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Azaleah Lane 2 Benjamin January series Bright brown baby Empire 1 J.D. the kid barber 3Summary: When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY GREEdgerton, Clyde
Summary: In 1963, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. Meanwhile, Dwayne's forbidden black friend Larry, aspiring to play piano like Thelonius Monk, apprentices to a jazz musician called the Bleeder. A mutual passion for music help Dwayne and Larry as they try to achieve their dreams.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EDGSummary: The true story of the Temptations, the vocal soul group of the 1960s, as seen from the viewpoint of the last surviving member, Otis Williams. Beginning from their humble origins in the late '50s and continuing through the '90s and the deaths of the other four members.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RHI Entertainment Inc. 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TEMSummary: A young man leaves behind his mother and life in a Los Angeles neighborhood and sets out on a journey of self-discovery in Europe during the 1970s in order to find his purpose in life through his music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PASMortensen, Viggo
Summary: During the nineteen sixties, a bouncer, whose nightclub closes for renovations, finds a temporary employment as a driver for black pianist Don Shirley going on a tour into the Deep South states.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2018
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Green 2018Crouch, Stanley.
Summary: "Carla is a talented jazz singer nearing forty. Maxwell is a renowned tenor saxophonist, the man Carla deeply loves and wants to marry. But Maxwell, who is black, finds himself increasingly at odds with the notion of lifelong togetherness with a white woman, as he yields to group pressure. While they are visiting his parents (whom Carla hopes to win over in her struggle to keep Maxwell in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROAllen, Jeffery Renard
Summary: "In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother."--Page...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLEdgerton, Clyde
Summary: In 1963, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. Meanwhile, Dwayne's forbidden black friend Larry, aspiring to play piano like Thelonius Monk, apprentices to a jazz musician called the Bleeder. A mutual passion for music help Dwayne and Larry as they try to achieve their dreams.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDGSummary: Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed by his music and indecisive about his girlfriends. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOSlocumb, Brendan
Summary: "Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SLOPatchett, Ann
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1999
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Morris, Mary
Summary: "In the midst of boomtown Chicago, two Jewish families have suffered terrible blows. The Lehrmans, who run a small hat factory, lost their beloved son Harold in a blizzard. The Chimbrovas, who run a saloon, lost three of their boys on the SS Eastland when it sank in 1915. Each family holds out hope that one of their remaining children will rise to carry on the family business. But Benny Lehrman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morris 2015Hambly, Barbara.
Summary: After a corpse is discovered at a secret rendezvous of mountain men in the untamed Rockies, Benjamin January must find out who the murderer is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMHambly, Barbara.
Summary: When free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin--only to reveal an unexpected inhabitant. Set in New Orleans in 1836.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMSummary: After musical mogul Lucious Lyon is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease, he must choose which of his three sons with succeed him at the legendary Empire entertainment company. The game changes when ex-wife Cookie returns from prison. This groundbreaking series features a pulsating soundtrack from legendary music hit maker Timbaland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMPBoyd, Jeff
Summary: "Distant lovers. Shady friends. Racist strangers. Estranged parents. Insufferable bosses. Who says your twenties are fun? Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he's the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that's just about to break through. But to himself, he's a sheltered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYSummary: Empire returns for a third season, with its hottest music and most tantalizing storylines yet. While Lucious launches Empire's music streaming division, his half-brother Tariq launches a murder investigation of Lucious. And as Cookie's romance with Angelo Dubois heats up, so does Angelo's campaign for mayor. The Lyon brothers face troubles from the past, and all the while, the battle to control...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMPJackson, Tiffany D.
Summary: "When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JACDillard, J.
Summary: J.D. the Kid Barber has already won a barber battle and appeared on local TV. Now he's the youngest barber to be invited to the Beauty Brothers Hair Expo in Atlanta!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DILSmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: Azaleah's older sister Nia is going to be the star of the school musical but things keep going wrong at the rehearsals (missing batteries, disappearing props, microphones that suddenly do not work); Mr. Guidi, the director, blames the ghost of Thespis, but Azaleah suspects that somebody is actually sabotaging the play--and she is determined to use her detective skills to uncover the culprit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIAnta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTKendi, Ibram X.
Summary: Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world, she longs to connect with others, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas LLC] 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Brown, India Hill
Summary: When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction BrownBaldwin, James
Summary: Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. This new edition includes a foreword by Baldwin's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2018