In olden times when we watched videos at home using these strange, now antiquated, machines called "VHS players," I decided to rent this mini-series to give me something to do on a long, rainy weekend. I planned to watch it over the course of 2-3 days. Instead, I binge-watched it continuously, one episode after another, straight through until well after midnight on the first night. I could not stop watching.
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Kermit Roosevelt The Nation That Never Was : Reconstructing America's Story
Peter Shaffer Amadeus
Oscar Wilde Ever yours, Oscar : selected letters by Oscar Wilde
Hannie Rayson Extinction
A R Gurney...
Dead Space (2023) is a remake of the original 2008 video game Dead Space made by Motive Studio. It is a single player survival horror video game set in the 26th century where you play as Issac Clarke, an engineer tasked with investigating a distress signal coming from the planetary mining vessel called the USG Ishimura. The game is a cross between Event Horizon, a movie starring Sam Neil and Laurence Fishburne, in...
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Do not look for a plot in this movie – you will not find one. Do not look for excitement either. You will not find any in this quietly beautiful, slow-paced, and thoughtful film. Disregard all summaries or descriptions, you find on the DVD container (or online). I have no idea what they're talking about or if the people who wrote these even saw the movie.
Two survivors of the battlefields of the First...
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NON-FICTION
Applied Sciences
Anna Ploszajski Handmade : a scientist's search for meaning through making 620.11 P723
Bruce W. Holsinger On parchment : animals, archives, and the making of culture from Herodotus to the digital age 676 H756
Judith M. Taylor...
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Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Fic Brontë
Willie Carr Love and avocados : Buell and Lloyd adventure Fic Carr
Ann-Helén Laestadius Stolen : a novel Fic Laestadius
Pilar Quintana Abyss...
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Peng Shepherd The cartographers : a novel
Jack Parlett Fire Island : a century in the life of an American paradise
Fariha Róisín Who is wellness for? : an examination of wellness culture and who it leaves behind
David Santos Donaldson...
At the beginning of The Frisco Kid, a small Jewish community in 1850 San Francisco writes to a rabbinical school in Poland asking for a rabbi. They send Gene Wilder. Along the way he meets some of the best and worst kinds of people: thieves and liars, but also many who help him out of kindness. He needs the help of an outlaw (played by Harrison Ford) to go through...
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Penny, a graphic novel by Karl Stephens, is the whimsical story of the inner life of a humble tortoiseshell cat. Like many cats, she started life as a stray and was taken in (or kidnapped as she sees it) by two humans. Now that she has secure food and shelter, she spends her days contemplating various philosophical questions such as "Is time elastic?" and "What is the point...
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Some members were surprised to find my name in the SFGate article ‘Friendly’ seal bites San Francisco man, sends him to the hospital, wondering why I swim in the Bay and not in a pool. As a librarian, I would like to answer that question with an assemblage of works explaining why some swim in open water.
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