Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISFain, Sammy
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1945
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2 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMRuiz, Gabriel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Promotora Hispano Americana de Musica 1943
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuRobuck, Erika
Summary: "A heart-stopping new novel, based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose stunning acts of courage collide in the darkest hours of WWII, from the bestselling author of The Invisible Woman. Two women, two countries. Nothing in common but a call to resist. 1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family's wishes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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Summary: "A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get--and sell--the story. In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 998 HARBattle, Kathleen.
Contents: Honey and rue / Andre Previn ; text by Toni Morrison (26:00) -- Knoxville, summer of 1915 / Samuel Barber ; text by James Agee (14:54) -- Porgy and Bess. I loves you, Porgy (2:17) ; Summertime (2:40) / George Gershwin ; lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BATTobias, Charles
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1947
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMWhyte, Jack
Summary: "Some men strive for greatness. And some men find themselves thrust into the role of their nation's saviors. Such are the two heroes who reshaped and reconfigured the entire destiny of the kingdom of Scotland. Wallace the Braveheart would become the only legendary, heroic, commoner in medieval British history; the undying champion of the common man. The other, Robert Bruce, earl of Carrick,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHYSegure, Roger.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Kaycee Music Co. 1942
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMTierney, Harry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist 1919
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMRyan, Jack.
Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYAWarren, Harry
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo. Feist Inc. 1942
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMTobias, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1933
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMContents: From the Delta to the city : country blues and spirituals, jug bands, and hokum. My soul is a witness (Austin Coleman) ; It's nobody's fault but mine (Blind Willie Johnson) ; The crucifixion of Christ (Jessie May Hill) ; Shake that thing (Papa Charlie Jackson) ; Outside woman blues (Blind Joe Reynolds) ; It's a good thing (Frank Stokes, Beale Street Sheiks) ; Minglewood blues (Gus Cannon's Jug...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhythm and Blues Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES HISRubin, Susan Goldman
Summary: Twelve diverse actors, directors, writers, editors, designers, and producers fought against sexism, racism and prejudice to have their voices heard and changed the industry forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 RUBContents: Mack the knife / Bobby Darin -- Did you hear about Jerry? / Harry Belafonte -- Another man done gone / Odetta -- Plain gold ring / Nina Simone -- Jesus met the woman at the well / The Alabama Singers -- All the pretty little horses / Pete Seeger -- Henry Lee / Dick Justice -- Katy Cruel / Peggy Seeger -- Black Betty / Leadbelly -- Lost highway / Hank Williams-- Stackalee / Frank Hutchison --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJDupree, Champion Jack
Contents: How long blues -- Mean ole' Frisco -- Bad whiskey and bad women -- Bus station blues -- Dupree shake dance -- Junker's blues -- Angola blues -- All alone blues -- Bad health blues -- Jackie P. Blues -- Chaing gang blues -- Cabbage greens -- Big time mama -- Warehouse man blues -- Morning tea -- Black woman swing -- Weed head woman -- Heavy heart blues.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cedar 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES DUPLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world. As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration--set at the world's frozen extremes--lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called Third Pole, the "pole of altitude," located in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 LARHoller, Dick.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Roznique Music, Inc. 1968
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: On January 20, 1942, 15 German officials attended a conference at Wannsee - on the outskirts of Berlin. The meeting comprised of mid-ranking SS commanders and a variety of government ministers. The meeting was organized by SS Major Adolf Eichmann under the direction of Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich. It was a polite conference, but under this thin veneer of manners lay an evil intent. By...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: "In harm's way": An epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, details the devastating sneak attack on the Naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories, and the counter-offensive. (167 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006