Summary: This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War, and finally to his death at Little Big Horn. The battle against Chief Crazy Horse is portrayed as a crooked deal between politicians and a corporation which wants the land Custer gave to the Indians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THEContents: Disc 1. Volumes 1-7. Lucy Mae blues ; I woke up crying ; Love blues ; I told you not to do that / Cecil Barfield -- In the evening ; Hey lawdy Mama ; Thousand woman blues ; Blue shadow falling ; Cold rainy day ; Amy / Buddy Moss -- Motherless child ; Hush, somebody is calling my name ; What God can do ; He'll understand and say well done / Leon Pinson -- Big road blues ; Cool water blues ; Big...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fat Possum Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MITSummary: Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DALSummary: The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The cast includes John Le Carre, psychologist Kay Jamison, critic David Lodge, Time correspondent Bernard Diederich, former CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz, and Greene's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DANContents: Match box blues (Larry Hensley) -- Black snake moan (Cobb & Underwood) -- Johnson City blues (Clarence Green) -- Franklin County blues (Dixie Ramblers) -- Blue grass twist ; Bibb County grind (South Georgia Highballers) -- Barber's blues ; Dust pan blues (Frankie Marvin) -- I'm blue and lonesome (Gene Autry & Frankie Marvin) -- Do right daddy blues ; Black bottom blues ; The rheumatism blues ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLHunter, Georgia
Summary: ""Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment."--Paula McLain, New York Timesbestselling author of The Paris Wife. An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUContents: The hand that holds the bread / George F. Root (1:25) -- The anti-monopoly war song / R.J. Harrison? (2:15) -- The Pacific railroad / George F. Root (2:15) -- The song of the red man / Henry C. Work (2:54) -- The future America / trad. and H.C. Dodge (1:37) -- Drill, ye tarriers, drill / Thomas F. Casey? (2:53) -- A laborer you see, and I love liberty / George W. Loyd (1:03) -- Out of work /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New World Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK HANGRAFF, GEORGE P.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1974
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 GRAPelecanos, George P.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELPelecanos, George P.
Summary: After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, Chris has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dating a woman he respects, and, aside from the distrust that lingers in his father's eyes, his mistakes are firmly in the past. One day on the job, Chris and his partner come across a temptation almost too big to resist. Chris does the right...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELMorrison, Van
Summary: Van Morrison releases the 35th album of his storied career. Here he has re-recorded some of his favorite songs with the help of fellow artists including Michael Buble, Mavis Staples, and his own daughter Shana Morrison.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MORGraff, George P.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: bureau of Library Services 1970
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2 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 GRAPelecanos, George P.
Summary: Hoping to start over after serving eight years in prison, Lorenzo Brown returns to the Washington, D.C., neighborhood of his youth to take a job as a Humane Society officer but finds challenges from a local drug boss.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELPelecanos, George P.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELPelecanos, George P.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELPelecanos, George P.
Summary: In 1972 Washington, D.C., ex-cop private investigator Derek Strange teams up with his former partner, Frank "Hound Dog" Vaughn, to track down a ruthless killer named Red Fury.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELPelecanos, George P.
Summary: Since he got home from Iraq, Spero Lucas has carved out a good life for himself, enjoying his youth and his independence, and making a name as the kind of person who gets jobs done quietly and effectively, usually just on the right side of the law. A quick case for a criminal defense attorney leads him into the world of a high-profile marijuana dealer, currently in prison but with a long reach,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELPelecanos, George P.
Summary: "The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting--"The Double"--Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend stole from her. It's the sort of thing Spero Lucas specializes in: finding what's missing, and doing it quietly. But Grace wants more. She wants Lucas to find the man who humiliated her--a violent career criminal with a small gang of brutal thugs at his beck and call. Lucas is a man who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELPelecanos, George P.
Summary: Michael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to him by the prison's librarian, a young woman named Anna who develops a soft spot for her best student. Anna keeps passing Michael books until one day he disappears, suddenly released after a private detective manipulated a witness in Michael's trial. Outside, Michael encounters a Washington, D.C. that has changed a lot...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PELPelecanos, George P.
Summary: "Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers to a vivid and eclectic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELPelecanos, George P.
Summary: Thirty-five years after a devastating accident that irrevocably shapes the lives of six people, a pair of redemption-seeking survivors reaches out to one another in an effort that is compromised by a fellow survivor's release from prison.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELPelecanos, George P.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1998