Ryan, Pam Muñoz.
Summary: An introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, extraordinary singer and civil rights activist, who was the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, whose life and career encouraged social change.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANDAnderson, Marian
Contents: Deep river (3:03) -- City called heaven (4:58) -- Lord, I can't stay away (2:19) -- Were you there? (3:25) -- Tramping (2:51) -- My soul's been anchored (2:11) -- Heav'n heav'n (2:47) -- Sometimes I feel (3:44) -- Go down, Moses (2:51) -- O wasn't dat a wide, wide ribber (2:21) -- My old Kentucky home (3:49) -- Hard trials ; Dere's no hidin' place (2:43) -- Let us break bread together (2:05) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS ANDMcPartland, Marian.
Contents: Waltz for Debbie / Bill Evans (Evans solo) (1:33) -- Conversation (2:55) -- All of you / Cole Porter (Evans solo) (2:18) -- Conversation (:18) -- All of you / Cole Porter (duet) (:40) -- Conversation (4:14) -- In your own sweet way / Dave Brubeck (duet) (5:02) -- Conversation/demonstration: The touch of your lips / Ray Noble (Evans solo) (5:40) -- The touch of your lips / Ray Noble (duet)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jazz Alliance 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MCPNorman, Jessye.
Summary: Jessye Norman is not only one of the world's most admired and beloved opera stars--she is an American icon whose life story is as inspiring as the fictional plot triumphs she sang onstage. Born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, a descendant of many generations of hardworking slave and free ancestors, she grew up amid the challenges of Jim Crow racism, with the civil rights movement just beginning...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NORMAN, JESSYE NORMcPartland, Marian.
Contents: Sweet Georgia Brown (4:38) -- I Left My Heart In San Fransisco (5:34) -- St. Louis Blues (2:58) -- Chicago (Live) (2:53) -- Indiana (2:56) -- Manhattan (4:04) -- The Girl from Ipanema (6:59) -- Interlude (A Night in Tunisia) (3:09) -- Afternoon In Paris (5:58) -- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (2:37) -- Iberia (00:10:30) -- Bohemia After Dark (6:06) -- Israel (4:42) -- On a Slow Boat to...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Savoy Jazz 2014
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Def Leppard (Musical group)
Contents: Truth? -- Turn to dust -- Slang -- All I want is everything -- Work it out -- Breathe a sigh -- Deliver me -- Gift of flesh -- Blood runs cold -- Where does love go when it dies -- Pearl of euphoria.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DEFWilliams, Keller
Contents: Fat B (5:42) -- Newness (5:11) -- Ticks when told (4:42) -- Roshamboagogo (2:47) -- M&Ms (4:33) -- Gracias Leo (3:21) -- Sheebs (4:28) -- Sorry from the shower (4:54) -- The Cabella vibe (4:26).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: KW Enterprises 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WILHuang, Chi-Cheng.
Summary: "When Dr. Chi Huang took a year off from Harvard Medical School to work with orphans and street children in La Paz, Bolivia, he had no idea it would take only that one year to change his life forever. The son of immigrants from Taiwan, he had grown up feeling like an outsider in an alien culture, one that eventually rewarded him with a coveted spot in medical school. And then he chose to thrust...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SaltRiver 2006
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Summary: "A searingly honest and resonant debut from a Nigerian writer and queer liberation activist, exploring what love and freedom cost in a society steeped in homophobia. The inaugural title in the most buzzed-about new imprint of recent years, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is a powerful, luminous debut that establishes its young author as a masterful talent. August is a God-fearing track star who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roxane Gay Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOMSummary: In graphic design, says Marian Bantjes, injecting your individuality into a project is heresy. But Bantjes built her career doing just that, bringing her signature delicate illustrations to storefronts, valentines, even genetic diagrams. The result is a stunning body of work created at the intersection of word and form. In this TEDTalk, Bantjes discusses the processes through which she develops...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Vannier, Jean-Claude.
Summary: Exactly 40 years since the release of Histoire De Melody Nelson (his seminal and essential Serge Gainsbourg collaboration) Jean-Claude Vannier, France's most lorded arranger and composer of orchestral funk-rock and pop returns to the same artistic territory that has since come to represent his most iconic period and continually inspire five inclusive generations of experimental rock luminaries....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: B-Music 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN VANNorgren, Daniel
Contents: Blue sky moon (3:28) -- The flow (6:31) -- Dandelion time (3:48) -- The power (4:28) -- Rolling rolling rolling (4:06) -- So glad (3:54) -- Let love run the game (3:25) -- The day that's just begun (3:27) -- When I hold you in my arms (3:28) -- Wooh dang (1:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY NORO Hauerbach R Friml
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: G.Schirmer 1913
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: "The former Chairlift singer-songwriter centers her sweeping solo debut on her powerful voice, crafting love songs about the moment of surrender, the pain preceding it, and the euphoria after."--Pitchfork.com. (https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/caroline-polachek-pang/)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK POLMonson, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Monson 2019Summary: A crossover anthology depicts Kung Fu Master Shang-Chi's high-action partnerships with other fan-favorite Marvel superheroes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARAnderson, Marian
Contents: Philadelphia childhood -- Life at grandmother's -- Branching out -- Shock -- Learning how -- Up and way down -- Home of our own -- Mother -- Contest -- Step up -- First trip to Europe -- Back to Europe -- Scandinavia -- Beyond Scandinavia -- Home again -- Russia -- Easter Sunday -- Songs I sing -- Notes on the voice -- On the road -- Good companions -- Highest and the lowest -- East and West --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANDERSON, MARIAN ANDVeevers, Marian
Summary: Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in the 1770s, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, and both were influenced by the Romantic ideals of Dorothy's brother, William Wordsworth, and his friends. This book compares their upbringing and education, home lives and loves and, above all, their emotional and creative worlds. Original...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 VEEFreedman, Russell.
Summary: In the mid-1930s, Marian Anderson was a famed vocalist who had been applauded by European royalty and welcomed at the White House. But, because of her race, she was denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. This is the story of her resulting involvement in the civil rights movement of the time. "A voice like yours," celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini told contralto...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 ANDKeyes, Marian.
Summary: Surviving an illness that kept her hospitalized for months, Stella Sweeney discovers that a successful book has been published about her case that compels her to relocate to New York and pursue a career as a self-help memoirist.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KEYKeyes, Marian.
Summary: "As the youngest of the five Walsh girls, Helen has had a tough time finding her way in the world--at thirty-three, she has her job as a private investigator that has proven less than fruitful and after losing her flat, she's moved back in with Mammy Walsh. Her hunky new boyfriend, Artie, and his three adorable children are a great distraction, but his beautiful ex-wife lives a little too close...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KEYClark, Marian
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Council Oak Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 CLAKeyes, Marian.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KEYKeyes, Marian.
Summary: A collection of personal essays presents the author's reflections on life, in-laws, weight loss, driving lessons, shopping, writing, motherhood, and other whimsical calamities of life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2004