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African Americans Biography Autism Fiction Blues (Music) Brothers and sisters Fiction Johnson, Katherine G Live sound recordings United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California Drama United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California Fiction United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California Juvenile fiction Women BiographyWoodfox, Albert
Summary: Nearly forty years in solitary confinement in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell for 23 hours a day for a crime he did not commit, Albert Woodfox survived and emerged with his humanity and sense of hope for the future intact.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this fact-based story, a convict is confined to the dungeons of Alcatraz for three years in isolation after a failed escape. When he at last emerges from the total darkness, he's confused, savage, barely human, and he immediately kills the stoolie who ratted on his escape. It's an open-and-shut case of Murder One. But his resolute attorney puts Alcatraz and its sadistic associate warden on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MURCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CHOCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CHOSummary: Go behind the Oklahoma State Penitentiary walls to follow convict cowgirls on their journey to the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Documentary Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWESummary: The true story of a convicted killer who avoids the depths of despair by becoming a world-renowned authority on birds during his imprisonment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BIRCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC CHOAlexander, Heather
Summary: Introduces the former first lady, senator, and secretary of state while describing how she became a role model for women as a lawyer, a staunch supporter of important political and social causes, and the first woman to run as the Democratic candidate forpresident.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Choldenko, Gennifer
Summary: "Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CHOLouisiana Red
Contents: CD 1 : Announcement Lousiana (Louisiana) Red -- The whole world -- I wonder who's been loving you tonight -- Midnight rambler -- When my mama was living -- Red's dream no. 2 -- Red's boogie -- Crime emotion -- Good god woman -- Alabama train -- Soon one morning -- Travelling boogie -- Death of ealase
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Hamburg 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES LOULouisiana Red.
Contents: Dead stray dog -- New Jersey women -- Held up in one town -- Bad case of the blues -- Caught my man and gone -- My heart's a loser -- Riding on a tall white horse -- Cold white sheet -- Going train blues -- Back to the road again -- My baby's coming home -- Cold feeling.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fat Possum 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES LOUStahr, Walter
Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STANTON, EDWIN StaStaves
Summary: 2012 debut album from folk-rock trio The Staves. The album is produced with Glyn and Ethan Johns, who have worked with a plethora of huge artists from past and present between them, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, as well as the likes of The Vaccines, Kings of Leon and Kaiser Chiefs. The Staves are three sisters from Watford who share vocal duties in addition to some...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: WARNER BROS UK 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK STALouisiana Red.
Contents: Driftin' (5:44) -- Hard hard time (5:48) -- Bring me some water (5:29) -- Leaving grandma (3:22) -- In the garden (1:58) -- Day I met B.B. King (5:06) -- Keep your hands on the plow (4:06) -- Teddy bear/Cootie in the gump stump (3:37) -- Getting weaker by the day (5:35) -- I met Lightnin' Hopkins (2:21) -- Chankity chank chank (5:25) -- Baby, you gonna miss me (2:39) -- Powder room blues (3:55)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Earwig 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES LOULouisiana Red.
Contents: Bring it on home to me (3:30) -- First degree (3:20) -- Look at the children run (3:34) -- My heart's a loser (4:06) -- When my mama was living (5:03) -- Held up in one town (4:08) -- Turkey killer (3:22) -- Date with Barbara (3:32) -- Standing at your door (5:20) -- Going train blues (4:08) -- Sweet blood call (3:47).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tomato Music 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES LOUStaves
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Shake.
Contents: Disc 1. Mood swing -- Live for friction -- Plugged in -- Here, there & nowhere -- Arise -- The floor filler -- Happy to be here -- March into darkness -- Breathe deeper -- Electron rider -- Stereotype -- Detroit state of mind.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fractional Recordings/Rush Hour Recordings 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SHASlade
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SLASlade, Suzanne.
Summary: Biography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Maribou State
Contents: Home -- Clown -- Rituals -- Wallflower -- Say more -- Raincoats -- Midas -- Natural fools -- Varkala
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Counter Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MARStace, Wesley
Summary: With his band promised fame as rock stars with the caveat that their audience will mostly be young children, Blake Lear--the band's lead singer, songwriter, and mad genius--takes America by storm and succumbs to temptation as witnessed by his impulsivelyadopted son, Sweet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAMaribou State
Contents: Beginner's luck -- Kingdom -- Turnmills -- Nervous tics -- Glasshouses -- Part time glory -- Feel good -- Slow heat -- Vale -- Kama
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MARDemdike Stare.
Contents: New Use For Old Circuits -- Mephisto's Lament -- Kommunion (Alternate Version) -- Unction (Alternate Version) -- Mnemosyne -- Shade -- In The Wake Of Chronos (Alternate Version) -- Floor Stairwell -- Violetta -- Metamorphosis. All This Is Ours (Sunrise) -- Erosion of Mediocrity -- Nuance -- Falling Off The Edge (Alternate Version) -- Dauerlinie -- Dasein -- We Have Already Died -- Ishmael's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Love Records 2012