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Bars (Drinking establishments) Management Bars (Drinking establishments) Management Drama Friendship Friendship Drama Friendship Pennsylvania Philadelphia Drama Irish Americans Irish Americans Pennsylvania Philadelphia Drama Pennsylvania Philadelphia Philadelphia (Pa.) Drama Philadelphia (Pa.) FictionSummary: Step up to the bar at Paddy's Pub and get into the crazy world of Dee, Charlie, Frank and Mac as they pursue even more outrageous subjects like cannibalism, glory-hole fixations, or Dennis's over-the-top sexual memoirs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IT'SSummary: Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time. He works in a meat factory in Philadelphia for a meager wages so he also earns extra cash as a debt collector. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer. The promoters are touting the fight as a chance for a "nobody" to become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RockySummary: Whether it's underage drinking, homophobia or smokers' rights, no subject is off limits for the hilariously warped gang at Paddy's Pub. The staff of this neighborhood bar takes dysfunction and political incorrectness to wickedly hilarious extremes. Knock one back with Mac, Charlie, Dennis, his sister Dee, and their nihilistic father Frank, as their twisted and self-obsessed worldviews lead to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ITCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IT'SBiddle, Daniel R.
Summary: Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia's best black baseball team, a teacher at the city's finest black school and an activist who fought in the state capital and on the streets for equal rights. With his racially-charged murder, the nation lost a civil rights pioneer-one who risked his life a century before Selma and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: John and Jen are journalists who are a newly married couple. Marley is the adopted puppy that no one wants, a high-strung lab who is virtually untrainable. Marley shreds cushions, destroys floors and walls and most everything in between. Instead of taking him to the pound, they love their dog and he faithfully loves them in return. John and Jen eventually have three children and Jen gives up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD/Blu MarleySummary: Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LMcNeur, Catherine
Summary: "The nineteenth century was a transformative period in the history of American science, as scientific study, once the domain of armchair enthusiasts and amateurs, became the purview of professional experts and institutions. In Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur shows that women were central to the development of the natural sciences during this critical time. She does so by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCNMcElhinney, Ann
Summary: In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree. Gosnell is currently serving three life sentences (without the possibility of parole) for murdering babies and patients at his "House of Horrors" abortion clinic. This book--now a major movie starring Dean Cain (Lois &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 MCESummary: Documents an entire school year with Wilma Stephenson and those students committed enough to surrender themselves to her enlightened despotism. By the end of the year, thirteen of her students will have made it through the gauntlet. At a school where over 40% of students don't even make it to their senior year, Wilma shows her kids how to achieve the American Dream: You choose a realistic goal....
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PREDiemer, Andrew K.
Summary: "The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia--the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon line--helping hundreds of people escape from slavery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STILL, WILLIAM DIEAfrica, Mike
Summary: "The incredible story of MOVE, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985, killing 11 civilians-by one of the few people born into the organization, raised during the bombing's tumultuous aftermath, and entrusted with repairing what was left of his family. Before police dropped a bomb on a residential neighborhood on May 13, 1985, few people outside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AFRICA, MIKE JR., AFRIGoyal, Nikhil
Summary: "Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized children and families in the United States. This is their coming-of-age story. It is also the story of families beset by violence--the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 GOYCorchado, Alfredo
Summary: When Alfredo Corchado moved to Philadelphia in 1987, he felt as if he was the only Mexican in the city. But in a restaurant called Tequilas, he connected with two other Mexican men and one Mexican American, all feeling similarly isolated. Over the next three decades, the four friends continued to meet, coming together over their shared Mexican roots and their love of tequila. One was a radical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 CORMartin, Nancy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSummary: Two competing lawyer join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PhiladelphiaSummary: America's favorite back-stabbing bar owners are at it again in the outrageously over-the-top Season Eight of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia! Join the gang at Paddy's Pub for more disagreements, divisiveness, debauchery and depravity as Charlie and Dee find love among Philadelphia's high society, and Dennis crashes his ex-wife's wedding. Frank loses his memory - and his mind - in a hopeless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IT'SSummary: Vince Papale is a down-on-his-luck substitute teacher in Philadelphia who, at the age of 30, was out of work, abandoned by his wife, and biding time as a part-time bartender when he decides to answer an open call for tryouts on the Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team in 1976. Going with his gut instinct, new coach Dick Vermeil rewards Papale's diligent efforts with a place on the team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Invincible 2006Summary: Looks at the mystique surrounding chef and restaurateur Georges Perrier at the time leading up to the closing of his iconic Philadelphia restaurant Le Bec-Fin, which in Perrier's own estimation was the last true French restaurant in the U.S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KINSummary: John and Jen are journalists who are a newly married couple. Marley is the adopted puppy that no one wants, a high-strung lab who is virtually untrainable. Marley shreds cushions, destroys floors and walls and most everything in between. Instead of taking him to the pound, they love their dog and he faithfully loves them in return. John and Jen eventually have three children and Jen gives up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Marley 2008Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARLeigh, Melinda
Summary: "When her sister Erin is murdered and Erin's husband goes missing, Philadelphia homicide detective Bree Taggert vows to uncover the secrets of her sister's life and death but when the danger hits close to home, her own family is caught in a death grip."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEIAlbee, Jay
Summary: Nonbinary fourth grader Riley and their friends learn how small, simple parks can be just as important and fun as fancy new parks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Celebrate a decade of debauchery with Season Twelve of TV's most outrageously funny comedy. Join your favorite demented bar owners for a new round of misguided dreams and blundered schemes. This time around the gang tackles their most hilarious challenges yet: like besting the legendary beer drinking record of baseball's Wade Boggs and conquering the wacky world of online dating. Plus, Mac and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IT'SSummary: Mac learns a new language, Charlie does a period piece, Dennis attempts a one-act play, Dee cuts her hair, and Frank performs a death scene. During that epic awards push, Mac announced his true sexual identity to his father in dramatic fashion, Dee orchestrated an all-female reboot, Dennis reunited with his Range Rover, and the Gang epitomized underdogs as they overcame the odds to win the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IT'SAnastasia, George.
Summary: Offers a portrait of FBI confidential informant Ron Previte, detailing his journey from corrupt cop and wiseguy to informant, his role in the Philadelphia-South Jersey mob, and the clash that led to the fall of the region's mob bosses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2004