Rock, Phillip
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seaview Books 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROCSummary: "In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEYSummary: What if Germany had won the war? This story explores an alternative timeline in which the United Kingdom is occupied by Nazi Germany, during the Second World War. Based on the novel by acclaimed spy novelist Len Deighton, this exciting mini-series follows detective Douglas Archer as he investigates a murder that draws him in to a web of political intrigue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: German intelligence agent Gunther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his final starring role) must race against time to solve a perilous mystery: Is the half-Chechen, half-Russian Muslim who's surfaced in Hamburg a victim seeking refuge, or a terrorist seeking revenge?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOSDick, Philip K.
Summary: Set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. Based on the experiences of the author, Philip K. Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TO NOT RATEDDick, Philip K.
Summary: Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICDick, Philip K.
Summary: VALIS is a disorienting and bleakly funny novel about a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip Dick); the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICDick, Philip K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICDick, Philip K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Alone on a desolate highway, two homebound teens are nearly run off the road by a dementd tailgater. Later they spot this maniac disposing a body down into a sewer pipe. When they stop to investigate, they realize the horrible mistake they have made. The unspeakable evil maniac now intends to make them his next victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JEEDick, Philip K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Dick, Philip K.
Contents: Minority report -- Imposter -- Second variety -- War game -- What the dead men say -- Oh, to be a Blobel! -- The electric ant - Faith of our fathers -- We can remember it for you wholesale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gollancz 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Meggitt-Phillips, Jack
Summary: The beast, who tried to eat Bethany twice and controlled Ebenezer Tweezer for years, is declared no longer dangerous and delivered back to Ebenezer and Bethany's house, but the beast's newfound manners may not be as polished as everyone thought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MEGMeggitt-Phillips, Jack
Summary: Handsome Ebenezer Tweezer has lived comfortably for nearly 512 years by feeding the magical beast in his mansion's attic whatever it wants, but when the beast demands a child, they are not prepared for Bethany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Young Guns : The year is 1878, Lincoln County. John Tunstall, a British ranchowner, hires six rebellious boys as "regulators" to protect his ranch against the ruthless Santa Fe Ring. When Tunstall is killed in an ambush, the Regulators, declare war on the Ring. As their vendetta turns into a bloody rampage, they are branded outlaws, becoming the objects of the largest manhunt in Western history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN YOUSummary: A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICDick, Philip K.
Summary: The third and final volume of an overview of the author's work features novels written during his later years, including "A Maze of Death" and "The Divine Invasion," when the themes of religious revelation became predominant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICMeggitt-Phillips, Jack
Summary: Notorious prankster Bethany, along with her new feathered friend Claudette, is determined that she and Ebenezer are going to de-beast their lives, but neither of them are sure what "good people" do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022