Thavis, John.

Summary: Presents a behind-the-scenes perspective on the Vatican's inner workings that challenges popular perceptions, revealing the personal conflicts, authority-undermining scandals, and modern considerations that are challenging the Vatican's daily business.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013

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Summary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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Contents: Jazz Fest: the first 50 years / by Keith Spera -- Heritage, craft, and culture / by Rachel Lyons -- Quint Davis and Jazz Fest / by Karen Celestan -- Food fête / by Rachel Lyons -- The music and musicians of the New Orleans Jazz Festival / by Robert H. Cataliotti -- Off the stage, around the grounds / by Rachel Lyons.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Eimer, David

Summary: Lonely Planet's Thailand is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Cook authentic dishes in Chiang Mai; rock-climb Railay's limestone karsts (or watch from the sugar-white beaches); or stay in tree-top bungalows in Kanchanaburi; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Thailand and begin your...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global 2021

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Summary: Predator: Recruited by the CIA to rescue hostages held by guerrilla fighters in a Central American country, Schwarzenegger and his men encounter an enemy more deadly than any on earth--because the Predator is not of this earth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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Contents: Yankee Doodle Dandy / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; screen play by, Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph ; original story by, Robert Buckner ; lyrics and music by, George M. Cohan ; directed by, Michael Curtiz -- This is the Army / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents ; screen play by, Casey Robinson and Claude Binyon ; music and lyrics by, Irving Berlin ; produced by, Jack L. Warner and Hal...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014

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Davis, Jon

Summary: Small Blue is afraid that all sorts of frightening things are lurking in the dark, but as Big Brown takes her through a dark house to warm some milk, he suggests preposterous alternatives.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: Presents more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent. This collection opens the window on Julia's deepest thoughts and feelings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub. Co. 2010

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Contents: Darlin' Corey (Bruce Hornsby) (5:13) -- Cry, cry darlin' / JD Miller ; Jimmy Newman (Dolly Parton) (2:51) -- Heavy traffic ahead (Steve Wariner) (3:12) -- Close by / Bill Monroe ; Robert Van Winkle (Patty Loveless) (3:15) -- Blue moon of Kentucky (John Fogerty) (3:39) -- Used to be (The Whites) (2:50) -- Walk softly on my heart / Jake Landers ; Bill Monroe (The Dixie Chicks & Ricky Skaggs)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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Summary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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Summary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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Contents: Rosa, tomorrow is not Sunday (Dennis McGee) (2:33) -- Hack a 'tit Moreau (Bonsoir, Moreau) (Bois-Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot) (3:41) -- KLFY waltz (Aldus Roger) (2:42) -- Zydeco sont pas salé (Clifton Chenier) (3:13) -- La valse du Grand Chemin (Felix Richard) (3:24) -- Paper in my shoe = Papier dans mon soulier (Boozoo Chavis) (3:08) -- Madeleine (Zachary Richard) (3:17) -- La misère m'a...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1992

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Summary: Aliens abduct all adults; genius Jimmy and his friends build an interstellar spacefleet and rescue them, and get home in time for dinner.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002

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Summary: George Foreman makes a name for himself by channeling his childhood anger in the boxing ring, but when he has a near-death experience, he gives it all up to become a preacher.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Contents: Hide and seek / Winley, Byrd (5:23) -- T.V. momma / Lou Willie Turner (6:24) -- Corrine, Corrina / Williams, Chatman, Parrish (3:28) -- Cherry red / Turner, Johnson (4:32) -- Shake, rattle and roll / Charles Calhoun (3:39) -- Since I fell for you / Budedy Johnson (4:36) -- Flip, flop & fly / Calhoun, Turner (4:28) -- Everyday I have the blues / Peter Chatman (6:15) -- Good morning blues /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1989

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Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Balancing suspense and satire as deftly as the scale of justice, Horace Rumpole tirelessly defends the downtrodden while undressing the upper classes. This 7-DVD pack contains all episodes of seasons 1-4.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2010

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Summary: Heidi: Based on the classic, Shirley stars as an adorable orphan who transforms her gruff grandfather in the Alps into a loving man.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011

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Summary: "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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: "In these stories, lesser-known Christie heroes and heroines solve crimes of the heart as well as puzzling cases of larceny and murder. With just the right mix of danger and deception, romance and revenge, innocence and intrigue, these classic adaptations are Christie at her best"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010

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Summary: Even among cinema's greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Bunũel, Vigo's films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011

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Summary: Young & innocent: Robert is the estranged husband of a beautiful actress with a bad reputation. When he discovers her lifeless body on the beach, he is mistaken for the murderer and soon finds himself on the run, learning that the murder makes for very strange bedfellows.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BCI Eclipse 2007

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