What is your favorite movie?
VDL has 2,700 great DVDs of the newest movies, the classics, anime, foreign films, TV shows new and old, Britcoms, documentaries, heart-stopping action, heart-warming romance and hundreds of kid-vids. Soon you will have lots more favorites. Borrowing is free.
If you are looking for a particular movie, search our on-line catalog. If you want to browse, come in.
It's always fun around a holiday season to watch the movies made about it. This is especially true of holidays in the cooler season when you snuggle up with popcorn and your blankie and watch a good holiday movie.
Halloween has a lot of good movies to watch, especially if you like to be scared! But there are also some for different age groups and some for the family to watch together. Many of them are not so scary, just entertaining. The classic sitcom Roseanne had a love for Halloween and their episodes about it have been put on DVD. The Library has about 30 Halloween movies of all these types.
It is harder to find good movies about Thanksgiving, but there are some. We usually think about "Miracle on 34th Street" as a Christmas movie, but it begins with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, so it's pretty seasonal for that holiday too. If you've never seen "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" you have a lot of laughs coming. With Steve Martin and John Candy, the comedy is sublime. It's good enough for a rerun every year at this time. Another comedy about Thanksgiving is "Dutch" which can be appreciated by teens and adults. Charlie Brown has two Thanksgiving movies. Garfield has one. Four good Thanksgiving movies for adults are "Scent of a Woman" with a great role for Al Pacino; "Nobody's Fool" with Paul Newman, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith; "Home for the Holidays with Holly Hunter and Hannah and Her Sisters" - a great Woody Allen movie with an all-star cast.
Christmas movies - ah, there are dozens of really great ones! The library has 66! We'll talk about them here in December.
Music
The Library has a CD collection numbering over 1000 and a separate collection for teens.
From jazz to country, rock to salsa, ballads and blasts – all these kinds of music and more are in the collection. Classics and the newest releases can be found. Broadway musicals & movie soundtracks are included.
Special collections include Christmas music, ethnic/cultural music from other countries, wedding music, and classical music by composer. There are even CDs with just sounds.
Our newest CDs include:
Artist |
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Album |
Smith, Michael W. |
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Healing Rain |
Springsteen, Bruce |
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Working on a Dream |
Ma, Yo Yo |
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Songs of Joy and Peace |
Clarkson, Kelly |
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All I Ever Wanted |
Penguin Cafe Orchestra |
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Music from the Penguin Cafe |
Monheit, Jane |
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Lovers, the Dreamers, and Me |
U2 |
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No Line on the Horizon |
Original Cast Recording |
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Shrek the Musical |
Rich, John |
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Son of a Preacher Man |
Phoenix |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
Celtic Thunder |
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Celtic Thunder: The Show |
Paisley, Brad |
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American Saturday Night |
Straigt, George |
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Twang |
Dave Matthews Band |
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Big Whiskey and the Groo Gru King |
Simon, Carly |
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Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits |
Jonas Brothers |
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Lines, Vines and Trying Times |
TV on the Radio |
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Dear Science |
updated 8/20/2009
