Rock, Phillip
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seaview Books 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROCHook, Philip
Summary: Philip Hook takes the lid off the world of art dealing to reveal the brilliance, cunning, greed, and daring of its practitioners. In a richly anecdotal chronological narrative he describes the rise and occasional fall of the extraordinary men and women who over the centuries have made it their business to sell art to kings, merchants, nobles, entrepreneurs, and museums. From its beginnings in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Experiment 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HOOHook, Philip.
Summary: Explains how paintings and other works of art are each given a financial value, a sum based on the artist, their movement, what their life has been like, previous works, style, subject, "wall power," and provenance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 HOOContents: Disc 1. Penny reel / Lord Power & Calypso Quintet -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & his Group -- Judgment Day / Laurel Aitken with Ken Richards & his Harmonisers -- In and out the window / Monty & Roy with Drumbago's Orchestra -- Feel so fine (aka feel so good) / Derrick & Patsy with Drumbago's Band -- River bank part 1 (aka bank to bank) / Baba Brooks & his Band -- Rough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TRESummary: The first issues of nine of comics' most compelling new titles are collected in this shelf-busting compendium. Discover new horror, drama, fantasy, and science fiction by some of comics' top talent-- writers and artists who will draw readers into their worlds and hook them in a single issue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SNYSummary: "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: A gifted athlete from Fall River, Massachusetts, Chris Herren was a basketball legend before he left high school. After a troubled yet outstanding career at Fresno State, he would eventually fulfill his childhood dream of playing for the Boston Celtics, only to lose it all to a devastating addiction that nearly killed him. Award-winning director Jonathan Hock chronicles this powerful story of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNGSummary: Hank Aaron and Derek Jeter, with Kevin Costner narrating, lead a cast of baseball legends and scientists who explore the magic within the 396 milliseconds it takes a fastball to reach home plate, and decipher who threw the fastest pitch ever. --Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FASBrother Ali
Contents: Pen to paper (feat. Amir Sulaiman)-- Own light (what hearts are for) -- Special effects (feat. deM AtlaS)-- Can't take that away -- Dear black son -- We got this (feat. Sa-Rock)-- Uncle Usi taught me -- Pray for me -- It ain't easy -- Never learn -- Tremble -- Before they called you white -- The bitten apple (feat. Idris Philips) -- Out of here -- All the beauty in this whole life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BROSummary: 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 TODick, 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 DICSummary: 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICSummary: 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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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWIDick, Philip K.
Contents: Stability -- Menace react -- Roog -- The little movement -- Beyond lies the wub -- The gun -- The skull -- The defenders -- Mr. Spaceship -- Piper in the woods -- The infinites -- The preserving machine -- Expendable -- The variable man -- The indefatigable frog -- The crystal crypt -- The short happy life of the brown Oxford -- The builder -- Meddler -- Paycheck -- The great C -- Out in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICDick, 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.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 YOUContents: Allons à grand coteau (Cyndi Lauper) -- Two-step de grand mallet (Taj Mahal) -- Only the strong survive (Tom Tom Club) -- Baby please don't go (Darick Campbell ; Phillip Campbell ; Curley Taylor) -- Zydeco two-step (Nathan Williams & the Zydeco Cha-Chas) -- I'm coming home (Keith Frank ; Rosie Ledet ; Sean Ardoin ; N. Williams & the Zydeco Cha-Chas) -- Mon conné la cause (David Hidalgo) -- Mon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN CRESummary: 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