Leonnig, Carol
Summary: "Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.28 LEOSummary: The Broadway musical is one of America’s great indigenous popular forms, a glorious hybrid that emerged “out of our speech, our tempo, our moral attitudes, our way of moving” (as Leonard Bernstein put it). Now, in this first volume of a landmark two-volume collection, The Library of America presents eight enduring masterpieces charting the Broadway musical’s narrative tradition from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 AMEBand (Musical group)
Summary: A comprehensive boxed set documenting The Band's recording career from 1963 to 1976, with 37 previously unreleased tracks. Includes five audio discs and a DVD featuring rare live performance footage.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Kitt, Tom
Contents: Prologue -- What if? -- It's a sign -- A map of New York -- You never know -- Ain't no man Manhattan -- What the F**k? -- Here I go -- You don't need to love me -- No more wasted time -- Surprise -- This day/Walking by a wedding -- Hey, kid -- Some other me -- Best worst mistake -- I hate you -- A map of New York (reprise) -- You learn to live without -- The moment explodes -- Love while you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC IFOkrent, Daniel
Summary: Okrent explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. This book explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.41 OKRZuckoff, Mitchell
Summary: Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US ZuckoffSummary: In 1893, the intersection of Broadway and 42nd was nobody's idea of "the crossroads of the world." But by 1913, Flo Ziegfeld had transformed the area into an entertainment mecca. This program tells Ziegfeld's story, introduces many of the era's key figures-such as Irving Berlin, Fanny Brice, Bert Williams, and George M. Cohan-and culminates with a look at Ziegfeld's 1927 production of Jerome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Fall Out Boy (Musical group)
Contents: Our lawyer made us change the name of this song so we wouldn't get sued -- Of all the gin joints in all the world -- Dance, dance -- Sugar, we're goin down -- Nobody puts Baby in the corner -- I've got a dark alley and a bad idea that says you should shut your mouth (summer song) -- 7 minutes in heaven (atavan halen) -- Sophomore slump or comeback of the year -- Champagne for my real friends,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Def Jam Music 2006
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Summary: "A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America's most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures, baseball immortal Pete Rose; and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He had compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Fall Out Boy (Musical group)
Contents: Thriller -- The take over, the breaks over -- This ain't a scene, it's an arms race -- I'm like a lawyer with the way I'm always trying to get you off (Me + you) -- Hum Hallelujah -- Golden -- Thnks fr th mmrs -- Don't you know who I think I am? -- The (after) life of the party -- The carpal tunnel of love -- Band the doldrums -- Fame < infamy -- You're crashing but you're no wave -- I've got...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Def Jam Records 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FALGreenblatt, Stephen
Summary: Stephen Greenblatt explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds and, finally, so very 'real' to millions of people even in the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 233 GREIllum Sphere (Musical group)
Contents: Liquesce -- At night (featuring Mai Nestor) -- Sleeprunner -- The earth is blind (prelude) -- The road (featuring Shadowbox) -- Ra_light -- It'll be over soon -- One letter from death -- Ghosts of then and now -- Love theme from foreverness (featuring Shadowbox) -- Lights out ; In shinjuku -- Near the end -- Embryonic (featuring Shadowbox).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ninja Tune 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ILLFall Out Boy (Musical group)
Contents: Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued (3:09) -- Of All The Gin Joints In All The World (3:11) -- Dance, Dance (3:00) -- Sugar, We're Goin Down (3:49) -- Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner (3:21) -- I've Got A Dark Alley And A Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song) (3:11) -- 7 Minutes In Heaven (Atavan Halen) (3:03) -- Sophmore Slump Or Comeback...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal/Island Def Jam 2005
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Warren, Harry
Contents: Overture -- Audition -- Young and healthy -- Shadow waltz -- Go into your dance -- You're getting to be a habit with me -- Getting out of town -- Dames -- Keep young and beautiful -- Dames (continued) -- I only have eyes for you -- We're in the money -- Act one finale -- Entr'acte -- Sunny side to every situation -- Lullaby of Broadway -- About a quarter to nine -- Overture for "Pretty lady" ;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Q Records/Atlantic 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC FORWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: Prizewinning biographer Geoffrey C. Ward brings to life the real Jack Johnson, a figure far more complex and compelling than the newspaper headlines he inspired could ever convey. Johnson battled his way from obscurity to the top of the heavyweight ranks and in 1908 won the greatest prize in American sports-one that had always been the private preserve of white boxers. At a time when whites ran...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, JACK WARSummary: Explores contemporary American music through encounters with contemporary musicians who have forged their styles out of the rich musical heritage found along the banks of the Mississippi. The combination of musical diversity and striking continuity found in this remarkable region, which slices through the center of the United States, is reflected by a range of artists including Soul Asylum,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1998
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN RIVMaslon, Laurence.
Summary: Presents a history of the Broadway musical theater, including summaries of the shows, photographs of the stars, posters, sheet music, production stills, and essays by theater luminaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bulfinch Press 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.14 KANBurrough, Bryan
Summary: "Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Every nation needs its creationmyth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.403 BURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.403 BURFall Out Boy (Musical group)
Contents: Thriller (Album Version) (3:30) -- "The Take Over, The Breaks Over" (Album Version) (3:34) -- This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race (Album Version) (3:32) -- I'm Like A Lawyer With The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You) (Album Version) (3:32) -- Hum Hallelujah (Album Version) (3:51) -- Golden (Album Version) (2:32) -- Thnks fr th Mmrs (Album Version) (3:24) -- Don't You Know Who I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ISLAND RECORDS 2007
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Fall (Musical group)
Contents: Ride away -- Pacifying joint -- What about us -- Midnight Aspen -- Assume -- Midnight Aspen reprise -- Blindness -- I can hear the grass grow -- Bo Demmick -- Youwanner -- Clasp hands -- Early days of Channel Führer -- Breaking the rules -- Trust in me.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Narnack Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FALCooper, Anderson
Summary: Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Lars Anderson comes a revealing portrait of the first family of American sports. What the Kennedys are to politics, the Mannings are to football. Two generations have produced three NFL superstars: Archie Manning, the Ole Miss hero-turned-New Orleans Saint; his son Peyton, widely considered one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game; and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ANDFrahm, Eckart
Summary: "In Assyria, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of one of the ancient world's most accomplished civilizations, the Assyrian Empire. Tracing its origins to a minor city state in present-day Iraq, Assyria at its height, around 660 BCE, stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, the first empire the world had seen. Breath-taking, belligerent conquest -- epitomized in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023