Summary: A PBS miniseries in which a black jazz band becomes a huge success and ends up entangled in the aristocratic world of 1930s London as they seek fame and fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYASummary: Andina represents the full-blooded, upbeat spirit of the music of the Peruvian Andes in a mesmerising collection of hard to find tracks from a unique decade. Psychedelic big bands, rhythmic folk and Peruvian cumbia rub shoulders with Andean huayno rhythms and electric instrumentation for the very first time into what became a vibrant music scene.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger's Milk Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/SOUTH AMERICAN ANDContents: Jazz Fest: the first 50 years / by Keith Spera -- Heritage, craft, and culture / by Rachel Lyons -- Quint Davis and Jazz Fest / by Karen Celestan -- Food fête / by Rachel Lyons -- The music and musicians of the New Orleans Jazz Festival / by Robert H. Cataliotti -- Off the stage, around the grounds / by Rachel Lyons.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAZPrice, Sean.
Contents: Introduction : war and revenge -- My youth -- Taking charge -- Crossing the Alps -- Rome learns to fear me -- Cannae -- Stalemate and decline -- Defending Carthage -- After the war -- Hannibal timeline.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Raintree 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 HANRudimental (Musical group)
Contents: I will for love (feat. Will Heard) -- Never let you go (feat. Foy Vance) -- We the generation (feat. Mahalia) -- Love ain't just a word (feat. Anne-Marie & Dizzee Rascal) -- Rumour mill (feat. Anne-Marie & Will Heard) -- Common emotion (feat. MNEK) -- Go far (feat. Will Heard) -- Foreign world (feat. Anne-Marie) -- Too cool (feat. Ella Eyre) -- Bloodstream (with Ed Sheeran) -- Treading on water...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Big Beat Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC RUDCirque du Soleil
Summary: The soundtrack to the Cirque de Soleil production Ka is just as ambitious as the show itself, with its use of a symphony orchestra and choir. Ka is marked with powerful percussion as well as the troupe's musical tradition.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cirque du Soleil Musique 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SM CIRKleypas, Lisa
Summary: Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, has never been tempted to embark on an affair. Until now.... Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, as gallant as he is secretive, is rumored to be an assassin. For one exhilarating night they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again. As a Ravenel by-blow spurned by his father, Ethan has little...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KLECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC KLEPeddie, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sutton Publishing 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937.04 PEDRooksby, Rikky.
Summary: Most people who want to write songs want to write them for guitar. With this inspirational handbook, anyone can do it - even if they've never played a guitar. Well known songs are used to illustrate the four main building blocks of a song.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Backbeat Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 ROOLovell, Mary S
Summary: The story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, covering a span of forty years, from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 LOVSummary: A power struggle begins in a civilization dependent on an ancient technology, the Blastia, and the empire that controls it. The fates of two friends traveling separate paths intertwine in an epic adventure that threatens the existence of all. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Tales of Vesperia is one of the most beloved entries in the 'Tales of' series and returns with beautifully remastered...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Video Games, Call number: GAME PS4 TALCourrier, Kevin
Summary: In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica, a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop landscape. Yet even if the album did cast its radical vision over the future of music, much of the record's artistic strength is actually drawn from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.33 COUO'Connell, Robert L.
Summary: Robert L. O'Connell, one of the most admired names in military history, tells the whole story of Cannae for the first time, giving a stirring account of this apocalyptic battle of the Second Punic War, and its causes and consequences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937.04 OCORoberts, John Maddox.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBSummary: The Monocle Travel Guide to Munich will help you navigate the cross-section of history and modernity. We'll point you in the direction of our favourite emerging and established family-run hotels and steer you towards the lively kitchens serving the best Bavarian classics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gestalten 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.3 MUNHope, Daniel
Contents: String trio (1944) / Gideon Klein (11:29) -- Duo for violin & violoncello (1925) / Ervín Schulhoff (16:46) -- Passacaglia & fuga, string trio (1944) / Hans Krása (9:06) -- Sonata for solo violin (1922) / Ervín Schulhoff (11:02) -- Tanec, string trio / Hans Krása (5:15) -- Duo for violin & violoncello (1940) / Gideon Klein (8:46) -- Kaddish (4:37)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nimbus Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CL FORSummary: A sprawling BBC saga of wealth, passion, and power, set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England. Chronicles twenty years in the life of an aristocratic dynasty moving through high society in the heyday of Queen Victoria's reign. Based on Anthony Trollope's six political novels about British Parliamentary life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by RLJ Entertainment 2013
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Summary: While her parents are out to dinner, a bored Yasmin decides to try on some of her mother's clothes, including her new shalwar kameez, which gets ripped--but with the help of Nana, Nani, and a glue-gun, the garment gets fixed, and Yasmin puts on an impromptu fashion show when her parents get home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FARBracewell, Michael
Summary: In 1972 an English rock band released its first album to instant critical acclaim: Roxy Music. Here was a group that looked as though it came not only from another era, but also from another planet-a band in which art, fashion, and music would combine to create, in Bryan Ferry's words, "above all, a state of mind." Written with the assistance, for the first time, of all those involved,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6609 BRAHirsi Ali, Ayaan
Summary: Picking up where Infidel, her last memoir, left off, Ayaan Hirsi Ali chronicles her struggle with culture shock as she adapts to life in America.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster / Audioworks 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.89 HIRSI ALI, AYAAN HirMaher, Kerri
Summary: London, 1938. Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy has taken England by storm. The effervescent It Girl of London society since her father was named the ambassador, Kick dances and drinks champagne at the hottest nightclubs and attends the horse races with nobility. Billy Hartington, the future Duke of Devonshire, sweeps Kick off her feet, but the obstacles to their love are many. Kick is American,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION MAHHirsi Ali, Ayaan
Summary: Picking up where Infidel, her last memoir, left off, Ayaan Hirsi Ali chronicles her struggle with culture shock as she adapts to life in America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult- Biography, Call number: 921 Ali 2010Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIRSI ALI, AYA HIRFeuchtwanger, E. J.
Summary: "An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor. Watching events unfold from his window, Edgar bore witness to the Night of the Long Knives, the Anschluss, and Kristallnacht. Jews were arrested; his father was imprisoned at Dachau. In 1939 Edgar was sent on his own to England, where he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2017