Summary: Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this documentary is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 921 BaezCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC JOA2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Kaskowitz, Sheryl
Summary: "In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest-Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 KASContents: 75-71 (3:44) -- Trixin' (2:26) -- Yellow peril (3:24) -- Ramble no more (2:56) -- Duck n' dodge (3:36) -- Roscoe (3:34) -- Misbehavin' mama (2:33) -- Heart like a scroll (2:48) -- Undertaker blues (3:41) -- Pray for rain (3:13).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MYEBolden, Tonya
Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THABird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: In the valley / (Henry Parker) -- Caddo Lake / (Dean McPhee) -- You say / (Katie Spencer) -- Heat index / (Bobby Lee) -- March rain / (Holly Blackshaw) -- (Some) trains / (Andrew DR Abbott) -- Kodak ghosts / (Hawthonn) -- Among the trees / (Chris Brain).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL FOLK IMALeon, Joel
Summary: "A beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men are and can be"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 LEOAnderson, Carlotta R.
Summary: "All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LABADIE, JO ANDSummary: This film reveals the untold story of a Filipina American garage band that morphed into the ferocious rock group Fanny, who almost became the female Beatles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FANGrindle, Merilee Serrill
Summary: "The gripping story of the trailblazing Zelia Nuttall, whose decoding of Aztec cosmology, rigorous fieldwork, and passion for collecting helped shape our understanding of Mexico's pre-Columbian past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NUTTALL, ZELIA GRINContents: The squirrel is a funny thing -- Dulcimer medley -- Along the river -- Summer rhapsody -- Waillee, waillee -- Celtic medley -- Autumn song -- Tree of life.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Celeste 1978
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL FOLK CARNimoy, Adam
Summary: "Living with Dad was like living with a stranger--as a kid I often had trouble connecting and relating to him. But I was always proud of him. Even before Star Trek I'd see him popping up in bit roles on some of my favorite TV shows like Get Smart, Sea Hunt, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. And then one night he brought home Polaroids of himself in makeup and wardrobe for a pilot he was working on....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Brown, Monica
Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROContents: Calloway -- On my way to see Nancy -- Jericho -- Torbjørn Bjellands Bruremarsj -- Hop high -- Jake's got the bellyache -- I am a pilgrim -- Ma's maw -- Poor little Mary sitting in the corner -- Father made of river mud.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL PREContents: Cajun love song (4:04) -- A heart needs a home (4:04) -- Waterloo sunset (3:54) -- Gabie's New Year's lament (4:32) -- Stolen car (4:42) -- Triste samedi = (A sad Saturday) ; A hurricane song (4:30) -- Time goes on, my love (4:44) -- Something's got a hold on me (3:12) -- Tin angel (3:33) -- Lord of the Reedy River (3:24) -- Who knows where the time goes (3:47).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL FOLK SAVHandsome Family (Musical group)
Contents: Joseph -- Two black shoes -- The king of everything -- Skunks -- The oldest water -- Mothballs -- Shady lake -- To the oaks -- Strawberry moon -- Invisible man -- Good night.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK HANCarter Family (Musical group)
Contents: Disc A. (75 min.): Bury me under the weeping willow -- Little log cabin by the sea -- The orphan child -- The storms are on the ocean -- Single girl, married girl -- The wandering boy -- Meet me by the moonlight, alone -- Little darling, pal of mine -- Keep on the sunny side -- Anchored in love -- John Hardy was a desparate little man -- I ain't goin' to work tomorrow -- Will you miss me when...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CARRiver Whyless (Musical group)
Contents: Heaven and light -- Fast like a match -- Oil skin -- Mourning dove -- Time is a holy ghost -- Call me your baby -- Promise rings -- To fight aloud is very brave -- Michigan cherry -- Bitterroot -- Young bird -- Lost in place.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RIVRogers, Lisa Jean
Summary: "A picture book biography about pioneering composer, John Cage"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CAGSpears, Britney
Summary: In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice and her truth was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SPEARS, BRITNEY SPECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 SPELazarus, Adam
Summary: "The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history. It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men--already experts in their fields--crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into Communist airspace aboard matching Panther jets. John...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LAZSummary: "As iconic a group as has ever existed, The Velvet Underground were so far ahead of their time, musically, visually and culturally, it's as if they were dropped, ready formed, into New York's avant-garde art scene, from a parallel universe. And in addition to their unique imagery, so perfectly designed by maverick artist and impresario Andy Warhol, their experiments with form and sound that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC VELPelosi, Nancy
Summary: Nancy Pelosi describes for the first time what it takes to make history, not only as the first woman to ascend to the most powerful legislative role in our nation, but to pass laws that would save lives and livelihoods, from the emergency rescue of the economy in 2008 to transforming health care. She describes the perseverance, persuasion, and respect for her members that it took to succeed,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: CD 921 PELOSI, NANCY PELFunk, McKenzie
Summary: "The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of. The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man--as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity and surprising genius. His name was Hank Asher, and his life was a strange and spectacular show that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023