Summary: Take an unprecedented look at the intersection of African American women artists, politics and entertainment and hear the story of how six trailblazing performers--Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, Nina Simone, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier--changed American culture through their films, fashion, music, and politics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HOWEnstice, Wayne
Contents: Jane Ira Bloom -- JoAnne Brackeen -- Clora Bryant -- Terri Lyne Carrington -- Regina Carter -- Marilyn Crispell -- Barbara Dennerlein -- Dottie Dodgion -- Shirley Horn -- Ingrid Jensen -- Sheila Jordan -- Diana Krall -- Abbey Lincoln -- Virginia Mayhew -- Marian McPartland -- Helen Merrill -- Maria Schneider -- Shirley Scott -- Carol Sloane -- Teri Thornton -- Cassandra Wilson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 ENSHaas, Jeff.
Contents: In your own sweet way / Dave Brubeck -- Jody Grind / Horace Silver -- Gentle Rain / Louis Bonfa -- Night and day / Cole Porter -- Blue monk / Thelonious Monk / Abbey Lincoln -- Someday my prince will come / Frank Churchill/ Larry Morey -- I love being here with you / Peggy Lee / Bill Schluger -- Doxy / Sonny Rollins.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Second Street Music / BMI 1990
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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL HAAContents: L'inconditionnel amour / Amina -- L'amour flou / Juliette Greco -- Paroles, paroles / Dalida -- Ca foit mal et ca fait rien / Zazie -- Youkali / Dee Dee Bridgewater -- Ile amoureuse / Helena -- Man legionnaire / Viktor Lazlo -- Touche par touche / Maurane -- Les avalanches / Jane Birkin -- Mademoiselle Chante le Blues / Patricia Kaas -- Avec le temps / Abbey Lincoln -- Ou es'tu passe mon...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN BLUContents: Epistrophy (Thelonious Monk) -- Airegin (Wes Montgomery) -- Thermo (Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers) -- Afro blue (Abbey Lincoln) -- You got it! (Cannonball Adderley) -- Meditacão (Meditation) (Charlie Byrd) -- Blue spring (Kenny Dorham) -- Waltz for Debby (Bill Evans) -- Chant (Coleman Hawkins) -- Cottontail (Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn) -- Letter from home (Eddie Jefferson) -- On Green...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverside/Fantasy 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ RIVContents: Benediction (Thurston Moore) -- Something on your mind (Karen Dalton) -- Lover of love (Alan Vega, Alex Chilton & Ben Vaughn) -- Driva'man (Abbey Lincoln ; Max Roach) -- Bumbo (Moondog ; with London Brass & London Saxophonic) -- My heart's in the highlands (Else Torp & Christopher Bowers-Broadbent) -- One fine morning (Bill Callahan) -- Everything's fucked (Dirty Three) -- Lessons from Lorena...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJContents: Mysterious blues (Roy Eldridge, trumpet ; Jimmy Knepper, trombone ; Eric Dolphy, alto saxophone ; Tommy Flanagan, piano ; Charles Mingus, bass ; Jo Jones, drums) -- Cliff walk (Booker Little, trumpet ; Julian Priester, trombone ; Walter Benton, tenor saxophone ; Peck Morrison, bass ; Jo Jones and Max Roach, drums) -- Wrap your trouble in dreams (Roy Eldridge, trumpet ; Tommy Flanagan, piano ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Candid 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ NEWGerhardt, Michael J.
Summary: "A novel and brilliant look at how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership: acclaimed historian Michael J. Gerhardt, who appeared during the impeachment proceedings of President Trump, reveals how a group of five men mentored an obscure lawyer with no executive experience to become American's greatest leader"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 GERSummary: Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. It is in the Count's castle that Jonathan becomes a prisoner, and discovers Dracula's true nature.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COUAchorn, Edward
Summary: "The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in America's history--Abraham Lincoln's epochal nomination as the Republican Party's candidate for president in 1860. Illinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln had a record of political failure. In 1858, he had lost a celebrated Senate bid against incumbent Stephen Douglas, his second failed Senate run, and had not...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 ACHAlford, Terry
Summary: "The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ALFClare, Alys.
Summary: In the autumn of 1210, Abbess Caliste is concerned about the welfare of her nuns at Hawkenlye Abbey after King John's men have taken it over, Helewise has moved into Hawkenlye Mannor with Josse, and Helewise's eleven-year-old granddaughter, Rosamund, goes missing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLASummary: Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey's own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AILEngle, Margarita
Summary: "De niña, a Teresa Carreño le encantaba dejar que sus manos bailaran a lo largo de las hermosas teclas del piano. Si se sentía triste, la música le levantaba el ánimo y, cuando estaba feliz, el piano la ayudaba a compartir esa alegría. Pronto comenzó a escribir sus propias canciones y a tocar en grandes catedrales. Entonces, una revolución en Venezuela hizo que su familia tuviera que huir a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH ENGWillan, Jane
Summary: The sisters of Gwenafwy Abbey have cherished their contemplative life--days spent in prayer, reflection, tending the Convent's vegetable gardens and making their award-winning organic cheese, Heavenly Gouda. Life seems perfect, except for Sister Agatha, a die-hard mystery fan who despairs of ever finding any real life inspiration for her own novel. That is, until the Abbey's sexton is found...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILCarey, Charles W.
Summary: "The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, declared all Confederate slaves to be free. Because the order only applied to Southern states that the Union did not control, few slaves benefited immediately. Learn more about this historic document that served as a key turning point in the U.S. Civil War and in the movement to abolish slavery"--provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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Summary: "With the stroke of a pen, President Abraham Lincoln freed the South's enslaved people in the midst of the brutal U.S. Civil War. Or did he? Who did the Emancipation Proclamation really free? What effect did it have on the course of the Civil War? And what became of the inkstand with which he wrote the famous document? Find the answers to these questions and discover more of what an artifact...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.714 JONSummary: When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, the young mouse novice Matthias is called on to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior and help save his home and community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Nelvana 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV REDGessner, David
Summary: Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Gessner follows the ghosts of these two remarkable writer-environmentalists--from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches--braiding their stories and asking how they speak to the lives of all those who care about the West. What is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 978 GESAbley, Mark
Summary: "A poet and journalist looks back on a remarkable journey from Turkey to Nepal in 1978, when the region was on the brink of massive transformation. In the spring of 1978, at age twenty-two, Mark Abley put aside his studies at Oxford and set off with a friend on a three-month trek across the celebrated Hippie Trail -- a sprawling route between Europe and South Asia, peppered with Western...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ABLEY, MARK ABLChaffee, Kim
Summary: "As a kid, Abby Wambach was loud and clear about what she wanted and what she didn't--and she didn't want to be left out of any competition, especially soccer. Darting down fields and booting balls ... into goals, Abby worked her way up from competitive youth player to U.S. Women's National Soccer Team star."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WAMSummary: Weaves the lives of Abraham and Mary Lincoln; Abraham, the dirt-farmer's son turned Great Emancipator, and Mary, the emotionally fragile daughter of wealthy Southern slave-owners. Together, they ascended to the pinnacle of power at a crucial time in the nation's history. Abraham Lincoln's legacy reshaped the nation while the tragedy of his death left Mary reclusive and forgotten.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ABRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ABRJacques, Brian.
Summary: Enslaved by the evil ferret King Agarno and his daughter, Princess Kurda--slavers who have shackled hundreds--the brave squirrelmaid Triss, along with Shogg the otter and Welfo the hedgehog, plans a daring escape by sea. In her flights, Triss happens upon Redwall, and the abbey creatures discover a new hero in her. Someone brave enough to carry the sword of Martin and face the evil that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2002
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1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy JacquesCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JACCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JACDenenberg, Barry.
Summary: Conceived as a one-year anniversary newspaper edition of Lincoln's assassination, this brilliant, beautiful, and bold biographical portrait of Abraham Lincoln mimics 19th-century newsprint, combining pen and ink drawings with archival photography, and period typography with articles surveying Lincoln's life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2008