Avery, Jaha Nailah
Summary: The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn't affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and reporter whose family has roots in North Carolina stretching back over 300 years....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: J 305.896 AVEKarger, Dave
Summary: "Dave Karger--Turner Classic Movies on-air host, entertainment media darling, and the Oscars expert--offers a one-of-a-kind collection of original interviews with an A-list lineup of Oscar winners discussing the highs, lows, and never-before-told tales of Hollywood's most storied awards show"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Fuse Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BETBingham, Clara
Summary: "As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 BINWrecking Crew (Musical group)
Summary: Soundtrack from the documentary film, The Wrecking Crew was a group of studio musicians in Los Angeles in the 1960s who played on hits for the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny and Cher, Jan & Dean, The Monkees, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Mamas and Papas, Tijuana Brass, Ricky Nelson, Johnny Rivers and were Phil Spector's Wall of Sound.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rock Beat 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC WREHeaton, Colin D.
Summary: "Sensational eyewitness accounts from the most heroic and legendary American aviators of World War II, never before published as a book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: History War HeatonKaeser, Gigi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Massachusetts Press 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 306.874 LOVESnyder, Gary
Summary: Gary Snyder and his friend Jim Harrison meet to discuss love, lives and what has become of them over the years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Lewis, John
Summary: "Featuring interviews of civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis at almost every stage of his career, this collection illustrates why Lewis has become a human rights icon and remains an inspiration to activists today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, JOHN LEWRiley, Russell L. (Russell Lynn)
Summary: "In the decade after Bill Clinton left the White House, scores of his closest aides recorded interviews with the University of Virginia's Presidential Oral History Program. The contents of these interviews are published for the first time in this volume.Based on 400 hours of candid conversations, Inside the Clinton White House adds color and nuance to our understanding of Bill Clinton and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 RILCohen, Leonard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COHEN, LEONARD COHContents: CD 1, The complete concert by the sea. Announcer: Jimmy Lyons (:40) ; Night and day (5:04) ; Spring is here (5:14) ; I'll remember April (4:23) ; The nearness of you (4:46) ; Where or when (3:22) ; Sweet and lovely (4:12) ; Lullaby of Birdland (4:17) ; Mambo Carmel (3:52) ; Teach me tonight (3:48) ; Will you still be mine (3:56) ; I cover the waterfront (3:30) ; Bernie's tune (4:38) ; How could...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GARSummary: "Tracing the steps of grunge from its subversive inception in neighborhood basements to its global rise to the multimillion dollar pop culture phenomenon, Hype! incorporates hilarious interviews with rare concert footage of bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and The Melvins"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2004
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HYPSummary: Includes interviews with The Grateful Dead, Tom Wolfe, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey. Also includes four live performances by The Grateful Dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory LLC 2006
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TOMSummary: Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ARTSummary: Gandolfini talks with with ten soliders and Marines and their families about their experience during and after their service in Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ALIGlusman, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 GLUApatow, Judd
Summary: "No one knows comedy like Judd Apatow. From interviewing the biggest comics of the day for his high school radio show to performing stand-up in L.A. dive bars with his roommate Adam Sandler, to writing and directing Knocked Up and producing Freaks and Geeks, Apatow has always lived, breathed, and dreamed comedy. In this all-new collection of interviews, the sequel to the New York Times...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 APAArnaud, Michel
Summary: [This book] is a visual essay on the rebuilding and resurgence of the city of Detroit by photographer Michel Arnaud, co-author of Design Brooklyn. In recent years, much of the focus on Detroit has been on the negative stories and images of shuttered, empty buildings-- the emblems of Detroit's financial and physical decline. In contrast, Arnaud aims his lens at the emergent creative enterprises...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 ARNHudgins, Phil
Summary: Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels with Foxfire, native son Phil Hudgins and Foxfire student Jessica Phillips travel from Georgia to the Carolinas, Tennessee to Kentucky, collecting the stories of the men and women who call the region home. Across more than thirty essays, we discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 HUDKelly, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate U.S. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PENN, SEAN KELKopecky, Jane
Summary: A small group of World War II political dissidents reveal how they survived what they called America’s Siberia Concentration Camp. Before the Vietnam War Americans considered conscientious objectors equal to criminals. This book sheds much needed light on the little known conscientious objector camp at Germfask, Michigan, how the local community responded to the camp, and how opinions have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Jane Kopecky] 2020
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 KOP1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 940.53 KOP
Summary: An absorbing portrait of the filmmaker David Lynch, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself. From the privacy of his home and painting studio in the Hollywood Hills, a candid Lynch conjures people and places from his past, from his boyhood in Idaho and Virginia to his experiences at art school in Boston and Philadelphia to the beginnings of his filmmaking career in Los Angeles, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAVSummary: Arguably the sharpest tool in the rock musician box, Frank Zappa was never lost for words when presented with another s opinion and would counter any position he did not agree with, fluently, eloquently and with the style and wit normally reserved for the great orator or the finest raconteur. Frank could be funny, serious and just about anywhere in-between and could literally talk for hours...
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Publisher / Publication Date: I.V. Media 2015