Contents: Frisco Town (Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie) -- Strewin' your mess (Tampa Red and Georgia Tom) -- Hot dogs (Blind Lemon Jefferson and His Feet) -- God moves on the water (Blind Willie Johnson) -- Screamin' and hollerin' the blues (Charley Patton) -- Hard road blues (Blind Blake) -- Lead hearted blues (Bertha Henderson with Blind Blake) -- Slidin' Delta (Tommy Johnson) -- Wasn't that doggin' me...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BLUSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLAnderson, Beth
Summary: "Tad Lincoln's restless wriggle just wouldn't quit, much to the delight of his father, President Abraham Lincoln--if not so much to anybody else! This picture book brings to life the famous first son who coped with a disability and other challenges while showing compassion, intelligence, and wisdom beyond his years. Tad Lincoln's boundless energy annoyed almost everyone but his father,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINSummary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPAnderson, Beth
Summary: This accessible and entertaining STEM/STEAM picture book emphasizes how Thomas Jefferson used scientific thinking and methods to battle against false facts and bias to prove that America was just as good as any nations in the Old World.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Provides examples of Lear's best poems, combined with original art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821.8 LEAAnderson, Beth
Summary: The remarkable story of Deborah Sampson, a woman who fought in the American Revolution disguised as a man—and who ends up finding her true identity and purpose in life. Deborah Sampson didn’t like being told what to do, especially by the King of England. Fiercely independent, 18-year-old Deborah enlists as Robert Shurtliff in George Washington’s Continental Army to fight for her country’s...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SAMAnderson, Beth
Summary: After being denied a seat on a New York City streetcar, Elizabeth Jennings begins the fight for equality by telling her story in churches, to newspapers, and finally in the courtroom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JENAnderson, Martha G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center for African Art 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 PattonWerkha
Contents: Flinch -- Dusk -- Falling through the wall -- Invincible -- Dim the light -- Sidesteppin' -- Highwaves -- Fire by the Kul -- Houses of Saffron -- City shuffle -- Border kite -- Revolution blue
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tru Thoughts 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC WERGILSON, BERTHA
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MI 921 GILBeths
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2018
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Summary: History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And, told in the right way, it is the greatest one ever written: Good and evil, triumph and tragedy, despicable acts of barbarism and courageous acts of heroism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 BECContents: Minnie the Moocher ; I. Mills, C. Calloway, C. Gaskill (Cab Calloway) -- Chicago breakdown / J. Morton (Louis Armstrong) -- It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got the swing) / D. Ellington ; I. Mills (Duke Ellington) -- Sugar foot stomp W. Melrose ; J. Oliver (Fletcher Henderson) -- I got rhythm / G Gershwin ; I. Gershwin (Don Redman).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MUSSummary: Documentary film sharing the efforts of two American organizations providing medical aid after the catastrophic 2010 Haiti Earthquake: Project Medishare, which set up clinics for victims, and the Knights of Columbus, which provided prosthetic limbs for the many young people who suffered amputations. The film also follows a small group of earthquake victims who form Team Zaryen, an amputee...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNBContents: Two of us (John Grant) -- Dig a pony (Dennis Locorriere) -- I me mine/Dig it (Beth Orton) -- Let it be (the Amorphous Androgynous) -- Maggie May (C.W. Stoneking) -- I've got a feeling (the Besnard Lakes) -- One after 909 (James Apollo) -- The long and winding road (Judy Collins) -- For you blue (Pete Molinari) -- Get back (the Jim Jones Revue) -- Bonus track : One after 909 (Wilko Johnson).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJAmoss, Berthe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.068 AMOSummary: A lovable calf named Annabelle, who wishes to fly like one of Santa's reindeer, makes friends with Billy, a young boy who cannot talk, and a friendly bunch of barnyard animals. Annabelle shows everyone the true meaning of Christmas by making one very special wish come true.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ralph Edwards Films 1997
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1952
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Publisher / Publication Date: Muskegon County Historical Society 1989
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 FreyeHader, Berta.
Summary: Winter comes to the woodland as the busy animals make their preparations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1976
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HADCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HADHader, Berta
Summary: This hardcover treasury of Mother Goose rhymes stands as the finest achievement of the beloved husband-and-wife team, winners of the 1949 Caldecott Medal for The Big Snow. Each of the more than 170 lovingly detailed color and pen-and-ink illustrations has been painstakingly restored from the Haders' original art stored at the University of Oregon. Game songs, tales of boys and girls, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HADBirtha, Becky
Summary: Children who have a parent in prison express their feelings of sadness, anger, worry, and embarrassment and suggest that talking to others and keeping in contact with the missing parent helps them deal with the situation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BIRHendershot, Ray
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1999