Lindsay, Daniel
Summary: Follows a high school football team from inner-city Memphis, Tennessee, and the coach who hopes to turn the team around.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNDAbdo, Kenny
Summary: This title focuses on the Los Angeles Rams and gives information related to the team's origin in the NFL, their journey through the decades, and highlighting their Hall of Fame players. This hi-lo title is complete with vibrant photographs, simple text, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Recounts the 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his final speech to strikers the night before his assassination, and details the perseverance of strikers before and after his death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 331.892 DUNWithers, Ernest C.
Summary: "Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: CityFiles Press 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 323.1196 WITMyers, Dan
Summary: "Introduces readers to the Green Bay Packers, providing exciting details about today's stars and going deep inside the key moments of the team's history. The title also features informative "fast facts," a timeline, and a glossary."--Publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 MYEHall, Brian
Summary: This title introduces readers to the Detroit Lions, providing exciting details about today's stars and going deep inside the key moments of the team's history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017
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Summary: In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder. He had a second identity: an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCOLLOUGH, MARRELL SELSummary: DJay, a very smalltime streetwise Memphis hustler and pimp, lives a dead-end life at the fringes of society. Though DJay has always had a way with words, that gift has long been misused--employed to keep his 'girls' producing. A chance encounter with Key, a sound engineer, spurs DJay to find a voice and realize his long-buried dreams. Chasing his musical dream transforms DJay, but opening the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Classics 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUSWilner, Barry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Col 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 WILAbdo, Kenny.
Summary: This title focuses on the Dallas Cowboys and gives information related to the team's origin in the NFL, their journey through the decades, and highlighting their Hall of Fame players.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 ABDAbdo, Kenny.
Summary: This title focuses on the Green Bay Packers and gives information related to the team's origin in the NFL, their journey through the decades, and highlighting their Hall of Fame players.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 ABDAbdo, Kenny.
Summary: This title focuses on the New England Patriots and gives information related to the team's origin in the NFL, their journey through the decades, and highlighting their Hall of Fame players.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 ABDAbdo, Kenny
Summary: This title focuses on the Kansas City Chiefs and gives information related to the team's origin in the NFL, their journey through the decades, and highlighting their Hall of Fame players.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fly!, an imprint of Abdo Zoom 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 ABDSummary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRIWithers, Ernest C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 796.3576 WITContents: The Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes & Sane). You shall ; It's a good thing ; Sweet to mama ; Half cup of tea ; Beale Town bound ; Last go round ; Jazzin' the blues ; You shall ; It's a good thing ; Mr. Crump don't like it ; Chicken you can roost behind the moon ; Blues in "D" ; Ain't goin' to do like I used to do ; Hunting blues ; Rockin' on the hill blues ; Fillin' in blues (part 1) ; Fillin' in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MASSummary: In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRISummary: In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRIContents: 1928-1934. Frank Stokes. Downtown blues (take 1) ; Downtown blues (take 2) ; Bedtime blues ; What's the matter blues ; Mistreatin' blues ; It won't be long (take 1) ; It won't be long (take 2) ; Nehi mamma blues ; I got mine ; Stomp that thing ; 'Tain't nobody's business if I do (part 1) ; 'Tain't nobody's business if I do (part 2, take 1) ; 'Tain't nobody's business if I do (part 2, take 2) ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MASContents: Robert Wilkins. Rolling stone (part 1) ; Rolling stone (part 2) ; Jail house blues ; I do blues ; That's no way to get along ; Alabama blues ; Long train blues ; Falling down blues ; Nashville stonewall blues ; Police sergeant blues ; Get away blues ; I'll go with her blues ; Dirty deal blues ; Black rat blues ; New stock yard blues ; Old Jim Canaan's ; Losin' out blues ; Little Buddy Doyle....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MASBooker T.
Contents: Jamaica song -- Mama Stewart -- Tennessee Voodoo -- Flamingo -- Song for Casey -- Evergreen -- Country days -- Why me -- Front Street rag -- Lie to me -- Bonus tracks: Evergreen (single version) ; Life is funky ; Take me to the river ; Love is strange (with Priscilla Coolidge) ; Whiter shade of pale ; (Your love has lifted me) Higher and higher.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wounded Bird Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BOOContents: Furry Lewis. Everybody's blues ; Mr. Furry's blues ; Sweet papa moan ; Rock Island blues ; Jelly Roll ; Billy Lyons and Stack O'Lee ; Good looking girl blues ; Why don't you come home blues ; Falling down blues ; Big chief blues ; Mean old bedbug blues ; Furry's blues ; I will turn your money green (take 1) ; I will turn your money green (take 2) ; Mistreatin' mama ; Dry land blues ; Cannon...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MASSummary: Documentary celebrating the intergenerational, interracial, and undeniable influence of Memphis, Tennessee on American culture and its music, bringing together award-winning Memphis and Mississippi Delta musicians for a one-of-a-kind musical project and following them through the creative process of recording a historic new album. Features Terrence Howard, William Bell, Snoop Dogg, Mavis...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TAKHowell, Brian
Summary: 'Learn about the key players and big wins that have made the Detroit Lions one of the most exciting teams in the NFL. Readers will get a glimpse into the league, the team's history, its home stadium, its fans, and the team's most memorable moments. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative sidebars, a glossary of key words and phrases, sources for further research, a look...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Childs World 2016