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Room 1219 : the life of Fatty Arbuckle, the mysterious death of Virginia Rappe, and the scandal that changed Hollywood / by Merritt, Greg,1965-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Labor day -- Journeys: 1887-1908 -- Virginia -- Sanitarium -- Hollywood: 1909-12 -- Postmortem -- Rise: 1913-14 -- The next weekend -- Muddle: 1915-16 -- Indictment -- Glory: 1917-18 -- Preliminaries -- Bliss: 1919-20 -- First trial -- Overture: 1921 -- Second trial -- Third trial -- Hays -- Exile: 1922-25 -- Endurance: 1926-32 -- Legends -- Labor day revisited -- Denouement: 1932-33."Part biography, part true crime narrative, this painstakingly researched book chronicles the improbable rise and stunning fall of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle from his early big screen success to his involvement in actress Virginia Rappe's death, and the resulting irreparable damage to his career. It describes how during the course of a rowdy three-day party hosted by the comedian in a San Francisco hotel, Rappe became fatally ill, and Arbuckle was subsequently charged with manslaughter. Ultimately acquitted after three trials, neither his career nor his reputation ever recovered from this devastating incident. Relying on a careful examination of documents, the book finally reveals what most likely occurred that Labor Day weekend in 1921 in that fateful hotel room. In addition, it covers the evolution of the film industry--from the first silent experiments to the connection between Arbuckle's scandal and the implementation of industry-wide censorship that altered the course of Hollywood filmmaking for five decades"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Arbuckle, Roscoe, 1887-1933.; Rappe, Virginia, 1895-1921.; Motion picture actors and actresses; Murder victims; Murder;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The crafty superstar ultimate craft business guide / by Dobush, Grace.(CARDINAL)496801;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Presents a guide for setting up a craft business, covering such topics as pricing, supplies, production, customer service, publicity, websites, craft shows, legal forms, and social media.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Home-based businesses; Selling; Handicraft industries; Handicraft; Selling;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Glimpsing heaven : the stories and science of life after death / by Bachrach, Judy,1948-(CARDINAL)730970;
If you caught a glimpse of heaven, would you choose to come back to life' Investigative journalist Judy Bachrach has collected accounts of the post-postmortem, and the conclusions are astonishing. Clinical death'the moment when the heart stops beating and brain stem activity ceases'is not as straightforward as it may seem. Hundreds of thousands of post-death experiences have been documented, and for many who have died and returned, life is forever changed. And now an increasing number of researchers are turning their studies to people who have traveled beyond the near-death experience, recognizing patterns and pushing the boundaries of science. Through interviews with scores of these "death travelers," and with physicians, nurses, and scientists unraveling the mysteries of the afterlife, Bachrach redefines the meaning of both life and death. Glimpsing Heaven reveals both the uncertainty and the surprising joys of life after death.
Subjects: Mind and body therapies.; Near-death experiences.; Therapies.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 17
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The price for their pound of flesh : the value of the enslaved, from womb to grave, in the building of a nation / by Berry, Daina Ramey,author.(CARDINAL)294432;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-247) and index.The value of life and death -- Preconception : women and future increase -- Infancy and childhood -- Adolescence, young adulthood, and soul values -- Midlife and older adulthood -- Elderly and superannuated -- Postmortem : death and ghost values -- Epilogue: The afterlives of slavery -- Appendix : A timeline of slavery, medical history, and black bodies."Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives--including from before birth to after death--in the American domestic slave trades. Covering the full "life cycle" (including preconception, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, the senior years, and death), historian Daina Berry shows the lengths to which slaveholders would go to maximize profits. She draws from over ten years of research to explore how enslaved people responded to being appraised, bartered, and sold. By illuminating their lives, Berry ensures that the individuals she studies are regarded as people, not merely commodities. Analyzing the depth of this monetization of human property will change the way we think about slavery, reparations, capitalism, and nineteenth-century medical education"--
Subjects: Slavery; Slave trade; Enslaved persons; Enslaved persons; Enslaved children; Enslaved women; Enslaved older people;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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House M.D. [videorecording] : by Laurie, Hugh,1959-actor(CARDINAL)685077; Edelstein, Lisa,1967-actor(CARDINAL)848533; Leonard, Robert Sean,1969-actor(CARDINAL)847781; Morrison, Jennifer,actor; Epps, Omar,actor(CARDINAL)785767; Spencer, Jesse,actor; Bad Hat Harry Productions.; Heel & Toe Films.; Shore Z Productions.; Universal Media Studios.(CARDINAL)889401; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)344011;
Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard.House is serving a prison sentence for driving his car into Cuddy's living room, and when his sentence ends early, he finds the Diagnostic Medicine Department has gone through a transition in his absence and he must deal with a new chain of command and personnel changes to his staff. Together, House and his new team take on the most baffling medical cases yet, and face challenges of both the mind and heart as this television phenomenon comes to a close.Not rated.DVD, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Medical television programs.; Television series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Physician and patient; Hospitals; Hospital patients;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 11
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Dead presidents : an American adventure into the strange deaths and surprising afterlives of our nation's leaders / by Carlson, Brady,author.(CARDINAL)411653;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-310) and index.Monument man : on George Washington's transformation from mortal man to immortal icon -- Well-timed exits : on the postmortem fortunes (and misfortunes) of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant, and Andrew Johnson -- The first patient : on James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Zachary Taylor, and the doctors who keep presidents alive (and occasionally make them worse) -- Farewell, Mr. President : on William Henry Harrison, Woodrow Wilson, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon, and how the presidential funeral was born -- Death trips : on the posthumous travels of James Polk, James Monroe, John Tyler, and Abraham Lincoln -- His good name : on William McKinley, Ronald Reagan, and Calvin Coolidge, and the large (and small) ways presidents are remembered -- Robots and sphinxes : on Lyndon Johnson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, and Chester Arthur, and America's Presidential libraries -- Unintended legacies : on William Taft, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, and how presidents' reputations change over time -- Eternal flame : on John F. Kennedy, the City of Dallas, and what ties them together every November 22 -- The rest of the set : on the many types of presidential obscurity and mediocrity, with Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, and Warren Harding -- Family reunion : on the Adamses, the Harrison, and presidential descendants.An entertaining exploration into the varied ways we remember and memorialize the American presidents. --Publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Presidents; Presidents;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 18
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In the still of the night : the strange death of Ronda Reynolds and her mother's unceasing quest for the truth / by Rule, Ann,author.(CARDINAL)507552;
Overview: From true-crime legend Ann Rule comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon-and a determined mother's eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter's name. It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and grandmother before the holidays. Ronda's second marriage was dissolving after less than a year, her career as a pioneering female Washington State Trooper had ended, but she was optimistic about starting over again. "I'm actually looking forward to getting on with my life," she told her mother earlier the night before. "I just need a few days with you guys." Barb Thompson, Ronda's mother, who had met her daughter's second husband only once before, was just happy that Ronda was coming home. At 6:20 that morning, Ron Reynolds called 911 and told the dispatcher his wife was dead. She had committed suicide, he said, although he hadn't heard the gunshot and he didn't know if she had a pulse. EMTs arrived, detectives arrived, the coroner's deputy arrived, and a postmortem was conducted. Lewis County Coroner Terry Wilson, who neither visited the death scene nor attended the autopsy, declared the manner of Ronda's death as "undetermined." Over the next eleven years, Coroner Wilson would change that manner of death from "undetermined" to "suicide," back to "undetermined"--And then back to "suicide" again. But Barb Thompson never for one moment believed her daughter committed suicide. Neither did Detective Jerry Berry or ballistics expert Marty Hayes or attorney Royce Ferguson or dozens of Ronda's friends. For eleven grueling years, through the ups and downs of the legal system and its endless delays, these people and others helped Barb Thompson fight to strike that painful word from her daughter's death certificate. On November 9, 2009, a precedent-setting hearing was held to determine whether Coroner Wilson's office had been derelict in its duty in investigating the death of Ronda Reynolds. Veteran true-crime writer Ann Rule was present at that hearing, hoping to unbraid the tangled strands of conflicting statements and mishandled evidence and present all sides of this haunting case and to determine, perhaps, what happened to Ronda Reynolds, in the chill still of that tragic December night.
Subjects: True crime stories.; Reynolds, Ronda, 1965-1998.; Reynolds, Ronda, 1965-1998; Murder; Suicide;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Children of paradise : the struggle for the soul of Iran / by Secor, Laura,author.(CARDINAL)625392;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-494) and index.In 1979, seemingly overnight—moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world—Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black box to the West, a sinister presence looming over the horizon. But inside Iran, a breathtaking drama has unfolded since then, as religious thinkers, political operatives, poets, journalists, and activists have imagined and reimagined what Iran should be. They have drawn as deeply on the traditions of the West as of the East and have acted upon their beliefs with urgency and passion, frequently staking their lives for them. With more than a decade of experience reporting on, researching, and writing about Iran, Laura Secor narrates this unprecedented history as a story of individuals caught up in the slipstream of their time, seizing and wielding ideas powerful enough to shift its course as they wrestle with their country’s apparatus of violent repression as well as its rich and often tragic history. Essential reading at this moment when the fates of our countries have never been more entwined, Children of Paradise will stand as a classic of political reporting; an indelible portrait of a nation and its people striving for change.
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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You only die once : how to make it to the end with no regrets / by Wellman, Jodi,author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)896968;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-327) and index.Introduction -- The pre-mortem: this thing called life -- The astonishingly alive zones: where would you plot yourself? -- A date with death: a brief introduction to the end of your life -- Deathly denial: avoiding your existential crisis -- The ultimate wake-up call: brushes with death -- Regrets: those (helpful) little assholes -- Habits: the blunting of our aliveness -- Living wider with vitality: fun + pleasure + joie de vivre -- Living deeper with meaning: plunging the depths of purpose -- The paint by numbers part: specific actions to live in vivid color -- The postmortem: the great big "so now what?" before you bite the biscuit.A kick-in-the-pants wake-up call to start living meaningfully in light of how many Mondays you have left from longtime coach, positive psychology expert, and Penn Resilience Program instructor Jodi Wellman. How many Mondays do you have left? Does that question send you into a panic spiral, or are you convinced that, unlike everyone in the history of life on earth, you will somehow avoid the tragic end and live to tell the tale? Statistically, we get about 4,000 Mondays in our lifetime, so if you're halfway through your life, you might have roughly 2,000 Mondays to go. The good news is that you are in charge of how you spend those days: toiling at a job you hate, or creating a career you love; scrolling mindlessly for hours a day, or pursuing the hobbies and travel that light you up; dreading the end, or living a full life that allows you to greet the Grim Reaper with a smile. Built around the principles of positive psychology, You Only Die Once is the jolt that will bring you back to life, no near-death experience required. Full of practical takeaways and research-backed content, this book will motivate readers to take action on the life they want to be living, acting like a defibrillator for the soul. Accompanied by author Jodi Wellman's charming illustrations, this book won't lecture you about eating more kale or insist that the only path forward is to quit your job and move to Provence (although it's not not suggesting you do that either. The latter, that is. We'd never ask anyone to eat more kale). Instead, it's a real-life guide to small changes that reawaken your passion and curiosity for life. Packed with inspiring stories, exercises, quizzes, quotes, and a step-by-step plan to awaken the liveliest version of you, You Only Die Once is the healthy dose of mortality you need to start living with urgency and meaning.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Life.; Mortality.; Death; Self-actualization (Psychology); Motivation (Psychology); Meaning (Psychology); Regret.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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World war C [large print] : lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and how to prepare for the next one / by Gupta, Sanjay,1969-author.(CARDINAL)486953; Loberg, Kristin,author.(CARDINAL)353565;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction: a "pneumonia of unknown origin" -- Humanity, we have a problem. Postmortem ; Multisystem organ failure ; Snakes ; Cows -- Becoming pandemic P.R.O.O.F. Plan ahead ; Rethink and rewire risk in your brain ; Optimize health ; Optimize family ; Fight for the future of us."CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, offers an accessible, data-packed answer to our biggest questions about Covid-19: What have we learned about this pandemic and how can we prepare for--or prevent--the next one? As America's favorite frontline Covid-19 health journalist, Dr. Sanjay Gupta has barely left his primetime seat in his makeshift studio basement since the pandemic began (other than to perform brain surgery). He's had the insider of insider access to the drama's unfolding, including exclusive conversations with the world's top public health experts and behind-the-scenes scientists racing to find treatments and cures. And now he's sharing what he's learned in a book that will answer not only all our questions about what happened, but also about how our world will change in the years ahead, even once we're back to "normal." Gupta argues that we need to prepare for a new era where pandemics will be more frequent, and possibly even more deadly. As the doctor who's been holding America's hand through the crisis with compassion, clarity, and well-earned wisdom, he gives you the unvarnished story behind the pandemic, including insights about the novel virus's behavior, and offers practical tools to ready ourselves for what lies ahead. He answers critical questions: Can we stamp out the virus for good (and if not, how do we live with it)? Should we put our parents in a nursing home? Where should we live? What should we stockpile? What should we know before taking a trip? Does it make sense to spend more on health insurance to deal with any long-term effects? How do you decide when it's safe to go to a public pool or schedule elective surgery? What should Covid survivors know about protecting their future health? What if you become a long-hauler with chronic health challenges stemming? World War C will give you hope for the future along with real information that leaves you more resilient and secure"--
Subjects: Large print books.; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease); Communicable diseases; Epidemics;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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