Makkai, Rebecca
Summary: "A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Makkai 2018Weintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Fleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLEHolub, Joan
Summary: Learn all about artists who changed history in this engaging and colorful board book perfect for creators-in-training!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Rogers, Jimmy.
Contents: You're the one (2:28) -- Money, marbles and chalk (3:16) -- Luedella (2:51) -- Act like you love me (3:50) -- Back door friend (3:20) -- Last time (2:42) -- I used to have a woman (3:06) -- Sloppy drunk (3:00) -- Blues leave me alone (3:02) -- Out on the road (2:51) -- Goin' away baby (2:42) -- That's all right (2:45) -- Chicago bound (2:40) -- Walking by myself (2:46).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Chess 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ROGBrown, Nacio Herb
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1935
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISAlgren, Nelson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALGShakey Jake.
Contents: Disc 1. Everything gonna be alright ; Hold that bus, conductor ; Strollin' the strip ; Respect me baby ; I will always love you ; Three times seven ; Farther on up the road ; A hard road to travel ; Save your money, baby ; Too hot to hold ; Long distance call ; Don't answer the door ; Love me baby ; Chains of love (Shakey Jake) ; The sky is falling ; Long distance operator ; I'm a free man ;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES CHIPaley, Vivian Gussin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.6 PALPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PROSummary: Based on the tragic life of America's first supermodel. It is the late 70's in New York City - the home of Studio 54, designer jeans, drugs and disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or woman - she wants. Sex, money, glamour, fame - it was all within her reach. She walks toward you across the dance floor, struts toward you down the runway, stares at you from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIAWilliamson, Sonny Boy
Contents: One way out -- Too young to die -- Trust my baby -- Checkin' up on my baby -- Sad to be alone -- Got to move -- Bring it on home -- Down child -- Peach tree -- Dissatisfied -- That's all I want -- Too old to think.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA/Chess 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WILRobuck, Erika
Summary: "A heart-stopping new novel, based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose stunning acts of courage collide in the darkest hours of WWII, from the bestselling author of The Invisible Woman. Two women, two countries. Nothing in common but a call to resist. 1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family's wishes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Iggulden, Conn.
Summary: Winter 1461--Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York, Margaret and her army seem unstoppable. Yet in killing the father, Margaret has unleashed...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC IGGFain, Sammy
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1945
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2 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMYoung, Johnny
Contents: Prison bound -- Sugar farm blues -- All my money gone -- My home ain't here -- Blues for big time -- Did you get that letter? -- I'm leaving baby -- I got it -- Bumble bee -- Meet me in the bottom -- You made me feel so good -- Want my lovin' -- Blues and trouble -- Kid man blues -- Humpty dumpty -- Instrumental -- Forty-four blues -- Whoop it up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Testament Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES YOUSimeti, Mary Taylor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.804 SIMGaughen, A. C.
Summary: Scarlet's true identity has been revealed and she has been forced to marry Lord Gisbourne and participate at court, acting the part of a noblewoman in hopes of helping her beloved Robin Hood's cause and forging a future with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GAUWatson, Doc.
Contents: Black mountain rag -- Windy & warm -- June apple -- Doc's guitar -- Stone's rag -- Victory rag -- Nashville pickin' -- Medly: fiddler's dram/whistling Rufus/Ragtime Annie (Raggedy Ann) -- Billy in the lowground -- Rainbow -- Dill pickle rag -- Salt river/Bill Cheatham -- Lonesome banjo -- Texas gales -- Tucker's barn -- Cannonball rag.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sugar Hill Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WATBerlin, Irving
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: I. Berlin Music Corp. 1938
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: A look at what happened during the anti-war protest of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and the subsequent trail brought against the protest organizers by the city. Includes animation, archival footage, and music from today's artists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHITurner, Simon Fisher.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra Entertainment 1994