Summary: A collection of more than 200 poems by such modern poets as Nikki Grimes, John Ciardi, Karla Kuskin, Ted Hughes, e.e. cummings, Eve Merriam, Deborah Chandra, Arnold Adoff, and more than 100 others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.5 TWEUrasawa, Naoki
Summary: "Out in the middle of Tokyo Bay, a man called Shogun is trying to break out of Umihotaru Prison, a maximum-security island fortress, so he can save the world. Accompanied by a frightened young manga artist, these two men are prepared to risk everything as their daring escape plan grows deadlier by the minute. However, the prison authorities will do whatever it takes to return Shogun and his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TWESummary: It is the story of the most influential figures of the 20th century, those who caused and those who cured our most troubled times. A parallel biography of the most significant figures of the twentieth century from the last shot fired in the First World War to the victory of Mao Zedong. A story of the power to lead and mislead, to inspire and to cause mass destruction. This is a series, at its...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TITMiller, Steve
Contents: Nobody but you baby. -- I want to make the world turn around. -- Slinky. -- Living in the 20th century. -- Maelstrom. -- I wanna be loved (but by only you). -- My babe. -- Big boss man. -- Caress me baby. -- Ain't that lovin' you baby. -- Behind the barn.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MILPrincess Superstar
Contents: Intro: last of the great 20th century composers -- Do it like a robot -- Meet you halfway (Keep it on the alright) -- I hope I sell a lot of records at Christmastime -- Come up to my room (feat. Baron Ricks) -- Kool Keith's A♯! -- Bump your A♯ off (feat. ChessTBunz, Slick Muffins & Brock) -- NYC C--T -- Year two thousand (feat. John Forte) -- Love/hate to be a player -- Sex (I like) -- Do it...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Corrupt Conglomerate 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP PRIMisty, Father John
Summary: Father John Misty returns with his fifth album and first new material since the release of God's Favorite Customer in 2018. It was written and recorded from August through December 2020 and features arrangements by Drew Erickson. The album sees Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, and producer/multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Wilson resume their longtime collaboration, with Dave Cerminara...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FATSummary: This program describes a great musical culture in decline in turn-of-the-century Vienna, and discusses how that decline led to the musical revolution whose reverberations are still felt today. Names like Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg still strike terror in the hearts of many concert-goers. With the help of Simon Rattle, however, we hear in their powerful, brooding music the collapse of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Contents: v. 1. Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman -- v. 2. Herman Melville to Stickney. American Indian poetry. Folk songs and spirituals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.308 American 1993Summary: This final episode describes the Cold War as a continuation of the “war of the world” in which millions died in proxy wars conducted by the two superpowers. World War II may have been the central act of an epic struggle between rival empires, but the Cold War continued the turbulence that marked the entire 20th century as the most violent period in history. The end of the Cold War led to great...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Velvet Underground (Musical group)
Contents: I'm waiting for the man -- Run run run -- Heroin -- White light/white heat -- Sister Ray -- Beginning to see the light -- What goes on -- Pale blue eyes -- I can't stand it -- Sweet Jane -- Rock and roll.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VELT. Rex (Musical group)
Contents: Debora -- One inch rock -- King of the rumbling spires -- By the light of a magical moon -- Elemental child -- Ride a white swan -- Summertime blues -- Jewel -- Beltane walk -- Hot love -- Bang a gong (get it on) -- Raw ramp -- Cosmic dancer -- Jeepster -- Telegram Sam -- Metal guru -- Mystic lady -- The slider -- Children of the revolution -- Solid gold easy action -- Born to boogie -- 20th...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Enterprises 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TRELiulevicius, Vejas G.
Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 UTOCall number: DVD 909 UTO PART 1
Call number: DVD 909 UTO PART 2
Summary: State-sanctioned violence has always existed, but technological advances have facilitated its use as a viable means of exerting political power. This program continues the examination of the history of genocide, focusing on the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, the 1923 Rosewood Massacre, Stalin's forced Ukrainian famine, the Japanese Rape of Nanking, and the Holocaust. A host of survivors, experts, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Funk Brothers
Contents: The way you do the things you do -- Come see about me -- All for you -- Too many fish in the sea -- How sweet it is (to be loved by you) -- I can't help myself (sugar pie, honey bunch) -- Soul stomp -- 6 by 6 -- Runaway child, running wild -- The stingray -- What's going on (instrumental) (Marvin Gaye) -- Papa was a rolling stone (instrumental) (Temptations).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Motown 2004
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FunParliament (Musical group)
Contents: P-funk (wants to get funked up) (7:39) -- Give up the funk (Tear the roof off the sucker) (5:44) -- Flash light (5:46) -- Dr. Funkenstein (5:42) -- Up for the down stroke (5:07) -- Chocolate city (5:35) -- Bop gun (Endangered species) (8:28) -- Testify ('74 version) (4:03) -- Aqua boogie (A psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop) (6:41) -- Mothership connection (Star child) (6:12) -- Agony of DeFeet...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 2000
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES PARSummary: In the first decades of the 20th century, Brazilian avant-garde literature came into its own. This program examines the awakening of Modernismo and subsequent movements in Brazilian letters, from Sao Paulo's Week of Modern Art in 1922 to the politically focused milieu of the 1970s. Outlining historical events that helped shape the country's multifaceted culture, the program explores the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Temptations (Musical group)
Contents: My girl -- The way you do the things you do -- Beauty is only skin deep -- Get ready -- Ain't too proud to beg -- You're my everything -- I'm gonna make you love me / with Diana & The Supremes -- Cloud nine -- (I know) I'm losing you -- I wish it would rain -- I can't get next to you.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Motown 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES TEMContents: The girl from Ipanema -- Desafinado -- Só danco samba -- Insensatez -- Amor em paz -- Água de beber -- Samba de uma nota só -- Wave -- Tide -- Waters of March -- Corcovado -- Passarim.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Enterprises 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN JOBFour Tops (Musical group)
Contents: Baby I need your loving (2:44) -- Ask the lonely (2:41) -- I can't help myself (sugar pie, honey bunch) (2:43) -- Reach out I'll be there (2:59) -- Standing in the shadows of love (2:38) -- Bernadette (3:02) -- Shake me, wake me (when it's over) (2:39) -- Walk away Renee (2:43) -- If I were a carpenter (2:49) -- Still water (love) (3:11) -- Ain't no woman (like the one I've got) (3:02).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Motown 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FOUSummary: An anthology of poems for children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hutchinson 1998