Friday, December 26, 2008

Golden Globes

The Golden Globes will air on January 11th. To see a complete list of nominees, try the Golden Globes official website. Meanwhile, sample these nominees for best television show and television miniseries!

Book Cover House: Season One
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2005/08 - Universal Home Video
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The complete first season of the TV series House M.D. ...More

Book Cover Dexter: The First Season
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2007/08 - Paramount Home Video
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Orphaned as a child and adopted by a police officer, Dexter has an insatiable passion for killing. So his father helps him channel this passion into becoming a cop and killing those who slip through the cracks of justice. Includes 12 episodes. ...More

Book Cover Mad Men: Season One
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2008/07 - Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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It's 1960, and ad executive Don Draper rules the roost at New York's Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency in this Emmy winner for Best Drama Series. Living a glamorous existence of never-ending cocktail hours, worry-free smoking and ego-stroking power, ladies' man Draper makes numerous conquests both at work and in his personal life. But the world is beginning to change, and Draper will have to use all his smarts to stay one step ahead of the game. ...More

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2007/09 - Universal Home Video
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Book Cover The Office: Season One
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2005/08 - Universal Home Video
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The complete first season of the TV series The Office. ...More

Book Cover The Starter Wife
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2008/01 - Universal Home Video
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Emmy Award winner Debra Messing stars as Molly Kagan, the jilted ex-wife of a Hollywood studio head who, after her divorce, finds herself blacklisted from the life she once led. Seeking refuge in a Malibu resort, Molly works feverishly to build a new life for herself. Based on the best-seller by Gigi Levangie Grazer. ...More

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Cranford
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2008/05 - Warner Home Video
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Academy Award winner Dame Judi Dench leads a stellar cast in this Emmy-nominated BBC miniseries adaptation of the classic novels of celebrated Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. Stage and screen veterans Imelda Staunton and Eileen Atkins also star this complicated portrait of a group of women inhabiting a town wrestling with modernity and the inevitability of change. ...More

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Bernard & Doris
By Balaban, Bob
Fiennes, Ralph
Sarandon, Susan
2008/04 - HBO Home Video
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Inspired by the true story of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke and her devoted Irish butler Bernard Lafferty. ...More

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

New Quick Flicks for the Week of 12/23/08

Do you want to know the newest DVD titles available at your library? Check here to find the newest Quick Flicks released at the Gail Borden Library. This fast turnover, no reserves collection is where you will find multiple copies of the most popular DVDs.

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American Teen
By Burnstein, Nanette
2008/10 - Paramount
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Five high school seniors in Warsaw, IN, are the focus of this documentary from filmmaker Nanette Burstein. The film follows their struggles in and out of classrooms, their friendships, romantic relationships and the tough decisions they face. ...More

Book Cover Bring It on: In It to Win It
By Rash, Steve
Benson, Ashley
Scerbo, Cassie
2008/05 - Universal Home Video
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When two rival high school teams from opposite coasts battle it out for the number one title at Cheer Camp Nationals, tension mounts and the stakes are raised to see who will be crowned the top squad. ...More

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Burn After Reading
By Coen, Joel
2008/12 - Focus Features
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In this dark comedy from Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen, ousted CIA official Osbourne Cox loses his recently penned memoir into the hands of a pair of moronic gym employees who use it to try to turn a profit. ...More

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Death Race
By Anderson, Paul W.S.
2008/12 - Universal Studios
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Jensen Ames, an ex-con turned speedway champion who's framed for a grisly murder and forced to compete in a grueling three-day televised car race against his fellow inmates. Sitting behind the wheel of a monster car outfitted with machine guns, flamethrowers and grenade launchers, Ames is in the race of his life -- and the whole world is watching. ...More

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House Bunny
By Wolf, Fred
2008/12 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have -- a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves. ...More

Book Cover The Note
By Barr, Douglas
Francis, Genie
McGinley, Ted
2008/10 - Sony Pictures Home Ent
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The Walker
By Schrader, Paul
2008/05 - ThinkFilm
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Openly gay Carter Page III often escorts middle-aged Washington, D.C., wives to high-society events their husbands can't attend. But when the lover of one of his women friends is killed, Page is drawn into a tangled murder investigation. To protect his friend's reputation, he claims to have found the body -- involving himself in a crime that may have been politically motivated. ...More

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The Women
By English Diane
2008/12 - New Line Home Video
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Shocked by the discovery that their pal Mary's husband is having an affair with a beautiful young shop girl, a tight-knit circle of New York socialites comes up with a devious plan to help Mary win back her man. ...More

Monday, December 22, 2008

Spoken Word Grammy Nominees

Did you know that it is not just your favorite musicians nominated for Grammy Awards? Every year audiobooks are nominated for a Grammy in the Spoken Word category. The 51st Annual Grammy Nominees for Spoken Word include the following titles:

Book Cover When You Are Engulfed in Flames
By Sedaris, David
Sedaris, David
2008/06 - Hachette Audio
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Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, his sixth collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing. ...More

Book Cover I Am America (and So Can You!)
By Colbert, Stephen
Colbert, Stephen
Dinello, Paul
2007/10 - Hachette Audio
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In plain conversational language, not to mention the occasional grunt and/or whistle, the star of Comedy Centrals "The Colbert Report" explains his take on the most pressing concerns of our culture: faith, family, politics--and hygiene. Abridged. 3 CDs. ...More

Book Cover Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter
By Poitier, Sidney
Poitier, Sidney
2008/05 - HarperAudio
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One of America's greatest actors and the Grammy Award-winning author of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Measure of a Man" offers lessons from his own remarkable life in the form of letters to his great-granddaughter. Unabridged. 8 CDs. ...More

Book Cover Born Standing Up
By Martin, Steve
2007/11 - Recorded Books
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Emmy and Grammy Award winning comedian and bestselling author Martin tells the riveting history of his monumental career in standup, providing a portrait of a man dedicated to the art of making people laugh. Includes b&w photos throughout. ...More

Now Showing at the Gail Borden Public Library

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WALL-E

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.

In a futuristic world, human beings have destroyed Earth and evacuated the planet, leaving the cleanup to an army of robots they've programmed to do their dirty work. Due to a mishap, the dutiful WALL-E is the only one left. But with the arrival of a female probe named EVE, the monotony of WALL-E's existence is broken -- and he experiences love for the first time.