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Now a terrifying motion picture! twenty-five classic works of horror adapted from book to film / by Broderick, James F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Altered states -- The Amityville horror -- The birds -- Dead ringers -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- The exorcist -- The fly -- Frankenstein -- Freaks -- From hell -- Ghost story -- The hound of the Baskervilles -- Jaws -- The masque of the red death -- The night stalker -- The ninth gate -- Nosferatu -- The phantom of the opera -- Psycho -- Re-animator -- The serpent and the rainbow -- The shining -- Sleepy Hollow -- The thing from another world -- Village of the damned.…”
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Blowin' hot and cool jazz and its critics / by Gennari, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : (much more than) a few words about jazz -- Not only a new art form but a new reason for living -- As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm : hot collecting -- Across the color line -- Hearing 'the noisy lostness' : telling the story of jazz -- Writer's writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism -- Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport -- The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism -- Race-ing the bird : Ross Russell's obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker -- Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents -- Conclusion : change of the century.…”
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Reading colonial Japan text, context, and critique /

Table of Contents: “…Lee -- Wolf forest, basket forest, and thief forest / Miyazawa Kenji ; translation by Kota Inoue -- A little story of settler colonialism : imperialist consciousness and children's literature in the 1920s / Kota Inoue -- Manchu girl / Koizumi Kikue ; translation by Kimberly T. …”
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Apocalyptic territories : setting and revelation in contemporary American fiction / by Hellén, Anna

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The proverbial "Pied piper" a festschrift volume of essays in honor of Wolfgang Mieder on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday /

Table of Contents: “…Also der Mieder / Jürgen Kleist -- Lively representing the proverbs: a pack of late seventeenth-century English playing cards engraved with proverb representations / Malcolm Jones -- Zipper Stories / Jan Brunvand -- Crossover proverbs: a preliminary sampling / Shirley L. …”
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