Alden, Ginger.

Summary: Breaking her thirty-year silence, the former fiancée to Elvis Presley tells the story of her whirlwind romance with the King and what it was like being in Graceland when fifty thousand mourners arrived to pay their respects.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2014

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Contents: Christian's automobile (Dixie Hummingbirds) (4:32) -- Only believe (Swan Silvertone Singers) (8:19) -- Keep your lamp trimmed and burning (Rev. Pearly Brown & Mrs. Christine Brown) (3:10) -- Gonna lay down my sword and shield (Joseph Spence) (1:59) -- Swing down chariot (Dorothy Love Coates & The Gospel Harmonettes) (3:29) -- Jesus hear my prayer (Swan Silvertone Singers) (4:58) -- I've got so...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1995

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Summary: "When sad old Eeyore loses his tail, Owl sends the whole gang--Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Kanga and Roo--on a wild journey to help Eeyore and save Christopher Robin from the mysterious Backson"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011

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Minter, Adam

Summary: "In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle-and profit from-our rising tide of discarded stuff,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019

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Various Artists

Contents: Let's get it started / Black Eyed Peas -- Lean back / Terror Squad (feat. Fat Joe & Remy) -- Goodies / Ciara (feat. Petey Pablo) -- I like that / Houston (feat. Chingy, Nate Dogg & I-20) -- Ch-check it out / Beastie boys -- My place / Nelly (feat. Jaheim) -- Sunshine / Lil' Flip (feat. LEA) -- You & me / J-Kwon -- Why / Jadakiss (feat. Anthony Hamilton) -- Locked up / Akon (feat. Styles P.) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 2004

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Langer, Adam.

Summary: "A novel about a down-on-his-luck short-story writer who becomes embroiled in an elaborate confidence game designed to scam the publishing world"--Container.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010

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Effinger, George Alec.

Summary: Marîd Audran has risen from hustling on the streets of the decadent Budayeen ghetto to being the right-hand man of one of the Maghreb's most feared men. As an enforcer for the powerful Friedlander Bey, Marîd is just beginning to enjoy his newfound wealth and privilege, when he and Bey are betrayed by a rival and accused of murder. Sentenced to exile and abandoned to die in the vast Arabian...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orb 2006

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Effinger, George Alec.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orb 2005

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Minter, Adam

Summary: "When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter-- veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner-- travels deeply into a vast, often hidden, multibillion-dollar...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Effinger, George Alec.

Summary: "Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth. Back then, as often as not, he didn't have the money to buy himself a drink. But he had his independence. Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, "godfather" of the Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered, crumbling world. During...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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Summary: "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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Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Contents: A friend of Kafka & other stories -- A crown of feathers & other stories -- Passions & other stories -- Chronology -- Note on the texts -- Glossary and notes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004

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Langer, Adam

Summary: Evanston, Illinois, 1982. A group of students at a magnet high school meet to audition for the spring play. Declan, an experienced senior, is confident he'll get his first-choice role, but when the capricious, charismatic drama director casts Franklin, an unknown underclassman-and the two are seen alone at the director's house-a series of events that will haunt the cast for years begins to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022

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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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Fisher-Alaniz, Karen.

Summary: On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Karen Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap. Inside were more than 400 pages of letters he'd written to his parents during WWII. She began reading them, and the more she read, the more she discovered about the man she never knew and the secret role he played in WWII. With painful memories now at the forefront of his thoughts, her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2011

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Stinger, Allen J.

Summary: Johnny Joey Jones, a devoted bomb technician in the Marines, fearlessly served his country in the perilous landscapes of Iraq and Afghanistan. Bound by unbroken bonds of battle, he forged profound connections with his fellow servicemen and women, ready to lay down his life to safeguard the freedoms he held dear. But on August 6, 2010, his life changed forever. He stepped on an improvised...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Allen J. Stinger 0000

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Summary: After journalist Michael Finkel is fired from The New York Times for embellishing a story, he learns that accused murderer Christian Longo has been claiming to be him. Hoping this story will save his career, Finkel begins interviewing Longo in prison. But soon, the men find themselves in an eerie game of cat and mouse in this psychological drama.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015

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Summary: Presents a collection of stories by popular authors whose work inside and outside of the mystery genre has been influenced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2018

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Contents: The last mile of the way (Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers) -- Search me Lord (Brother Joe May) -- Mother bowed (Pilgrim Travelers) -- Oh Lord, stand by me (Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama) -- Too close to heaven (Alex Bradford) -- Get away Jordan (Dorothy Love Coates and the Original Gospel Harmonettes) -- My rock (Swan Silvertones) -- Let God abide (Robert Anderson) -- Prayer for the...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Specialty Records 1991

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Contents: Jesus is on the mainline (Gospel Harmonettes) -- Ye that is without sin, cast the first stone (Brother John Hale) -- Nobody knows the trouble I see ; A charge to keep I have (Pool Brothers) -- There'll be singing over yonder (Century Gospel Singers) -- Nearer, my God, to thee (Four Eagles Quartet) -- Put your trust in Jesus (Angelic Harmonizers) -- Who'll be a witness (for my Lord?) (Golden...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian/Folkways 1994

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Contents: Sheep, sheep, don'tcha know the road (Bessie Jones and the Sea Island Singers) -- The juice of the forbidden fruit (Neil Morris) -- Devil's dream (Hobart Smith) -- You got dimples in your jaws (Willie Jones and others) -- Drunken hiccups (Hobart Smith) -- You done tol' everybody (Fred McDowell) -- The house carpenter (Almeda Riddle) -- Straighten 'em (Bright Light Quartet) -- Corn dodgers (Neil...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997

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Finer, Kim Renee

Summary: Discusses the history of tuberculosis, including the researchers looking for a cure, the effects on the body, transmission, and the treatment of the disease.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2011

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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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Brahms, Johannes

Contents: Concerto in A minor for violin & cello / Johannes Brahms (32:46) -- Piano concerto no. 3 in C minor / Ludwig van Beethoven (37:58) -- Tout un monde lointain. 2nd mvt (excerpt) / Dutilleux (Renaud Capuc̦on, violin ; Truls Mørk, cello ; Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra ; Myun-Whun Chung, conductor) (1:55) -- String quartet in D, op. 64/5 : Lark. 1st mvt (excerpt) / Haydn (Mosaïques Quartet)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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