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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYSummary: "In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEYSummary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRIBacharach, Burt.
Contents: What the world needs now is love (Sweet Inspirations) -- Walk on by (Morgana King) -- I'll never fall in love again (Ella Fitzgerald) -- Promise her anything (Marty Paich) -- Long after tonight is all over (Paris Sisters) -- Don't go breaking my heart (Sergio Mendes) -- Don't make me over (Dionne Warwick) -- Let the music play (The Drifters) -- The look of love (The Meters) -- Don't say I...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Jazz 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WHASummary: Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Family WishCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WISTreetop Flyers (Musical group)
Contents: You, darling you -- Sleepless nights -- Lady luck -- It's a shame -- Dance through the night -- St. Andrw's Cross -- Falling back-- Fairytales & Lullabies -- 31 years -- Never been as hard -- Wild winds
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Loose Music
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TREMyers, Walter Dean
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.8 MYECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 998 MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: A biography of the civil rights leader offers an in-depth look at his life and includes quotes from speeches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB MALCOLM X MYEPeters, Alan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Linden Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.1 PETMeters
Contents: You've got to change (you've got to reform) -- Stay away -- Birds -- The flower song -- Soul island -- Do the dirt -- Smiling -- Lonesome and unwanted people -- Gettin' funkier all the time -- Cabbage Alley -- People say -- Love is for me -- Just kissed my baby -- What'cha say -- Jungle man -- Hey pocky a-way -- It ain't no use -- Loving you is on my mind -- Africa -- Out in the country -- Fire...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Entertainment Company 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES METSummary: Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels to the African mountains to study rare mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1999
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Summary: A regiment of African American soldiers from Harlem travels across the Atlantic to fight alongside the French in World War I, and inspires an entire continent with their unique brand of jazz music.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 940.4 MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad/HarperTempest 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Pictures and easy-to-read text introduce the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen/Amistad 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTempest 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Myers 2013Myers, Walter Dean
Summary: This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MyersMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Biography of Walter Dean Myers which describes the details of his Harlem childhood in the 1940s and 1950s: a loving home life with his adopted parents, Bible school, street games, and the vitality of his neighborhood. Although Walter spent much of his time either getting into trouble or on the basketball court, secretly he was a voracious reader and an aspiring writer. But as his prospects for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 813.54 MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: A blues poem that revisits the history of the African American experience.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 811 MYEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of Frederick Douglass, a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become a leader in the abolitionist movement, a celebrated writer, an esteemed speaker, and a social reformer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: The true story of the African American heroes of World War I, the soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment, dubbed the Harlem Hellfighters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006