Bessie, Adam

Summary: "With Peter Glanting's powerful illustrations, author Adam Bessie, an English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education system. This graphic memoir chronicles the reverberations from the onset of the pandemic in 2020 when students and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Censored Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BESSIE, ADAM BES

Beegie Adair Trio

Contents: I've got the world on a string -- I've got you under my skin -- Young at heart -- Night and day -- Strangers in the night -- All the way -- Chicago -- Nancy -- Witchcraft -- In the wee small hours of the morning -- I get a kick out of you -- One for my baby.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Green Hill Productions 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Sinatra 1997

Summary: The British Prime Minister and the U.S. President infer that they want to embark on a war in the Middle East. Simon Foster, the British Minister for International Development states, off the cuff, in a radio interview that 'war is unforeseeable.' He later tries to recant his statement to news reporters with another statement. Both remarks start a series of manoeuvrings on both sides by both the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IN
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IN

Odom, Leslie

Summary: Leslie Odom, Jr. burst on the scene in 2015, originating the role of Aaron Burr in the phenomenon Broadway musical "Hamilton." Since then, he has performed for sold-out audiences, sang for the Obamas at the White House, and won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. Before Odom landed the role Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical Hamilton, he put in years of hard work as a singer and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ODO

Mike D

Summary: Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band. Adam "ADROCK" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond offer revealing and very funny accounts of their transition from teenage punks to budding rappers; their early collaboration with Russell Simmons and Rick...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 MIK

Beastie Boys

Contents: Egg raid on Mojo -- Beastie Boys -- Transit cop -- Jimi -- Holy snappers -- Riot fight -- Ode to -- -- Michelle's farm -- Egg raid on Mojo -- Transit cop -- Cooky puss -- Bonus batter -- Beastie revolution -- Cooky puss (censored version).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Royal Records 1994

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BEA

Adem.

Contents: Statued -- Ringing in my ear -- Gone away -- Cut -- These are your friends -- Everything you need -- Long drive home -- Pillow -- One in a million -- There will always be.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Domino Recording 2004

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK Adem

Summary: The two faces of Dr. Jekyll: Absorbed in research directed towards freeing the two natures of man, Dr. Jekyll degenerated into Mr. Hyde, a vengeful maniac. While Hyde wants revenge against a gambler whom his wife is in love with, Dr. Jekyll takes steps to do away with his evil self.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2015

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HAM

Beastie Boys

Contents: Super disco breakin' -- The move -- Remote control --Song for the man -- Just a test -- Body movin' -- Intergalactic -- Sneakin' out the hospital -- Putting shame in your game -- Flowin' prose -- And me -- Three MC's and one DJ -- The grasshopper unit (keep movin') -- Song for junior -- I don't know -- The negotiation limerick file -- Electrify -- Picture this -- Unite -- Dedication -- Dr. Lee,...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Royal/Capitol 1998

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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BEA

Summary: In 1970s England, Dalgliesh and his junior, DS Kate Miskin, investigate the murders of a forensic scientist, a controversial lawyer, and a young doctor at odds with his family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DAL

Summary: Story of a boy drafted into the military who begins his career as a pacifist and then soon sees the justification for fighting.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SER

Summary: Chronicles the blunders of the fictitious Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship, a government department barely registering on the national radar. In this Ministry, every announcement is followed by a whirlwind of u-turns, every policy is a scramble and every mishap is met with abuse from the Prime Minister's policy enforcer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV THI

Contents: Sheep, sheep, don'tcha know the road (Bessie Jones and the Sea Island Singers) -- The juice of the forbidden fruit (Neil Morris) -- Devil's dream (Hobart Smith) -- You got dimples in your jaws (Willie Jones and others) -- Drunken hiccups (Hobart Smith) -- You done tol' everybody (Fred McDowell) -- The house carpenter (Almeda Riddle) -- Straighten 'em (Bright Light Quartet) -- Corn dodgers (Neil...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SOU

Lissie

Contents: Unravel -- Sad -- Chasing the sun -- Lonesome wine -- Night moves -- Flowers -- Carving canyons -- I hate this -- Unlock the chains -- Hearts on fire -- Yellow roses -- Midnight.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK LIS

Summary: Their only enemy is the status quo. Their only friend is chaos. Trace the origins of the deadly drug Supercool; see Jesus in strange places; deal with an infestation of Friars; and use way too many ninja throwing stars.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UPR

Summary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHE

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHE

Contents: Run to Jesus for refuge (Charles Barnett) -- Joe Turner (Ed Young & Hobart Smith) -- The Titanic (Bessie Jones, Hobart Smith & the Georgia Sea Island Singers) -- Witness for my Lord (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- Dark day (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- The very same God (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- Gospel train (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- I got a home (Nat Rahmings, Hobart Smith & Ed Young) -- Hey, hey, honey...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SOU

Contents: Declaration of war against Japan (1941) / President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Address to Congress (1951) / General Douglas MacArthur -- Announcement of the launching of Sputnik (1957) / Radio Moscow -- Confrontation over presence of Russian missiles in Cuba (1962) / U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson -- On signing of the Civil Rights Bill (1964) / President Lyndon B. Johnson...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino/Word Beat 1994

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN GRE

Awad, Amal

Summary: For as long as humans have existed, we have consulted everything from the stars to stones with symbols on them. Growing up in an Arab Muslim family, SBS journalist and TEDx presenter Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life - superstition, fatalism and magical jinn were more real to her than any Hollywood fantasy. From fundy (aka fundamentalist) Muslim to New Age...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Murdoch Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.092 AWA

Smith, Bessie

Contents: CD A: Downhearted blues -- Gulf coast blues -- Aggravatin' papa -- Beale Street Mama -- Baby won't you please come home -- Oh daddy blues -- 'Tain't nobody's business if I do -- Keeps on rainin' -- Mama's got the blues -- Outside of that -- Bleeding hearted blues -- Lady luck blues : 3 -- Yodelin' blues : 3 -- Midnight blues : 3 -- If you don't I know who will -- Nobody in town can bake a sweet...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2012

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SMI

Balam Acab.

Contents: Welcome -- Apart -- Motion -- Expect -- Now time -- Oh, why -- Await -- Fragile hope.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle 2011

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BAL

Smith, Bessie

Contents: Downhearted blues / Lovie Austin, Alberta Hunter (3:24) -- 'Taint nobody's bizness if I do / Porter Grainger, Robert Prince, Clarence Williams (3:28) -- My sweetie went away / Lou Handman, Roy Turk (3:12) -- Weeping willow blues / Paul Carter (3:10) -- St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy (3:11) -- Reckless blues / Jack Gee, Fred Longshaw (3:01) -- You've been a good ole wagon / Stuart Balcom, Bessie...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1989

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SMI

Contents: Side A, music videos and commentaries -- Side B, rarities and other films.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by WEA 2003

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC WOR