Summary: The musical culture of Haitian Vodou, long shrouded in an aura of black magic, is brilliantly unveiled in this recording. Largely recorded in the field, both urban and rural Vodou ceremonial music are captured with state-of-the-art fidelity. The CD is accompanied by photographs, essays, interviews with Vodou practioners, poems, proverbs, folk tales, and more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ellipsis Arts 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/CARIBBEAN ANGMicklos, John
Summary: "In 1910, Sir Robert Falcon Scott led a team of Englishmen racing to be the first people to reach the South Pole. Amidst frigid temperatures and raging winds, Scott and four others made it to the pole only to find that another team had gotten there first. Low on morale and facing ever-plunging temperatures, the trek home would prove a harrowing task. Find out if Scott and his men ever made it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC MICContents: Gasn nign Alicia Svigals (3:00) -- Mazltov The Chicago Klezmer Ensemble (4:20) -- Hongu and Freylekhs from Podoloy Di Naye Kapelye (3:19) -- A glezele vayn La'om (4:30) -- Badekns nign Andy Statman (2:50) -- Behusher khusid Budowitz (3:40) -- Wedding suite Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer (6:45) -- Nokh an anderer alter bulgar Ray Musiker and The Klezmatics (3:40) -- In-laws The Klezmatics...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ellipsis Arts 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST KLEContents: Morning bell chant (Seung Sahn) (6:59) -- Ajikan (Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin) (6:48) -- The four great vows, the three great refuges (the congregation of the Ch'an Meditation Center) (7:30) -- Prelude to sitting meditation (Thich Nhat Hanh) (7:55) -- Mandel tachen (monks of the Drepung Monastery) (7:53) -- Hyakuhachisan (the Tendai Chants Research Society) (7:12) -- Paying hommage to the Buddah,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ellipsis Arts 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN ONEPhillips, Katrina M.
Summary: "In 1921, Inupait seamstress Ada Blackjack joined a a group of four white men who wanted to establish a trading post on Wrangel Island in the freezing Arctic Ocean. The explorers were stranded on the island when their return ship was forced to turn back due to ice. Facing harsh conditions and dwindling food supplies, the men died one by one, but Ada remained. Find out how she alone managed to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.92 PHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC PHIMicklos, John
Summary: "In the spring of 1846, the Donner and Reed families joined a wagon train bound for California in hopes of a better life. But when the party took an untested shortcut, it set them down a tragic path. As they crossed the Sierra Nevada, heavy snow fell in the mountain pass. They were trapped. Supplies were already low, and now they faced a winter of starvation. Told through the gripping,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978 MICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J978 MICContents: Men's elephant-hunting song (7:28) -- Girls' echo song (1:35) -- Peipa (Girl's initiation) (2:25) -- Honey-gathering song (1:29) -- Women's wedding song (2:51) -- Net-hunting song (2:29) -- Meĺie (́4:45) -- Bow-harp and vocal (5:07) -- Ikobi (Gathering song-version 1) (1:40) -- Ikobi (version.2) (1:38) -- One-string violin (2:22) -- Lote (notched flute) (2:05)--Sanza (plucked idiophone, or...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ellipsis Arts 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ECHContents: Ngontog Gyan, "ornament for clear realization" (12:44) -- Gaden Lhagyama, "the hundred Buddhas of Tushita" (13:25) -- Shar Gang-ri Ma, "the eastern snowy mountain" (6:03) -- Palden Yonten, "splendid knowledge" (11:35) -- Tsedrup, "life enhancement" (17:53).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ellipsis Arts 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/ASIAN TIBGolkar, Golriz
Summary: "In 1881, U.S. Army Lieutenant Adolphus Greely and his crew set sail for the Arctic. Their mission was to collect scientific data on the polar climate. They also had a second, secret goal: to achieve Farthest North, the record for highest latitude reached by explorers. But when resupply ships failed to arrive two years in a row, the team's dreams of glory turned into a nightmarish fight for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Library is published by Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.804 GOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J919.804 GOLRodriguez, Cindy
Summary: "On May 6, 1996, dozens of excited climbers set off to scale Mount Everest and to reach the tallest point on Earth. On the morning of May 10, the skies were clear. The summit was in sight. But hours later, a terrible storm hit. Eight climbers died as they became trapped near the peak. What went wrong, and how did the survivors manage to make it back alive? Told through the gripping, full-color...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Library is published by Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.522 RODCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J796.522 RODRodriguez, Cindy L.
Summary: "Percy Fawcett was a mapmaker and an adventurer. In the early 1900s, he spent years mapping out the jungles of South America. Fawcett became obsessed with the idea of a lost city of gold hidden deep in the jungle. At the age of 57, Fawcett, his 21-year-old son Jack, and Jack's friend Raleigh Rimell left on a quest to find the Lost City of Z. The three men were never heard from again. Untangle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC RODSimons, Lisa M. B.
Summary: "In 1845, Sir John Franklin commanded two ships on an expedition to find a Northwest Passage from England through the Arctic and over to Asia. If successful, the route would be a faster way to get goods from Asia to Europe and back. But success was not in the cards for Franklin's expedition. Only recently, the sunken ships were discovered in the icy Arctic waters. What happened to Franklin and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 SIMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SIMTaylor, S. S.
Summary: Kit, Zander, and M. K. West are settling into their new lives as students at the Academy for the Exploratory Sciences when Kit finds another mysterious map left for him by their father, the brilliant, famous ? and presumed dead ? explorer Alexander West. Why did Alexander leave the maps behind, and why are government agents so determined to seize them? What is really going on in a mysterious...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's McMullens 2014
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Taylor 2014Cliff, Jimmy.
Contents: Vietnam -- Sitting in limbo -- Struggling man -- Let your yeah be yeah -- Bongo man -- The harder they come -- Sufferin' in the land -- Many rivers to cross -- Hard road to travel -- You can get it if you really want -- Sooner or later.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mango 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE CLIFraioli, James O.
Summary: Junior explorers Rocco and Olivia join Fabien Cousteau and his research team on an icebreaker in the Arctic Circle, seeking the rare dumbo octopus. Inserts include facts about the effects of climate change, people and animals of the Arctic, and ships thathave explored the area.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FRAMicklos, John
Summary: "English explorer Henry Hudson had long searched for a quicker, northern sailing route from Europe to Asia. Three previous expeditions had failed. In 1610, he embarked again to find the fabled Northwest Passage. But when icy waters stranded Hudson and the Discovery in a bay for the winter, tensions flared. The crew lost faith in their captain's leadership and began to plot...mutiny! Told...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.92 MICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J910.92 MICByas, Don.
Contents: I'll remember April -- Lover man -- Anthropology -- Lady bird -- Yesterdays -- A night in Tunisia.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1201 Music 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BYAMeltzer, Milton
Summary: Examines the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DICTaylor, S. S.
Summary: As the world teeters on the edge of war, Explorer-in-Training Kit West finishes his spy training and is sent on his first secret mission: a dangerous journey across the Simerian Desert to retrieve a secret map that will allow his government to fend off an invasion. But things are not as they seem and Kit must battle deadly sandstorms, ruthless spies, and government agents to find the map and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Taylor 2019Cena, John
Summary: "'Tis the season for holiday fun at the junkyard with Elbow Grease and his monster truck family! But when a blizzard blows in on Christmas Eve, how will Santa find them? Elbow Grease must figure out a way to make this Christmas the brightest one yet" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: BRDLaNier, Carlotta Walls.
Summary: Unabridged.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 379.263 LANSabatini, Irene.
Summary: Set against the tumultuous backdrop of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, teenagers Lindiwe and Ian meet briefly after Ian is accused of a terrible crime. The friendship they begin endures many tests and one devastating secret.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SABColeman, Ted
Summary: Get to know the greatest players in the history of the Miami Heat, from the legends of the past to today’s biggest superstars. This action-packed book also includes a timeline, team facts, additional resources links, a glossary, and an index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Press Box Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323 COLLeventhal, Josh
Summary: Run. Kick Pass. Punt. Then get ready to tackle the stats of some of the best NFL players and coaches in history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2017