This month is an ideal opportunity to highlight some of the spookier, creepier, and scary but also funny movies in our collection. This list is by no means an exhaustive one, and the categories overlap and blend, but these are some select titles you may or may not be interested in watching to get in the Halloween spirit. Boo-careful, or make sure to watch with a friend!
Creature Features
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Bloody Business: An anecdotal history of Scotland Yard by H. Paul Jeffers. 363.2 J45
Fans of true crime and historical trivia will love this book. Why are British uniformed police called "Bobbies?" Why do the police at Scotland Yard call the main entrance "the back way?" Why is the elite department that deals with terrorism and...
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Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the eighth dimension
A friend who watched “Buckaroo Banzai” with me in the theater the week of its release in the Summer of 1984 described it as "the most sublimely ridiculous movie ever made." Many years later and after this movie has gained a cult following and we still hear it mentione...
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PRINT BOOKS
FICTION
Khālid Khalīfah No one prayed over their graves Fic Khalifa
Trang Thanh Tran She is a haunting Fic Tran
Elizabeth Castellano Save what's left Fic Castellano
Rikki Ducornet The plo...
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NON-FICTION
Applied Sciences
Sinclair McKay The hidden history of code-breaking : the secret world of cyphers, uncrackable codes, and elusive encryptions 652.8 M153h
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Preston Gannaway Remember me 779.2 G198
Biography...
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In the 70s, Hollywood started to produce a different kind of Western, one that attempted to show a more historically authentic picture of people and events on the American frontier. An outgrowth of the social and political changes of the 1960s, these movies sharply departed from the older cliches of "good guys in white hats" or the Native peoples depicted as either mindlessly violent or "properly" subservient and, of...
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EBOOKS
Mark Onspaugh The faceless one
Gillian Adler Alle thyng hath tyme : time and medieval life
Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen : complete works
E-AUDIOBOOKS
Lis Harris In Jerusalem : three generations of an Israeli family and a Palestinian family
Peter Jan Honigsberg A place outside the law : forgotten voices from Guantánamo
Linda Castillo Blood moon : a Kate Burkholder short mystery
Juan Gabriel Vásquez...
Each day you visit our library, you will see displays highlighting books, DVDs, and audio collections on different timely topics or relating to certain events. We have displays for the new books, staff recommendations, themes for the month, or entertaining subjects favored by our members. In this post, we highlight an entire collection - LARGE PRINT (LP)!
We relocated this collection to the first stack of books on the 2nd fl, facing the water dispenser. The first section you...
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The imagery of chess revisited. 794.1 I314
In 1954-55, The Julien Levy Gallery in New York City held an exhibition of chess-themed art by the most notable surrealists and Dada artists of the time, as well as many others who became famous artists lat...
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