Summary: Examines "hyper-masculinity" as a destructive force in the personal development and socialization of boys and young men. Discusses the roles of popular culture and peer pressure in influencing boys to adopt a masculine pose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MASFumino, Yuki
Summary: "Stunningly handsome Kohei Sugihara was outgoing and popular with the girls at school. But when a sudden illness left him with partial hearing loss, he grew quiet and reluctant to engage with others. At college, a chance encounter with an ever-optimistic classmate named Taichi Sagawa helped Kohei open up once more. And over time, the two began to develop feelings for each other. As the story...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: One Peace Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ISummary: When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIGVan Camp, Richard
Summary: "No one knows how a suit of samurai armour ended up in the Fort Smith museum. When a mysterious stranger turns up to claim it, Sonny, a young Tłı̨chǫ Dene boy, is eager to help. Shinobu has travelled to Fort Smith, NWT, to reclaim his grandfather's samurai sword and armour. But when he discovers that the sword was lost in a poker game, he must confront the man known as Benny the Bank. Along the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 VANVan Camp, Richard
Summary: "Curtis has returned to Fort Smith, six weeks sober and determined to stay that way. Can he find healing in his grandfather's ancient cultural practices? Notorious bootlegger, Benny the Bank stands in his way. With poison slowly killing him, Benny is uneasy about how he'll be remembered. Can he find a way to make amends?"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 VANJanovsky, Timothy
Summary: "Wren Roland has never been kissed, let alone been in love, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his twenty-first birthday, he sends emails to all the boys he (ahem) loved before he came out. He didn't expect a response from Derick Haverford, Wren's #1 pre-coming-out-crush...but now that they're working together at their hometown's vintage...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANSummary: Regarde la mer: "During a summer escape to the beautiful island of Yeu, Sasha's beginning to grow bored. She's been spending her days tending to her new baby daughter while awaiting the arrival of her husband from his office on the mainland. Her charming seaside cottage rests in perfect isolation for Tatiana, a brooding teen-aged backpacker in desperate need of a place to pitch her tent....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEEApelfeld, Aharon
Summary: "Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe when the war finally ended--and with good reason. He spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and traveled by train, truck, wagon, or on foot to the shores of Naples, where they filled the refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. As he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APPSummary: An autobiographical film based on the director's life beginning in 1942 during Hitler's struggle to wrest Egypt, especially the city Alexandria, from the British Army. Yehia, an aspiring actor, and his friends experience the impact of war. Yehia studies cinema in Alexandria, stages his first makeshift productions, and finally reaches the conclusion that his future lies in America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALESummary: Fifteen-year-old Kenshi Masaki was taken from his home planet, transported to a galaxy far, far away, and captured by a gorgeous princess! This royal beauty quickly claims Kenshi as her personal servant and lends him out to all the lecherous ladies at her prestigious boarding school. On the rare occasion Kenshi doesn't have his hands full with a curvaceous coed, he can be found training for the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation 2009
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME TENSummary: The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ALLSummary: An inspirational story of family, friendship, and redemption. After years of searching for his father, a young man, on the run from the law, finds his way into the life of a secluded old man in the woods. As the days go by and secrets about their past are revealed, they realize they may not have been looking for each other but they were brought together for a reason.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FATSummary: Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail. Oliver and Jenny continue to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2007
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE LOVSummary: The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans three fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BoCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOO RATED PGSummary: Three high school graduates are intent on celebrating their newfound freedom with an epic, debaucherous bender. However, when a horrible accident sends them spiraling, the trio must grapple with the most daunting challenge of their lives: facing their own inner demons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Entertainment 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HERSummary: Since his mother's confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure. As the tour progresses and Andy witnesses the doctor's career and life unravel, he begins to identify with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOUSummary: Hit by a truck on his way home from work, a young man is reborn in a magical new world and raised by the wise man Merlin. The boy, now named Shin, exceeds in everything Merlin teaches him about magic and combat, but he hasn't mastered common sense!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME WISDickens, Charles
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICJung, Mike
Summary: Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol--a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that--really,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Book Club Kit, Call number: YOUTH BOOK CLUB KIT FIC JUNMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: "In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki's peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is betrayed from within. The lone survivor of his family, Tokiyuki is the rightful heir to the throne, but to take it back, he'll have to do what he does best--run...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ELUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MANMurakami, Haruki
Summary: "The debut short novels--nearly thirty years out of print-- by the internationally acclaimed writer, newly retranslated and in one English-language volume for the first time, with a new introduction by the author. These first major works of fiction by Haruki Murakami center on two young men--an unnamed narrator and his friend and former roommate, the Rat. Powerful, at times surreal, stories of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MURNgamije, Rémy
Summary: "Reminiscent of Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon, this "gorgeous, wildly funny and, above all, profoundly moving and humane" (Peter Orner, author of Am I Alone Here) coming-of-age tale follows a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda during the Civil War and make sense of his reality"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2021