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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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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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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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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Michael Kandel started out in his career translating the science fiction books of Stanislaw Lem into English. Having read both authors, Kandel's absurdist sense of humor must have helped him bring Lem's works into English. In Captain Jack Zodiac, Kandel creates a hilarious dystopian future world similar to ours in which an everyman sets out to fi...
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This past June, Jimmy de Guzman joined Mechanics’ Institute as our Communications Manager. He hopes to lend his experience and expertise towards helping redefine the Institute’s role as a locus and focus of knowledge building and skill development in San Francisco, the Bay Area, and beyond.
We asked Jimmy a few questions to help introduce him to the Mechanics' Institute community:...
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