Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
Summary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
Robison, Mary.
Summary: "After a ten-year silence, Robison has emerged with a novel so beguiling and funny that it has brought critics and her live-reading audiences to their feet. 'Why Did I Ever" takes US along on the darkest of private journeys. The story, told by a woman named Money Breton, is submitted like a furious and persuasive diary--a tale as fierce and taut as Money herself." -- Book cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2001
Robinson, Gary
Summary: Warned by the spirit of his grandmother, sixteen-year-old Billy Buckhorn must prepare to protect the Cherokee Nation from supernatural evil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2023
Robinson, Gary
Summary: "Twelve biographies follow the career paths of Native people who work in the complex entertainment industry, either in front of or behind the camera. Included are descriptions of what each member of a production team does, as well as advice on what it takes to get started in the entertainment industry"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation Native Voices Books 2021
Robinson, Gary
Summary: After a failed suicide attempt, seventeen-year-old Rhonda Runningcrane is inspired to help a crew protesting against an oil company running a pipeline through sacred Native land in North Dakota.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2019
Hoffard, Gay Roberson.
Contents: v. 1. 1839 through 1865 -- v. 2. 1866 through 1877 -- v. 3. 1878 through 1888.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.R. Hoffard 1988
Hoffard, Gay Roberson.
Contents: v. 1. 1839 through 1865 -- v. 2. 1866 through 1877 -- v. 3. 1878 through 1888.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.R. Hoffard 1988
Hoffard, Gay Roberson.
Contents: v. 1. 1839 through 1865 -- v. 2. 1866 through 1877 -- v. 3. 1878 through 1888.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.R. Hoffard 1988
Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Contents: Hold me / Fleetwood Mac -- Drive / The Cars -- I want to be your man / Roger -- Just to see her / Smokey Robinson -- Even the nights are better / Air supply -- I need you / America -- I'll be around / The Spinners -- Hello its me / Todd Rundgren -- When I see you smile / Bad english -- We're in this love together / Al Jarreau -- Day dreaming / Aretha Franklin -- Stand by me / Ben E. King --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "William Boston has just joined the all-black 24th infantry of the United States Army. A natural leader, Boston quickly rises within his troop and is looked up to by the others. When the men are sent to the South, where racism runs rampant in a merciless community, the troop is pushed to their limit. After endless brutal acts of violence, Boston and the men turn their fear and rage against the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Summary: Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man. Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Robinson, Mary
Summary: At the birth of her first grandchild, Robinson's fight for climate change became deeply personal. Her travels led to a heartening revelation: that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. Now she presents a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
Summary: A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. The film also analyzes Lt. Henry's feelings on war and the purpose of fighting.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Osiris Entertainment 2009
Contents: Pastures of plenty (Woody Guthrie) -- We shall overcome (Pete Seeger) -- Rock island line (Lead Belly) -- No more auction block (Paul Robeson) -- Deportees (Plane wreck at Los Gatos) (Barbara Dane) -- John Henry (Doc Watson) -- John Hardy (Mike Seeger) -- Betty and Dupree (Brownie McGhee) -- Gallis pole (Fred Gerlach) -- Polly Von (Paul Clayton) -- Butcher boy (Peggy Seeger) -- Duncan and Brady...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Gallerstein, Gary A.
Summary: Covers all aspects of pet bird ownership, including selection, nutrition, behavior, home physicals, emergency medical care, preventative medicine and much more. --Publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avian Publications 2003
Summary: In the 1890's Frank T. Hopkins, a former U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider who is haunted by memories of what he saw at the battle of Wounded Knee, and his mustang Hidalgo, are performing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, billed as the greatest horse and rider the West has ever known. This leads them to be invited to run in the 3,000 mile endurance race across the Middle Eastern desert, the Ocean of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2004
Contents: I will survive (remix) (Gloria Gaynor) (3:59) -- (Shake, shake, shake) shake your booty (KC & the Sunshine Band) (3:05) -- Turn the beat around (Vicki Sue Robinson) (3:23) -- Macho man (Village People) (3:26) -- We are family (Sister Sledge) (3:34) -- Flashdance-- What a feeling (Irene Cara) (3:55) -- I just want to be your everything (Andy Gibb) (3:45) -- Everlasting love (Carl Carlton) (2:35)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 1997