Summary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLOSummary: When the British government is discovered smuggling precious Chinese artifacts out of the country, folklore hero Wong Fei Hong uses his uniquely outlandish style of martial arts...Drunken Boxing...to fight the conspirators and salvage the valuables before it's too late! And the more Hong drinks, the more agile he becomes -- able to fend off numerous attacks with unbelievable moves! With Chinese...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LEGSummary: An eclectic group of artists performed selections from the Bob Dylan songbook on October 16, 1992 at Madison Square Garden in New York City to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dylan's debut album.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Records 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BOBYounge, Lesley
Summary: Allen, known as A-Train because he is the fastest kid around, races through the city towards the one thing that will get him to slow down.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOUSummary: Grammy-nominated film that chronicles the life and career of Arif Mardin, the man who produced more than 50 gold and platinum records and won twelve Grammys. Featuring interviews and/or studio footage with Willie Nelson, Carly Simon, Jewel, Daryl Hall, Phil Collins, Norah Jones and many others. The Greatest Ears in Town is one of the most insightful, inspirational and enjoyable documentaries...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GREYoung, Hester
Summary: Expectant mother Charlie Cates suffers from prophetic dreams about a threat against her unborn daughter before discovering the astonishing identities of two double murder victims.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUYoung, Hester.
Summary: "From a unique new talent comes a fast-paced debut, introducing a heroine whose dark visions bring to light secrets that will heal or destroy those around her. When New York journalist and recently bereaved mother Charlotte "Charlie" Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children--visions of injured children, dead children--she's sure that she's lost her mind. Yet these are not the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUYoung, Lester.
Contents: I didn't know what time it was -- Oh, lady be good -- Almost like being in love -- Three little words -- I cover the waterfront -- I can't get started (back home again in Indiana) -- Pennies from heaven -- New D. B. blues -- Lullaby of birdland -- There will never be another you -- Tea for two.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAZLeSieg, Theo.
Summary: Rhyming text and illustrations briefly point out what animals have teeth, their uses, and how to care for them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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Contents: Mean to me (7:14) -- Red boy blues (5:11) -- Pennies from heaven (5:14) -- That's all (4:34) -- One o'clock jump (5:17) -- She's funny that way (8:22) -- It's the talk of the town (5:37) -- I found a new baby (5:50).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ YOUYoung, Lester
Contents: Way down yonder in New Orleans / Creamer-Layton -- Countless Blues / M. Gabler -- Them There Eyes / Pinkard, Tauber, Tracey -- I want a little girl / Moll, Mencher -- Pagin' the devil / Page, Gabler -- I got rhythm / George & Ira Gershwin -- I'm fer it too / D. Wells -- Hello babe / D. Wells -- Linger awhile / Rose, Owens -- Just you just me / Greer, Klages -- I never knew / Fiorito, Kahn --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Definitive Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ YOUYoung, Lester
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Philology 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ YOUYoung, Lester
Contents: Swingin' the blues -- Time out -- Roseland shuffle -- Don't worry 'bout me -- Clap hands, here comes Charlie -- Louisiana -- Green Bay -- Memories of you -- AC DC current -- Till Tom special -- Ad-lib blues -- I never knew -- Charlie's dream -- Wholly cats -- Lester's dream.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jazz Archives 1978
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ YOUYoung, Lester
Contents: A foggy day (5:26) -- When you're smiling (5:58) -- I can't get started (3:32) -- Fast B♭ blues (5:49) -- D.B. blues (7:49) -- Tea for two (5:41) -- Jeepers creepers (6:13).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Pablo 1980
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ YOUYoung, Lester
Contents: I've found new baby (4:04) -- Pennies from heaven (5:14) -- I didn't know what time it was (10:01) -- The man I love (4:48) -- Just you, just me (7:37) -- Mean to me (7:14) -- All of me (5:06) -- Somebody loves me (3:52) -- Lester leaps again (4:24) -- That's all (4:34) -- I want to be happy (3:56).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ YOULeSieg, Theo.
Summary: A boy imagines what it would be like if he had such things as duck feet, a whale spout, and an elephant's trunk.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beginner Books 1965
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LESLeSieg, Theo.
Summary: Poses questions for pondering: "Would you rather be a dog or be a cat?", "Would you rather live in igloos or in tents?", "Would you rather be a mermaid with a tail instead of feet?"
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beginner Books 1975
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Summary: "In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holocaust. In this remarkable group portrait, Coster and five of his fellow classmates gather...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRANK, ANNE COSContents: Disc one. Can the circle be unbroken (bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Barbara Allen (Bradley Kincaid) -- I'll fly away (James and Martha Carson) -- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- Blue yodel number 9 (standin' on the corner) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Wildwood flower...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC COUSummary: "This two-disc set contains every item that Lester Young recorded for Aladdin including the rare 1942 trio session with Nat Cole and a 1946 Helen Humes date, from which comes a newly discovered instrumental"--Container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ YOULeSieg, Theo.
Summary: Suggests in rhyme a variety of occupational choices.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beginner Books 1980
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JBR PURPLE LESLeSieg, Theo.
Summary: Drawings and verse point out the many things that are wrong one wacky Wednesday.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beginner Books 1974
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LESKester, Eric
Summary: When star quarterback Brett suffers a terrible concussion, his brother Wyatt must decide if keeping his brother's secret is worth the risk to their relationship and their town's economic future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KESYoung, Eris
Summary: Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through the rich multitudes of asexual life.With chapters spanning everything from dating, relationships and sex, to mental and emotional health, family, community and joy, the inspirational stories and personal experiences within these pages speak...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2023