Summary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIDMathis-Lilley, Ben
Summary: "A fan's search for the truth about American history, human nature, and whether Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh will keep his job"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 MATSummary: Presents a collection of sixteen books that cover a variety of science topics--with a focus on animals--and basic concepts, as well as an activity book that ties an exercise to each volume in the set.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN GUIWilliams, Billy Dee
Summary: "Film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades-a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Contents: Radio song (6:32) -- Cinnamon tree (5:35) -- Crowned & kissed (4:34) -- Land of the free (1:54) -- Black gold (feat. Algebra Blessett, Lionel Loueke) (5:16) -- I can't help it (feat. Joe Lovano) (4:42) -- Hold on me (3:40) -- Vague suspicions (5:50) -- Endangered species (feat. Lalah Hathaway) (6:37) -- Let her (4:20) -- City of roses (4:35) -- Smile like that (4:17).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Heads Up 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SPAHorne, Jed
Summary: The true story of a car-jacking in New Orleans chronicles the death of a white housewife at the hands of a young black man and the subsequent trials, which gradually reveal a story of passion and revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 HORPerl, Jed
Summary: Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography,which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALDER, ALEXANDER PERDavis, Jed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Amato Publications 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.17 DAVHorne, Jed
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.3 HORRasula, Jed
Summary: "On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence. When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put its 34-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. "But," as Jed Rasula writes, "The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 RASBaker, Jed.
Summary: Provides an easy-to-follow, four-step model to improve your everyday relationships with the children in your life: managing your own emotions by adjusting your expectations, learning strategies to calm a meltdown in the moment, understanding why a meltdown occurs, and creating plans to prevent future meltdowns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Future Horizons Inc. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.9285 BAKPerl, Jed
Summary: "The concluding volume of the first authorized biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved of 20th century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The concluding volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CALDER, ALEXANDER PERHarris, Jim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.B. Higley 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.1331 HARLang, Hillary.
Summary: Illustrated, step-by-step instructions for 24 soft dolls, for beginner to advanced sewers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746 LANSummary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2019
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Summary: "Imagine growing up with a father known for his rich, Creole-style cooking, who instilled a love and appreciation of food from the very start. Now imagine not being able to eat most of his dishes anymore. That's what happened to Jilly and Jessie Lagasse when they were diagnosed with gluten allergies in 2001 and 2004, respectively. So they learned to adjust, changing the ways they cooked, ate,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Life & Style 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5638 LAGRichelson, Hildy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomberg Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6323 RICLindwer, Willy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRANK, ANNE LINSummary: "The Basics of Billiards is an easy to watch, easy to learn, self help video intended for newcomers interested in learning the rules, regulations, techniques, and terminologies of the game of pool. Targeted towards novices and amateurs interested in picking up pool as a new activity, viewers are educated on simply the basics of the sport. Viewers lean along with our on camera beginning pool...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Line Studios 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.73 BASCep, Casey N.
Summary: "The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019