Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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Contents: Disc 1. The camp meeting jubilee (Unknown) -- My man rocks me (Trixie Smith) -- Kansas city blues (Jim Jackson) -- Going to move to Alabama (Charley Patton) -- Move it on over (Hank Williams) -- It's tight like that (Tampa Red) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Clarence "Pinetop" Smith) -- Jimmy's blues (Jimmy Blythe) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves) -- Tiger rag (Washboard Rhythm...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011

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Calley, William Laws

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1971

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Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Contents: Disc one. Can the circle be unbroken (bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Barbara Allen (Bradley Kincaid) -- I'll fly away (James and Martha Carson) -- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- Blue yodel number 9 (standin' on the corner) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Wildwood flower...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: The complete third season of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone," featuring thirty-seven episodes aired in 1961-62.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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Bock, Charles.

Summary: "Alice Culvert is a force: passionate, independent, smart, and gorgeous, she--to her delight--attracts attention wherever she goes, even amid the buzz of mid-90s New York. In knee-high boots, with her newborn daughter, Doe, strapped to her chest, Alice is one of those people who just seem so vividly alive, which makes her cancer diagnosis feel almost incongruous. How could such a being not go...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

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Bock, Charles.

Summary: One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008

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Contents: Disc 1. Can the circle be unbroken (Bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) -- Mountain Dew (Grandpa Jones and His Grandchildren) -- I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart (Patsy Montana and The Prairie Ramblers) -- New San Antonio Rose (Bob Wills and...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy 2019

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Summary: Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed, perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1998

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Summary: Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Lack of Afro.

Contents: Freedom -- One for the trouble -- Recipe for love -- Coco -- Brown sugar -- The gypsy -- The contender -- Missing me -- No guts no glory -- Making it right -- On the road -- Here we go again

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: London 2013

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Summary: Complete second season, 1960-1961, of Rod Serling's classic, groundbreaking series exploring the fantastic and frightening.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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Summary: Follows the adventures of two young men and a young woman in the 1960's who are undercover police officers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Home Entertainment 2013

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Summary: Wynne is fourteen and in love with her adoptive brother. When she finds blood on his sweater she gets the idea that he is the person murdering young women in the area. But her visits to the old family house, about to be demolished, lead her to the real killer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Mingus, Charles

Contents: Solo dancer : Stop! Look! and listen, sinner Jim Whitney! -- Duet solo dancers : Heart's beat and shades in physical embraces -- Group dancers : Freewoman ; Oh, this freedom's slave cries -- Trio and group dancers : Stop! Look! and sing songs of revolutions! -- Single solos and group dance : Saint and sinner join in merriment on battle front -- Group and solo dance : Of love, pain and passioned...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse 1963

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Summary: "The public enemy": A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. "White heat": A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn. "Angels with dirty...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment/Warner Bros. Entertainment 2016

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Summary: The life of a fast moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Contents: South Bronx / Boogie Down Production -- Push it / Salt-N-Pepa -- It takes two / Robe Base & D.J. E-Z Rock -- Ain't no half-steppin' / Big Daddy Kane -- Children's story / Slick Rick -- Wild, wild west / Kool Moe Dee -- Top billin' / Audio Two -- Me myself and I / De La Soul -- Express yourself / N.W.A. -- It's funky enough / the D.O.C. -- Ladies first / Queen Latifah featuring Monie Love -- Can...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: MTV Networks 2003

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