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Air America. Blues (Music) Blues (Music) Tennessee Memphis 1931-1940 Blues (Music) Tennessee Memphis To 1931 High school students Tennessee Memphis Undercover operations Undercover operations Fiction United States United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Directorate of Operations.Seletzky, Leta McCollough
Summary: In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder. He had a second identity: an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCOLLOUGH, MARRELL SELPerrusquia, Marc
Summary: The story of the double life of famed civil rights photographer Ernest Withers--and how a closely guarded government secret finally came to light, told by the journalist who broke the story. Ernest Withers captured some of the most iconic moments of the Civil Rights Movement -- from the rare photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. in repose to the haunting photo of Emmet Till's great-uncle pointing an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WITHERS, ERNEST C PERBurton, Mary (Mary T.)
Summary: "After multiple women go missing, Agent Melina Shepard of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation makes the impulsive decision to go undercover as a prostitute. While working the street, she narrowly avoids becoming a serial killer's latest victim; as much as it pains her to admit, she needs backup. Enter lone wolf FBI agent Jerrod Ramsey. Stonewalled by a lack of leads, he and Melina investigate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURDuncan, Alice Faye
Summary: Recounts the 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his final speech to strikers the night before his assassination, and details the perseverance of strikers before and after his death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 331.892 DUNWithers, Ernest C.
Summary: "Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement....
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Publisher / Publication Date: CityFiles Press 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 323.1196 WITSummary: DJay, a very smalltime streetwise Memphis hustler and pimp, lives a dead-end life at the fringes of society. Though DJay has always had a way with words, that gift has long been misused--employed to keep his 'girls' producing. A chance encounter with Key, a sound engineer, spurs DJay to find a voice and realize his long-buried dreams. Chasing his musical dream transforms DJay, but opening the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Classics 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUSContents: The Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes & Sane). You shall ; It's a good thing ; Sweet to mama ; Half cup of tea ; Beale Town bound ; Last go round ; Jazzin' the blues ; You shall ; It's a good thing ; Mr. Crump don't like it ; Chicken you can roost behind the moon ; Blues in "D" ; Ain't goin' to do like I used to do ; Hunting blues ; Rockin' on the hill blues ; Fillin' in blues (part 1) ; Fillin' in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MASContents: Furry Lewis. Everybody's blues ; Mr. Furry's blues ; Sweet papa moan ; Rock Island blues ; Jelly Roll ; Billy Lyons and Stack O'Lee ; Good looking girl blues ; Why don't you come home blues ; Falling down blues ; Big chief blues ; Mean old bedbug blues ; Furry's blues ; I will turn your money green (take 1) ; I will turn your money green (take 2) ; Mistreatin' mama ; Dry land blues ; Cannon...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MASSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TAKContents: 1928-1934. Frank Stokes. Downtown blues (take 1) ; Downtown blues (take 2) ; Bedtime blues ; What's the matter blues ; Mistreatin' blues ; It won't be long (take 1) ; It won't be long (take 2) ; Nehi mamma blues ; I got mine ; Stomp that thing ; 'Tain't nobody's business if I do (part 1) ; 'Tain't nobody's business if I do (part 2, take 1) ; 'Tain't nobody's business if I do (part 2, take 2) ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MASContents: Robert Wilkins. Rolling stone (part 1) ; Rolling stone (part 2) ; Jail house blues ; I do blues ; That's no way to get along ; Alabama blues ; Long train blues ; Falling down blues ; Nashville stonewall blues ; Police sergeant blues ; Get away blues ; I'll go with her blues ; Dirty deal blues ; Black rat blues ; New stock yard blues ; Old Jim Canaan's ; Losin' out blues ; Little Buddy Doyle....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MASBooker T.
Contents: Jamaica song -- Mama Stewart -- Tennessee Voodoo -- Flamingo -- Song for Casey -- Evergreen -- Country days -- Why me -- Front Street rag -- Lie to me -- Bonus tracks: Evergreen (single version) ; Life is funky ; Take me to the river ; Love is strange (with Priscilla Coolidge) ; Whiter shade of pale ; (Your love has lifted me) Higher and higher.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wounded Bird Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BOOCameron, Marc
Summary: Cuba and the United States are in talks to normalize relations, something the old guard on the Communist-controlled island has vowed to stop--by any means necessary. Zayda de la Guardia, a rogue general in the Cuban security services, has gotten his hands on a nuclear weapon left over from the Cold War. He plans to launch it on Miami, an attack that could kill millions. There's just one thing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC CAMMichaels, Fern.
Summary: " ... The devoted friends are learning that leaving their vigilante past behind is the most difficult assignment of all. But fate -- and the highest office in the land -- is about to intervene."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. Corp. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICSummary: Inside Wildsam Memphis you find city stories from prize-winning writers, past and present; illustrated maps to rock and soul, Civil Rights history and barbecue; interviews with musicians, radio station managers and restaurant owners; delightful miscellany from the archives, selective recommendations about authentic Memphis experiences and trusted travel essentials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.681 MEMPHIS WILContents: disc A: God's chariot : pt. 1 ; God's chariot : pt. 2 (Gospel Travelers) -- High cost of living ; Teach me lord (Sons of Jehovah) -- So glad I've got good religion ; The old landmark (Brewster Singers) -- How much more can I bear ; Come on over here (Southern Wonders) -- I never heard of a city/These are they (Queen C. Anderson ; with the Brewster Ensemble) (live) -- I'm so glad today ; I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS MEMHenson, Heather
Summary: Told from different perspectives, almost-seventeen-year-old Miri skips school, rebuilds motorcycles, and befriends her new neighbor Fen to distract herself from knowing exactly what her dad Poe does for a living in the knobs of Kentucky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HENTanabe, Karin
Summary: "A Fifth Avenue address, parties at the Plaza, two healthy sons, and the ideal husband: what looks like a perfect life for Katharina Edgeworth is anything but. It's 1954, and the post-war American dream has become a nightmare. A born and bred New Yorker, Katharina is the daughter of immigrants, Ivy-League-educated, and speaks four languages. As a single girl in 1940s Manhattan, she is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC TANLauterbach, Preston
Summary: Documents the rise and fall of the legendary Memphis thoroughfare that indelibly shaped American culture, documenting its story through the life of former slave and first black millionaire Robert Church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 LAUSummary: When the final refugees were airlifted from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon, the helicopter that took them to freedom was not part of the U.S. military. Instead, it was flown by one of the most clandestine operations in the history of the CIA. From its origins with the legendary Flying Tigers of WWII to the final days of the Vietnam War. See how Air America was a cornerstone of U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AIRSummary: Interviews, performances, and footage from church services illustrate the story of soul singer Al Green, who gave up a successful singing career to become a gospel singer and Pentecostal preacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GOSBradley, Patricia
Summary: In an effort to get her security consulting business off the ground, Kelsey Allen has been spending a lot of time up in the air, rappelling down buildings and climbing through windows to show business owners their vulnerabilities to thieves. When she is hired to pose as a conservator at the Pink Palace Museum in order to test their security weaknesses after some artifacts go missing, she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY BRALindsay, Daniel
Summary: Follows a high school football team from inner-city Memphis, Tennessee, and the coach who hopes to turn the team around.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UNDWest, Catherine Adel
Summary: Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boardinghouse The Scarlet Poplar. Like many cities in early 1960s America, Memphis is still segregated, but change is in the air. News spreads of the Freedom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022