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	The final destination [DVD] Widescreen ed. ; 2-D and 3-D versions.   Burbank, CA : New Line Home Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2010] Call Number: DVD FINAL Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWASEY SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: While at the races, Nick O'Bannon has a horrifc premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends to leave. They escape seconds before his vision becomes a reality. Thinking they cheated death, the group moves on. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die, Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all. Forecasting Drama.   Date added: Jan 23
	Gamer [DVD] Widescreen ed.   Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, [2010] Call Number: DVD GAMER Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWASEY SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: Kable is the superstar and cult hero of the ultraviolent Slayers. Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned, and forced to fight against his will, the modern-day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game, free his family, regain his identity, and save mankind from this ruthless technology. Video gamers Drama.   Date added: Jan 23
	The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. The complete first season [DVD] Widescreen ed.   [New York, NY] : Home Box Office ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2009. Call Number: DVD NO SEASON-1 Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: Follows Mma Ramotste, a recently bereaved woman, as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Mma Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste takes on cases, meets many new people who need her help - from a woman who thinks the man who has turned up at her door is not her father, to another lady who has a boyfriend who may or may not be faithful to her. No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization) Drama.   Date added: Jan 23
	All about Steve [DVD] Widescreen ed.   Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2009. Call Number: DVDC ALL Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWASEY SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: Crossword puzzle constructor Mary Horowitz is smart and pretty, but a disaster that shakes news cameraman Steve to the core. Set up on a blind date with Steve, Mary thinks the chemistry is undeniable and just knows she's found her soulmate. She decides to do anything and go anywhere to be with him. Mary's escalating infatuation is encouraged by the self-serving actions of news reporter Hartman Hughes who enjoys torturing his insolent cameraman at every opportunity. When the overzealous Mary becomes embroiled in the news story of the year, Steve and Hartman begin to see her differently. Crossword puzzle makers United States Drama.   Date added: Jan 13
	Cloudy with a chance of meatballs [DVD] Full screen ed. (16x9) and Anamorphic widescreen ed.; 1.78:1 and 2.35:1 aspect ratios.   Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2010] Call Number: DVDC CLOUD Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWASEY SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: Flint Lockwood is a young inventor who dreams of creating something that will improve everyone's life. Sam Sparks is a weathergirl covering the town's weather phenomenon, but chooses to hide her intelligence behind a perky exterior. Tim Lockwood is Flint's technophobic father. Brent is the town bully who has plagued Flint since childhood. Mayor Shelbourne exploits Flint's newest invention so he can put the town, and more importantly himself, on the map. By-the-rules town cop Earl Devereaux has a rule-breaking son, Cal. In a town where food drops from the sky like rain, Flint hopes to create something that will change everyone's life. However, when the weather takes a turn for the worse, the residents of the town of Chewandswallow will find their eating habits have drastically changed. Inventors Drama.   Date added: Jan 13
	(500) days of Summer [DVD] Widescreen ed.   Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2009. Call Number: DVDC FIVE Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWASEY SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: For Tom, it was love at first sight when Summer Finn walked into the greeting card company where he worked. Summer is the new administrative assistant. Soon, Tom knows that Summer is the woman with whom he wants to spend the rest of his life. Although Summer does not believe in relationships or boyfriends, Tom and Summer become more than just friends. Through the trials and tribulations of Tom and Summer's relationship, Tom could always count on the advice of his two best friends, McKenzie and Paul. However, it's Rachel, Tom's adolescent sister, who is his voice of reason. After all is said and done, Tom is the one who ultimately has to make the choice to listen or not. Greeting cards industry United States Drama.   Date added: Jan 23
	In the loop [DVD] Widescreen ed.   [New York] : IFC Films, [2010] Call Number: DVDC IN Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KOBETICH MOORE SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: "The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster. But, after Simon accidentally backs military action on TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington, DC. If Simon can get in with the right DC people, if his entourage of one can sleep with the right intern, and if they can both stop the Prime Minister's chief spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker rigging the vote at the UN, they can halt the war."--Producers. Communication Political aspects United States Drama.   Great Britain Politics and government 2007- Drama. Date added: Jan 23
	Tyler Perry's I can do bad all by myself [DVD] [Widescreen ed.]   Santa Monica, Calif. : Lionsgate, [2010] Call Number: DVDC TYLER Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWASEY SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: After Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with them. But her attitude begins to change when Sandino, a handsome Mexican immigrant looking for work, moves into April's basement room. Making amends for his own past, Sandino challenges April to open her heart. Now, April has to decide between her old ways and the new possibilities of family, faith, and love. Burglary United States Drama.   Date added: Jan 23
	Carriers [DVD] Widescreen ed.   Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, c2009. Call Number: DVDH CARRI Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWASEY SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: Determined to elude the deadly viral pandemic virus, Danny, his brother Brian, his girlfriend Bobby and Danny's school friend Kate speed across the Southwestern U.S. to reach a place of possible safety. Over the course of four days, the group is faced with moral decisions that no human should ever be forced to face. They discover that their greatest enemy is not the microbe attacking humanity, but the darkness within themselves. Now the four will have to outrun the end of the world, as well as each other. Virus-vector relationships Drama.   Date added: Jan 13
	Jennifer's body [DVD] Widescreen ed.   Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2009. Call Number: DVDH JENNI Owned by: MAIN KING KOBETICH SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: Needy is a reserved bookworm. Her best friend is Jennifer, a conceited cheerleader. The two share little in common. They share even less in common when Jennifer mysteriously gains an appetite for human blood after a disastrous fire at a local bar. Soon, Needy's male classmates are steadily killed off in gruesome attacks and she must uncover the truth behind her friend's transformation and find a way to stop the bloodthirsty rampage before it reaches her own boyfriend. High school students United States Drama.   Date added: Jan 23
	The hurt locker [DVD] Widescreen ed.   [Universal City, Calif.] : Summit Entertainment, [2010] Call Number: DVDW HURT Owned by: MAIN MOORE SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When he arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment, and it will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with their new leader. James' thrill of the dismantlement seems to be the ultimate goal regardless of the safety of his fellow team members, others on the scene or himself. On the other hand, Sanborn is by the books: he knows his place and duty and trusts others in the army to carry out theirs as well as he. Eldridge is an insecure soldier who is constantly worried that an error or misjudgment on his part will lead to the death of an innocent civilian or a military colleague. While the three members face their own internal issues, they have to be aware of any person at the bomb sites, some of who may be bombers themselves. Bomb squads Iraq Baghdad Drama.   Date added: Jan 23