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African Americans Civil rights History 20th century African Americans Civil rights Michigan Detroit History 20th century Country rock music Darrow, Clarence 1857-1938 Detroit (Mich.) Race relations Electronic dance music Popular music Remixes Trials (Murder) Michigan Detroit United States Race relationsKlein, Hilary Dole
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 648.7 KLESummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009Kollin, Dani.
Summary: Brilliant 21st century tycoon Justin Cord was brought from cryogenic storage into a 24th-century society where people own stock in one another, safeguarding each other's welfare only out of economic self-interest. This is anathema to the defiantly individualistic Cord, who leads the outer edges of the solar system to form a new government and revolt against the core worlds of Earth and Mars.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOLAlvin, Dave
Summary: Dave and Phil Alvin pay homage to artists that had an early, formative influence on the brothers. Everything from Lead Belly and Big Joe Turner to James Brown is represented.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ALVAlvin, Dave.
Contents: Ashgrove (6:15) -- Rio Grande (4:25) -- Black sky (4:48) -- Nine volt heart (4:57) -- Out of control (6:34) -- Everett Ruess (4:51) -- Sinful daughter (4:28) -- Man in the bed (4:35) -- Black haired girl (5:25) -- Somewhere in time (5:54).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Yep Roc 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ALVAlvin, Dave.
Contents: Harlan County line (5:12) -- Johnny Ace is dead (4:27) -- Black rose of Texas (4:52) -- Gary, Indiana 1959 (4:05) -- Run conejo run (4:52) -- No worries mija (3:36) -- What's up with your brother? (duet with Phil Alvin) (4:44) -- Murrietta's head (5:59) -- Manzanita (duet with Christy McWilson) (4:09) -- Dirty nightgown (5:19) -- Two lucky bums (duet with Chris Gaffney) (2:27).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: YEP Roc Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ALVAlvin, Dave.
Contents: Museum of heart -- Don't talk about her -- A woman's got a right -- Between the cracks -- Thirty dollar room - The devil's wind -- Burning in water drowning in flame -- One eye's ballad -- Longer than I thought -- Six nights a week -- Stranger in town -- As she slowly turns to leave -- Florence Avenue lullaby.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hightone Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ALVSummary: A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiance Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie If 2019Summary: Thirty-two vignettes, spanning pianist Glenn Gould's life from age four until his death at fifty, give an impressionistic depiction of his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THIAlvin, Dave
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ALVAlvin, Dave.
Summary: The Alvin brothers, who founded seminal early LA punk roots band The Blasters in 1979, have shared a fascination with Broonzy since childhood. After an illness nearly took Phil's life in 2012, they resolved to return to the studio and pay tribute to the blues legend.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ALVAlvin, Dave.
Contents: California bloodlines -- Redneck friend -- Kern River -- Blind love -- Here in California -- I am bewildered -- Sonora's death row -- Down on the riverbed -- Between the cracks -- Don't look now -- Tramps and hawkers -- Loser -- Surfer girl.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Yep Roc Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ALVSummary: Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUG1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SUG
Summary: An original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. Porter looks back on his life as if it were one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and actions onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits, Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DELAlvin, Dave.
Contents: Blue Blvd--Guilty man--Haley's comet--Why did she stay with him--Rich man's town--Gospel night--Plastic Rose--Brand new heart--Wanda and Duane--Andersonville--Dry River
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hightone Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ALVBoyle, Kevin
Summary: The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925. When his neighbors attempted to drive him out, Sweet defended himself--resulting in the death of a white man and a murder trial for Sweet. There followed one of the most important (and shockingly unknown) cases in Civil Rights history. Also caught up in the intense courtroom drama were legal...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 345.73 BOYBoyle, Kevin
Summary: "From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade that exploded America's postwar order. On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a vision of the AmericanDream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.923 BOYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.923 BOYDoyle, Ken
Contents: Weight training for cyclists -- The basics of weight training -- In the weight room -- Program information -- Program design -- Stretching for flexibility -- Lower body exercises -- Upper body exercises -- Core exercises -- Power development -- Sample year-round program.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VeloPress 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Boyle, Kevin
Summary: Follows the 1925 murder trial of African-American doctor Ossian Sweet, who was accused of murdering a white person during a mob attack on his home, and includes a history of the Sweet family and a portrait of his attorney, Clarence Darrow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2011