Johnson, Charles

Summary: "Organized into six accessible, easy-to-navigate sections, The Way of the Writer is both a literary reflection on the creative impulse and a utilitarian guide to the writing process. Johnson shares his lessons and exercises from the classroom, starting with word choice, sentence structure, and narrative voice, and delving into the mechanics of scene, dialogue, plot and storytelling before...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 JOH

Johnson, Charles

Summary: "A masterful story collection--thirteen years in the making--from National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, showcasing the incredible range and resonant voice of this American treasure"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOH

Johnson, Charles Richard

Summary: A freed slave escapes his bad debts in New Orleans by stowing away on a slave ship en route to Africa.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1990

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOH

Barnes, Steven

Summary: "From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of Buddha. Eight strangers looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his acolytes directs them to each tell a story that the group can...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2022

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BAR

Paul Butterfield's Better Days (Musical group)

Contents: Countryside -- Buried alive in the blues / Nick Gravenites -- Small town talk / Bobby Charles, Rick Danko -- New walkin' blues / Robert Johnson -- Brok my baby's heart / Ronnie Barron -- Highway 28 / Rod Hicks -- Please send someone to love / Perry Mayfield -- He's got all the whiskey / Bobby Charles -- Nobody's fault but mine / Nina Simone.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Wounded Bird Records 1973

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BUT

Summary: "NEW STORIES AND ESSAYS FROM TOP AUTHORS AND EXPERT SCIENTISTS. Explorations of how interstellar travel may affect humanity by best-selling authors and scientists. The stars will change us. STELLARIS: PEOPLE OF THE STARS is a collection of original science fiction stories and nonfiction essays speculating about humanity's far-term expansion into the universe beyond the limits of our solar...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2019

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Summary: At the height of the frontier era, a locomotive races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote Army Post. But one by one, the passengers are being murdered. Their only hope is John Deakin, a mysterious prisoner-in-transit who must fight for his life -- and the lives of everyone on the train -- as he uncovers a deadly secret that explodes in a torrent of shocking...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BRE

Summary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUG

Brooks, Hadda.

Contents: Hadda sings. That's my desire (2:42) -- I feel so good (2:45) -- Anytime, anyplace, anywhere (3:06) -- Dream (4:06) -- You won't let me go (3:13) -- Time was when (2:47) -- You go your way and I'll go crazy (3:31) -- Sometimes I'm happy (2:53) (featuring Carla Bouzlich) -- Need a little sugar in my bowl (3:24) -- Who did you fool after all? (3:12) -- Stairway to the stars (4:24) (featuring...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Pointblank Records 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BRO

Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLI

Summary: A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert, and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strange.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI IT

Jones, Charles

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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark Publishers 1998

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.34 JON

Summary: "Follows the terrifying and horrific abuses instilled upon the indigenous people of North America, and details the genocidal practices of the US government and its continuing affects on present day Indian country"--Container.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bastard Fairy Films 2010

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CAN

Summary: Director Robert J. Flaherty journeyed with his wife, Frances, and their children to the South Seas island of Savai'i to capture on film the exotic lifestyles of the Samoan people. In doing so, they resurrected and dramatized the recently vanished customs and struggles of the people just before modernization permanently altered the cultural landscape of the island. In 1975, nearly 50 years after...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOA

Contents: Disc 1. The camp meeting jubilee (Unknown) -- My man rocks me (Trixie Smith) -- Kansas city blues (Jim Jackson) -- Going to move to Alabama (Charley Patton) -- Move it on over (Hank Williams) -- It's tight like that (Tampa Red) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Clarence "Pinetop" Smith) -- Jimmy's blues (Jimmy Blythe) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves) -- Tiger rag (Washboard Rhythm...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FIR

Contents: Down at Jasper's bar-b-que (Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon) (2:46) -- Who did you give my barbecue to? Part 1 (Big Boy Teddy Edwards) (2:59) -- Pig meat on the line (Memphis Minnie) (2:33) -- Pork chop blues (The Two Charlies) (2:57) -- Barbecue bust (Mississippi Jook Band) (2:35) -- I crave my pig meat (Blind Boy Fuller) (2:44) -- Barbecue blues (Barbecue Bob) (3:11) -- Pepper sauce mama (Charlie...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Old Hat 2011

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BAR

Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PRO

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO