Summary: While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in a murder case when he is first accused of the crime, and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the ignorant and bigoted town sheriff. But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic In

Summary: In the 17th century, Father Laforgue, a young Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the Canadian wilderness to convert the Huron Indians. His young aide and translator, Daniel, falls in love with Annuka, the daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested, and his life and the outcome of the mission imperiled, as...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Communications Corp. 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLA

Summary: The story is based on the Defoe character, Moll Flanders who is a high-spirited and beautiful, but also destitute young woman living as a social outcast in 18th century England.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment, Inc. 2001

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MOL

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2001

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BEN

Summary: Nora is sheltered first by her father and then by her husband. All her life, she has been protected like a fragile possession ... like a doll in a doll's house. Years ago, Nora Helmer committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring. But...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOL

Summary: Comedy about a rich and spoiled New York housewife in a bad marriage. She dreams of having an affair with a musician she met at her children's school. An herbalist she visits in Chinatown gives her mysterious potions that break down her inhibitions, make her invisible and let her see tender moments with loved ones from her past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ALI

Ford, Richard

Summary: Frank Bascombe is a sportswriter attempting to cope with his failed marriage and the death of his son. Unable to establish true connections with people, Bascombe drifts into and out of various relationships, but retains an introspective eye that allows him to transcend life's obstacles.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOR

Summary: A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver and his fare, a 92-year-old woman whose warmth belies her shocking past. Charles is a taxi driver in Paris, and he is having a very bad day. Enter Madeleine, an immaculately groomed nonagenarian, who informs Charles that the trip today will not be a direct one. She is moving into a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRI

Summary: Ghosted by her hunky twenty-something lover, Claire, a middle-aged professor and single mom, creates a fake Facebook profile to do a little undetected online snooping. But when her 24-year-old avatar "Clara" is friended by her ex's equally attractive roommate, superficial correspondence quickly escalates towards intense intimacy and uncontrollable obsession.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHO

Summary: Famed author Marianne Winckler goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of the working class in Northern France. She eventually lands a job as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry and develops close connections with the other cleaning women, many of whom have extremely limited resources and income opportunities. As she learns more about the plight of these workers, Marianne struggles...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BET

Summary: Story of a young boy and his family in London during World War II.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOP

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

Contents: The ice palace -- May Day -- The diamond as big as the Ritz -- Winter dreams -- Absolution -- The rich boy -- The freshest boy -- Babylon revisited -- Crazy Sunday -- The long way out.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C. Scribner's Sons 1988

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIT

Karam, Adel

Summary: After an insult leads to a heated exchange between two men in Beirut, the men find themselves in the middle of a socially charged court case.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INS

Summary: Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASH

Summary: Filmmaker Agnes Varda and photographer JR set out on a trip through France to meet locals and produce epic sized murals and form an unlikely friendship along the way.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FAC

Menochet, Denis

Summary: When glamorous Evelyne Ducat suddenly disappears during a blizzard in rural France, the lives of five people, each harboring their own secrets, become intertwined in their connection to her disappearance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2022

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONL

Summary: Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities. Prescribed daily tasks on cassette tapes so he can create new memories and document them on camera, Aris slides back into ordinary life, meeting Anna, a woman who is also in recovery. Through images deadpan, strange and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN APP

Summary: A teenage boy and his cousin decide to leave Senegal for the promise of Europe despite facing the harsh realities of the desert to the harrowing experiences in Libyan detention centers and the risks of the open sea.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IO

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD IO

Summary: Two people meet in Las Vegas and form a bond based on unconditional acceptance and mutual respect that will change each of them forever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LEA

Summary: A handsome, self-centered ex-ice hockey player and a champion figure skater with a prima donna attitude are mis-matched partners in the quest for an Olympic gold medal.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1992

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CUT