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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Ronson investigates the strange things we are willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with the personalities of our loved ones to indigo children to hyper successful spiritual healers. He looks at ordinary lives that take on extraordinary perspectives, for instance a pop singer whose greatest passion is the coming alien invasion, and the scientist designated to greet those aliens when they arrive. Ronson throws himself into the stories....
2) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Two young men on a motorcycle trip to New Orleans encounter hippies, drugs, rednecks and prostitutes along the way.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
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English
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"After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself asking: OK, so what else is out there? Over the ensuing decades, he found his way to the answer: a lot. From his current vantage point as a successful stand-up comic, Kasher looks back on his years careening from subculture to subculture, and he immerses readers in the hilariously strange nuances of each of the scenes he's...
Author
Publisher
D.A.P
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Description
"As disco grew from an underground secret to a billion-dollar industry, Aletti was there to document it, and The Disco Files is his personal memoir of those days, containing everything he wrote on the subject (most of it between 1974 and1978) augmented with photography by Peter Hujar and Toby Old. This book is the definitive and essential chronicle of disco, true from-the-trenches reporting that details, week by week, the evolution of the clubs, the...
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English
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Instead of going to prom, seventeen-year-old Elena Soo wants to spend her time saving the local community center, and she is determined to keep her priorities straight even when her childhood best friend--who is now a K-pop superstar--returns to make goodon their old pact to go to prom together.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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When the daughter of a cult horror film director is found dead in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse, investigative journalist Scott McGrath, disbelieving the official suicide ruling, probes into the strange circumstances of the young woman's death.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First editon.
Language
English
Description
A cutthroat K-pop competition leads to a dark obsession in this twisty horror-romance, perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting "A perfect blend of folk horror and dazzling showbiz that will grip you from page one." ?Trang Thanh Tran, New York Times-bestselling author of She is a Haunting "The sweetest spot between horror and romance." ?Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of These Violent Delights You’ll love them to death . . . THEN:...
10) Tangerine
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles.
11) Easy rider
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Special ed. 30th anniversary.
Language
English
Description
Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the "real" America. And find it.
12) The village: 400 years of Beats and bohemians, radicals and rogues : a history of Greenwich Village
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
From its origins as a frontier of New Amsterdam in the 1600s to its current status as an affluent community and tourist magnet, reveals how Greenwich Village became the pinnacle of culture, politics, and social movements in America.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Davis and Emily Delgado seem to have little in common except Ms. Diaz's English class and the solace they find in the words of Emily Dickinson, but both are struggling with to cope with monumental secrets and tumultuous emotions that will lead one to attempt suicide.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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The Gothic has taken a revolutionary turn in this century. Today{u2019}s Gothic has fashioned its monsters and devils into heroes and angels and is actively reviving supernaturalism in popular culture. Nelson argues that this mainstreaming of a spiritually driven supernaturalism is a harbinger of what a post-Christian religion in America might look like.
15) Skim
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Language
English
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"Skim" (Kimberly Keiko Cameron) is a not-slim would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school. When her classmate Katie is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. The popular clique stars a club to boost school spirit, but Skim sinks into an ever-deepening depression.
16) Quadrophenia
Series
Criterion collection volume 624
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Director-approved special edition ; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division. Jimmy, an angry British youth trying to find himself, and his like-minded rowdy "Mod" friends invade a seaside resort town and become involved in violent street fighting.
17) Una educación
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
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"Westover ha escrito una historia extraordinaria--su propia historia--una formidable epopeya, desgarradora e inspiradora, sobre la posibilidad de ver la vida a través de otros ojos, y de cambiar"--
A "memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University"--
20) Beastly
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Blu-ray version.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kyle (Alex Pettyfer) is the spoiled, shallow and incredibly popular prince of his high school kingdom. Kyle foolishly chooses Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen), a witch masquerading as a high school student, as his latest target for humiliation. In order to teach Kyle a lesson, Kendra transforms him into someone as unattractive on the outside as he is on the inside. Now he has one year to find someone to love him, or he will remain Beastly...
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