White, Tony Joe
Contents: Hoochie woman -- The bad wind -- Rain crow -- The opening of the box -- Right back in the fire -- The middle of nowhere -- Conjure child -- Where do they go -- Tell me a swamp story.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WHIKing, David C.
Summary: ""Ahlaan bikum fi eamman"-Welcome to Oman, a country of contrasts. Located on the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East, Oman straddles the old and the new, the traditional with the modern. Camels and horses vie with cars and buses for room on the roads. Mosques made for worshipers share the land with motels made for tourists. Multiple cups of kahwa, or coffee mixed with cardamom, are served...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 953.53 KINSummary: As with many historic American figures of the 19th century, Sojourner Truth's story is incomplete and somewhat mythical, a fact compounded by her having been born a slave. This detailed program traces the lifelong odyssey of a woman who literally walked out of bondage, changed her name in 1843, and traveled the country as an abolitionist and women's rights advocate. Along the way she would meet...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Celtic Woman (Musical group)
Contents: Last rose of summer (intro) ; Walking in the air -- May it be -- Isle of Inisfree -- Danny Boy -- One world -- Ave Maria -- Send me a song -- Siuil a run (Walk my love) -- Orinoco flow -- Someday -- She moved thru' the fair -- Nella fantasia -- The butterfly -- Harry's game -- The soft goodbye -- You raise me up -- Bonus live tracks: The Ashoken farewell ; The contradiction -- Si do mhaimeo i...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Manhattan Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD WM CelticAtakora, Afia
Summary: "Like her mother, Rue is an all-knowing midwife, healer, and conjurer of curses on the plantation of Marse Charles. Moving back and forth in time between the years before and after the Civil War, this novel tells the story of Rue, the families she cares for, and the mysteries and secrets she knows about the plantation owner's daughter, Varina. At the heart of this story is the intimate bonds...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction AtakoraCrigger, C. K.
Summary: "It's hard to deny friends asking for help -- even when it means stepping headlong into danger. As a sort of left-over deputy from a previous adventure, January Billings is compelled to answer the call when a valuable gun is stolen from the local mercantile, and the storekeeper viciously assaulted. The town marshal is out of action and the sheriff is an ineffectual fool. What else can she do...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: Wonder Woman--DC Comics' greatest female superhero--flies onto our What Is the Story Of? list. She is a founding member of the Justice League, a goddess, and an ambassador of the Amazonian people. Wonder Woman burst onto the comic book scene during World War II. For more than seventy years, she has been fighting for equality, power, and truth with her lasso of truth in one hand and her sword in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 741.5 KORCrigger, C. K.
Summary: "Shay Billings and January Schutt have been married four months when he's summoned by the local bank president to a meeting. With the final payment due on his land, Shay rides to town for the meeting, then is murdered on the way home . . . The bank president declares the loan in arrears and informs January the bank is taking everything except the clothes on her back. Devastated by Shay's death,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRICaspers, Nona
Summary: Years after Casperss unnamed narrator loses her first lover in a tragic accident, she finds herself wondering, "What did she want from me? What are the things that matter?" In vivid, richly detailed vignettes, the book tracks the cyclical nature of grief and remembrance across a life fractured by loss. At times dryly comical, at other times radiantly surreal, The Fifth Woman is a testament to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASCherish the Ladies (Musical group)
Contents: The jolly seven ; The rascal on the haystack ; Bonkers in Yonkers : reels -- Sweet Thames flow softly : song -- Carolan's favorite jig ; The rakes of Cashel ; Highland march in Oscar & Malvina : jigs -- Bogie's bonnie belle : song -- Woman of the house medley. The fairy queen ; The gooseberry bush ; Paddy Kelly's ; Woman of the house -- The hills of New Zealand -- Betsy Belle and Mary Gray :...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN CHERucka, Greg
Summary: When Danielle Wellys invokes the ritual of Hiketeia, Wonder Woman takes her on as student and servant and, by the laws of the gods, must protect her even against Batman, who wishes to bring Danielle to justice for past crimes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2002
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WONHarrison, Jim
Summary: Novellas comprising a sweeping tribute to the nation's heartland and the colorful, courageous characters who inhabit it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HARStilton, Thea
Summary: Young readers can join Thea Stilton, a special correspondent for The Rodent's Gazette, as she and the Thea Sisters spend the holidays in Rome.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STISummary: In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about Roman Catholicism with Cardinal William H. Keeler, Archbishop of Baltimore. Topics of discussion include who Jesus Christ is, from a Catholic perspective; the concept of the Trinity; the seven sacraments; the purpose and meaning of the Mass; what makes a Catholic a Catholic; and the effect of cultural secularization on the Church. In...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Harrison, Jim
Summary: Novellas comprising a sweeping tribute to the nation's heartland and the colorful, courageous characters who inhabit it.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARGreen Day
Contents: Brutal love -- Missing you -- 8th Avenue serenade -- Drama queen -- X-Kid -- Sex, drugs & violence -- A little boy named Train -- Amanda -- Walk away -- Dirty rotten bastards -- 99 revolutions -- The forgotten.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GREJohnston, Johanna.
Summary: Presents portraits of fourteen American women who played important roles in American history, including Emma Willard, Abigail Adams, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2004
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Summary: What does it mean to be a "woman" in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God's plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the impact of such recent events as #metoo, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the election of Kamala Harris as vice president,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 FADCrigger, C. K.
Summary: "When January Billings receives a letter informing her not only of the death of a grandfather she knew nothing about, but also that a meeting with his attorney would be to her best advantage, she is both angry and intrigued. Eli Pasco convinces her to follow up on the matter. A second note warning her to stay away or else it might "prove bad for her health" only makes the decision easier....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: The author's premise is that within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. Here, the author unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398 ESTSudbanthad, Pitchaya
Summary: "A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings and losses past, present, and future. A nineteenth-century missionary doctor pines for the comforts of New England even as he finds the vibrant foreign chaos...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUDMann, Elizabeth.
Summary: Describes the building of the Colosseum in ancient Rome, and tells how it was used.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mikaya Press ; Willowdale, Ont. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 937.6 MANWright, Jennifer
Summary: "A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered--for revenge, for love, and even for pleasure--rife with historical details that will have any true crime junkie on the edge of their seat"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 WRIHowlin' Wolf
Contents: I ain't superstitious -- Sittin' on top of the world -- Build for confort -- The red rooster -- Highway 49 -- Cause of it all -- Poor boy -- Commit a crime -- Wang-dang-doodle -- Do the do -- Worried about my baby -- Rockin' daddy -- What a woman -- Who's been talking?
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Olympic Sound Studios 1991