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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A wise-cracking lead stripper spends her time rebuffing fellow performer Biff Brannigan until a stripper is found strangled by her own g-string. When a second victim is found, they team up to snag the murderer in classic whodunnit style.
2) Exotica
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Criterion collection volume 1150
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2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (10 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
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English
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One of the defining independent films of the 1990s, Atom Egoyan's mesmerizing international breakthrough takes the conventions of the psychological thriller into bold new territory; unsettling, dreamlike, and empathetic.
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212 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Diablo Cody was 24 when she decided there had to be more to life than typing ad copy. On a whim, she signed up for amateur night at Minneapolis's seedy Skyway Lounge. She didn't win a prize, but she discovered that stripping delivered a rush she had never experienced before. While she didn't fit the ordinary profile of a stripper -- she had a supportive boyfriend, was equal parts brainpower and beauty, was from a good family, and was out to do a little...
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1 videodisc (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A brother and sister are trapped in the hellish night time world of Tokyo, where he deals drugs and she works as a stripper. A crime gone bad leads to shocking violence and then moments of transcendence in which the movie plunges viewers into death and rebirth like no film has ever done before.
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xiv, 300 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"In this new biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, Noralee Frankel draws on archival sources to strip bare the myths created by Gypsy herself and to tell the real story. Although Lee published an autobiography that has sold steadily, this will be the first biography of her. Frankel combines politics with twentieth century popular culture"--Provided by publisher.
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502 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
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English
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"Lili St. Cyr was, in the words of legendary reporter Mike Wallace, the 'highest paid stripteaser in America.' Lili led an incredible life--six marriages alongside great fame and money. Lili was named one of the world's ten most beautiful women alongside Ava Gardner and Brigitte Bardot. Yet she lost it all, becoming a recluse in her final decades. This book reveals that behind the g-strings and the pasties stood a 'complicated, eccentric, brilliant'...
9) Real easy
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304 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"It's 1999, and Samantha has danced for years at the Lovely Lady strip club. She's not used to taking anyone under her wing -- after all, between her disapproving boyfriend and his daughter, who may as well be her own child, she has enough to worry about. But when Samantha overrides her better judgment to drive a new dancer home, they are run off the road. The police arrive at the scene of the accident-but find only one body. Georgia, another dancer,...
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344 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
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English
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A long-lost memoir about life as a stripper in Montreal. In 1980, Sylvie Rancourt and her boyfriend moved to Montreal from rural Northern Quebec. With limited formal education or training, they had a hard time finding employment, so Rancourt began dancing in strip clubs. These experiences formed the backbone of the first Canadian autobiographical comic book, Melody, which Rancourt wrote, drew, and distributed, starting in 1985. Later, she collaborated...
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Eighteen years ago, Jake Lassiter crossed paths with a teenage runaway who disappeared into South Florida's sex trade. Now he retraces her steps and runs head on into a conspiracy of Miami's rich and powerful who would do anything to keep the past as dark as night and silent as the grave. In this tale of redemption and revenge. Jake Lassiter, second-string linebacker turned low-rent lawyer, is cynical about the law, but if you hire him, he will take...
15) City of Rose
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"As an amateur PI with a bent moral compass, Ash McKenna is good at finding people but not at staying out of trouble"--
16) A certain appeal
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342 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"A sparkling contemporary retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in the tantalizing world of New York City burlesque, perfect for fans of The Kiss Quotient and The Roommate"--
After a betrayal derailed her interior design career, Liz Bennet found a fresh start in New York. Now an executive assistant by day, she performs on stage as "Kitten" by night, and has discovered a second home with the performers at Meryton, Manhattan's top-tier burlesque venue....
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259 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"From the international bestselling author of Rebel Queen and Nefertiti comes a captivating novel about the infamous Mata Hari, exotic dancer, adored courtesan, and, possibly, relentless spy. Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom...or death. Alone and despondent, Mata Hari is as confused as the rest of the world about the charges she's been arrested on: treason leading to the deaths of thousands of French...
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315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Some women capture our attention like no others. Faith Bacon and Sally Rand were beautiful blondes from humble backgrounds who shot to fame behind a pair of oversize ostrich fans, but with very different outcomes. Sally Rand would go on to perform for the millions who attended the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, becoming America's sweetheart. Faith Bacon, the Marilyn Monroe of her time--once anointed the "world's most beautiful woman"--Would experience...
19) Paradise Club
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"I wanted to be one of the wild ones, the ones who broke free." These words begin the semi-autobiographical tale of Catherine's (Elizabeth Rice) journey in 1968 into the heart of the sexual revolution in San Francisco. She dances naked in the Paradise Club. The soul singer works the audience "Brothers and sisters, these are good times! America's doin' fine!" Catherine begins an affair with Earl, the club's owner. She meets her soul mate, Ben (Evan...
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In Cat in a Midnight Choir, the fourteenth Midnight Louie Mystery, both feline and human evil-doers and crime-solvers work overtime to make Las Vegas the Capital of Noir Suspense. This time our feisty black cat detective is hunting a mysterious and possibly murderous organization of renegade magicians called the Synth, which has been making Las Vegas too hot to hold for some of Louie's human friends, particularly ex-magician Max Kinsella. Louie's...
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