Sissy Spacek
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2 videodiscs (approximately 263 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"James Garner stars as Woodrow F. Call, a wizened bounty hunter who has endured the death of his son and the financial failure of his Montana ranch. When a wealthy railroad president hires him to track down a young, cold-blooded bandit, Call travels south to seek out the fugitive and along the way encounters an array of old acquaintances, including his faithful ex-comrade."--Container.
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2 audio discs (approximately 120 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A tiny baby girl is snatched from her adopted family by an ugly toad but escapes to find happiness with the king of the flower angels. (1st tale) The story of Ruby Rouge, her mysterious friend Conjure Woman and the two baskets of talking eggs with very different yolks. (2nd tale) A simple fisherman catches a magical fish who promises to grant his wishes... but when the man's wife start making outlandish demands the flounder fulfills a wish of his...
25) Affliction
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English
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Wade Whitehouse is a small-town sheriff and heavy drinker, accused of achieving nothing by his ex-wife and daughter - although his girlfriend, Margie, accepts him the way he is. On the first day of the hunting season, Wade's friend Jack takes a wealthy businessman to hunt - and only Jack returns alive.
26) Katherine
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English
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Katherine is a young debutante who is transformed into a revolutionary by the chaotic currents coursing through American society in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her loving, middle-class parents enable her descent into extremism. Disappointed with her radical boyfriend, who is interested more in sex than in activism, she joins a group of leftist militants who contend that only violence can enact social and political change.
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English
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The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes...