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Alpers, Jackie Davis, Jack Gumble, Albert Jack, Albert. Kerouac, Jack Wright, RobertJack, Albert.
Summary: A compendium of phrases that are used every day in the English language explores their origins and evolution, encompassing such sayings as "go with the flow," "mad as a hatter," "left in the lurch," and "getting down to brass tacks."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word JackDavis, Jack
Summary: Presents 24 classic stories from the quintessential 1950s American horror comic, Tales from the Crypt, originally made popular with post-war males by their combination of the weird and the grotesque with slapstick.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAVKerouac, Jack
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grey Fox Press; [distributed by Book People, Berkeley, Calif.] 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KERSummary: In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: When Scott Carey encounters a mysterious radioactive mist on a boating trip, he soon finds his life taking on a bizarre and frightening twist. His physical size begins to diminish as he shrinks to a mere two inches. Suddenly, ordinary household situations loom over him with lethal intensity, a playful cat becomes a demon, and a spider is a gargantuan monster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI INCWright, Robert
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Frank Music Co. 1953
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: The sole survivor of a ship pillaged by buccaneers poses as a pirate to recover the ship and its treasure and to rescue a captive princess.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1998
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BLAGumble, Albert
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1919
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: 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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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The complete third season of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone," featuring thirty-seven episodes aired in 1961-62.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: High plains drifter: When "The Stranger" rides into the sin-ridden town of Lago, bullets fly as he battles three ruthless gunmen in a pulse-pounding shoot-'em-up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLIAlpers, Jackie
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A group of addicts in a dingy apartment await the arrival of their "connection," to bring them heroin, while a documentary film maker struggles to film them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015