' languages, but it doesn't seem to matter. After a hard day at work on Anni's farm, who needs words?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CUCMortimer, Emily
Summary: When a free-spirited widow opens a bookshop in a conservative coastal town in England in 1959, she attracts both opposition and support from the local community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BoCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Bookshop 2019Summary: In 1967 Los Angeles a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their seance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR OJIHall, Rebecca
Summary: A woman, struggling to move on years after the death of her folk singer husband, strikes a deal to co-write his biography with a pop culture scholar and, unexpectedly, this endeavor opens up a completely new chapter in her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TuSummary: It's 1963, and Alison Wilson returns home to find husband Alexander dead. Soon afterward, a woman arrives at the door, claiming to be Alec's 'real wife.' Alison embarks on a mission of discovery to try and find out who her husband was, but from their wartime romance to a mysterious period in India, it soon becomes clear that Alec died holding his secrets close to his chest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MRSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MRS.Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MrSummary: Will Parker arrives in the small town of Whitney, after spending five years in Huntsville Prison for killing someone in La Grange, Texas. Through an ad in the local paper, Will discovers that Emily, a recently widowed mother of two small boys, is actively looking for a husband and father. Star-crossed loners, Will and Emily decide to make a go of their collective plight and Will moves into the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Timeless Media Group 2007