Summary: Meet the Silver Belles, five tap dancers who performed in 1930's Harlem at the famed Apollo and Cotton Club. Together again, they're dancing to standing ovations and sharing stories of the Harlem Renaissance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEEHames, Coco
Contents: When you said goodbye -- I do love you -- I don't wanna go -- Long time coming -- Tennessee hollow -- If you ain't mine -- You're calling me -- Tiny pieces -- This house ain't a home -- Dead river.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HAMHaley, Alex.
Summary: Alex Haley traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. He follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America/Sound library 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 929.2 HALHaley, Alex.
Summary: A family saga centered on an African-American matriarch whose husband was shot for stealing. It follows her descendants as they fight World War II, march for civil rights, join the Black Panthers and help develop Africa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHaley, Alex.
Summary: A sophomore at Princeton in 1955, southerner Fletcher Randall meets a group of Quaker Friends and eventually becomes involved in the Underground Railroad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARClap Your Hands Say Yeah (Musical group)
Contents: The pilot -- A chance to cure -- Down (is where I want to be) -- Unfolding above celibate moon (Los Angeles nursery rhyme) -- Better off -- Fireproof -- The vanity of trying -- Loose ends -- Ambulance chaser -- Visiting hours.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CYHSY 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CLAClap Your Hands Say Yeah (Musical group)
Contents: Same mistake -- Hysterical -- Misspent youth -- Maniac -- Into your alien arms -- In a motel -- Yesterday, never -- Idiot -- Siesta (for Snake) -- Ketamine and ecstasy -- The witness' dull surprise -- Adam's plane.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CLASummary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHEHaley, Alex.
Summary: The fictionalized saga of Haley's father's family, sequel to Roots.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALHaley, Alex.
Summary: This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1976
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 HALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 HALClap Your Hands Say Yeah (Musical group)
Contents: Hesitating nation -- Thousand Oaks -- Dee, forgiven -- New fragility -- Innocent weight -- Mirror song -- CYHSY, 2005 -- Where they perform miracles -- Went looking for trouble -- If I were more like Jesus.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CLAVan Halen
Contents: Eruption (1:43) -- Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (3:47) -- Runnin' With The Devil (3:36) -- Dance The Night Away (3:10) -- And The Cradle Will Rock... (3:33) -- Unchained (3:30) -- Jump (4:04) -- Panama (3:33) -- Why Can't This Be Love (3:31) -- Dreams (4:52) -- When It's Love (5:39) -- Poundcake (5:22) -- Right Now (5:22) -- Can't Stop Lovin' You (4:07) -- Humans Being (5:08) -- Can't Get This...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1978
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Contents: Wishing well / Terence Trent D'Arby. -- Shattered dreams / Johnny Hates Jazz. -- Seasons change / Expose. -- Get outta my dreams, get into my car / Billy Ocean. -- Anything for you / Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine. -- Hold on to the nights / Richard Marx. -- Wild, wild West / Escape Club. -- The flame / Cheap Trick. -- Baby, I love your way. -- Freebird medley. -- Free baby / Will to...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1994
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BILSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Chronicling the extraordinary life of Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Biggie transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to a pregnant woman) to superstardom. He has to juggle the increasing demands of fatherhood, marriage, and a music career that is strife with chaos and controversy. On March 8, 1997, in Los...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOTHaley, Nelson Cole.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seaforth Publishing 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 HALContents: Now you has jazz / Bing Crosby -- I've got the world on a string / Frank Sinatra -- Until the real thing comes along / Dean Martin -- Let's face the music and dance / Matt Monro -- Always / Bobby Darin -- I want a little girl / Billy Eckstine -- I cried for you (now it's your turn to cry over me) / Andy Russell -- But not for me / Chet Baker -- It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL PENRodgers, Richard
Contents: Oh, what a beautiful mornin' (Bing Crosby and Trudy Erwin with the Sportsmen Glee Club) -- Boys and girls like you and me (Judy Garland with Georgie Stoll and his Orchestra) -- It might as well be spring (Dick Haymes ; orchestra ; Victor Young, conductor) -- I haven't got a worry in the world (Hildegarde with Percy Faith and his Orchestra) -- You'll never walk alone (Judy Garland ; chorus ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Classics 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC RODSummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012