Sondheim, Stephen
Contents: Everybody's got the right -- The ballad of Booth -- How I saved Roosevelt -- Gun song -- The ballad of Czolgosz -- Unworthy of your love -- The ballad of Guiteau -- Another national anthem -- November 22, 1963 -- Something just broke -- Everybody's got the right (finale).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.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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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATBaram, Marcus
Summary: In this biography, Marcus Baram--an acquaintance of Gil Scott-Heron's--will trace the volatile journey of a troubled musical genius. Baram will chart Scott-Heron's musical odyssey, from Chicago to Tennessee to New York: a drug addict's twisted path to redemption and enduring fame. In Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man, Marcus Baram puts the complicated icon into full focus.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT-HERON, GIL BARSummary: Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA TODSatayev, Akan
Summary: Follows several generations of a Kazakh family as they live through some of the most dramatic periods of Kazakhstan's history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Anat, Berna
Summary: "So no one taught you about money, either? Let's figure this me$$ out together. In this illustrated, deeply unserious guide to money, Berna Anat--aka the Financial Hype Woman--freaks out her immigrant parents by doing the unthinkable: Talking about money. Loudly. Because we're done staying silent, anxious, and ashamed about our money. It's time to join the party and finally learn about all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 332.4 ANACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 332.4 ANABeam, Cris.
Summary: An intimate, authoritative look at the foster care system that examines why it is failing the kids it is supposed to protect and what can be done to change it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.73 BEABeam, Sam
Contents: Welcome to feeling -- One way to pray -- The lamb you lost -- We two are a moon -- Midas tongue -- Know the wild that wants you -- Every songbird says -- Bright lights and goodbyes -- Kiss me quick -- Chalk it up to chi -- Valley clouds -- Soft place to land -- Sailor to siren.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BEABeam, Alex.
Summary: "At thirty-nine years old, Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy: how his most seismic revelation -- the doctrine of polygamy -- created a rift among his people [Church of Latter-day Saints]; how that schism turned to violence; and how, ultimately, Smith could not escape the consequences of his ambition and pride. American Crucifixion is a gripping story of scandal and violence,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.3092 BEABram, Christopher.
Summary: Describes how the trailblazing, post-war gay literary figures, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Allen Ginsberg, paved the way for newer generations, including Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, and Edward Albee.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 BRAStoker, Bram
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Classics 2011
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOStoker, Bram
Summary: Having deduced the double identity of Count Dracula, a wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1980
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STOStoker, Bram.
Summary: A naive young Englishman travels to Transylvania to do business with a client, Count Dracula. After showing his true and terrifying colors, Dracula boards a ship for England in search of new, fresh blood. Unexplained disasters begin to occur in the streets of London before the mystery and the evil doer are finally put to rest. Told in a series of news reports from eyewitness observers to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsworth Editions 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STOBeam, Alex
Summary: "In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time--unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, whose discoveries put her in contention for the Nobel Prize, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.9773 BEABeam, Alex.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 BEABeam, Alex.
Summary: Explores the Great Books mania, in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 BEABeam, Christy.
Summary: Annabel Beam spent most of her childhood in and out of hospitals with a rare and incurable digestive disorder that prevented her from ever living a normal, healthy life. One sunny day when she was able to go outside and play with her sisters, she fell three stories headfirst inside an old, hollowed-out tree -- and survived without a scratch. While unconscious inside the tree, with rescue...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 231.7 BEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEAM, ANNABEL BEADuke Pearson Big Band
Contents: Hi-fly / Randy Weston (12:41) -- New girl / Duke Pearson (8:18) -- Eldorado / Mitchell Farber (7:10) -- In the still of the night / Cole Porter (9:17) -- Tones for Joan's bones / Chick Corea (9:57) -- Straight up and down / Chick Corea (13:08) -- Ready when you are C.B. / Duke Pearson (7:17) -- Night song (Theme from Golden boy) / Charles Strouse (11:35).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Uptown Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PEABergo, Alan
Summary: "The Forager Chef's Guide to Flora explores some of the most exciting ingredients available today-but more importantly, it gives home cooks and chefs alike a whole new way of seeing and thinking about all vegetable ingredients-by looking at them through atrained forager's eyes. Over the past fifteen years, Minnesota chef Alan Bergo has become one of the nation's most exciting and resourceful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.65 BERSummary: Albuquerque: When Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his successful uncle John, he soon learns that family business is out to eliminate any local competition. Tiring of his uncle's underhanded tactics, Cole switches to rival operation run by Ted Wallace and his sister, Celia. But Cole soon learns John Armin is to a man to be crossed as the trio must fight for their business, and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLASummary: A mysterious German woman named Jasmin comes across a dilapidated motel and diner in the American desert. The diner's owner, Brenda, is initially taken aback by Jasmin's appearance and demeanor; but eventually the women find that there is a chemistry between them. Gradually, by using their unique individual skills, Jasmin and Brenda turn the once-fledgling diner into a thriving desert oasis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 2013