New and Featured DVDs for 10/05/12:

Come and check out these and some of the other new DVDs and materials (or at least new to us) added to our library collection…

FICTION:

Murder By Death

The Sea Inside

The Great Outdoors

Blindness

Knight Rider

Stargate

Adaptation

The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life Is Not A Fairy Tale

The Road

Murder In Greenwich

The Seventh Seal

Liar Liar

Strange Days

I Am Love

The Dukes Of Hazzard

Raging Bull

Kiss Me Deadly

Thirteen Days

Gangs Of New York

Throne Of Blood

Disclosure

Payback

The Avengers

The Cabin In The Woods

Heathers

Downton Abbey, season 2

Babel

Good Will Hunting

NON-FICTION:

Banned From The Bible I

Mexico’s Great Pyramids

Frank Lloyd Wright

The Ancient Maya: Tools Of Astronomy

Ape To Man

Medal Of Honor

Liberty! The American Revolution

Bowling For Columbine

La Jetée/Sans Soleil

Islam: Empire Of Faith

The Wright Stuff: The Life Of Orville And Wilbur Wright

Holy Warriors: Richard The Lionheart & Saladin

The Mythology Of Star Wars

Ape To Man

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Please note that DVDs could be checked out between the time they end up on the blog and when you come to check them out. If you don’t see the items you’re looking for then please come up to the front desk and we’ll put your name on the reserve list for when the item returns.

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Previous New/Featured DVDs:

06/28/12.

06/07/12.

03/15/12.

02/14/12.

02/07/12.

Previous New/Featured books:

09/21/12.

09/06/12.

08/23/12.

08/15/12.

08/09/12.

08/02/12.

Reading material for 08/13/12:

Some reading material from around the internet:

History as science.

Amazon’s new secret weapon.

The picture above by Norman Rockwell, as is the one below.

The strange superstitions of space missions.

5 fictional countries where the U.S. Army is trained to fight.

Would it be boring if we could live forever?

Try this 50 years of writing quiz.

The 10 best end of the world novels.

Check out the world’s most beautiful libraries.

Literary alternatives to Fifty Shades Of Grey.

Are these the 10 most difficult books?

Forbes ranks the top earning authors.

RIP Mel Stuart, director of Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.

Movie prices are about to get even more expensive.

Joss Whedon to direct The Avengers 2 and to develop a TV show set in the Marvel universe for ABC.

Scenes showing how exactly Bane got so disfigured were cut from The Dark Knight Rises.

Check out the first official picture of Daniel Day Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln from the upcoming Steven Spielberg movie, based on the Doris Kearns Goodwin book.

They’re finally releasing that Red Dawn remake.

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Previous online reading material:

08/06/12.

07/23/12.

07/17/12.

07/09/12.

07/02/12.

New and Featured DVDs for 06/07/12:

Come and check out these and some of the other new DVDs and materials (or at least new to us) added to our library collection…

FICTION:

Mission: Impossible

13 Assassins

Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths

The Perfect Getaway

Transsiberian

Pan’s Labyrinth

Goodnight Moon

Away We Go

The Social Network

Man Of La Mancha

Gosford Park

The original Downton Abbey!

My Stepmother Is An Alien

Undercover Brother

Hot Fuzz

From Dusk Till Dawn

The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

The Best of Monk

Double Jeopardy

Pirates Of Silicon Valley

The Best of Monk

NON-FICTION:

Man On Wire

Frederick Douglass (A&E Biography)

For All Mankind

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies A People

American Experience: The Crash Of 1929

Helvetica

2007, directed by Gary Hustwit. The first of the director’s design trilogy and released in 2007 to coincide with the inspirational and beautiful typeface’s 50th anniversary. Check out reviews from The Onion AV Club and Slant Magazine, and the trailer below:

The Bicycle Corps: America’s Black Army On Wheels

The War That Made America: The Story Of The French And Indian War

Against The Odds: The Artists Of The Harlem Renaissance

The President’s Photographer: 50 Years Inside The Oval Office

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Please note that DVDs mentioned here could be checked out between the time they end up on the blog and when you come to check them out. If you don’t see the items you’re looking for then please come up to the front desk, OR call us, OR send us an email at robinsbaselibrary@gmail.com and  we’ll put your name on the reserve list for when the item returns.

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Previous New/Featured DVDs:

03/15/12.

02/14/12.

02/07/12.

12/30/11.

Previous New/Featured books:

04/19/12.

04/11/12.

04/04/12.

03/29/12.

Reading material for 06/04/12:

Our Summer Reading program for the kids starts next week!

Some reading material from around the internet:

What is the future of The Washington Post?

The best U.S. cities for shopping.

The Milky Way is destined to collide with the Andromeda Galaxy.

Hey Amazon, you’re doing it wrong.

Facebook explores giving kids access.

Oprah’s Book Club returns!

16 great books that are about to become movies.

Great science fiction books for people who don’t read sci fi.

Libraries debate stocking the Fifty Shades Of Grey trilogy.

Play Haruki Murakami bingo.

Jeffrey Eugenides reviews Donald Antrim.

The endurance of love poems.

Classic novels and the filmmakers who were born to direct them.

RIP Richard Dawson.

A.O. Scott reviews Snow White And The Huntsman.

Inside Frank Darabont’s new show.

A review of Hemingway And Gellhorn.

14 movies that were improved by their director’s cuts.

An interview with Matthew Weiner, Vince Gilligan, and David Milch.

The weekend’s Box Office.

From above, 21 unbelievable photos that are not photoshopped.

When Benjamin Franklin met the battlefield.

BMW tries Apple’s approach to sales.

Exploring voice recognition software.

10 bands that would make great cults.

Some of the greenest architecture in the world.

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Previous online reading material:

04/30/12.

04/23/12.

04/16/12.

04/09/12.

04/02/12.