Summary: "The public enemy": A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. "White heat": A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn. "Angels with dirty...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment/Warner Bros. Entertainment 2016

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Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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Waisman, Robert

Summary: "A powerful memoir about a Holocaust survivor who was deemed hopeless-and the rehabilitation center that gave him and other teen boys the chance to learn how to live again"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2021

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Worley, Rob M.

Summary: The Aldens are having a delicious time helping out at a pizza parlor! They toss dough in the kitchen and even invent a new kind of pizza. But when a blackout and other problems hurt business, they begin to wonder if someone is trying to shut down the pizzeria. It's piping hot mystery for the Boxcar Children!

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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 2010

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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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

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Heilman, Robert A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1990

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Wittman, Robert K.

Summary: Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI's Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career, offring a real-life international thriller. The son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career going undercover, usually unarmed, to catch art thieves, scammers, and black market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio And Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. Wittman tells the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010

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Feinman, Jay M.

Summary: Argues that insurance companies have developed unethical practices of delaying or denying legitimate claims, sharing dozens of stories involving major insurers while counseling readers on how to make insurance buying decisions and pursue disputed claims.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2010

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Whitman, Robert S.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Protective Specialties Development Group 1995

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Summary: A newspaper publisher is convinced to sponsor an air race from London to Paris.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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Summary: 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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Covert, Julie M.

Summary: Celebrating the beauty that winter creates with ice and snow, "Art of Winter" by Julie M Covert is a pictorial essay of winter's fierce and fragile beauty on Lake Huron. It is a feast for the eyes for anyone who loves the Great Lakes, winter and the beauty of nature. Surprising plays of light and sculptures of ice are the reward for braving bone-chilling temperatures. It captures ice and water...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Whitehead Press 2012

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Seidman, Robert J.

Summary: A tale loosely based on the life of photographer Edward Muybridge is set in late nineteenth-century San Francisco and follows the efforts of an ambitious photographer whose obsessive love for emancipated young dancer Holly Hughes is challenged by a corrupt robber baron.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2012

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Summary: The complete third season of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone," featuring thirty-seven episodes aired in 1961-62.

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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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Summary: In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, a man who is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by a bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner's bored wife and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman's responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

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Summary: Forty original episodes, #372-412, of the half-hour drama that aired 1966-1971. In 1795, the beautiful and jealous witch Angelique attempts to destroy Barnabas' romance with his fiance, Josette DuPres. She enslaves Collins family servant Ben Stokes to assist her evil plans. Abigail Collins and Natalie DuPres find evidence they believe proves Victoria Winters is a witch. The family moves into...

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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012

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Summary: Tales of terror: three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The facts in the case of M....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 2007

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Robertus, Polly M.

Summary: Baxter the Basset Hound comes to the aid of some kittens when their mother disappears one afternoon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1991

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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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Golinkoff, Roberta M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999

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