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Blackhawk Films collection Criterion collection Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 357 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 583 Metro Goldwyn Mayer limited edition collection MGM/UA vintage classics The graphic novel adventures of Sherlock Holmes Wade Williams collection (Image Entertainment (Firm))Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lightning Source Inc 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYDoyle, Arthur Conan
Contents: The man with the twisted lip -- The Musgrave ritual -- The adventure of the cardboard box -- The adventure of the blue carbuncle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOYDoyle, Arthur Conan
Summary: Collects Doyle's fifty-six classic short stories, arranged in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century book editions, in a set complemented by four novels, editor biographies of Doyle, Holmes, and Watson as well asliterary and cultural details about Victorian society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's classic 1902 adventure novel about the British Empires exploits in Africa, and a crowning achievement of Alexander Kordas legendary production company, London Films. Set at the end of the nineteenth century, follows the travails of a young officer accused of cowardice after he resigns his post on the eve of a major deployment to Khartoum; he must fight to redeem...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FOUDionne, Erin
Summary: Excited to give his report on explorer Ernest Shackleton in school, and frustrated by a monstrous snowstorm that has left his family and city snowbound, a boy imagines himself on a voyage where he and his crew (his family) are trapped by the ice, just like his favorite explorer and the ship Endurance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Professor Challenger, the man of vision who persuades his skeptical colleagues to return with him to a remote South American plateau where he has discovered living dinosaurs. Resisting danger and death, Challenger's party return to London in triumph with a captive Brontosaurus. But the beast excapes, turning the city into a shambles and standing the 20th century on it's head.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LosSummary: After a 25 year war destroys civilization, a group of scientific supermen set out to build a new one in this science fiction film. Decades later, their progress is threatened by a reactionary who urges the masses to rise up in protest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI THISummary: Hoffmann is a lovelorn young man in Nuremberg who is watching his latest love, Stella, dance in the ballet. In the interval he goes to the tavern where he tells his friends the tales of the three major loves of his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TALSummary: Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More, is placed in a difficult position when Henry VIII breaks with the Catholic Church over its refusal to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon so he can marry Anne Boleyn. Henry demands More's endorsement of this act. Torn between his conscience and duty to the crown, Sir Thomas chooses to say nothing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPDoyle, Arthur Conan
Summary: In twelve fully dramatized episodes, the great Sir John Gielgud stars as the sleuth of Baker Street, with Ralph Richardson as his venerable companion, Dr. Watson. Orson Welles makes a special appearance as the nefarious Professor Moriarty.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC DOYGoodwin, Vincent.
Summary: Retold in graphic novel form, after being presumed dead for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns to solve the mystery of card-player who has been shot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Graphic GooSummary: A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CASSummary: Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by familial betrayal and Spain's invading army. She and her shrewd advisor must act to safeguard the lives of her people. When the dashing seafarer, Walter Raleigh, captures her heart, Elizabeth is forced to make her most tragic sacrifice for the good of her country. A tale of one woman's crusade to control her love, destroy her enemies and secure her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELIDowney, Robert Jr.
Summary: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson seek out their nemesis Dr. Moriarty, believed to be behind the rising tensions between European countries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHE RATED PG 13Doyle, Arthur Conan
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 1997
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SF DOYStatham, Jason
Summary: Danny, an assassin, retires to the outback, but when his former partner is kidnapped, Danny is forced to take on a group of retired SAS soldiers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KILSummary: As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TOSummary: One double-sided disc contains episodes 1-3 on side A (200 min.) and episodes 4-6 on side B (220 min.). Based on George Elliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In Amsterdam of 1642, master painter Rembrandt Van Rijn enjoys a full life until the sudden death of his wife. Bankrupt and bereft, he finds comfort in a pretty servant in his home. Can he summon the courage to overcome his demons or will tragedy continue to haunt him?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REMSummary: Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNITolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: The definitive collection of J.R.R.Tolkien's four acclaimed modern classic fairy tales, each reflecting an aspect of what Tolkien himself called "The Perilous Realm of Faerie." The fat and unheroic Farmer Giles of Ham is called upon to do battle with the dragon Chrysophylax; Niggle the painter sets out to paint the perfect tree in Leaf by Niggle; hobbits, princesses, dwarves and trolls partake...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2008