Ryan, Jack.
Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYAMcCormick, Mack
Summary: When blues master Robert Johnson's little-known recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. McCormick searched to uncover Johnson's life story, from the late 1960s until his own death in 2015. Here McCormick's manuscript is published for the first time, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, ROBERT MCCReel, Monte
Summary: In A Brotherhood of Spies, award-winning journalist Monte Reel reveals how the U-2 spy program, principally devised by four men working in secret, upended the Cold War and carved a new mission for the CIA. This secret fraternity, made up of Edwin Land, best known as the inventor of instant photography and the head of Polaroid Corporation; Kelly Johnson, a hard-charging taskmaster from Lockheed;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.127 REEJohnson, Mary
Summary: Traces the story of a former nun who devotedly worked alongside Mother Teresa in service to the world's poor, describing her teenage decision to enter a convent, the struggles she faced as an independent thinker, and her decision to leave the church after twenty years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, MARY JOHContents: The Falcons: Sent up -- The Falcons: This heart of mine -- Kope, Billy: It's all my fault / Billy Kope & the Quardells -- Johnson, Marv: Once upon a time -- Howard, "Joltin'" Joe: Searching for my baby -- Holland, Briant: (Where's the joy?) in nature boy -- The tornados (Detroit): Love in your life -- Maxwell, Delores: My man -- The Falcons: You're so fine -- The Falcons: You must know I love...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Red Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SOUContents: The stretch (The Contours) -- Once upon a time (Marv Johnson with the Band of Harold "Beans" Bowles) -- Got a job (The Miracles) -- Love is amazing (The Ohio Untouchables) -- (Where's the joy?) In nature boy (Briant Holland) -- Witchcraft in the air (Betty Lavette) -- Sweet man (Sax Kari feat. Ella Reed) -- Tears of sorrow (The Primettes) -- Hard times (The Majestics) -- Shout (part one) (The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MOJContents: Do you love me (The Contours) -- Come and get these memories (Martha & the Vandellas) -- Run, run, run (The Supremes) -- Leaving here (Eddie Holland) -- Tune up (Jr. Walker & the All Stars) -- At last (I found a love) (Marvin Gaye) -- Locking up my heart (The Marvelettes) -- I found that girl (The Jackson 5) -- Still water (Love) (Four Tops) -- Baby don't you go (The Miracles) -- Fading away...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2009
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES MOJShetterly, Margot Lee
Summary: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space ShetterlyCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SHEContents: Soul classics Stand by me / Ben E. King -- When a man loves a woman / Percy Sledge -- To be loved / Jackie Wilson -- You send me / Sam Cooke -- Drown in my own tears / Ray Charles -- Please Please please / James Brown -- There goes my baby / The Drifters -- Hold on, I'm comin' / Sam & Dave -- Shop around / The Miracles -- You got what it takes / Marv Johnson -- My guy / Mary Wells -- I can't...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Greyhound Media 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES ULTContents: I put a spell on you (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) -- I'm gonna be a wheel some day (Fats Domino) -- My true love (Jack Scott) -- Mary Lou (Ronnie Hawkins) -- The angels listened in (The Crests) -- For your love (Ed Townsend) -- Reet petite (The finest girl you ever want to meet) (Jackie Wilson) -- See saw (The Moonglows) -- Summertime, summertime (The Jamies) -- Silhouettes (The Diamonds) -- You are...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FIFKainen, Dan.
Summary: A magical journey where readers encounter eight animals that come alive. Using an innovative lenticular-based technology, precision sliding lenses, and original four-color video imagery, each image is like a 3-D movie on the page, delivering a rich and fluid visual experience.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.0967 KAIKleinman, Paul
Summary: Presents an introduction to philosophy, covering the origins of the discipline, some of the major figures of the past, and philosophical issues which still continue to be debated in the present day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2013
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 JOHKarr, Mary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 KARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 818.54 KARRKarr, Mary.
Summary: The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KARR, MARY KARMullarkey, John
Summary: On May 31, 1889, as the waters rise in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Sarah Beth, her mother, and Vincent, a boy she likes, struggle to save what they can from the flooding but when the dam collapses the reader is invited to choose between three possible endings for Sarah Beth and her family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MULBrown, Nacio Herb
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1935
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMContents: Try me (James Brown and the Famous Flames) (2:30) -- So fine (The Fiestas) (2:19) -- Pretty girls everywhere (Eugene Church and the Fellows) (2:54) -- I cried a tear (LaVern Baker) (2:34) -- Stagger Lee (Lloyd Price) (2:20) -- Sorry (I ran all the way home) (The Impalas) (2:32) -- It's just a matter of time (Brook Benton) (2:26) -- Kansas City (Wilbert Harrison) (2:24) -- The twist (Hank...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bear Family Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES BLORius.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARX, KARL RIUSummary: Part 5 continues to explore the meaning of the scientific revolution and to examine the many problems that it raises. It is in this period that the West becomes keenly aware of the social and psychological origins and purposes of its activities. This is a period of spiritual turmoil as well as of material advance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREParis, Harper
Summary: "Twins Ethan and Ella are in the Maasai Mara in Kenya, and there's another mystery to solve. Where are all the lions? Ethan and Ella spot lots of cool animals, but the one they're most excited about, they can't seem to find"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC PARDiehl, August
Summary: Follows the early lives of Karl Marx, his wife Jenny, and Friedrich Engels, as they roam between Paris, Brussels, and London, helping to lead the developing labor movement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF YOUOtfinoski, Steven
Summary: "On May 31, 1889, heavy rains and a dam failure sent flood waters sweeping into Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The 50-foot-high wall of water quickly demolished much of the town. Will you and your new husband be able to escape certain doom as you wait for your train to leave the station? Can you climb onto your house's roof for safety before the building completely fills with water? Will you join in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The groundbreaking series returns, exploring the next phase of human colonization on Mars. Blending powerful drama, action, and visual effects, with insightful interviews featuring leading space-science innovators and thinkers -- such as Elon Musk, Andy Weir, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Kim Stanley Robinson -- MARS explores the perils and promise of the next great frontier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018