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"Senior Entourage is a wild, wacky "Mockumentary" comedy featuring a zany, multi-racial cast ranging in age from 9 to 90. It's "Seinfeld for seniors" starring Ed Asner, Helen Reddy, Charlie Robinson, Marion Ross, and Mark Rydell."-- from container.
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Lucy calls the president: When Indiana housewife Lucy Whittaker calls the White House to complain about a housing project, she soon discovers the President accepting an invitation to visit her home for dinner. Calamity and comedy follow as Lucy frantically prepares for the special event with the befuddled help of her family, friends and even Secret Service agents. Includes a surprise cameo appearance.
Lucy gets lucky: Lucy gets a casino job in Las...
3) High rollers
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Master thief Mason is living the criminal's dream: island-hopping with his crew and the love of his life, Decker, while floating on a sea of stolen cash. But his dream is shattered when his nemesis, the ruthless Salazar, kidnaps Decker and forces Mason and his crew to attempt a near-impossible casino heist in exchange for her return. Hedged in by Salazar's equally ruthless rivals, and with the FBI on his tail, Mason gambles everything in pursuit of...
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Bridgett Watkins dreamed of running the Iditarod since she was six. With loyal sled dogs by her side, she faces a moose attack, brutal storms, and the limits of endurance in this true story of faith, courage, and survival in the Alaskan wild.
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When life-threatening hypertension forces US DEA agent Alex Walker into early retirement, he decides to move to a tranquil deserted beach he remembered visiting in the Philippines many years ago. But when he arrives, he discovers that, in the interim, dozens of luxury resorts have been built, filling this once secluded island with jet skis, honeymooners, screaming children...and the rich and famous criminals of the world. Against doctor's orders,...
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Alex Walker, a former US DEA agent who was forced into early retirement. Once the DEA's most resourceful undercover operative, the combination of his partners betrayal and a life-threatening battle with hypertension has sent him as far from the madness as he can go. A small tropical island in the Philippine Archipelago. He now runs the gift shop in the island's luxury resort hotel and generally manages his transition from Jason Bourne to Jimmy Buffett...
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"The thrilling crime drama returns with five more macabre crimes for the Lyell Centre to solve. Emilia Fox returns for her 20th series as pathologist Dr Nikki Alexander. Joined by forensic expert Jack Hodgson, and two new recruits -- veteran pathologist Professor Harriet Maven and razor-sharp crime analyst Kit Brooks -- the Lyell team find themselves challenged like never before. Their investigations include the elderly being preyed upon, the return...
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Fired by her imagination, Robin is the bright-eyed leader of a group of kids, the Hoods, who love to play fantasy games on a patch of land they nickname The Kingdom. While their biggest concern is a rival gang looking to take over their domain, things get serious when plans emerge to develop the area that's their playground into a new leisure facility for the town. Faced with the ruthless spokesperson Clip-Board, Robin and her friends must find a...
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"After botching a hit, Tommy Ward flees to L.A. and strikes a deal: mentor his boss's awkward son in exchange for a way home. But a routine job turns into a night of gunfights, killers, and chaos as the odd duo battles to survive--and earn redemption."-- Container.
10) What we hide
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A mother's fatal overdose. A strained foster care system that separates siblings. How far will Spider & Jessie go to keep their secret buried?
11) Absolution
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An aging gangster attempts to reconnect with his children and rectify the mistakes in his past, but the criminal underworld won't loosen its grip willingly.
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"Shelly's spent 30 years headlining an iconic rhinestone and feathers Vegas revue, Le Razzle Dazzle. When the stage manager announces the show's closure in two weeks, Shelly's life is thrust into uncertainty. Leaning on her brassy best friend, former showgirl turned performing cocktail waitress Annette, Shelly must find her way through this career crisis, perhaps by reconnecting with her estranged daughter, Hannah"--Container.
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Featuring all three series along with the Christmas Special, Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones are Andy and Lance, two friends who find common ground as part of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club. Their dream is to find a buried treasure that will change their lives. But while they search for the past, they must also deal with the present. Series One finds Andy trying to keep his head above water with his partner Becky, while Lance tries to win back his...
14) Killing faith
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Set against the vast plague-ravaged deserts of the 1849 Arizona Territory, Killing Faith is a haunting journey through the American West a land of sickness, violence, and whispers of something darker to a land of deliverance. In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journey through the bloody West to find a distant town's Faith Healer. The woman...
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"DI Humphrey Goodman and his fiancée Martha face more challenges in their new life by the coast. Set against the backdrop of Devon and Cornwall, the Shipton Abbott team solve more intriguing crimes including a man haunted by the ghost of his dead wife, a body found in the river on the county border, a baffling chocolate box poisoning, a historic farming feud and a spiking incident on the water. Away from the police station, Martha and Humphrey try...
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The story of a small group of believers who turned the world upside down.
17) Red Sonja
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Enslaved by an evil tyrant who wishes to destroy her people, barbarian huntress Red Sonja must unite a group of unlikely warriors to face off against Emperor Draygan and his deadly bride, Dark Annisia.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor - New AV
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Long the woman-behind-the-man, Bernadette Chirac arrives at France's presidential Elysee Palace in 1995 frustrated, and all but cast off by her newly elected husband, Jacques. Having worked in his shadow during his ascent to the presidency, Madame Chirac now expects to finally get the place in the political elite she believes she deserves.
19) Primitive war
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Vietnam. 1968. A recon unit known as Vulture Squad is sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon. They soon discover they are not alone.
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The nun who is the police's secret weapon is back. Crime solving is her habit! The wine-making, moped-riding nun investigates more ugly deeds in beautiful surroundings. It's the mid-1960s in the quaint Cotswold village of Great Slaughter, but strange things are afoot. A killer scarecrow stalks the streets, all the women call a general strike and the police embark on something called "team building". Sister Boniface is looking forward to a wholesome...