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African American abolitionists African Americans Biography Baka (West African people) Cameroon Music Cameroon Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Political and social views Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 United States United States Politics and government 1857-1861 World musicDouglas, Cameron
Summary: Douglas is born into wealth, privilege, and comfort. His father a superstar, his mother a beautiful socialite, his grandfather a legend. But by the age of 32 he had become a drug addict, an armed robber, and-- after a DEA drug bust-- a convicted drug dealer sentenced to five years in prison. In prison he began to reverse his savage transformation, to understand the psychological turmoil that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOUGLAS, CAMERON DOUNevins, Debbie
Summary: "Cameroon is an African nation with a vast history. Its rich geology includes volcanoes, tropical areas, coastal waters, hot springs, plateaus, mountains, and rain forests. This book will help readers gain a full understanding of the country, from its history to its current state; its struggles, triumphs, and political culture; its environmental policies, variety of wildlife, and conservation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: A tall tale sets off a chain of mishaps in the jungle. Will the jungle creatures ever get the story straight? A story, a story: Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyanme, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider Man, wanted them, and caught three sly creatures to get them. Who's in Rabbit's house?: Rabbit has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHYBaka Beyond (Musical group)
Contents: Woosi (6:40) -- Ancestor's voice (5:50) -- Lupé (5:43) -- Ohureo (6:50) -- Meeting of tribes (5:56) -- Journey (6:05) -- Ndaweh's dream (5:06) -- Booma lena (8:48).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hannibal Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT BAKContents: Pop Makossa invasion (Dream Stars) (4:49) -- Yaoundé girls (Mystic Djim & The Spirits) (5:57) -- Nen Lambo (Bill Loko) (6:24) -- Sanaga calypso (Pasteur Lappé) (3:47) -- M'ongele M'am (Eko) (4:03) -- Ngon Engap (Olinga Gaston) (4:22) -- Ye Medjuie (Emmanuel Kahe & Jeanette Kemogne) (4:27) -- Mininga Meyong Mese (Nkodo Si-Tony) (7:10) -- Sekele Movement (Pasteur Lappé) (6:27) -- Mussoloki...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Analog Africa Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN POPMoore, Heather B.
Summary: "A fictionalized account of the early years of Donaldina Cameron's work with the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, California, which worked to rescue Chinese girls and women from slavery conditions in the late 1800s through the early 1900s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOOMaddox, Jake
Summary: In order to play tennis with his local rec team, Deion agrees to play doubles, even though it feels like a different game to him--but he has the nagging feeling that he is holding his partner, Cole, back until they both accept help from Deion's stepfather who turns out to have wicked aim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADCroucher, Lex
Summary: It's been hundreds of years since King Arthur's reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other. They're forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run-up to their nuptials, and within 24 hours, Gwen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CROSummary: "Featuring art and writing from the students of the Parkland tragedy, this is a raw look at the events of February 14, and a poignant representation of grief, healing, and hope. The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School share their emotional journeys that began on February 14, 2018, and continue today. This revealing and unfiltered look at teens living in the wake of tragedy is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 363 LERSummary: In 1992, Cameron Todd Willingham, a poor, uneducated heavy metal devotee with a violent streak, was convicted of an arson-related triple homicide and put on death row. This is the true-life Texas story of the unlikely bond that formed between Willingham and Elizabeth Gilbert, a Houston mother of two, who battled against the state for twelve years to try to save Willingham by exposing suppressed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TrTongo, Jo.
Contents: Jangolo -- Funky feeling -- Piani -- Those flowers -- American lady -- Dig it baby part 1 -- Dig it babe part 2 -- Ewande -- The lion roar -- It's the d day -- Mystic power -- A'muna -- Get down and freak -- -- Get it the way I like it.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TONStauffer, John
Summary: Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with historical detail, it is filled with surprises, chief among them the fact that neither George Custer nor Walt Whitman, and not even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of that century. In fact, it was Frederick Douglass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 DOUGLASS, FREDERICK STAConrad, Vicki
Summary: "The Florida Everglades are made up of nine different ecosystems supporting an astonishing variety of wildlife-panthers, manatees, snails, frogs, and a rainbow of bird species. But for years, the Everglades were threatened. They needed a voice to speak up for them. Marjory Stoneman Douglas became that voice. Her book "A River of Grass" helped the world see the irreplaceable beauty and value of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DOUDikongué, Henri.
Contents: Ndutu (4:29) -- Ndol'asu (5:47) -- C'est la vie (4:17) -- Na tem ité idiba (4:33) -- Na teleye owa ngea (6:12) -- We nde mba (3:43) -- Bulu bo windi tenge (3:35) -- Françoise (4:29) -- A mumi (5:47) -- Wen te mba wenge (3:45) -- Douala (2:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tinder Records 1997
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN DIKCorwin, Norman
Summary: Academy Award nominees Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn star in Norman Corwin's electrifying dramatization of the history-making Lincoln-Douglas debates. This fierce rivalry between rising legislator Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas tackled some of the day's most passionate and controversial issues -- above all, those of slavery and the American concept of freedom. As...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: L.A. Theatre Works 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808.5 CORDubrish, Douglas M. (Douglas Martin)
Summary: The author recounts his search for his biological family, from documents to DNA analysis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUBRISH, DOUGLAS M. DUBCradick, Martin.
Contents: Spirit of the forest (5:30) -- The man who danced too slowly (6:04) -- Ngombi (4:43) -- Baka play Baka (7:01) -- Nahwia (5:12) -- Eeya bé (Elephant song) (7:31) -- Canya jam (5:38) -- Bounaka (6:50).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hannibal Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT BAKSummary: Scooby-Doo and the gang journey back in time to help King Arthur save his throne from an evil sorceress. While there, Shaggy unwittingly pulls out Excalibur from a nearby stone to cut a block of cheese and now no one is sure who the rightful ruler is! The legendary wizard, Merlin, appears and explains that the throne of Camelot must be determined through Trial By Combat! Our heroes pull out all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SCOMurphy, Frank
Summary: "A biography of Frederick Douglass covering his origins as slave and journey to becoming an abolitionist leader"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MURContents: African typic collection / Sam Fan Thomas (6:38) -- Dikom Lam La Mota / Charlotte Mbango (7:16) -- Noa / Sam Fan Thomas (6:08) -- Si tcha / Sam Fan Thomas (6:15) -- Zouk en Avant / Tam Tam 2000 -- Nelson Mendela (will never give up) / Koko Ateba (4:20).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin Records 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN AFRBaka Beyond (Musical group)
Contents: Mbé (6:22) -- Migrations (8:40) -- Mountain song (6:11) -- Konti (6:39) -- Cotu (6:39) -- Land's end (5:33) -- Soiridh leis (6:12) -- Queen of Ngorongoro (5:24).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hannibal Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT BAKBolden, Tonya
Summary: Chronicles the life of the abolitionist and his many roles, from former slave and orator to newspaperman, women's rights activist, diplomat, and memoirist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 DOUDavid, Alex
Contents: The question of slavery -- Stephen Douglas -- Abraham Lincoln -- After the Debates -- The Legacy of Lincoln -- Primary Source Transcriptions -- Chronology -- Glossary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021