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African American legacy recordings series African American Library (Series) African American life series America's haunted roadtrip series American heroes American heroes series American heroes series (New York, N.Y.) Journey to freedom Stories of famous Americans Thorndike Press large print African-American seriesPorter, Cole
Contents: Side A: I get a kick out of you (4:17) -- My heart belongs to daddy (2:51) -- I've got you under my skin (3:12) -- After you, who? (3:03) -- So in love (4:24) -- Too darn hot (2:45) -- Just one of those things (2:30) -- Get out of town (2:42) -- Love for sale (2:55) -- Side B: From this moment on (3:09) -- Night and day (4:57) -- Give him the ooh-la-la (2:37) -- Ev'rything I love (3:14) -- Miss...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve/Polygram 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC PORCooper, Desiree
Summary: "Six-year-old Jax can't wait to leave Detroit and spend a week with his grandparents in coastal Virginia, where he's sure he'll be spoiled with the kinds of special things he enjoys at home: toys, movies, and hamburgers. As he dreams of the adventures he'll have, his PopPop has other ideas. He fills their days with timeless summer fun-crabbing, shucking corn, and counting fireflies. Illustrated...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2022
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE COOKern, Jerome
Contents: Let's begin (2:55) -- A fine romance (3:35) -- All the things you are (3:14) -- I'll be hard to handle (3:479 -- You couldn't be cuter (3:12) -- She didn't say yes (3:19) -- I'm old fashioned (3:26) -- Remind me (3:18) -- The way you look tonight (4:26) -- Yesterdays (2:49) -- Can't help lovin' dat man (3:53) -- Why was I born (3:42).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Records 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL FITGershwin, George
Contents: I got rhythm / Ernestine Anderson -- Nice work if you can get it / Billie Holiday -- Embraceable you / Joe Williams -- Who cares? / Anita O'Day -- A woman is a sometime thing / Louis Armstrong -- Love walked in / Sarah Vaughan -- Love is here to stay / Blossom Dearie -- Oh, lady be good! / Fred Astaire -- Of thee I sing / Ella Fitzgerald -- For you, for me, for evermore / Morgana King -- A...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL GERMoon, Elaine Latzman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.434 MOOFitzgerald, Ella.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1993
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Contents: I've got a crush on you / duet with Diana Ross -- Blue skys -- I wish you love / featuring Chris Botti -- Makin' whoopee / duet with Elton John -- Thanks for the memory -- Nevertheless / featuring Dave Koz -- Long ago and far away -- You send me / duet with Chaka Khan -- My funny Valentine -- I've got my love to keep me warm -- Taking a chance on love -- Let's fall in love / featuring George...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: J Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK STEButts, Anthony.
Contents: The Saint Brigid psalms -- Before autumn -- Song of starry-eyed children -- Intercession to Saint Brigid -- Mist and fog -- Song of earth and sky -- The landscape for growth -- Eight modes toward desire -- Thin places -- Ice palaces -- Pygmalion -- The memory of light -- Soldiers -- Fretwork -- Voices' end -- Embers -- Far from home -- Wise and innocent -- The distance from here to there --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BUTJacques, Geoffrey.
Contents: Saturday night fish fry -- Bursting out all over -- Intrusion -- Sepia-tones footage -- Commercial euphoria -- White supremacy is not eternal -- After midnight -- The present "crisis" -- Stomp -- Mesopotamia -- James Baldwin -- Well you needn't -- The wonderful fantasies of the colonized -- Giant -- The blab of the pave -- Supporting architecture -- Just for a thrill -- Reverie -- Evaluation --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 JACKenyon, Amy Maria.
Contents: Rumors from a motel in Detroit -- Mapping postwar space and culture -- Spaces of detachment -- Critiques of suburban conformity -- Everyday life and suburban estrangement -- The city that would not go away -- Postwar space and culture in context.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENContents: Black woman -- Texas easy street -- One dollar bill -- Goin' down the road feelin' bad -- Tyin' knots in the devil's tail -- Home on the range -- Ol' Proc -- John Henry y los vaqueros -- Po' Howard ; Gwine dig a hole to put the devil in -- Knox County stomp -- He's a lone ranger -- Steel pony blues -- Little Joe the wrangler -- Charmin' Betsy -- Goodbye Old Paint -- Lonesome old river blues --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FLESummary: Songs of Our Native Daughters gathers together kindred musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell in song and sisterhood to communicate with their forebears. Drawing on and reclaiming early minstrelsy and banjo music, these musicians reclaim, recast, and spotlight the often unheard and untold history of their ancestors, whose stories remain vital and alive...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN SONBlount, Jake
Contents: The Psalms of the Sentinel. Take me to the water/Prayer (3:38) ; The downward road (3:36) ; Didn't it rain (3:05) ; Tangle eye blues (3:51) -- The Psalms of the Gravedigger. Parable (2:20) ; Death have mercy (2:59) ; City called Heaven (4:52) ; They are waiting for me (4:27) -- The Psalms of the Teacher. Psalms (2:54) ; Just as well to get ready, you got to die (3:08) ; Give up the world (4:09)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BLOContents: Eye of the hurricane (David Wilcox) -- That house (David Crosby with CPR) -- Moe 'uhane (Dream slack key) (Sonny Chillingworth) -- John Henry (John Cephas and Phil Wiggins) -- Cradle and all (Ani DiFranco) -- The water garden (Alex de Grassi) -- Caledonia (Dougie MacLean) -- Whee ha swing (Ledward Kaapana) -- The death of Queen Jane (Trian) -- 101 South (Peter Finger) -- The moon and St....
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: String Letter Pub. 2000
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC 787.87 ALTGear, Kathleen O'Neal.
Summary: Recounts the story of the trading empire of Poverty Port, Louisiana, of 3500 years ago, during which warrior and shaman Salamander experiences a vision that shapes the destiny of his people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAMoulton, Candy
Summary: A portrait of the Nez Perce diplomat and defender covers the 1863 treaty that called for his tribe's removal to an Idaho reservation, his people's four month flight toward safety in Canada under his leadership, and his war leadership upon their capture forty miles from their destination. Chief Joseph, 1840-1904, became a legend due to his heroic efforts to keep his people in their homeland in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOSEPH, Chief MoultonSummary: Video scenes of steam locomotives and excursion trains set the stage for the fond memories of Americans who lived this bygone era of rail travel. Historic films and photographs capture nostalgic glimpses of small town depots and big-city terminals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Delaney Communications 1996
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DREColeman, Jon T.
Contents: Howls, snarls, and musket shots : saying "this is mine" in colonial New England -- Beasts of lore : how stories turned fearsome monsters into skulking criminals -- Wolf bullets with adders' tongues : how to kill a wolf in colonial New England -- Predator to prey : wolves' journey through the northeastern woodlands -- Surrounded : fear and retribution in the northeastern forests -- Metaphors of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.773 COLSantella, Andrew.
Contents: The pastor's son -- The education of a leader -- Montgomery -- A national leader -- The final years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINWilliams, Montel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 WILLIAMS, MONTEL WILVan Pelt, Lori
Summary: Documents the renowned female aviator's attainment of her pilot's license in her early twenties, her famous Atlantic crossings, her record-setting two-decade career, her tragic disappearance in 1937, and the theories surrounding her fate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EARHART, AMELIA VANBrimner, Larry Dane.
Summary: "A juvenile biography of the famous Native American woman who helped the Jamestown settlers"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POCLakin, Pat.
Summary: Simple text describes how Harry Houdini, born Ehrich Weiss, worked hard to become a great magician.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LAKPattskyn, Helen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clerisy Press 2012