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Contents: December 1963: the nation responds -- January 1964: distrust of the FBI grows -- February 1964: the search for evidence begins -- March 1964: our investigation expands -- April 1964: Mexico and the Cuban connection -- May 1964: critical decisions -- June1964: crucial witnesses -- July / August 1964: a tale of tragic truth -- September 1964: the last debates -- Aftermath.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 WILSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUWillett, Edward
Summary: The metal City towers at the center of the mountain-ringed Heartland, standing astride the deep chasm of the Canyon like a malevolent giant, ruled with an iron fist by the First Officer and his Provosts in the name of the semi-mythical Captain. Within its corroding walls lies a stratified society, where the Officers dwell in luxury on the Twelfth Tier while the poor struggle to survive on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: An urban epic set in Baltimore, where police detectives investigate cases involving the illegal drug trade, the seaport system, the city government and its bureaucracy, the school system, and the print news media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2010
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIRSummary: Documentary filmmaker Ed Pincus, with the help of friend and fellow-filmmaker Lucia Small, chronicles his final days as he succumbs to myelodysplastic syndrome (MLS).
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONEP Howard P Weston
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Music 1951
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARChudacoff, Howard P.
Contents: Introduction -- Childhood and play in colonial America, 1600-1800 -- The attempt to domesticate children and play, 1800-1850 -- The stuff of childhood, 1850-1900 -- The invasion of children's play culture, 1900-1950 -- The golden age of unstructured play, 1900-1950 -- The commercialization of co-optation of children's play, 1950 to the present -- Children's play goes underground, 1950 to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2310 CHUSummary: Herbert West is obsessed with the idea of bringing the dead back to life. Experimenting with a glowing green fluid, he successfully reanimates dead tissue. However, the dead are uncontrollable and difficult to subdue once they are revived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elite Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR H.P.Summary: A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BROP Johnson J Howard
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Publisher / Publication Date: M.Witmark 1917
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: When scientists create a 'resonator' to stimulate the pineal gland, which controls the sixth sense, it opens the doors to a parallel and hostile universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FROSummary: One hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ready for the taking. It's too much to resist for Earl Slater, a bigoted ex-con slumming through life with a patronizing girlfriend, an obliging neighbor and zero expectations. He agrees to be part of a bank job planned by former cop Burke. Until, that is, he finds out one of his partners will be a black man. Earl's desperate need for cash, however, leads...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2003
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ODDSummary: Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPASummary: Katniss realizes the stakes are no longer just for survival; they are for the future. With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends; including Gale, Finnick and Peeta; Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to liberate the citizens of Panem, and stage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI HUNHobart, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bureau of History, Dept. of State 1991
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Summary: Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and envisioning instead mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. Love craft's preeminent interpreter S. T. Joshi presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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Summary: Explore the marvelous complexity of Lovecraft's writing—including his use of literary allusions, biographical details, and obscure references in this rich, in-depth exploration of great horror fiction from the acknowledged master of the weird, including the stories "Herbert West—Reanimator", "Pickman's Model", "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Thing on the Doorstep", "The Horror at Red Hook" and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVSummary: 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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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OLovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
Summary: "H. P. Lovecraft is one of America's giants of the horror genre. Now, in this second volume of annotated tales, Lovecraft scholars S. T. Joshi and Peter Cannon provide another rare opportunity to look into the mind of a genius. Their extensive notes lift the veil between real events in the writer's life - such as the death of his father - and the words that spill out onto the page in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Dell Trade Paperback 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVLovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
Summary: "This volume brings together 22 tales, the very best of [Lovecraft's] fiction"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVLovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
Summary: "Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection ofclassic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro's favorites, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ray...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVKohn, Edward P. (Edward Parliament)
Summary: "Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president-a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his hometown of New York that made him the progressive president we celebrate today. During his early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE KOHKohn, Edward P. (Edward Parliament)
Summary: The 1896 New York heat wave that killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and the upstart Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who arrived in New York City at the height of the catastrophe. As historian Edward P. Kohn shows, Bryan's hopes for the presidency began to flag amidst the abhorrent heat just as a bright...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010