In Memoriam

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Notable Passing

Peter O'Toole (1932)
Nelson Mandela (1918) · Paul Walker (1973) · Sylvia Browne (1936)
Barbara Park (1947) · Lou Reed (1942) · Tom Clancy (1947)
A.C. Crispin (1950) · Karen Black (1939) · Elmore Leonard (1925)
Kidd Kraddick (1959) · Michael Ansara (1922) · JJ Cale (1938)
Dennis Farina (1944) · Cory Monteith (1982) · Jean Flynn (1934)
Richard Matheson (1926) · Jim Kelly (1946) · Vince Flynn (1966)
James Gandolfini (1961) · Esther Williams (1921)· Iain Banks (1954)
Jack Vance (1916) · Bernard Waber (1924) · Joyce Brothers (1928)
Billie Sol Estes (1925) · Ray Harryhausen (1920) · Jeanne Cooper (1928)
Pat Summerall (1930) · Jonathan Winters (1925) · Conrad Bain (1923)
Rogert Ebert (1942) · Bonnie Franklin (1944) · Annette Funicello (1942)
Jane Hensen (1934) · James Herbert (1943) · Ed Koch (1924)
C. Everett Koop (1916) · Pauline Phillips (1918) · Margaret Thatcher (1925)

Books

Split Images by Elmore Leonard
ISBN: 9780062122513
Publication Date: 2012-01-17
When a Detroit homicide cop takes a vacation, he looks for some place far away from murder and mayhem. But when Bryan Hurd lands in Palm Beach, he finds that a gun-collecting millionaire and a bitter ex-cop have already brought Motown murder to the Sunshine State.
Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013 by Roger Ebert
Call Number: EBERT 2013, 791.4375
Publication Date: 2012-12-04
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Call Number: FICTION BANKS
Publication Date: 1998-09-10
Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.
The Last Man by Vince Flynn
Call Number: FICTION FLYNN
Publication Date: 2012-11-13
When a CIA black ops master with ties to disreputable figures in Afghanistan goes missing, Mitch Rapp is ordered to track down the missing man at all costs and finds himself enmeshed in a dangerous plot involving the interests of numerous countries.
He Is Legend by Christopher Conlon (Editor)
Call Number: FICTION HE
Publication Date: 2010-09-14
Collection of short stories set in Matheson's strange, scary yet realistic world.
The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert
Call Number: FICTION HERBERT
Publication Date: 2011-07-19
Would you stay in a haunted house for more than one night? Would you live in a place where ghostly things keep happening? Where a cellar door you know you locked the night before is always open the following morning? Where hushed whimpering is heard? Where white shadows steal through the darkness? Where the presence of evil is all around you? Would you? Should you? The Caleighs did, but they had their reasons. They should have known better though. As the terror mounts, they begin to regret their decision. As the horror rises, they realize their very lives are at risk....and so is their sanity. For the secret of Crickley Hall is beyond all nightmares.
Once... by James Herbert; James Herbert
Call Number: FICTION HERBERT
Publication Date: 2002-04-20
Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson
Call Number: FICTION MATHESON
ISBN: 0312868863
Publication Date: 1998-10-15
What dreams may come by Richard Matheson
Call Number: FICTION MATHESON
Publication Date: 1978
Texas Women Who Dared to Be First by Jean Flynn
Call Number: JUVENILE 920.72 FLYNN
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Profiles notable women in Texas who challenged the structure of society to succeed in a male-dominated world, including Christia V. Daniels Adair, Mary Austin Holley, and Judith Zaffirini.
Annie Oakley by Jean Flynn
Call Number: JUVENILE BIOGRAPHY OAKLEY
Publication Date: 1998-05-01
Recounts the life of the markswoman and performer who achieved fame with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Call Number: PBRACK FICTION MATHESON
Publication Date: 2007-10-30
A lone human survivor in a world that is overrun by vampires, Robert Neville leads a desperate life in which he must barricade himself in his home every night and hunt down the starving undead by day.
Steel by Richard Matheson
Call Number: SCIENCE FICTION MATHESON
Publication Date: 2011-09-27
Imagine a future in which the sport of boxing has gone high-tech. Human boxers have been replaced by massive humanoid robots. And former champions of flesh-and-blood are obsolete . . . . Richard Matheson’s classic short story is now the basis for Real Steel, a gritty, white-knuckle film starring Hugh Jackman. But “Steel,” which was previously filmed as a powerful episode of the original Twilight Zone television series, is just one of over a dozen unforgettable tales in this outstanding collection, which includes two new stories that have never appeared in any previous Matheson collection. Also featured is a bizarre satirical fantasy, “The Splendid Source,” that was turned into an episode of The Family Guy. Richard Matheson was recently inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Steel demonstrates once again the full range of his legendary imagination.
Billie Sol : king of Texas wheeler-dealers by Pam Estes
Call Number: 364.092 ESTES
Publication Date: 1983
Billie Sol Estes biography, written by his daughter, Pam Estes.
Koop by C. Everett Koop
Call Number: 610.92 KOOP BIOGRAPHY
Publication Date: 1991-09-03
Ray Harryhausen by Ray Harryhausen; Tony Dalton; Ray Bradbury (Foreword by)
Call Number: 778.5345 HARRYHAUSEN BIOGRAPHY
Publication Date: 2004-04-01
Covers Harryhausen's film career and the how to of the stop-motion animation and special effects in the movies.
The Sopranos by Brett Martin; HBO Staff
Call Number: 791.4572 MARTIN
Publication Date: 2007-05-15
Seriously Funny by Gerald Nachman
Call Number: 792.7028 NACHMAN
Publication Date: 2003-04-15
Includes The wild child: Jonathan Winters
There Is No Alternative by Claire Berlinski
Call Number: 941.0858 BERLINSKI
Publication Date: 2010-08-24
The Iron Lady by John Campbell; David Freeman (Abridged by)
Call Number: 941.0858 THATCHER BIOGRAPHY
Publication Date: 2011-10-25
The story of Margaret Thatcher.
A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes by Annette Funicello; Patricia Romanowski
Call Number: 782.42164 FUNICELLO
Publication Date: 1994-05-03
Transformer by Victor Bockris
Call Number: 782.42166 REED BIOGRAPHY
Publication Date: 1995-08-01
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side by Chirs Roberts; Lou Reed (Other Primary Creator)
Call Number: 782.42166 REED BIOGRAPHY
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
Life Itself by Roger Ebert
Call Number: 791.43092 EBERT BIOGRAPHY 2011
Publication Date: 2011-09-13
The film critic best known for his "Chicago Sun-Times" reviews and his thirty years as co-host of "Siskel & Ebert at the Movies" describes his life and career, including his recovery from alcoholism and the complications from thyroid cancer treatment.
Not Young, Still Restless by Jeanne Cooper
Call Number: 791.45028 COOPER BIOGRAPHY 2012
Publication Date: 2012-07-31
A memoir exploring the steps and missteps of the eight-decade career of the American actress best known for her portrayal of Katherine Chancellor on the daytime soap opera "The Young and the Restless."
Giants by Pat Summerall; Michael Levin (As told to)
Call Number: 796.33264 SUMMERALL 2010
Publication Date: 2010-11-01
Summerall takes you back to the days when most professional football games were played in baseball stadiums to meet Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry before their names were synonymous with winning-- in fact, before most fans had ever even heard of them.

In Memoriam Downloadables

52 Pickup by Elmore Leonard
ISBN: 0060547820
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell has had only one affair during his 22-year marriage. Unfortunately, someone caught the indiscretion on film and wants $100,000 to keep it a secret. If Harry doesn't pay, the new price will be his life. But the hoods picked the wrong pigeon. Harry doesn't get mad--he gets even.
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Call Number: eAudioBook - OverDrive
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
A terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?
The Pot and How to Use It by Roger Ebert; Robert Ebert
Call Number: eBook - OverDrive
Publication Date: 2010-09-21
"In The Pot and How to Use It, Roger Ebert--Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic, admitted 'competent cook, ' and longtime electric rice cooker enthusiast--gives readers a charming, practical guide to this handy and often overlooked kitchen appliance"--Cover, p. 4.
Stonemouth by Iain Banks
Call Number: eBook - OverDrive
Publication Date: 2012-10-10
Stewart Gilmour must confront his past when he returns to Stonemouth, Scotland, for the funeral of a local patriarch during a supposed temporary truce between crime families.

Music

Glee. Volume 1 : the music
Call Number: CD FILM/SHOW GLEE
Publication Date: 2009
NYC man : the collection by Lou Reed
Call Number: CD ROCK REED
Publication Date: 2003
Le Bataclan '72 by Lou Reed
Call Number: CD ROCK REED
Publication Date: 2003

Movies

Born to Win by Karen Black
Publication Date: 1971
A classic story of a drug addict's struggle to make it in the real world. The down-and-out addict must find ways to support his habits and an undercover cop is working to catch a big-time drug dealer.
3:10 to Yuma
Publication Date: 1957
Videodisc release of the 1957 motion picture.
Based on a story by Elmore Leonard.
As other volunteers quit or are killed, a rancher is left alone to deal with the responsibility of putting a captured outlaw aboard a Fort Yuma-bound train.
Lou Reed : Transformer
Call Number: DVD 782.42166 LOU
Publication Date: 20001
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 1972 album.
Glee the concert movie
Call Number: DVD 782.5 GLEE
Publication Date: 2011
Here's your front-row seat to a thrilling concert performed by the phenomenally talented cast of Glee. See your favorite stars from the hit TV show as they sing the songs you love and dance up a storm on stage. Get swept up in the energy of Glee Live, including performances not seen in theaters and exclusive interviews! Bonus features included.
Glee. Season 1, volume 1, Road to sectionals
Call Number: DVD 791.4572 GLEE
Publication Date: 2009
Optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing McKinley High's Glee Club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential. Going up against McKinley's cruel high school caste system and facing harsh criticism from everyone around him, Will becomes determined to prove them all wrong.
The Hunger by Karen Black
Call Number: DVD 791.4572 HUNGER
Publication Date: 1997
Anthology series introduced by Terence Stamp which draws the viewer into a strange world of terrifying characters and erotic encounters.
Rizzoli & Isles by Lee Thompson Young
Call Number: DVD 791.4572 RIZZOLI
Publication Date: 2010
A Boston medical examiner and police officer investigate crime on the streets of Boston.
The Sopranos. The complete first season
Call Number: DVD 791.4572 SOPRANOS
Publication Date: 1999
Tony Soprano is your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife, a not-so-dutiful daughter, a son named Anthony Jr., a mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home, a hot-headed uncle, a not-too-secret mistress and a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss.
The time tunnel by Michael Ansara
Call Number: DVD 791.4572 TIME
Publication Date: 1966
Determined to prove that Project Tic Toc was capable of sending humans through time, Dr. Tony Newman and Dr. Doug Phillips entered the project's time tunnel before final tests were completed. Now, caught in time and unable to return home, the two scientists battle to stay alive as the Vortex of Time thrusts them into the middle of some of the most significant events in world history. But even more important, as the time travelers encounter famous and influential people of the past, they must make sure their actions don't inadvertently change history and alter the future.
The twilight zone. Season 1
Call Number: DVD 791.4572 TWILIGHT
Publication Date: 1959
A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Beach party Bikini beach.
Call Number: DVD MOVIE BEACH
Publication Date: 1963 & 1964
Side A. : A college professor nearly blows his credentials when one of his gorgeous students decides the subject she wants to study is romance.

Side B. : A British recording star sets up headquarters on the beach and a grumpy newspaper publisher seeks to oust the kids from their beach area.
Cisco Pike by Karen Black
Call Number: DVD MOVIE CISCO
Publication Date: 1972
A once famous rock singer is released from prison where he served time for drug dealing. He wants to go straight but is blackmailed by a crooked cop and is forced back into the drug dealing business.
Enter The Dragon
Call Number: DVD MOVIE ENTER
Publication Date: 1973
Recruited by an intelligence agency, outstanding martial arts student Bruce Lee participates in a brutal karate tournament hosted by the evil Han. Along with champions Roper and Williams, he uncovers Han₂s white slavery and drug trafficking ring located on a secret island fortress. In the exciting climax, hundreds of freed prisoners fight in an epic battle with Lee and Han locked in a deadly duel. Cast:
Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Ahna Capri, Bob Wall, Shih Kien, Jim Kelly.
The Fast and the Furious by Paul Walker
Call Number: DVD MOVIE FAST
Publication Date: 2001
An undercover cop gets pulled into a gang that races cars late at night through city streets when the leader is suspected of stealing electronic equipment. The cop is swept up by the adrenaline rush of the race and falls for the gang leader's sister.
Friday night lights by Lee Thompson Young
Call Number: DVD MOVIE FRIDAY
Publication Date: 2004
Odessa is an oil town in the western part of Texas that is home to the Permian High School Panthers, the football team with the best winning record. The city's economy is in a tailspin, but football is the one thing that brings all the people of Odessa together, and on Friday nights, as many as 20,000 people fill Permian's football stadium to watch Coach Gary Gaines lead the team to victory. And in Odessa, a football victory is prized above all else. The players ponder the fact that a championship season can be as much a burden as a triumph.
The Great Gatsby by Karen Black
Call Number: DVD MOVIE GREAT
Publication Date: 1974
In 1920s Long Island, a mysterious American millionaire's efforts to recapture the sweetheart of his youth result in tragedy.
I am legend
Call Number: DVD MOVIE I
Publication Date: 2008
Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City. A pandemic has left only 1% of the population alive and most of those who survived are no longer human. The infected, now lurking in the shadows, watch Neville's every move. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by the only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood.
The Iron Lady
Call Number: DVD MOVIE IRON
Publication Date: 2011
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world
Call Number: DVD MOVIE IT'S
Publication Date: 1963
When a goofy assortment of motorists unexpectedly learn the whereabouts of a stolen fortune, they speed off on a side-splitting, car-bashing race for the loot.
The last man on Earth
Call Number: DVD MOVIE LAST
Publication Date: 1964
The only survivor of a world-wide plague that wipes out the entire population fights for his life when the victims come back to life from their graves, thirsting for his blood.
Real steel
Call Number: DVD MOVIE REAL
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and train a championship contender.
Somewhere in time
Call Number: DVD MOVIE SOMEWHERE
Publication Date: 1980
A young writer sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness with a beautiful woman in the past.
Twilight zone the movie
Call Number: DVD MOVIE TWILIGHT
Publication Date: 1983
Four separate stories that take place in a mysterious fifth dimension of imagination.
What dreams may come
Call Number: DVD MOVIE WHAT
Publication Date: 1998
Four years after Chris and Annie Nielsen lose their children in a traffic accident, Chris himself is killed and finds himself reunited with his children in a beautiful and astonishing afterlife, but Annie commits suicide in despair and is banished to a very different realm. Chris risks his own eternal happiness to find Annie and rescue her from her fate.
Akeelah and the bee by Lee Thompson Young
Call Number: JUVENILE DVD MOVIE AKEELAH
Publication Date: 2006
Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from Dr. Larabee, an English professor, for the more prestigious regional bee. As the possibility of making it all the way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee looms, Akeelah could provide her community with someone to rally around and be proud of. First Akeelah has to overcome her insecurities, her distracting home life, and the knowledge that there is a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers.
Fluke
Call Number: JUVENILE DVD MOVIE FLUKE
Publication Date: 1995
Based on the novel by James Herbert. "Fluke is as contented as any young pooch can be. But when recurring dreams and a series of mishaps trigger memories of a very different world, he slowly realizes that he once had a very different life - as a man! Convinced of his previous identity, Fluke sets out on an extraordinary journey that leads him back to his human family ... and shows him more through the eyes of a dog than he could ever see as a man"--Container.
Where the wild things are
Call Number: JUVENILE DVD MOVIE WHERE
Publication Date: 2009
Max has an active imagination, who will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including Carol who has the same temperament as Max. Instead of eating Max like they normally would with creatures of his type, the wild things befriend Max after he proclaims himself a king who can magically solve all their problems.