Contents: Rufaa ya kiko (L'Orch. Dar International) (5:15) -- Hasara ya moto (Afro 70) (4:13) -- Rose atieno (Kauma Boys Band) (4:32) -- Nasalaki nini (Super Mambo Jazz Band "69") (4:53) -- Denise (Maquis Du Zaire) (5:26) -- Anyanga (Victoria Jazz Band) (5:05) -- Nakupenda sana (Orchestre Conga Internationale) (4:40) -- Rudi nyumbani (L'Orch. Dar International) (6:39) -- Taabu ya awendo (The Golden Kings...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ARMSummary: Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Bausum, Ann.
Summary: Bausum compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. The book shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 323.092 BAUDahl, Roald.
Summary: Presents five of the author's most popular novels.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDA FICTION DAHO'Malley, Padraig.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.0609 OMASummary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: The second offering in the Gerald Kraak annual anthology, As You Like It, is a collection of the short-listed entries submitted for the Gerald Kraak Award. This anthology offers a window into deeply located visions and voices across Africa. It brings together stories of self-expression, identity, sexuality, and agency, all located within Africa and its legacy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jacana 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ASHarris, Duchess
Summary: Motown music emerged in the United States in the 1960s. It launched the careers of many African American musicians. Motown music shaped culture and society during the American civil rights movement. The Making of Motown explores the history and legacy of Motown. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J338.761 HARSorell, Traci
Summary: Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future. Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: forced assimilation (such as boarding schools), land...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG SORBrockes, Emma.
Summary: Documents the author's investigation into a shattering childhood trauma in South Africa, tracing the discovery of her grandfather's abuse of her mother, which compelled her mother's unsuccessful attempt to kill him before fleeing the country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROCKES, PAULINE DULCIE BROContents: Songs to listen and sing. Mucha musica ; Vamos al carnaval ; Sambalelê ; Rainforest air ; Me gustan las pupusas ; Chocolate ; El coqui ; Me han dicho -- Songs of friendship. It's you I like ; Amistad -- Songs to move and dance. Cabeza, hombros, rodillas, pies ; O pato ; Sun sun babae ; A mover el esqueleto ; Palo bonito ; Adios -- bonus track. El colibri.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cantaré Music 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV CANSummary: The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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Summary: Children and their families will love the upbeat rhythms and appealing melodies on this musical tour. Parents and educators will appreciate the way cultural information and musical fun facts are presented.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Putumayo World Music 2003
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1 available in Juvenile music CD, Call number: J CD Music African 2003Speare, Elizabeth George.
Summary: Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SPEAlHaj, Rahim
Contents: Eastern love : Sinan (6:54) -- Forbidden attraction : Tiama (12:17) -- Running boy : Fuad (13:07) -- The last time we will fly birds : Riyadh (9:25) -- Going home : Rahim (7:42) -- Unspoken word : Laila (6:17) -- Fly home : Fatima (8:36) -- Voices to remember : Zainab (5:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST ALHContents: Nomathemba (South Africa) (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) -- Mimi (Democratic Republic of Congo) (Mapumba) -- Lonon (Cameroon) (Kaïssa) -- Douyoré (Guinea) (Famoro Dioubaté) -- Agalilala (Uganda) (Samite) -- Usa cheme (Zimbabwe) (Chiwoniso) -- Ikope ye tollo (Equatorial Guinea) (Hijas del sol) -- Mali sadio (Mali) (Habib Koité & Bamada) -- Salaman (Mali) (Toumani Diabaté with Ballaké Sissoko) -- Kula...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Putumayo World Music 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN PUTCash, Johnny.
Summary: Accompanying DVD includes the original 1969 documentary produced by Granada TV in the U.K., chronicling Cash's concert at San Quentin, and includes concert footage, a performance of A boy named Sue, and interviews with guards and inmates talking about their experiences behind bars.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CASScott, Jonathan
Summary: The story of recorded sound - the technological developments, the people that made them happen and the impact they had on society - from the earliest inventions via the phonograph to LPs, EPs and the recent resurgence of vinyl. While Thomas Edison's phonograph, the first device that could both record and reproduce sound, represented an important turning point in the story of recorded sound, it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.389 SCOSides, Hampton
Summary: Examines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chelly and the "Long Walk" migration.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 978 SIDCrawford, Robyn
Summary: Whitney Houston is as big a superstar as the music business has ever known. She exploded on the scene in 1985 with her debut album and spent the next two decades dominating the charts and capturing the hearts of fans around the world. One person was there by her side through it all -- her best friend, Robyn Crawford. Since Whitney's death in 2012, Robyn has stayed out of the limelight and held...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRAWFORD, ROBYN CRABakker, Karen J.
Summary: "When we think of animal sound we tend to think about birds or other highly sonic animals. However, scientists are learning that a much wider range of animals, and even plants, use sound, and they are figuring this out with the help of AI and other digital technologies. This book tells the stories of scientists who are using these digital technologies to decode the hidden world of nonhuman...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.59 BAKSepetys, Ruta
Summary: "Madrid, 1957. Under the oppressive dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth. Photography introduces him to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEPGillespie, Marcia.
Summary: An observation of Maya Angelou's life as well as her myriad interests and accomplishments by longtime friends Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard Long, and her niece Rosa Johnson Butler.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.5409 ANGMingus, Charles
Contents: Better git it in your soul : (alternate) (8:30) -- Bird calls : (alternate) (4:53) -- Jelly roll : (alternate) (6:41) -- Song with orange : (alternate) (6:42) -- Diane : (alternate) (7:29) -- New now, know how : (alternate) (4:19) -- Revelations : first movement (12:01) -- Non-sectarian blues (3:33).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music 2012