Promised Land Sound.
Contents: Storm -- Empty vase -- Make it through the fall -- Weed and wind -- Understand -- For his soul -- Wandering habits -- Money man -- River no more -- Fadin' fast.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Paradise Of Bachelors 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PROSummary: In the wilderness after a dramatic escape from Egypt, the story of the Hebrew people reaches a pivotal moment - one in which uncertainty and desperation threaten to derail the dream of a Promised Land. This program features author Bruce Feiler’s re-creation of that ancient, 40-year struggle for survival. Reflecting on places where God is said to have provided food and water for the Israelites,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Promised Land Sound (Musical group)
Contents: Push and pull (all the time) -- She takes me there -- Otherworldly pleasures -- Through the seasons -- Dialogue -- Oppression -- Golden child -- Canfield drive -- Better company -- Northern country scene -- Within sight.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Paradise of Bachelors 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PRODenton, Sally
Summary: "A shocking massacre in 2019 sparks a probing investigation into the strange, violent history of a polygamist Mormon outpost in Mexico. A harmless, unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen in northern Mexico on November 4, 2019. In a massacre that produced international headlines, nine people were killed and five others gravely injured. The victims were members of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 DENSummary: In this video, author David K. Shipler returns to Israel to revisit the issues of his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. In that book, Shipler explored fundamental conflicts and tensions dividing Israel in 1988. In this program, Shipler returns to visit Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs from that documentary and re-examines the deeply symbolic and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Bishop, Patrick (Patrick Joseph)
Summary: "One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits the death of Zionist leader Avraham Stern-- head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang-- at the hand of a British policeman during WW II"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 BISSummary: Since NAFTA, goods flow more freely from Mexico-but not people, although a million try to slip across the U.S. border each year. In this program, children of desperately poor families share the stories of their hardships and the choices they have made. For some, childhood means heavy labor as migrant workers in northern Mexico, while for others it means gang life on the streets of Tijuana. Yet...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Franklin, John Hope
Summary: Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. This book offers a portrait of her extended family and of the life of slaves before the Civil War. Based on family letters as well as an autobiography by one of her sons, the detective work follows a singular group as they walk the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 FRAQueensryche
Contents: 9:28 a.m. (1:43) -- I am I (3:56) -- Damaged (3:55) -- Out of mind (4:34) -- Bridge (3:27) -- Promised land (8:25) -- Disconnected (4:48) -- Lady Jane (4:23) -- My global mind (4:20) -- One more time (4:17) -- Someone else? (4:38).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK QUEWe Were Promised Jetpacks (Musical group)
Contents: Circles and squares -- Medicine -- Through the dirt and the gravel -- Act on impulse -- Hard to remember -- Picture of health -- Sore thumb -- Boy in the backseat -- Human error -- Pear tree.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: FatCat Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WEBuruma, Ian.
Summary: "A family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world wars. During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film director John Schlesinger's parents, were, like so many others, thoroughly sundered from each...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BURMcCaulley, Esau
Summary: "From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for meaning and a place to call home in the American South. For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books, an imprint of Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCShavit, Ari
Summary: "Drawing on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family's story, My Promised Land is a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and profound historical dimensions. As Ar Shavit examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, he asks difficult but important questions: why did Israel come to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.05 SHALand, Stephanie
Summary: Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, took classes online to earn a college degree. And she wrote relentlessly: true stories of overworked and underpaid Americans; of living on food stamps and WIC coupons. Here...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAND, STEPHANIE LANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LAND LANLand, Harold.
Contents: So in love / Cole Porter (5:58) -- Triple trouble / Amos Trice (5:46) -- Slowly / Raskin, Giell (6:59) -- On a little street in Singapore / Hill, De Rose (7:07) -- Okay blues / Harold Land (12:23).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jazzland Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LandParini, Jay.
Contents: Of Plymouth Plantation -- The Federalist papers -- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- The journals of Lewis and Clark -- Walden-- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The souls of black folk -- The promised land -- How to win friends and influence people -- The common sense book of baby and child care -- On the road -- The feminine mystique -- 100 more books that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.7 PARJen, Gish.
Summary: Unhappy with her own ethnic group, Mona Chang, a Chinese-American, decides to become a Jew. After all, if one has to live as a minority, choose the best. A witty look at ethnicity, multiculturalism and the melting pot. By the author of Typical American.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENHoney, Michael K
Summary: "Fifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the world's most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. [This book] goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King Jr. as an advocate of racial harmony, to explore his profound commitment to the poor and working class and his call for 'nonviolent resistance' to all forms of oppression--including the economic injustice that 'takes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 HONSummary: "Red Dwarf: The Promised Land is the thirteenth outing of the legendary sci-fi comedy. It reunites the original cast of Chriss Barrie (Rimmer), Craig Charles (Lister), Danny John-Jules (Cat), Robert Llewellyn (Kryten) and sees the return of Holly (Norman Lovett) the much loved ship's computer. Three million years ago... David Lister, a vending machine repairman, was sentenced to eighteen months...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REDBlack 47 (Musical group)
Contents: Trouble in the land (4:00) -- Those saints (4:40) -- Delirious (3:59) -- Bobby Kennedy (4:30) -- Tramps heartbreak (6:40) -- Bodhrans on the brain (3:59) -- I got laid on James Joyce's grave (3:33) -- Susan falls apart (4:35) -- Desperate (4:11) -- Fallin' off the edge of America (5:21) -- Touched by fire (4:50) -- Blood is thicker than water (4:39).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie Entertainment Corp. 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BLAContents: Oh! Chicago (the Yayhoos) -- Evening gown (Alejandro Escovedo) -- Making love with you (Old 97's) -- Favorite (Neko Case & Jon Rauhouse) -- Roses are blooming (the Hollisters) -- Oh lonesome me (Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel) -- Sunshine (the Meat Purveyors) -- Money to burn (Rico Bell & the Snakehandlers) -- I hear a sweet voice calling (the Handsome Family) -- Easy ridin' mama (Devil in a...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodshot Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DowWariner, Ruth.
Summary: The true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist family. Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. At church, preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by destroying the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARINER, RUTH WARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio WarinerWaterboys
Contents: Let it happen -- The Charlatan's lament -- Is she conscious -- We are Jonah -- It's all gone -- My love is my rock in the Weary Land -- Lucky Day/Bad Advice -- His work is not his bond -- Malediction -- Dumbing down the world -- The wind in the wires -- Night falls on London -- Crown -- My Lord, what a morning.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Razor & Tie Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WATBlack, Frank
Contents: Blast off -- I've seen your picture -- St. Francis Dam disaster -- Robert onion -- Stupid me -- Bullet -- The swimmer -- Hermaphroditos -- I'll be blue -- Llando del Rio -- If it takes all night -- Dog in the sand.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: What Are Records 2000