Summary: An inside look at The Elephant 6 Recording Co., the '90s rock collective that launched Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Apples in Stereo, and other bands. Around 1985, a group of Louisiana high schoolers began experimenting with whatever random instruments and gear they could find. Influenced by psychedelia, and with little to distract them, they birthed a musical revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Summary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Biss, Eula

Summary: Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear: fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in children's food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding the conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. As she hears more and more fears about vaccines, Biss...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616 BIS

Biss, Eula.

Summary: A volume of essays by the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize-winning author of The Balloonists considers her mixed heritage as the daughter of a Jamaican father and white mother who embraces a West African faith, the legacy of the Reconstruction as taught in public schools, and the nation's misconceptions about pioneer nobility.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 BIS

Contents: Blues in the blue of the night (Billy Barton) (2:30) -- Untied (Tommy Collins) (2:12) -- We're gonna bop (Alvadean Coker) (2:15) -- Go crazy man (Bill Woods) (1:57) -- Daddy loves mommyo (Tommy Duncan) (2:00) -- There ain't nothin' happenin' to me (Cliff Crofford) (2:18) -- Hot dog (Buck Owens as Corky Jones) (2:17) -- Don't go baby (Don't go) (Al Coker) (2:05) -- Let's go (Bonnie Blue Bell)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

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

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

Summary: Months after saying goodbye to sentient synth Mia and her family, the Hawkinses search for some semblance of normalcy. But when Niska arrives at their home unannounced, the family is pulled back into the dangerous lives of the synths.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2017

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HUM

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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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW Cou

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VA Country

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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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC COU

Dodd, Jill

Summary: "In the 1980s, Jill Dodd determined that her ticket out of an abusive home was to make it as a top model in Paris. Armed with only her desire for freedom and independence, she embarks on an epic journey that takes her to uncharted territory?the Parisian fashion industry with all its beautiful glamour and its ugly underbelly of sex, drugs, and excess. From there, Jill begins an eye-opening...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enliven Books/Atria 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DODD, JILL DOD

Summary: It's the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he singlehandedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2017

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE HAC

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAC RATED R

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

Ross, Bill D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Press 1985

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 ROS

Contents: Disc 1: (We're gonna) Rock around the clock (Bill Haley and the Comets) (2:10) -- Sixteen candles (The Crests) (2:50) -- Runaway (Del Shannon) (2:18) -- Why do fools fall in love (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers) (2:17) -- That'll be the day (Buddy Holly) (2:15) -- Fanny Mae (Buster Brown) (2:55) -- At the hop (2:26) ; She's so fine (2:21) (Flash Cadilllac & The Continental Kids) -- The stroll...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC AME

Yoss

Summary: The most successful and controversial Cuban Science Fiction writer of all time, Yoss (aka José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) is known for his acerbic portraits of the island under Communism. In his bestselling A Planet for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the nineties, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Restless Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOS

Summary: In 1971, a group of friends sailed into a nuclear test zone in a protest that would capture the public's imagination. That handful of individuals would go on to become the international environmental organization Greenpeace. Comprised of rare archival footage and interviews with former Greenpeace members, How to change the world recounts Greenpeace's early days under the pioneering helm of its...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOW

Summary: An alcoholic and drug addict, 23 year-old James has two options: treatment or death. After waking up on a plane with a smashed up face and no memory of the past few weeks, he heads to rehab where he discovers much more than detox and therapy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIL

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

Contents: I feel better all over (Ferlin Husky) (2:34) -- My walking' shoes (Dusty Payne) (2:29) -- Yer fer me (Fuzzy Owen) (1:46) -- Rhythm and booze (Buck Owens as Corky Jones) (2:13) -- What's good for the goose (Terry Fell) (1:56) -- Somehow, someway, someday (The Farmer Boys) (2:16) -- Stop the clock (Bob Ehret) (1:52) -- Phone me baby (Bill Woods) (2:00) -- Teenage tears (Cliff Crofford) (2:33) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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

Summary: "Oscar- winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists on an undercover operation to expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them against mass extinction. Spanning the globe to infiltrate the world's most dangerous black markets and using high tech tactics to document the link between carbon emissions and species extinction,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RAC

Contents: Hello, hello baby (Jerry Lee Lewis) -- Moanin' at midnight (Howlin' Wolf) - Just walkin' in the rain (the Prisonaires) -- How many more years (Howlin' Wolf) - Rocket 88 (Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (Ike Turner)) -- Gotta let you go (Joe Hill Louis) -- Every night (the Jones Brothers) -- Troublesome waters (Howard Seratt) -- Easy ; Before long (Jimmy and Walter) -- Lonesome bedroom...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Smith, Arthur Q.

Contents: Disc 1. The Commercial Recordings : My tears don't show / performed by Roy Acuff -- You can't conceal a broken heart / performed by Kitty Wells -- Rainbow at midnight / performed by Carlisle Brothers -- Wedding bells / performed by Hank Williams -- Somebody lied / performed by Hawkshaw Hawkins -- Save a little dream for me / performed by Moon Mullican -- I overlooked an orchid / performed by...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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