Brown, John Gregory

Summary: Fleeing New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Henry Garrett is haunted by the ruins of his marriage, a squandered inheritance, and the teaching job he inexplicably quit. He pulls into a small Virginia town after three days on the road, hoping to silence the ceaseless clamor in his head. But this quest for peace and quiet as the only guest at a roadside motel is destroyed when Henry finds...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016

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Brown, John Mason

Contents: Imprisoned in a wagon -- How not to fight Indians -- More elbowroom -- History comes knocking -- The secret door -- The sting of wasps -- Alone in Kentucky -- The fire is lighted -- War on the frontier -- The Transylvania dream -- The storm breaks -- An eventful Sunday -- Captured by the Shawnees -- Chief Blackfish's "son" -- A summer of suspense -- Days of terror -- White man's cruelty -- Red...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 2007

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Brown, Ivor John Carnegie

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Coward-McCann 1969

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Summary: A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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Summary: Queen Victoria ... was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown ... was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000

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Summary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who find solace in real ale, classical music, and difficult crosswords. Together with his able sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford. (Happy families) When Sir John Balcombe is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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Summary: When a trio of witches prophesy Macbeth's ascension to the throne, Lady Macbeth pushes her husband into a murderous spree. But once crowned king of Scotland, Macbeth sees ghastly visions, fueled by guilt and a new prophecy, that ensure his ultimate downfall.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2004

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Streissguth, Thomas

Summary: A brief biography of the man who fought against slavery in the Kansas Territory and who led a revolt at Harper's Ferry in 1859.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 1999

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Contents: The life of Riley -- The whistler -- Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Video/Radio Spirits 1994

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Luxenberg, Steve

Summary: Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first. Separate...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019

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Contents: Disc 1. R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. (John Mellencamp) -- Be my baby (Melissa Etheridge) -- Love child (Melissa Etheridge) -- Leader of the pack (Melissa Etheridge) -- Tired of being alone (Al Green) -- A change is gonna come (Al Green) -- My city was gone (The Pretenders) -- Folsom Prison blues (Johnny Cash) -- I can't turn you loose (Aretha Franklin) -- It's a man's man's man's world (James Brown)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1996

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Hooker, John Lee

Contents: Chill out (things gonna change) / John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson (4:45) -- Deep blue sea / Brook Benton, Clyde Otis (4:05) -- Kiddio (3:08) -- Medley: Serves me right to suffer ; Syndicator (6:23) -- One bourbon, one scotch, one beer (3:21) -- Tupelo (3:54) -- Woman on my mind (5:26) -- Annie Mae (5:16) -- Too young (4:42) -- Talkin' the blues (3:40) -- If you've never been...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1995

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Contents: Disc one, December 23, 1938 concert. Swingin' the blues / Count Basie, Eddie Durham, (Count Basie and his Orchestra) (3:34) -- One o'clock jump / Count Basie, (Count Basie & his Orchestra) (1:11) -- Introduction / John Hammond (0:38) -- Blues with Lips / Count Basie, (Oran "Hot Lips" Page, with Count Basie Orchestra) (3:11) -- I never knew / Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn, (Kansas City Five) (3:11) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1999

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Summary: Following the brutal death of a British captain in the Boer War in South Africa in 1901, Lt. Harry Morant leads his unit in pursuit of the Boers, attacks their camp, and has a captive executed. Other executions and deaths lead to the arrest and trial of Morant and two other lieutenants.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1997

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Brown, Monica

Summary: When a man brings to a remote village two burros, Alfa and Beto, loaded with books the children can borrow, Ana's excitement leads her to write a book of her own as she waits for the BiblioBurro to return.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tricycle Press 2016

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Brown, Marc Tolon.

Summary: Arthur is receiving Valentine cards from a secret admirer.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kid 2010

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Summary: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999

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Brown, Christopher

Summary: Teach your child how to express feelings, likes, and dislikes, and develop his or her communication skills at an early age-- as early as seven months-- using a form of sign language.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2005

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Contents: Disc 1. Pilot ; The same old story -- Disc 2. The ghost network ; The arrival ; Power hungry -- Disc 3. The cure ; In which we meet Mr. Jones ; The equation -- Disc 4. The dreamscape ; Safe ; Bound -- Disc 5. The no-brainer ; The transformation ; Ability -- Disc 6. Inner child ; Unleashed ; Bad dreams -- Disc 7. Midnight ; The road not taken ; There's more than one of everything.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2009

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Clayton, Gerald

Contents: Water's edge -- Elegia -- Damunt de tu només les flors -- My ideal 1 -- That Roy -- Rip -- Just a dream -- My ideal 2 -- Peace invocation -- There is music where you're going my friends.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Grisham, John.

Summary: Story of eleven-year-old Mark Sway, who witnessed the bizarre suicide of a New Orleans attorney. Just before he dies, the lawyer tells Mark a secret concerning the recent murder of a Louisiana senator whose accused killer is about to go to trial.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio 1993

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