Summary: These rare pieces are taken from Bob Hite's fabulous collection of 78rpm records. A historical collection that helped, in its own way, save from oblivion the rural bluesmen who have dropped out of the scene decades ago and made possible their reintegration to history.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sub Rosa

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Summary: The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris. Find yourself transported by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic, and beautiful stories.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007

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Summary: "In this second volume of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, R. A. Lafferty's quirky and utterly original Past Master, an unjustly neglected classic, imagines Sir Thomas More transported to the colony Astrobe in the year 2535, where he is made president of a future Utopia. In Picnic on Paradise, Joanna Russ presents her indelible heroine,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019

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Rufus, Rob

Summary: "The teenage children of a convicted serial killer try to prove his innocence when a true-crime podcast reinvigorates interest in the case. Their fate intersects with cults, killers, cops, and convicts on the backroads of West Virginia in one brutal, unforgettable crash"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing 2021

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Wainwright, Rufus

Contents: Do I disappoint you (4:40) -- Going to a town (4:06) -- Tiergarten (3:26) -- Nobody's off the hook (4:27) -- Between my legs (4:26) -- Rules & regulations (4:05) -- I'm not ready to love (5:51) -- Slideshow (6:21) -- Tulsa (2:20) -- Leaving for Paris no.2 (4:52) -- Sanssouci (5:16) -- Release the stars (5:20).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen 2007

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Thomas, Rufus

Contents: Do the funky chicken (3:18) -- Let the good times roll (3:39) -- Sixty minute man (7:18) -- Lookin' for a love (3:49) -- Bear cat (aka Hound dog) (2:57) -- Old McDonald had a farm (part 1) (3:44) -- Old McDonald had a farm (part 2) (2:47) -- Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown (2:42) -- Soul food (4:31) -- Turn your damper down (2:54) -- The preacher and the bear (3:56) -- bonus tracks: Funky...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Stax Remasters 2011

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Wainwright, Rufus

Contents: Sonnet 43 (recitation: Siân Phillips) -- When most I wink (Sonnet 43) (vocals: Anna Prohaska) -- Take all my loves (Sonnet 40) (vocals: Rufus Wainwright, recitation, Marius De Vries) -- Sonnet 20 (recitation: Frally Hynes) -- A woman's face (Sonnet 20) ; For shame (Sonnet 10) (vocals: Anna Prohaska) -- Sonnet 10 (recitation: Peter Eyre) -- Unperfect actor (Sonnet 23) (recitation: Helena Bonham...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: This is an unashamedly opinionated film. In Gore Vidal's America, the political coup has already happened. The right have triumphed and the human values of the liberals have been consigned to history. But how did this happen and who organized it? In this film Gore Vidal's acerbic, opinionated and informed approach rips away at the facade of the new America. The film dramatizes Gore's political...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Bullfrog Films 2014

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Thomas, Rufus

Contents: Funkiest man alive -- Give me the green light -- Itch and scratch -- Turn your damper down -- Funky hot grits -- I'm getting better -- Sophisticated sissy -- Funky Mississippi -- Git on up and do it -- Breakdown -- Do the push and pull -- Do the funky penguin -- Do the double bump -- Funky robot -- Memphis train -- Let the good times roll -- Funky bird -- Rock me back aka rock back.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Stax Records 2003

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Thomas, Rufus

Contents: The dog -- Mashed potatoes -- Ooh-poo-pah-doo -- You said -- Boom boom -- It's aw 'rite -- Walking the dog -- Ya ya -- Land of 1,000 dances -- Can your monkey do the dog -- Cause I love you -- I want to be loved.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Stax 1963

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Wainwright, Rufus

Contents: Foolish love -- Danny Boy -- April fools -- In my arms -- Millbrook -- Baby -- Beauty mark -- Barcelona -- Matinee idol -- Damned ladies -- Sally Ann -- Imaginary love.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Records 1998

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Gore Gore Girls

Contents: Astral man -- Automatic love -- I don't think so -- Up all night -- Shotgun wedding -- Keep your hands off my baby -- Hot rod breakdown -- Cross county lines -- Standing on the corner -- Atlanta -- Your last chance -- Tell me (I'm your true love).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Get Hip Recordings 2002

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Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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Summary: A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany. This unpredictable journey careers from slapstick to tragedy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Gore, Albert

Summary: With this book, the author, former Vice President Al Gore brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness - and with humor, too - that the fact of global warming is not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 2006

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Gore, Kristin

Summary: A funny and moving debut novel about life on Capitol Hill as seen through the eyes of Samantha Joyce, a twenty-six year old health care analyst to Ohio Junior Senator Robert Gary. Hard working, idealistic, extremely competent as well as neurotic and prone to daydreaming, Sammy, as she's known to her friends, has little time for anything, much less a relationship. But in the midst of lobbying...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004

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Gore, Kristin

Summary: In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Jiminy Davis abruptly quits law school and flees Chicago for her grandmother Willa's farm in rural Mississippi. In search of peace and quiet, Jiminy instead stumbles upon more trouble and turmoil than she could have imagined. She is shocked to discover that there was once another Jiminy -- the daughter of her grandmother's longtime housekeeper, Lyn -- who...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011

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Vidal, Gore

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2003

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Vidal, Gore

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1993

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Phillips, Rufus.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2008

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Reid, Rufus.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1990

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