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African American singers Biography Juvenile literature Christian fiction Contraltos United States Biography Juvenile literature Emperor of China Qin shi huang 259 B.C.-210 B.C Drama Jing, Ke -227 B.C Drama Popular music Popular music 2011-2020 Songs (Low voice) with orchestra Spirituals (Songs) Women BiographyRyan, 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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Norgren, 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 NORVannier, 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 VANO Hauerbach R Friml
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: G.Schirmer 1913
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMonson, 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: "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 POLFreedman, 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 ANDSummary: 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 MARParsons, Marian
Summary: "Discover how to achieve your dream home on an affordable budget using these inspiring pictures, practical tips, and easy-to-implement tutorials. Most of us don't live in a dream home that was custom built to suit our tastes. We have to work with a housethat brings its own style, quirks, and personality to the table. But imagine walking into this house, but it's perfectly designed and decorated...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Worthy Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 PARCrotty, Marian
Summary: "In these nine stories, Marian Crotty inhabits the lives of people searching for human connection. Her characters, most often young women, are honest, troubled, and filled with longing. In the title story, a young woman begins a job on a construction site after leaving an abusive marriage. In "Crazy for You," two girls spy on a neighbor's sex life, while their own sexuality hovers in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Of Iowa Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROBabson, Marian.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BABKeyes, Marian.
Summary: When Anna Walsh--who has a job and husband in Manhattan--wakes up in her family's house in Dublin badly injured and with no memory of what has happened, she returns to New York to find clues to her memory loss.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEYSummary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPBroida, Marian.
Summary: Uses activities and handicraft projects to reinforce information about the clothing, architecture, writing, work, food, and religion of the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Nubians, and Hittites who lived in the Near East in ancient times.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 939.4 BROCalabro, Marian.
Summary: Uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in 1846-47.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1999