What Are Your Librarians Watching?
Check out what your librarians are watching this month!
Yellowjackets. Season 1
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A wildly talented high school girl soccer team becomes the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the Canadian wilderness.
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DVD
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Drama
Mr. Magoo in Sherwood Forest
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Join a medieval Mr. Magoo (as Friar Tuck) along with Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men on their misadventures in Sherwood Forest. From fleeing the Sheriff of Nottingham to feuding with King John, this band of caring castaways will stop at nothing to bring justice to the poor.
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DVD
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Children
Jurassic World dominion
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Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures in a new era.
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DVD
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SciFi/Fantasy
I am not a witch
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When eight-year-old Shula turns up alone and unannounced in a rural Zambian village, the locals are suspicious. A minor incident escalates to a full-blown witch trial, where she is found guilty and sentenced to life on a state-run witch camp. There, she is tethered to a long white ribbon and told that if she ever tries to run away, she will be transformed into a goat. As the days pass, Shula begins to settle into her new community, but a threat looms on the horizon. Soon she is forced to make a difficult decision-- whether to resign herself to life on the camp, or take a risk for freedom.
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Drama
A French village. Season 1, 1940. Discs 1 & 2
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The blockbuster French drama, chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists.
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DVD
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843 Fre Season 1, discs 1 & 2
Adventure time. Islands.
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Ties into the huge Adventure Time: Islands television event, the mini-series airing on Cartoon Network this winter where Finn meets other humans and an important member of his family for the first time.
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DVD
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Children
The others
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A devoutly religious mother of two ailing children has moved with her family to a mansion on the English coast. Her two children both suffer from a rare photosensitivity disease that renders them extremely vulnerable to sunlight, prompting the rule of having only one door open in the house at a time. When one of the children claims to see ghosts, Grace at first believes her newly arrived family of eccentric servants to be responsible, but chilling events and visions soon lead her to believe that something supernatural is indeed going on.
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Horror
Lemony Snicket's A series of unfortunate events
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Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are taken in by a series of oddball relatives and others after their wealthy parents are killed in a fire. The first to take them in is the dastardly and cunning Count Olaf, who is only interested in their inheritance.
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DVD
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Children
Spring blossom
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Suzanne is sixteen. She is bored with people her own age. Every day on her way to high school, she passes a theater. There, she meets a 35-year-old actor named Raphaël. Despite their age difference, they find in each other an answer to their ennui and develop a strong connection.
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DVD
Call Number:
843 Spr
Monsters, Inc.
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Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-producing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.
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DVD
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Children
New Year in Ping Wei
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Celebrate Chinese New Year in a rural Chinese village with Liu Yen Twin and her family.
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DVD
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J 915.1 New
Wolfblood. Season 1
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Williams-Stirling, Kedar.
Description:
Being a teenager is hard enough. Being a Wolfblood teenager is ten times more complicated. Fourteen-year-old Maddy loves her abilities, heightened senses, being faster, stronger and more graceful, but hates the secrets that come with them. And when a new boy starts at Maddy's school, she learns that her family isn't the only Wolfbloods in town.
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DVD
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SciFi/Fantasy
Kit Carson.
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"This film draws upon rich archival materials, original recreations, and interviews with authors and historians to bring the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier to vivid life, and provide a lens on a pivotal but little-understood era in American history"--Container.
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DVD
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B Car
Fabulous frogs
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Examines the weird and wonderful world of frogs through first-hand stores, the latest science, and technology.
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DVD
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597.89 Fab
We are still here
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"After their teenage son is killed in a car crash, Paul and Anne move to the New England countryside to try to start a new life. But the grieving couple unknowingly becomes the prey of a family of vengeful spirits that reside in their new home, and before long they discover that the seemingly peaceful town is hiding a terrifyingly dark secret. Now they must find a way to overcome their sorrow and fight back against both the living and dead as the malicious ghosts threaten to pull their souls - and the soul of their lost son - into hell with them." --wearestillherefilm.com
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DVD
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Horror
Dynasties [DVD]
Author(s):
Rupert Barrington
David Attenborough
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Nature depicted as never seen before: high stakes drama that goes deeper into the lives of five of the world's most celebrated and endangered animals than ever before: Chimpanzee, Emperor Penguin, Lion, Painted Wolf and Tiger.
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DVD
Call Number:
591.68 Dyn
We don't live here anymore
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Jack and Terry. Hank and Edith. They're two married couples and best friends with much in common. Jack and Hank are professors at Cedar County College. Terry and Edith are both stay-at-home moms. What will split them apart is that Jack and Edith are secret lovers. The interlocked foursome go into uncharted realms of anger, confrontation and lust - and making decisions that may or may not let love slip away.
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DVD
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Drama
The other dream team
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Everyone knows Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and the other members of the 1992 American Olympic Dream Team. This is the story of the Other Dream Team. They didn't bring their country the gold medal, they brought something much more valuable. After leading the USSR to a gold medal and victory over the USA at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Sarunas Marciulionis and Arvydas Sabonis were poster boys for the Soviet sports machine. Four years later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, they emerged as symbols of democracy.
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DVD
Call Number:
796.323 Oth
South Park. Season 05
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Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman are third graders who continue to have weird things happen to them. Includes such incidents as Big Gay Al being fired as a scout master. A cult led by magician David Blaine brainwashes the kids. Cartman seeks revenge on an eighth grader. The boys want to help the children of Afghanistan and end up taking on the Taliban.
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DVD
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Comedy
IF
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With her dad in the hospital, Bea finds herself staying at her grandmother's apartment the same way she did the summer before her mother died. As she avoids her fears about the situation, she discovers she can see imaginary friends, and they enlist her to help them get reassigned to new children after their people have grown up and moved on, thinking they no longer need their old emotional supports. The more she tries, the more she realizes that the real solution to all their problems may need her to face down her biggest emotions.
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DVD
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Children
Elsbeth. Season 1
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Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney who utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD. After leaving her successful legal career in Chicago to tackle a new investigative role in New York City, Elsbeth finds herself jockeying with the toast of the NYPD, Captain C.W. Wagner.
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DVD
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Drama
