Summary: On Christmas Eve, 1944, a German U-boat torpedoed the troopship SS Leopoldville, sending 800 U.S. soldiers to their death. For more than 50 years, the truth of this tragedy was hidden. Now the details of the disaster and the vast cover-up that followed are revealed. This authoritative expose draws on recently declassified documents from the British Admiralty, interviews with 15 survivors and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2001

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV COV

Contents: Jazz Fest: the first 50 years / by Keith Spera -- Heritage, craft, and culture / by Rachel Lyons -- Quint Davis and Jazz Fest / by Karen Celestan -- Food fête / by Rachel Lyons -- The music and musicians of the New Orleans Jazz Festival / by Robert H. Cataliotti -- Off the stage, around the grounds / by Rachel Lyons.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAZ

Summary: From dusk till dawn (107 min.): The notorious Gekko Brothers, Seth and Richard, are on the run and headed for Mexico to meet with the mysterious "Carlos." Their simple bank robbery ended up killing multiple Texas Rangers. They hijack the mobile home of Minister Jacob Fuller and his family to ensure their safe passage. Their appointed destination is a neon-covered topless bar catering to bikers...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2000

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRO

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Elliot Lawrence Band

Contents: The rocker / Gerry Mulligan -- Bye bye blackbird / Henderson-Dixon -- Happy hooligan / Mulligan -- Mullenium / Mulligan -- My silent love / Dana-Suesse -- Bweebida bwobbida / Mulligan -- Strike up the band / Gershwin-Gershwin -- Apple core / Mulligan -- Elegy for two clarinets / Mulligan -- The swinging door / Mulligan-Sims -- But not for me / Gershwin -- Mr. President / Lester Young.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy 1955

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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ LAW

Summary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLI

Contents: Disc one, The stringband era. Pan American blues -- Muscle Shoals blues (DeFord Bailey) -- Gray Eagle (Taylor's Kentucky Boys) -- G rag (Georgia Yellow Hammers, with Andrew Baxter) -- K.C. railroad blues (Andrew and Jim Baxter) -- Dallas rag (Dallas String Band) -- Bill Cheatem (James Cole String Band) -- Turkey buzzard blues (Peg Leg Howell and Eddie Anthony) -- Corinne Corinna (Charlie McCoy...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1998

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY FRO

Summary: Archaeologist and explorer extrodinaire Lara Croft journeys to a temple in Greece, sunken underwater, that leads to a sphere that contains the mythical Pandora's Box. A Chinese crime syndicate leader steals it. He's in league with a villain named Reiss who wants to use the Box as a doomsday weapon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LAR

Bono

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.66 ASS

Contents: disc 1. You upset me baby (B.B. King) -- Midnight in the Barrel House (Johnny Otis feat. Pete "Guitar" Lewis) -- First time I met the blues (Buddy Guy) -- Cotton crop blues (James Cotton feat. Pat Hare) -- Lookin' for my baby (Little Milton) -- Rock me (Muddy Waters) -- The stumble (Freddy King) -- All your love (I miss loving) (Otis Rush) -- Chicken-hearted woman (Clarence Samuels feat. Johnny...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantastic Voyage/Future Noise Music 2012

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

Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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

Contents: Disc one. Give me back my wig / Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers (3:31) -- I'm a woman / Koko Taylor (4:36) -- Have mercy / Big Walter Horton ; with Carey Bell (3:45) -- Somebody loan me a dime / Fenton Robinson (2:54) -- It's my fault, darling / Professor Longhair (4:54) -- Telephone angel / Son Seals (5:25) -- Lights out / Johnny Winter (2:35) -- Blue Monday hangover / Albert Collins...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ALL

Summary: Starship troopers: Charts the lives of elite members of the Mobile Infantry, a corps of dedicated young men and women soldiers fighting side by side in the ultimate intergalactic war ... the battle to save humankind. The enemy is mysterious and incredibly powerful with only one mission: survival of their species no matter what the human cost.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STA

Summary: Sam, a former high-profile ad executive, is devastated by the sudden death of his musician son. When Sam discovers a box filled with his son's demo tapes, the grieving father's downward spiral comes to a standstill as he explores this unexpected gift. After mustering the will to perform one of the songs at a local bar, Sam meets and forms a friendship with Quentin a young musician. The...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RUD

Ellis, Aunjanue

Summary: Dreaming of escaping and returning to her African home, slave Aminata is thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, when she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2015

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

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

Summary: "Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Rick Hall brought black and white together to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the 'Muscle Shoals sound' and the Swampers, the house band at FAME Studios that eventually...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Contents: Disc 1. Volumes 1-7. Lucy Mae blues ; I woke up crying ; Love blues ; I told you not to do that / Cecil Barfield -- In the evening ; Hey lawdy Mama ; Thousand woman blues ; Blue shadow falling ; Cold rainy day ; Amy / Buddy Moss -- Motherless child ; Hush, somebody is calling my name ; What God can do ; He'll understand and say well done / Leon Pinson -- Big road blues ; Cool water blues ; Big...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Fat Possum Records 2008

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

Contents: Match box blues (Larry Hensley) -- Black snake moan (Cobb & Underwood) -- Johnson City blues (Clarence Green) -- Franklin County blues (Dixie Ramblers) -- Blue grass twist ; Bibb County grind (South Georgia Highballers) -- Barber's blues ; Dust pan blues (Frankie Marvin) -- I'm blue and lonesome (Gene Autry & Frankie Marvin) -- Do right daddy blues ; Black bottom blues ; The rheumatism blues ;...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2005

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MOU

Bono

Summary: "Bono, artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. 'When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BONO BON

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BONO BON

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Bono

Summary: An original musical screenplay brings to life the story of P.T. Barnum and his creation of "the greatest show on Earth". Rising from nothing, P.T. sets out to make a better life for his family. His creativity and drive take him on an fantastic journey beyond what he or anyone else could have imagined. In the end he creates a magical experience that will be enjoyed and celebrated by generations...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE

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

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRE

Pond

Contents: Fantastic explosion of time -- When it explodes -- Elegant design -- Sorry I was under the sky -- Sun and sea and you -- Allergies -- You broke my cool -- Moth wings -- Leisure pony -- Mystery -- Dig brother -- Eye pattern blindness -- Moreno's blend.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Modular 2012

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

Contents: Just a little while to stay here (Eureka Brass Band) (3:56) -- Shine-hambone (Shoeshine boy) (1:02) -- Tiger rag (Freddie L. Small) (1:42) -- Blackberries! (Dora Bliggen) (:18) -- Red white and blue got the golden band (Mardi Gras Indians) (5:07) -- Times done changed (Sister Dora Alexander) (1:24) -- Dark was the night (Rev. Lewis Jackson and Charlotte Rucell) (:52) -- Back to the time (Choir...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CLA