Summary: Over the past sixteen years, an extraordinary group of musicians has come together to celebrate the universal power of music. Named for the ancient trade route linking Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Silk Road Ensemble, an international collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma, exemplifies music's ability to blur international boundaries, blend disparate cultures, and inspire hope for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MUSChang, Jung
Summary: The most famous sisters in China, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power during a time of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations. Red Sister, Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen; Little Sister, May-ling, became Madame Chiang Kai-shek; Big Sister, Ei-Ling, became Chiang's unofficial main adviser, and made herself one of China's richest women.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CHAWinder, Elizabeth
Summary: The Rolling Stones's innovative music and iconic performances defined a generation. Behind these larger-than-life rock stars were four women who inspired, styled, wrote for, remixed, and ultimately helped create their legend. Winder profiles the contributions that Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, and Anita Pallenberg made to the Rolling Stones, transforming them into...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 WINCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Contents: Pre-road downs -- Our house -- 49 bye-byes -- Long time gone -- Helplessly hoping -- Wooden ships -- Guinnevere -- Suite: judy blue eyes -- Marrakesh express -- Country girl -- You don't have to cry -- 4 + 20 -- Deja vu -- Cut my hair -- Helpless -- Teach your children -- Carry on -- Everybody i love you -- Lady of the island
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Publications 1970
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 782.4 CRORajput, Minoti
Summary: Rajput, a certified financial planner, has spent the last thirty years helping parents of children with special needs to plan for their retirement and the long-term care of their children. This book shares stories from her experiences and offers advice to families in similar circumstances.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.151 RAJTaylor, D. J. (David John)
Summary: "Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II."--Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 TAYBynum, Victoria E.
Summary: Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 BYNLassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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Summary: "An inspiring graphic novel about Jane Kendeigh, a nurse who helped wounded soldiers in combat zones during World War II. During World War II, the United States' fight against the Japanese on islands in the Pacific was intense and deadly. To help respond to casualties in battle, the U.S. Navy trained 122 nurses to aid wounded soldiers in combat zones. The first nurse to do so was Jane Kendeigh,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KENJones, Doug (G. Douglas)
Summary: "The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 JONRobertson, Robbie
Summary: Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation. Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker's message of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROBAllison, Courtney.
Summary: "Who doesn't want a delicious, home-cooked meal to appear magically at their doorstep on a chilly evening? But work, kids, and life get in the way, even in the most well-intentioned homes. In The Soup Club Cookbook four moms show how to make this fantasya reality with 150 recipes for soups from favorites (Jewish Chicken Noodle, Italian Wedding) to fancy (Sunchoke Bisque, Sengalese Peanut), and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.813 ALLVolger, Lukas
Summary: "Flavorful vegetarian versions of America's favorite one-dish meals: ramen, pho, bibimbap, dumplings, and burrito bowls A restorative bowl of vegetarian ramen sent Lukas Volger on a quest to capture the full flavor of all the one-bowl meals that are the rage today--but in vegetarian form. With the bowl as organizer, the possibilities for improvisational meals full of seasonal produce and herbs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5631 VOLFraser, Antonia
Summary: The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis's accomplishments and follies, exploring in detail his intimate relationships with women. The king's mother, Anne of Austria, had been in a childless marriage for 22 years before she gave birth to Louis XIV. A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOUSummary: When a trio of witches prophesy Macbeth's ascension to the throne, Lady Macbeth pushes her husband into a murderous spree. But once crowned king of Scotland, Macbeth sees ghastly visions, fueled by guilt and a new prophecy, that ensure his ultimate downfall.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2004
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS MACWolfe, Missy.
Summary: An historical account of the early history of Greenwich, Conn., as told through the words of Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot Press 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.374 WOLTaylor, James
Contents: Anywhere like heaven -- Blossom -- The blues is just a bad dream -- Brighten your night with my day -- Carolina on my mind -- Circle round the sun -- Country road -- Don't talk now -- Fire and rain -- Knocking 'round the zoo -- Lo and behold -- Night owl -- Oh baby don't loose your lip on me -- Oh Susanna -- Rainy day man -- Something in the way she moves -- Something's wrong -- Steam roller --...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4 TAYSimon, Paul
Contents: At the zoo -- The Big bright green pleasure machine -- Cloudy -- The 59th Street Bridge song (Feeling' groovy) -- For Emily, whenever I may find her -- A Hazy shade of winter -- I wish you could be here -- Patterns -- A Poem on the underground wall -- Scarborough fair/Canticle -- Someday, one day -- Wednesday morning, 3 a.m. -- You don't know where your interest lies.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Charing Cross Music 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.8 SIMFremon, Celeste.
Summary: This paperback edition of the book originally published in 1995 updates us on the lives of the East Los Angeles homeboys with whom Father Greg Boyle continues to work, allowing for an analysis as to how some former gang members are able to make it out, while others are not.--From publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 259.5092 FREClapton, Eric.
Contents: After midnight -- Anyday -- Badge -- Bell Bottom blues -- Blues power -- Born under a bad sign -- Bottle of red wine -- Carnival -- Comin' home -- Crossroads -- Do what you like -- Easy now -- Got to get better in a little while -- Have you ever loved a woman -- Hello old friend -- I feel free -- I shot the sheriff -- I've told you for the last time -- Key to the highway -- Lay down Sally --...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chappell/Intersong Music Group--USA 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4 CLA1 available in Oversize, Call number: 782.4 CLA
Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon)
Summary: " ... A large number of Native leaders were well acquainted with city life. In fact, over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were in town often, regularly traveling to Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York and New Orleans -- primarly to conduct diplomatic or trade business, but often from a sense of curiosity and adventure. Some were even...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.2 CALRichards, Keith
Summary: Keith Richards, one of the Rolling Stones' founding members, opens up about his childhood, rise to superstardom, and personal life. From his turbulent relationships, including his well-publicized estrangement from and reconciliation with Stones' front man Mick Jagger, to his drug shenanigans that made even more of a legend amongst his fans, Richards tells all in this poignant biography.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2010