Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PursuitCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: A man goes to considerable lengths to avoid being seen. Beckett's first venture into the film medium is a one-character production without dialogue, based on Berkeley's theory Esse est percipi, or "to be is to be perceived."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILRobards, Karen.
Summary: With one sweet, seductive kiss, Megan Kinkead is no longer the impudent child Justin Brant remembers. She was a girl when she left for school, but she has returned a woman, body and soul. Once Megan's guardian, Justin, the sixth Earl of Weston, is soon her heart's obsession. Desire smolders between them, and then he tells her he is married. Set against the lush green hills of Ireland, a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBSummary: Upon receiving a terminal diagnosis, Sarah opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss to her friends and family. When she makes a sudden and miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJE Films 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUAContents: Paris after dark / Jordan Summers -- Coven of mercy / Deborah Cooke -- Le cirque de la Nuit / Karen MacInerney -- Perdition / Caitlin Kittredge -- Deliver us from evil / Dina James -- Blood and thyme / Camile Bacon-Smith -- Into the mist for ever / Rosemary Laurey -- Blood feud / Patti O'Shea -- Love bites / Angie Fox -- Flotsam / Caitlin R. Kiernan -- The murder king's woman / Jamie Leigh...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAMSummary: Parenting is no joke! In this light-hearted family film, one dad shakes off a mid-life crisis and reconnects with his family, with his Bible in one hand and his phone in the other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GVN Releasing 2020
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SELCatchpole, James
Summary: Imagine you were asked the same question again and again throughout your life... Imagine if it was a question that didn't bring about the happiest of memories... This is the experience of one-legged Joe, a child who just wants to have fun in the playground... Constantly seen first for his disability, Joe is fed up of only ever being asked about his leg. All he wants to do is play Pirates. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber Limited 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CATTerrell, Jaden
Summary: Nashville P.I. Jared McKean has a weakness for women in jeopardy, until one frames him for murder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Permanent Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TERHayes, Karel
Summary: During the summer a family of bears enjoys the comforts of life at a cottage by a lake, alongside the human visitors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Down East 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HAYKent, Jaden
Summary: A young dragon named Ella convinces her twin brother Owen to join her on a bold quest to find a wizard that will help cure Owen of his flaming cold.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KENTerrell, Jaden
Summary: "At thirty-six, private detective Jared McKean is coming to terms with his unjust dismissal from the Nashville Murder Squad and an unwanted divorce from a woman he still loves. Jared is a natural horseman and horse rescuer whose son has Down Syndrome, whose best friend is dying of AIDS, and whose teenage nephew, Josh, has fallen under the influence of a dangerous fringe of the Goth subculture....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TERTerrell, Jaden
Summary: When Nashville PI and horse whisperer Jared McKean is hired to investigate a suspicious barn fire, he finds evidence of soring, the practice of using painful shoeing or caustic chemicals to affect the gait of a Tennessee Walking Horse. But the owners, Zane and Carlin Underwood, are known anti-soring activists. Carlin's distress seems genuine, and Zane is confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TERHayes, Karel
Summary: When the summer visitors leave in the fall, a new group of visitors moves into the vacation cottage to spend the winter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: After the death of her husband, Police inspector Maria Wern seeks to start her life over and moves to the picturesque Swedish island of Gotland with her two children. While struggling as a single mother and mourning her husband's death, Maria manages to sustain her female perspective and approach to life in a harsh and male-dominated environment. She constantly encounters rage, death and evil...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: After the death of her husband, Police inspector Maria Wern seeks to start her life over and moves to the picturesque Swedish island of Gotland with her two children. While struggling as a single mother and mourning her husband's death, Maria manages to sustain her female perspective and approach to life in a harsh and male-dominated environment. She constantly encounters rage, death and evil...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARSummary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHESummary: If the entire world is bad, why shouldn't we be? Adopting this insolent attitude as their guiding philosophy, a pair of hedonistic young women, both named Marie, embark on a gleefully debauched odyssey of gluttony, giddy destruction, and antipatriarchal resistance, in which nothing is safe from their nihilistic pursuit of pleasure. But what happens when the fun is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN DAIChapman, Jared
Summary: Illustrations and brief text reveal the wide variety of unmentionables sported by vegetables.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE Board Chapman 2017Reck, Jared
Summary: After years of pining for the girl next door, fifteen-year-old Matthew Wainwright must deal with Tabby dating a popular senior just when he needs her most.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RECJameson, Karen
Summary: In rhyming text, a little girl and her dog wander through the woods, saying goodnight to all her favorite wild animals before finally arriving at her own cabin for a good night's sleep.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAMPadalecki, Jared
Summary: Sam and Dean Winchester seek out the person or force responsible for their mother's death and their father's disappearance while investigating strange occurrences across America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUPPechaček, Jared
Summary: "A palace the size of a city, ruled by giant Ladies of unknowable, eldritch origin. A land left to slow decay, drowning in the debris of generations. All this and more awaits you within The West Passage, a delightfully mysterious and intriguingly weird medieval fantasy unlike anything you've read before. "The West Passage is a dangerous book of secrets." -Travis Baldree, #1 New York Times...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PECHayes, Arden
Summary: Pinkie Pie is excited when Rarity gets a job as a cashier at the Sugarcube Corner, but when the two friends don't see eye to eye on customer service, things aren't as sweet as she believed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018