Summary: Collects the top six entries in a short story contest celebrating Stephen King's "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIX

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPL

Summary: Complete second season, 1960-1961, of Rod Serling's classic, groundbreaking series exploring the fantastic and frightening.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Summary: A journey in the footsteps of the enigmatic young American named Chris McCandless, who vanished and ultimately perished in the Alaskan wilderness. New interviews and never before released letters probe the mystery behind the best-selling book and movie 'Into the Wild.'

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RET

Johnson, Sarah Stewart

Summary: "A young planetary scientist intimately details the search for life on Mars, tracing our centuries-old obsession with this seemingly desolate planet. Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 JOH

Summary: An inner-city detective is investigating the murder of an elderly candy shop owner and finds odd clues along the way, while at the same time trying to find out who he has become.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOM

Summary: Frederic has led a sheltered life, despite being apprenticed to a Pirate King as a child. When he arrives in Penzance with his boisterous shipmates, there are surprises in store for him, including falling in love and some inconvenient discoveries.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2008

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA PIR

Summary: A preoccupied inventor accidentally shrinks his kids to 1/4 inch tall, and then throws them in the trash.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney DVD 2002

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HON

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HON

Summary: Clara is searching for the special key to unlock a box from her late mother. Inside that box is a priceless item that her mother left for her. During her godfather's yearly holiday party, Clara almost gets the key but it disappears. She embarks on a quest into a mysterious world which has four different realms: a snowflakes realm, flowers realm, sweets realm, and the challenging realm where the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2019

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NUT

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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD JUV NUT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Nu

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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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Summary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RAC

Stark Reality

Summary: Acting, Thinking, Feeling marks the first time that psychedelic jazz ensemble The Stark Reality's Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop album has been reissued in full (the 2003 Stones Throw Records anthology Now only contained half of the original album's music). The anthology also contains the band's out-of-print Roller Coaster Ride (first issued as 1969 on Now-Again in 2003), and a series...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Now Again 2013

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK STA

Britten, Benjamin

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O BRI

Contents: CD 1. After you've gone (4:59) -- Fascinating rhythm (4:23) -- Brazil (4:13) -- What is there to say? (5:45) -- Four (5:28) -- Wes' tune (6:06) -- My heart stood still (5:58) -- How high the moon (5:13) -- Django (5:53) -- Going down to Big Mary's (3:26) -- I should care (3:25) -- Caravan (4:51) -- Six bridges to cross (2:53) -- Ralph's new blues (7:00) --

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MON

Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAK

Summary: Join Dick and the rest of his crew as they conclude their Earth mission with more laughs and hilarious human encounters. The final season of 3rd Rock from the Sun includes Tommy's journey to college, Sally's new profession as a weather girl, Harry hangs with the Amish and The Big Giant Head issues a shocking final order.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD 3RD

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THI

Summary: Four extra-terrestrials suddenly materialize in the college town of Rutherford, Ohio. Disguised as humans, they name themselves the Solomons. On the surface, this family functions as normal as possible, but underneath they are out of sync with every person on the planet. Their mission from The Big Giant Head is to study this confusing planet and its confounding inhabitants while trying to gain...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD 3RD

Summary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOL

Summary: A group of aliens comes to Earth to learn about its population, customs, etc. To avoid detection, they take on human form which gives them human emotions and physical needs without understanding what they mean. Includes all 20 episodes from season 1.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THI

Summary: The Solomon's mission to investigate human behavior continues in the hysterical fifth season of 3rd Rock from the Sun. They are a group of aliens who turn everyday events into out if this world hilarity. Experience the unusual happening of the gang as they share the joys of childbirth, attend an in interactive murder mystery, recover from car crashes all while trying to learn about Earth...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD 3RD

Summary: There are battles with alien hunters and IRS audits, plus new loves, family reunions, gender reassignment and more, all in the unforgettable year that fans call one of the funniest ever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Mill Creek Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD 3RD

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THI