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African American singers Drama African Americans Drama Electronic music Entertainers Drama Fathers and daughters Fathers and daughters Drama Girl groups (Musical groups) United States Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Music trade United States Drama Popular music United States DramaLaRose, Lawrence.
Summary: Describes how an recently unemployed writer and Manhattanite and his new wife purchased a decrepit fixer-upper in Sag Harbor, New York.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.7 LARSummary: "Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With seven-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYBarone, Daniel A.
Summary: "This book is designed to provide additional guidance for those who understand how critical sleep is to their health and who want to do all they can to improve the quality of their sleep"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health BaroneSummary: Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed, who, after relocating with his wife Rachel and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family's new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall, setting off a perilous chain reaction that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PETCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PETCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PeSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: "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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: Tells the tale of an extraordinary man who lives a remarkable life without setting foot on land. Abandoned atop a piano and raised by a lowly crew member in the bowels of a luxurious cruise ship, the boy is dubbed 1900 for the year he was born. As he grows up, he is drawn to the piano and discovers he has an amazing gift for creating music. His reputation spreads, but he refuses to leave the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LEGVarèse, Edgard
Contents: Ionisation (4:50) -- Density 21.5 (4:10) -- Intègrales (9:43) -- Octandre (6:45) -- Hyperprism (3:49) -- Poème électronique (8:04).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: One Way Records 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL VARRrose
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC RROContents: Guitar rag (Roy Harvey & Jess Johnson) -- Bow wow blues (Allen Brothers) -- Cocaine (Dick Justice) -- Down South blues (Dock Boggs) -- Stackalee (Frank Hutchison) -- Mule skinner blues (Blue Yodel #8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Born in hard luck (Chris Bouchillon) -- Johnson City blues (Clarence Greene) -- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers) -- Buck Dancer's choice...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ROUSummary: Three young women Deena Jones, Effie White, and Lorrell Robinson desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DRESummary: Set in 1830's France, the ambitious son of a carpenter challenges the rigid social order of the time when he becomes a private tutor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV REDRissi, Anica Mrose
Summary: "A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RISSummary: Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HIGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI HIGLawrence
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bridge-Logos Publishers 1999
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.482 LawSummary: The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CELRawlence, Ben
Summary: "In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 577.3 RAWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.3 RAWSummary: Dancing great Bill Williamson takes a look back on the beginnings of his career and his romance with fellow rising star Selina. Their romance is brief because Selina does not want to settle down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOLand, Harold.
Contents: So in love / Cole Porter (5:58) -- Triple trouble / Amos Trice (5:46) -- Slowly / Raskin, Giell (6:59) -- On a little street in Singapore / Hill, De Rose (7:07) -- Okay blues / Harold Land (12:23).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jazzland Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LandAlison, Lorence
Summary: Adri is on an all-expenses-paid trip to the exclusive Solstice Festival but suddenly it turns into a deadly nightmare when a dead body washes up on the beach and Adri must put together the clues to who-or what-is killing off the crowd one by one.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALISala, Laurenne
Summary: In this bilingual picture book celebration of family life, young readers are invited into Lucia's home where she takes them on a tour of her busy and cozy casa and introduces them to her beautiful familia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SALSummary: Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RAISummary: Celebrate Shakespeare's 400th anniversary with this hilarious comedy about the playwright's mysterious lost years. Bill Shakespeare is a hapless lute player with a big dream. When his bandmates kick him out of their group, Bill leaves his wife and kids behind to seek fame and fortune in the big city of London. He's written a great work for the stage and he's certain he'll prove all his doubters...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016