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Author: McNamara, Sean, 1963- film director. Voight, Jon, 1938- actor. Caan, James, actor. Polo, Teri, 1969- actor. Walsh, Dylan, actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: JL
Format: Video disc
Summary: When Henry proposes, it looks like Rebecca will get her fairytale ending until her daughter invites a visitor from her past to the ranch that will change the Petersons and Landsburg's forever.
Author: Greenfield, Luke, 1972- film director. Zúñiga, José, actor. Spano, Vincent, 1962- actor. Méndez, Luis Gerardo, 1982- actor. Del Rio, Connor, actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: HALF
Format: Video disc
Summary: Renato, a successful Mexican aviation executive, is shocked to discover he has an American half-brother he never knew about, the free-spirited Asher. The two very different half-brothers are forced on a road journey together masterminded by their ailing father, tracing the path their father took as an immigrant from Mexico to the US.
Author: Mok, Ken, film director, screenwriter. Wasserman, Geneva, film producer. Shlesinger, Iliza, 1983- actor. Coleman, Cleopatra, 1987- actor. Mahoro, Trezzo, actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: RIGHT
Format: Video disc
Summary: Sarah is a novelist struggling with writer's block who needs inspiration and finds it when she serendipitously meets Godfrey, a down on his luck oddball who constantly changes personas in order to cope with a traumatic past and avoid reality. Just as Godfrey begins to open up to Sarah, he discovers that she's been using him as inspiration for her next novel, and he vanishes from her life. Did Sarah just lose the man of her dreams, or will she be able to find him and make things right?
Author: Taylor, Deon, film director, film producer. Loughery, David, screenwriter. Swank, Hilary, film producer, actor. Avent, Roxanne, 1976- film producer. Ealy, Michael, actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: FATALE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Derrick desperately tries to put the pieces together after a wild one-night stand with a woman who has entangled him in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. The female detective got him caught up in her latest investigation, putting him -- and his perfect life and family -- at risk of losing everything, even their lives.
Author: Di Stefano, Andrea, 1972- film director, screenwriter. Cook, Matt (Screenwriter), screenwriter. Joffe, Rowan, screenwriter. Iwanyk, Basil, film producer. Lee, Erica (Producer), film producer.
Published: 2021 2019
Call Number: INFORMER
Format: Video disc
Summary: Ex-con and former special operations soldier Pete Koslow has been recruited by the FBI to go undercover and take down New York's most powerful crime boss. When he finds himself caught in the crossfire between the mob and the law, he's forced to return to prison. Koslow must now devise a plan to escape in order to save himself and his family.
Author: Webber, Mark, 1980- film director. Berger, Nicole Elizabeth, actor. Olsen, Eric Christian, 1977- actor. Olsen, Sarah Wright, actor. Tonkin, Phoebe, actor.
Published: 2020 2019
Call Number: PLACE
Format: Video disc
Summary: "'Where do we go when we die?' A question by three-year-old Bodhi Palmer sets a real family on an imaginative adventure that explores how we cope with dying and the love, laughter, and pain we can find within it"--back cover.
Author: Covino, Michael, film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor. Marvin, Kyle, screenwriter, film producer, actor. Lang, Noah, film producer. Balsam, Talia, 1959- actor. Rankin, Gayle, actor.
Published: 2020 2019
Call Number: COMEDY CLIMB
Format: Video disc
Summary: A tumultuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years of laughter, heartbreak and rage. It is also the story of real-life best friends who turn their profound connection into a rich, humane and frequently uproarious film about the boundaries, or lack thereof, in all close friendships.
Author: Borenstein, Max, creator. Woo, Alexander, creator. Scott, Ridley, television producer. Mio, Derek, actor. Sukezane, Kiki, actor.
Published: 2020 2019
Call Number: TERROR SEASON 2
Format: Video disc
Summary: Set during World War II, the haunting and suspenseful second season of the horror-infused anthology centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese American community, and a young man's journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.
Author: Roiland, Justin, 1980- voice actor. Parnell, Chris, 1967- voice actor. Grammer, Spencer, 1983- voice actor. Warner Home Video (Firm), publisher.
Published: 2020 2019
Call Number: RICK SEASON 4
Format: Video disc
Summary: A sociopathic scientist drags his unintelligent grandson on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe. Follows the adventures of mentally unbalanced scientist Rick and his grandson Morty.
Author: Kajganich, David, 1969- creator. Simmons, Dan, 1948- screenwriter. Scott, Ridley, television producer. Berger, Edward, 1970- television director. Mielants, Tim, television director.
Published: 2018
Call Number: TERROR SEASON 1
Format: Video disc
Summary: In 1848, two real life warships, HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, sent on a Royal Naval expedition to find the treacherous Northwest Passage become trapped in ice near Arctic and face starvation, mutiny, cannibalism and a demonic polar bear.
Author: Treem, Sarah, creator. Levi, Hagai, 1963- creator. Jackson, Joshua, 1978- actor. Tierney, Maura, 1965- actor. West, Dominic, 1969- actor.
Published: 2018
Call Number: AFFAIR SEASON 4
Format: Video disc
Summary: "What are you holding on to? Long past the secrets that brought them together and tore their lives apart, Noah, Alison, Helen and Cole are on separate journeys with the promise of new relationships and a fresh start. But as the past continues to surface, they question what they re holding on to as their lives keep crashing back into one another."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Harmon, Dan, 1973- creator. Roiland, Justin, 1980- creator, actor. Parnell, Chris, 1967- actor. Grammer, Spencer, 1983- actor. Chalke, Sarah, actor.
Published: 2018 2017
Call Number: RICK SEASON 3
Format: Video disc
Summary: A sociopathic scientist drags his unintelligent grandson on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe. Follows the adventures of mentally unbalanced scientist Rick and his grandson Morty.
Author: McNamara, Sean, 1963- film director. Voight, Jon, 1938- actor. Caan, James, actor. Polo, Teri, 1969- actor. Walsh, Dylan, actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: JL
Format: Video disc
Summary: When Henry proposes, it looks like Rebecca will get her fairytale ending until her daughter invites a visitor from her past to the ranch that will change the Petersons and Landsburg's forever.
Author: Greenfield, Luke, 1972- film director. Zúñiga, José, actor. Spano, Vincent, 1962- actor. Méndez, Luis Gerardo, 1982- actor. Del Rio, Connor, actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: HALF
Format: Video disc
Summary: Renato, a successful Mexican aviation executive, is shocked to discover he has an American half-brother he never knew about, the free-spirited Asher. The two very different half-brothers are forced on a road journey together masterminded by their ailing father, tracing the path their father took as an immigrant from Mexico to the US.
Author: Mok, Ken, film director, screenwriter. Wasserman, Geneva, film producer. Shlesinger, Iliza, 1983- actor. Coleman, Cleopatra, 1987- actor. Mahoro, Trezzo, actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: RIGHT
Format: Video disc
Summary: Sarah is a novelist struggling with writer's block who needs inspiration and finds it when she serendipitously meets Godfrey, a down on his luck oddball who constantly changes personas in order to cope with a traumatic past and avoid reality. Just as Godfrey begins to open up to Sarah, he discovers that she's been using him as inspiration for her next novel, and he vanishes from her life. Did Sarah just lose the man of her dreams, or will she be able to find him and make things right?
Author: Taylor, Deon, film director, film producer. Loughery, David, screenwriter. Swank, Hilary, film producer, actor. Avent, Roxanne, 1976- film producer. Ealy, Michael, actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: FATALE
Format: Video disc
Summary: Derrick desperately tries to put the pieces together after a wild one-night stand with a woman who has entangled him in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. The female detective got him caught up in her latest investigation, putting him -- and his perfect life and family -- at risk of losing everything, even their lives.
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