Summary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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Summary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. During the early days of the agency's criminal profiling unit, FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier met with the incarcerated Ted Bundy in the hopes of understanding the psychology of the serial killer and providing closure for the victim's families....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: A musical biography portrayal concerning the life and music of composer, Jerome Kern. Incorporates excerpts from several of his popular musicals including Showboat.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Diamond Entertainment 2001

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Wolke, Robert L.

Summary: An exploration of the science of everyday food preparation challenges popular misconceptions, offering information about the chemical nature of foods and how such knowledge can enable better food and cooking choices.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2005

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Summary: "Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

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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"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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Summary: Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does Milly discover that Adam has six other brothers all living with him in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading a story, Adam develops an idea that will...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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Summary: "Sunset Story is a funny and intimate documentary that will make you think differently about growing old. It tells the story of Irja (81) and Lucille (95), two friends at a rest home for retired radicals. As they attend demonstrations, register their fellow residents to vote and debate everything under the sun, Irja and Lucille's verve and humor delight us. Sunset Story doesn't shy away from...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Capital Entertainment 2005

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Hubert

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Comics Lit 2009

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Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Olasky, Marvin N.

Summary: "A history of the practice of abortion in America, based on the stories of the people involved"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crossway 2023

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Halbert, Frederic

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 1978

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Aubert, Rosemary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bridge Works Pub. 1999

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Talbert, Tom

Contents: Clothes line ballet (Waller) -- In a mist (Beiderbecke) -- Bond Street (Waller) -- Prelude to a kiss (Ellington) -- Green night & orange bright (Talbert) -- Black and blue (Waller/Razaf/Brooks) -- Candlelights (Beiderbecke) -- Keepin' out of mischief now (Waller/Razaf) -- In the dark (Beiderbecke) -- Do nothin' till you hear from me & Ko-Ko (Ellington/Russell).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Concepts 1993

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Alburt, Lev.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 1997

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Molsky, Bruce.

Contents: Sugar babe (2:40) -- Five miles out of town (2:48) -- Pretty Saro (3:37) -- Half past four (2:51) -- Wagoner's lad (3:41) -- Shove the pig's foot a little bit further into the fire (3:21) -- John Henry (3:19) -- Rocky Mountain (3:29) -- Paddy won't you drink some good old cider (2:58) -- Robert's serenade (2:51) -- Old Paint (4:51) -- We'll all go to heaven when the devil goes blind (3:05) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997

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Alberts, Laurie.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of New England 1996

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Walbert, Kate

Summary: "In Sunken Cathedral, Kate Walbert tells the stories of four women living in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, more or less now. Two, Marie and Simone, friends for decades, are widows in their seventies, yet robust, engaged, appetiteful, even ready to find love again. They were immigrants, survivors of World War II in Europe, and now are living alone in the houses where they raised their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015

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Little, Elbert L. (Elbert Luther)

Summary: An identification guide to trees of western North America, with 855 color photographs, three identification keys, and detailed descriptive information.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1980

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Summary: The life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. The intrigue unfolds through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm Entertainment Corp. 2018

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