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Description
British amateur bakers compete in a series of weekly baking challenges, each episode introducing a new technical skill and a challenge in each of three categories: Sigature Bake, to test creative flair and basic baking ability; Technical Bake, in which contestants are given basic recipes consisting of an ingredients list and minimal instruction; and Showstopper Bake, designed to display baking virtuosity.
2) Amy
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
DVD BIOGRAPHY WINEHOUSE, A.
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DVD BIOGRAPHY WINEHOUSE, A.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
BLU-RAY BIOGRAPHY WINEHOUSE, A.
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BLU-RAY BIOGRAPHY WINEHOUSE, A.
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Description
The incredible story of six-time Grammy winner Amy Winehouse - in her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archival footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving, and vital film shines a light on our culture and the world we live in today.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
DVD KING'S
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DVD KING'S
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Description
"The King's Speech" presents a sideways glance at a crucial period in 20th-century history--as the monumentally awkward Prince Albert, or Bertie, becomes King George VI unexpectedly in 1936 when his older brother Edward VIII abdicates to marry American divorcée Wallis Simpson. In imperial Britain between the wars, that was problem enough, but Bertie suffered from a chronic stammer that made his public appearances painful for everyone. In an age of...
4) Dunkirk
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
BLU-RAY DUNKIRK
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BLU-RAY DUNKIRK
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Description
A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold. The evacuation was aided by civilians who traversed the English Channel in order to collect the soldiers stranded on the beach.
Series
Description
James Bond, 007, is sent on a mission to Istanbul to try and acquire a Russian cypher machine known as Lektor from a defecting Russian agent. The evil SPECTRE organization has a plan to steal the decoder. This will grant access to Russian state secrets and irrevocably unbalance the world order. It is up to James to find and take possession of the device first. He must confront enemies that include Red Grant and the ruthless Rosa Klebb. Even as James...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J HARRY POTTER
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J HARRY POTTER
5 available
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
DVD HARRY
1 available
DVD HARRY
1 available
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J HARRY POTTER
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J HARRY POTTER
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
BLU-RAY HARRY
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BLU-RAY HARRY
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Description
"Harry Potter learns on his 11th birthday that he is the orphaned son of two wizards and possesses magical powers of his own. At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he learns the high-flying sport Quiddich and plays a thrilling "live" chess game en route to facing a Dark Wizard bent on destroying him." --Packaging.
7) Skyfall
Description
When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong and agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be challenged by Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With MI6 now compromised from both inside and out, M is left with one ally she can trust - Bond. 007 aided only by field agent Eve, follows a trail that leads to Silva, whose...
Description
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with an office aide; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
BLU-RAY THEORY
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BLU-RAY THEORY
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Description
The story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and...
10) Trainspotting
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
BLU-RAY TRAINSPOTTING
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BLU-RAY TRAINSPOTTING
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Description
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose Trainspotting. Director Danny Boyle thrills in this 'original, daring' tale of a group of young drug addicts wheeling through blue collar Edinburgh that earned an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Trainspotting electrified audiences and critics with its hilariously dark humor, stunning visuals and sharp honest take on both the exhilarating highs, and the terrifying lows,...
11) Barry Lyndon
Description
Thackeray's tale of a roguishly charming 18th century Irishman, card shark and con-man whose good fortune and luck finally run out.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
DVD TV CALL
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DVD TV CALL
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Description
A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
13) Paddington
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J DVD PADDINGTON
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J DVD PADDINGTON
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J BLU-RAY PADDINGTON
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J BLU-RAY PADDINGTON
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The story of the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear that travels to the city in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined; until he meets the kindly Brown family who read the label around his neck that says "Please look after this bear. Thank you," and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
DVD MONTY
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DVD MONTY
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
BLU-RAY MONTY
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BLU-RAY MONTY
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Description
The quest for the Holy Grail by King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is retold in the inimitable Python fashion.
15) Snatch
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
DVD SNATCH
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DVD SNATCH
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Description
"A diamond heist gone haywire launches gangster, bookies and a dog on a rollicking ride through the rugged world of bare-knuckle boxing in search of the missing stone"--Container.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
DVD REMAINS
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DVD REMAINS
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Description
The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically perfect butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper in the employ of a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
BLU-RAY TV DOWNTON
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BLU-RAY TV DOWNTON
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All seven episodes from the first series of the Edwardian costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in a stately home prior to the outbreak of WWI. The Grantham family, long time custodians of Downton Abbey, face a crisis when the heir to the estate dies on the 'Titanic'. With his three daughters unable to inherit by law, Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville), the current Earl of Grantham, must try and marry his eldest...
Series
Criterion collection volume 31
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
DVD GREAT
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DVD GREAT
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Description
In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.
19) The Third man
Series
Criterion collection volume 64
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
Description
"Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel"--Container.
