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1) Easy rider
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
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
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In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on "Special K," a new designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally-notorious Limelight, a decrepit church converted into a Manhattan disco, where pulse-pounding music, gender-bending dancers, and uninhibited sideshows attracted long lines of hopeful onlookers. Clubland is the story of Owen's six-year journey behind the velvet...
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Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Forty-eight hours to find her passion. Seven days to find his way back on stage. One chance to take a risk on love. If Fran doesn’t nail this audition for a major TV role, she’s officially done as an actress. She just needs to tap into her inner seductress… who doesn’t seem to exist. Enter stage right: Jae-seung . To Fran, he’s just her landlord’s ridiculously hot nephew, helping her rehearse. To the rest of the world, Jae-seung is lead...
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Language
English
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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.
9) Beetlejuice
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
After Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peaceful 'existence' is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetz's, buy their house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their efforts to scare the Deetz's away are unsuccessful. They decide to call to Beetlejuice, a people-exorcizing ghost, for help.
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A gimlet-eyed and often hilarious account of the author s round-the-world reefer safari ... A surprisingly clear-headed view of potheads worldwide ( The New Yorker ). In Pot Planet , journalist Brian Preston sets out on a global ganja safari to explore strange new cannabis cultures, to seek out new growers, activists, and other reefer revolutionaries ... and to boldly get baked with each of them. Preston s journeys take him across every strata of...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"THEN: Sunny Lee is on the top of the world. She's one third of Sweet Cadence, the hottest up-and-coming teen pop group, alongside her new BFFs, Candie and Mina. The three are inseparable as they ride their way to the top of the charts, even as Candie and Sunny fight to resist the growing spark between them. But when a shocking scandal breaks, the group is suddenly torn apart. Then the unthinkable - Mina dies tragically right before Sunny and Candie's...
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Language
English
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From assassinations to student riots, this is "a splendidly evocative account of a historic year -- a year of tumult, of trauma, and of tragedy" (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.). In the United States, the 1960s were a period of unprecedented change and upheaval -- but the year 1968 in particular stands out as a dramatic turning point. Americans witnessed the Tet offensive in Vietnam; the shocking assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy;...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
13 Elements you will find in the first Emily the Strange novel: 1. Mystery 2. A beautiful golem 3. Souped-up slingshots 4. Four black cats 5. Amnesia 6. Calamity Poker 7. Angry ponies 8. A shady truant officer 9. Top-13 lists 10. A sandstorm generator 11. Doppelgängers 12. A secret mission 13. Earwigs Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or...
15) Educated
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Language
English
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Description
For readers of The Glass Castle and Wild, a stunning new memoir about family, loss and the struggle for a better future
#1 International Bestseller
Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging
...16) The village: 400 years of beats and bohemians, radicals and rogues : a history of Greenwich Village
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history and people of Greenwich Village in New York City from the 1600s to contemporary times, emphasizing its culture of tolerance, freedom, creativity, and activism.
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