Gresh, Lois H.

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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 GRE

Summary: Documentary celebrating the intergenerational, interracial, and undeniable influence of Memphis, Tennessee on American culture and its music, bringing together award-winning Memphis and Mississippi Delta musicians for a one-of-a-kind musical project and following them through the creative process of recording a historic new album. Features Terrence Howard, William Bell, Snoop Dogg, Mavis...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TAK

Cohen, David

Summary: Traces three generations of the Bush family's lives and political careers.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2011

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 921 BUSH FAMILY COH

Rich, Doris L.

Summary: A biography of the famous aviatrix who disappeared in the South Pacific on an around-the-world flight attempt in 1937.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EARHART, AMELIA RIC

Summary: "Candyman tells the amazing true story of David Klein, an eccentric candy inventor from LA, who came up with the concept of Jelly Belly jellybeans. These colorful beans became a pop culture phenomenon, revolutionized the candy industry and were personally endorsed by Ronald Reagen. However, David s eccentric personality and peculiar sense of business led him to leave Jelly Belly just as it was...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IndiePix 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAN

Summary: An eclectic group of artists performed selections from the Bob Dylan songbook on October 16, 1992 at Madison Square Garden in New York City to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dylan's debut album.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Records 2014

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BOB

Ogas, Ogi.

Summary: "Two maverick neuroscientists use the world's largest psychology experiment-the Internet-to study the private activities of millions of men and women around the world, unveiling a revolutionary and shocking new vision of human desire that overturns conventional thinking. For his groundbreaking sexual research, Alfred Kinsey and his team interviewed 18,000 people, relying on them to honestly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Adult 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.701 GAD

Ortiz, Victoria

Summary: A biography that discusses the life and career of the popular icon and fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, providing dramatic accounts of her landmark cases.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ORT

Ovid

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1957

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 871.2 OVI

Ovid

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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 873.01 OVI

Summary: The wild no-holds barred independent American filmmakers of the '50s and '60s tell their own story in this critically acclaimed survey of exploitation and sexploitation filmmaking.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SCH

Ovid

Summary: Ovid's poem brings together an array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: 871.01 OVI

Summary: Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of love, hardship, and triumph that transcend borders and merge to form an American root system fortified by its diversity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FIN

Otis, Shuggie.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES Otis

Ruse, Michael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 231.7652 RUSE

Grush, Loren

Summary: "When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA recognized its blunder and opened the application process...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 GRU

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 GRU

Rish, Jocelyn

Summary: "This hilarious picture book examines the way animals use their brainpower for survival in the wild and encourages readers to rank animals based on their intellectual prowess"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.5 RIS

Rush, Andre

Summary: "What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents? Call Me Chef, Dammit! is the inspiring story of Andre Rush, who became an overnight sensation in 2018, after a photograph of his now-famous twenty-four-inch biceps went viral. However, his journey to that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 RUS

Moss, Otis

Summary: A guide to uplift our spirits as we work for justice in these politically turbulent times--from Reverend Otis Moss, III, Senior Pastor at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ and one of the country's most renowned and beloved spiritual and civil rights leaders. Once again, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. first observed in the 1960s, it is midnight in America--a dark time of division and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 MOS

Summary: Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIL
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIL

Kriegel, Otis.

Summary: Not your typical how-to manual for new teachers, this jargon-free guide offers a wide variety of tools and tactics for getting through every school day with grace and sanity. Covered in glue, glitter, orange juice--or worse? Make a quick change into the spare set of clothes you keep on hand for just this purpose. Butterflies in your stomach before your first-ever Meet the Teacher Night? Keep...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.144 KRI

Rush, Bobby

Summary: "Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUSH, BOBBY RUS

Rush, Tom.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1989

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK RUS