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[2013]., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Copper 1+2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in New York City in the 1860s, centers on a young Irish-American cop living and working in the dangerous Five Points neighborhood as he attempts to uncover the disappearance of his wife and the death of his daughter.
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[2005]., Adult, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Heights Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Follows five people over a 24 hour period on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. Isabel's mother, Diana, learns that her husband has a new lover and begins to re-think her life choices and, especially, her open marriage. Diana and Isabel's paths cross with Alec, a young actor, and with Peter, a journalist. Isabel, Jonathan, Diana, Alec, and Peter must choose what kind of lives they will lead before the sun comes up on the next day.
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2010., Lionsgate Call No: BLK DVD Fic Precious Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain, helps Precious learn to read and she responds to this glimmer of hope. Precious also meets Mrs. Weiss, a social worker, and discovers the abuse and incest that Precious has had to endure. Her father dies of AIDS and Precious learns that she is now HIV-positive.