Waldron, Melanie
Summary: "Roots carry out vital jobs for all flowering plants, they collect water and nutrients and help to hold plants in place. This book provides readers with a complete and comprehensive understanding of the role of roots, their structure and how they are brilliantly designed to do these jobs. Clear diagrams, engaging text, and stunning photographs are used to explain how strong roots can be, how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Raintree 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 580 WALSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOHaley, Alex.
Summary: This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1976
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 HALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 HALCarr, Ian.
Contents: Disc one. Labyrinth. Origins ; Bull dance ; Ariadne ; Arena (Part 1) ; Arena (Part 2) ; Exultation ; Naxos -- Disc two. Roots. Roots ; Images ; Caliban ; Whapatiti ; Capricorn ; Odokamona ; Southern roots and celebration.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Beat Goes On Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CARSellars, Tracy Michelle
Summary: The only witness to a framed murder, Summer Edwards is suddenly sorry she defied her parents’ wishes to visit her beloved aunt Elizabeth. She wanted freedom and adventure but soon finds all of the truth from her past is a lie to protect her future. Caught in uncovering the devastating facts, Summer’s heart and life tangle with a desperate Pinkerton Agent who will stop at nothing to bring all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: CrossRiver Media, 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SELMack B.
Contents: Roots ragga -- Sex machine -- Don't drink too much -- Revelation time -- Big Mack -- Devil dance -- Rodney King medley -- One man one vote -- Unemployment blues -- Proud to be black -- (Racists) back off -- Buppie -- Respect to our mothers -- partheid.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RAS Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE MACManuva, Roots.
Contents: Hard Bastards -- Crying -- Facety 2:11 -- Don't Breathe Out -- Cargo -- Stepping Hard -- Me Up! -- One Thing -- I Know Your Face -- Fighting For?.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Big Dada Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ROORoots Manuva.
Contents: Man fi cool -- Highest grade dub -- Revolution 5 -- Styles dub -- Tears -- Dreamy days SFA dub -- The lynch -- Brand new dub -- UK warriors -- Witness dub.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Big Dada Recordings 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC RootsRival Sons (Musical group)
Contents: Do your worst -- Sugar on the bone -- Back in the woods -- Look away -- Feral roots -- Too bad -- Stood by me -- Imperial joy -- All directions -- The end of forever -- Shooting stars.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RIVHill, Andrew
Contents: Grass roots (5:39) -- Venture inward (4:44) -- Mira (6:17) -- Soul special (8:20) -- Bayou red (7:43) -- MC (9:08) -- Venture inward (first version) (4:31) -- Soul special (first version) (8:48) -- Bayou red (first version) (5:55) -- Love nocturne (7:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HILSummary: Anthropologist, teacher, first black student to attend Barnard College, author associated with the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston is best known for her acclaimed novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. This program follows Hurston’s biography, beginning with her childhood in a subtropical paradise in the South that inspired her throughout her life. This documentary includes interviews with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Roots (Musical group)
Contents: No hometro/proceed 2 / feat. Roy Ayers -- Distortion to static (black thought mix) -- What they do -- Next movement -- Good music -- Lesson / feat. Dice Raw -- Star -- Hypnotic / feat. D'Angelo -- Silent treatment -- You got me / feat. Jill Scott and Eve -- Clones / feat. MARS and Dice Raw -- What you want / feat. Jaguar Wright -- Act too (love of my life) / feat. Common -- Do you want more...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP ROOGrass Roots (Musical group)
Contents: Where were you when I needed you -- Let's live for today -- Things I should have said -- Midnight confessions -- Bella Linda -- The river is wide -- Wait a million years -- Heaven knows -- Baby hold on -- Temptation eyes -- Sooner or later -- Two divided by love.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA 2001
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Contents: Pink & sour -- Spider's house -- Sunday noises -- Eye you lost in the crusades -- Chinese actor -- Our kitten sees ghosts -- Alice Crawley -- Orchids -- Burned by the Christians -- Black metal valentine -- Rose-petal-ear -- 3 legged animals -- If you would.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Thrill Jockey 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CalifSummary: A documentary film that covers the years that the future members of Led Zep were struggling in the session studios and amateur band scenes of the 1960s, moving through the modest success of outfits like The Yardbirds and Band Of Joy and culminating in Led Zeppelin's first two albums as a band verging on huge global domination.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC LEDCollins, Ailynn
Summary: "Xenia is new to Ravens Pass and reluctantly she sets out to explore the forest behind her house with the strange girl, Zephyr--but the ancient trees are hungry, and in order to survive Xenia must make a deal with the forest--and become a hunter for the trees"--OCLC.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COLMingus, Charles
Contents: Wednesday night prayer meeting -- Cryin' blues -- Moanin' -- Tensions -- My jelly roll soul -- E's flat ah's flat too.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1959
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MINJohnson, Big Jack.
Contents: Jump for joy (3:38) -- Hummingbird (4:43) -- Since I met you baby (4:44) -- Cherry tree (5:12) -- You're gonna make me cry (4:16) -- Late night with Jack (7:18) -- Too many rats (5:05) -- Going too far (5:30) -- Beale Street (3:42) -- I'm trying to do all I can (6:48) -- I wanna go home (6:08) -- So long Frank Frost (6:01).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: M.C. Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES JOHConnolly, Sheila
Summary: "A few months ago, Boston expat Maura Donovan was rekindled with her mother after more than twenty years of absence. Since then, Maura has been getting accustomed to Irish living, complete with an inherited house and a pub named Sullivan's. But now, her mother has returned--and she's brought Maura's half-sister in tow. To make matters more confusing, a handful of Cork University students are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CONConnolly, Sheila
Summary: "A few months ago, Boston expat Maura Donovan was rekindled with her mother after more than twenty years of absence. Since then, Maura has been getting accustomed to Irish living, complete with an inherited house and a pub named Sullivan's. But now, her mother has returned--and she's brought Maura's half-sister in tow. To make matters more confusing, a handful of Cork University students are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CONAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: Abandoned by her family and living in her mother's shadow, Hannah Eaton escapes to New Orleans and into the arms of Heyden Reynolds, a sexy guitar player, but the dark secrets of her past follow her to the Big Easy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDRoots (Musical group)
Contents: A peace of light (feat. Amber Coffman, Angel Deradoorian & Haley Dekle) -- Walk alone (feat. Truck North, P.O.R.N. & Dice Raw) -- Dear God 2.0 (feat. Monsters of Folk) -- Radio daze (feat. Blu, P.O.R.N. & Dice Raw) -- Now or never (feat. Phonte & Dice Raw) -- How I got over (feat. Dice Raw) -- Dillatude: the flight of Titus -- The day (feat. Blu, Phonte & Patty Crash) -- Right on (feat. Joanna...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Def Jam 2010