Summary: In this documentary, Che Smith (a.k.a. Rhymefest, the Grammy-winning rapper) reunites with his father, an alcoholic living on the streets of Chicago, and struggles to deliver him to safety and an existence that is productive and meaningful, in essence, taking responsibility for the man who had abandoned him as a young child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INO'Connor, Joseph
Summary: In German-occupied Rome during World War II, as diplomats, refugees and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, a small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest risk everything, including their lives, to help thoseseeking refuge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'COMonson, Stacy.
Summary: "When the truth cost her everything, she thought there was nothing left to lose. Mikayla Gordon loves nothing more than sleeping under the stars, reeling in the "big one," and long hikes in the wilderness. A medical crisis reveals a 30-year-old secret that turns everything she's known and believed upside down, unraveling her dreams and her identity. In search of answers, she follows a trail...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: His Image Publications 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Monson 2019Wagner, Mirel
Contents: 1234 -- The dirt -- Ellipsis -- Oak tree -- In my father's house -- Dreamt of a wave -- The devil's tongue -- What love looks like -- Taller than tall trees -- Good night.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WAGSpringsteen, Bruce.
Contents: Nebraska -- Atlantic City -- Mansion on the hill -- Johnny 99 -- Highway patrolman -- State trooper -- Used cars -- Open all night -- My father's house -- Reason to believe.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1982
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SPRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SprRoberts, Steven V.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.9 ROBSummary: One of television's police dramas, Naked City puts a human face on crime, going beyond a simplistic portrayal of good vs. evil to delve into the complex personal dramas of the people involved.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NAKSpringsteen, Bruce
Contents: Baby I -- You can't judge a book by the cover -- He's guilty (The judge song) -- The ballad of Jesse James -- Henry boy -- Growin' up -- 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) -- Born to run -- Badlands -- The river -- My father's house -- Born in the U.S.A. --Brilliant disguise -- Living proof -- The ghost of Tom Joad -- The rising -- Long time comin' -- Wrecking ball.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Bmg Music 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SPRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SPR POP/ROCKSpringsteen, Bruce
Contents: Growin' up (intro) ; Growin' up (song) -- My hometown (intro) ; My hometown (song) -- My father's house (intro) ; My father's house (song) -- The wish (intro) ; The wish (song) -- Thunder Road (intro) ; Thunder Road (song) -- The promised land (intro) ; The promised land (song) -- Born in the U.S.A. (intro) ; Born in the U.S.A. (song) -- Tenth Avenue freeze-out (intro) ; Tenth Avenue freeze-out...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SPRAllen, Kendra
Summary: "Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ALLSpringsteen, Bruce.
Summary: Commemorating Bruce Springsteen's twenty-five years as a recording artist, here is a panoramic view of his career in a form never seen before.This is the complete collection of Bruce Springsteen's recorded lyrics, illustrated with hundreds of never-before-published images from some of rock & roll journalism's greatest photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, David Gahr, Lynn Goldsmith, Bruce...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 SPRGannett, Ruth Stiles.
Summary: A young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1987
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GANCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GANMirren, Helen.
Summary: An illustrated account of the life and career of the esteemed actress traces her Russian ancestry and early life through her numerous achievements in a variety of performance venues.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MIRREN, HELEN MIRFinn, William
Contents: Act one, March of the falsettos. Four Jews in a room bitching ; A tight-knit family/Love is blind ; The thrill of first love ; Marvin at the psychiatrist : a three-part mini-opera ; My father's a homo/Everyone tells Jason to see a psychiatrist ; This had better come to a stop ; I'm breaking down ; Please come to our house/Jason's therapy ; A marriage proposal/A tight-knit family (reprise) ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016