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Demdike Stare. Louisiana Red Louisiana Red. Maribou State Shake. Shame Slade Stace, Wesley Stahr, Walter StavesWoodfox, 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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOODFOX, ALBERT WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WOODFOX WOOSummary: 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 MURSummary: A retired US Marine general (Ed Harris) seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz with 81 tourists as hostages. His demand: restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations. A Navy SEAL team with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert (Nicolas Cage) and a former Alcatraz escapee (Sean Connery) assemble to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ROCSummary: In 1962, three prisoners escaped from Alcatraz, a prison surrounded on all sides by the waters of San Francisco Bay, and disappeared. The fates of the three men have remained unknown to the present day. In this program, three scientists from the Netherlands employ 3D modeling technology to reconstruct the water currents of the day of the prison break in an attempt to uncover whether or not it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALCCholdenko, 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 BIRSummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CLISummary: Sue Parker finds herself in a desperate battle to save her family's struggling business, which is on the brink of collapse due to her father's neglect. When a handsome drifter comes into town she sees him as the only chance to prevent their bar from falling into the hands of a ruthless local tycoon. What starts as a simple plan to save her family, quickly spirals into larceny, lawlessness, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Louisiana 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 LOUShake.
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 SHAStahr, 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 STAStaves
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2021
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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 LOUShame
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK 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 SLAMaribou 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 STADemdike 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