Beah, Ishmael
Summary: "This is how wars are fought now: by children, traumatized, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. Children have become the soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What does war look like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer?...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEABeah, Ishmael
Summary: "Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEABeah, Ishmael
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 BEACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 966.404 BEAMartin, Charles
Summary: A radical retelling of the story of the prodigal son takes the reader from tent revivals to the Ryman Auditorium to the tender relationship between a broken man and the father who never stopped calling him home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MARMartin, Charles
Summary: "No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home."At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2016
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MARMartin, Charles
Summary: Cooper O'Connor was a long way from home; both geographically and from the damage he caused. Now that he's back, is healing possible? At the age of eighteen, singer/songwriter Cooper O'Connor thumbed his nose at his dad, stole most everything he held dear, and made his way to Nashville, where he promptly lost everything. After five difficult years, he fell in love with Daley Cross, an angelic...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction MarMartin, Charles
Summary: "A radical retelling of the story of the prodigal son takes the reader from tent revivals to the Ryman Auditorium to the tender relationship between a broken man and the father who never stopped calling him home"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARTurner, Mick.
Contents: All gone -- Sometimes -- Long way home -- Don't tell the driver -- Gone dreaming -- Here's a way -- The Navigator -- Over waves -- The bird catcher -- We're not going home -- The last song.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Drag City 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TURBeah, Ishmael
Summary: "A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers that "everyone in the world should read" (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Beah 2014Beah, Ishmael
Summary: "A powerful novel about five young people, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together, from the internationally bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Hidden away from a harsh and chaotic outside world, five young people have cobbled together a home for themselves in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumult. At seventeen, Elimane, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAStaples, Stuart.
Contents: Goodbye to old friends -- There is a path -- Which way the wind -- This road is long (with Maria McKee) -- One more time -- Dance with an old man -- That leaving feeling (with Lhasa de Sela) -- Already gone -- This old town -- Pulling in to the sea.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Beggars Banquet 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK STAReed, Jerry.
Contents: The unbelievable guitar & voice of Jerry Reed. It don't work that way ; Guitar man ; You're young ; Woman shy ; I feel for you ; Take a walk ; Love man ; If I promise ; U.S. male ; Long gone ; If it comes to that ; The claw -- Nashville underground. Remembering ; A thing called love ; You wouldn't know a good thing ; Save your dreams ; Almost crazy ; You've been cryin' again ; Fine on my mind ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Real Gone Music/Sony Music Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Crosby, Stills & Nash
Contents: Suite: Judy blue eyes -- Long time gone -- Just a song before I go -- Southern cross -- Marrakesh Express -- Helplessly hoping -- Shadow captain -- Our house -- Guinnevere -- See the changes -- Teach your children -- Wooden ships -- Delta -- 49 bye-byes -- Wasted on the way -- Carry on ; Questions -- In my dreams -- Cathedral -- Daylight again.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino/Atlantic 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CRORoss, Diana
Contents: Disc 1. I want a guy (2:53) -- Buttered popcorn (2:33) -- Your heart belongs to me (2:36) -- Let me go the right way (2:30) -- A breath taking guy (2:24) -- Long gone lover (2:24) -- When the lovelight starts shining through his eyes (2:37) -- Send me no flowers (2:29) -- Where did our love go (2:33) -- Baby love (2:35) -- Come see about me (2:40) -- Stop! in the name of love (2:52) -- Back in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Motown 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.L Brown A Von Tilzer
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadwary Music 1917
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMContents: If you knew my story -- She's gone -- Bright star -- Way back in the day -- Whoa, mama -- Firmer hand ; Do right -- A man's gotta do -- Asheville -- What could be better -- I can't wait -- Please, don't take him -- A man's gotta do (reprise) -- Entr'acte -- Sun is gonna shine -- Heartbreaker -- Another round -- I had a vision -- Always will -- So familiar -- At long last -- Finale -- Bright...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BRIFranklin, Aretha.
Contents: disc 1. Nobody like you -- Once in a while -- Maybe I'm a fool -- Muddy water -- Bill Bailey, won't you please come hom? (alternate version) -- Hard times (No one knows better than I) -- Today I sing the blues -- Won't be long -- Nobody knows the way I feel this morning -- Evil gal blues -- Lee Cross -- Walk on by -- I wonder (where you are tonight) -- God bless the child -- Blue holiday --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FRAO'Neill, Lisa
Summary: Lisa O'Neill grew up in Ballyhaise, County Cavan and now lives in Dublin. 'Heard A Long Gone Song, ' her first album for Rough Trade imprint River Lea is a collection of traditional material interspersed with her own. The sense of ownership Lisa imbues in these old songs, coupled with the immutability of her chosen subjects makes it hard to tell which is which. These are folk songs in the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018