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France France History Revolution, 1789-1799 marquis de Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier 1757-1834 Qi gong Statesmen Statesmen France Biography Tai chi United States United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Biography United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Participation, FrenchContents: Disc 1. Tom Dooley (The Kingston Trio) -- Banana boat (Day-o) / Belafonte, Burgess, Attaway (Harry Belafonte) -- Marianne / Gilkyson, Miller, Dehr (Terry Gilkyson and the Easy Riders) -- Michael / Dave Fisher (The Highwaymen) -- Green green / McGuire, Sparks (New Christy Minstrels featuring Barry McGuire) -- Kumbaya (The Seekers) -- Baby the rain must fall / Sheldon, Bernstein (Glenn Yarbrough)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK TIMContents: Time has come today / Steve Earle & Sheryl Crow -- It's all over now, baby blue / Bonnie Raitt -- I ain't marching anymore / Phil Ochs -- My back pages / Joan Osborne & Jackson Browne -- This land is your land / Ani DeFranco -- Superbird / Country Joe & The Fish -- War / Edwin Starr -- Power to the people / Eric Brudon & Billy Preston -- Carry on / Timothy B. Schmit -- Feel like I'm fixin' to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artemis 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC STEVowell, Sarah
Summary: On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been 30 years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 VOWSt. Clair, Chip.
Summary: The child of an abusive parent learns that his "father" is a wanted child murderer and that everything he has been told about his past is false, thus sending him on a quest for justice and identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ST.CLAIR StCHale, Nathan
Summary: Tells the story of the Marquis de Lafayette, both what happened before and during the American Revolution, including all the Frenchman's escapades across France and the colonies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
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Summary: "For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRAN, PHUC TRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio TranSummary: Jac Holzman, head of Elektra Records for 23 years, has compiled cuts from the early days of Elektra's 60 years of spreading music's love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: How did the Earth transform from a hot ball of molten rock and metal into the planet that we call home? How did our continents and oceans grow? Where did our great mountain ranges come from? The geological processes that have shaped our world have also influenced the way humans have populated the planet. From the Great Lakes to Iceland, the San Andreas Fault to Krakatoa, this series reveals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arts and Entertainment Network 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HOWChaffin, Tom
Summary: Thomas Jefferson first met the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The two could not have seemed more different. When Jefferson moved to Paris three years later as a diplomat, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHAAuricchio, Laura.
Summary: A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, who, at age nineteen, volunteered to fight under George Washington; a biography that looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice commemorated in America’s towns, streets, parks, and schools...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS DE AURGaines, James R.
Summary: They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals. On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon; that same night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the fastest horse he could find. So began what have been called the "sister revolutions" of France and America. In a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 GAIContents: Pastures of plenty (Woody Guthrie) -- We shall overcome (Pete Seeger) -- Rock island line (Lead Belly) -- No more auction block (Paul Robeson) -- Deportees (Plane wreck at Los Gatos) (Barbara Dane) -- John Henry (Doc Watson) -- John Hardy (Mike Seeger) -- Betty and Dupree (Brownie McGhee) -- Gallis pole (Fred Gerlach) -- Polly Von (Paul Clayton) -- Butcher boy (Peggy Seeger) -- Duncan and Brady...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2004
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Summary: The true story of how one Chase Manhattan banker fought to the save the staff of its Saigon branch before the city fell to the North Vietnamese army in the waning days of the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, RALPH WHIReed, Lou
Summary: "Lou Reed was a musician, singer, songwriter, poet, and founding member of the legendary rock band the Velvet Underground. He collaborated with many artists, from Andy Warhol and John Cale to Robert Wilson and Metallica. Reed had a groundbreaking solo career that spanned five decades until his death in 2013. Reed was also an accomplished martial artist whose practice began in the 1980s. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REED, LOU REEContents: Freedom now chant (Mass-meeting participants in Hattiesburg, Mississippi) (:26) -- Jesus Christ (Woody Guthrie) (2:37) -- Bourgeois blues (Lead Belly) (2:18) -- Black, brown and white (Big Bill Broonzy) (2:42) -- Baby, I've been thinking (Janis Ian) (2:41) -- Blowing in the wind (The New World Singers) (2:28) -- This land is your land (Steve Forbert, Jack Hardy, Jill Burkee, and Mark Dann)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK CLAContents: Disc 1. Wooly bully (Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs) -- Good vibrations (Beach Boys) -- Black is black (Los Bravos) -- Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison) -- White rabbit (Jefferson Airplane) -- A whiter shade of pale (Procol Harum) -- Time of the season (The Zombies) -- The night they drove old Dixie down (The Band) -- With a little help from my friends (Joe Cocker) -- Going up the country (Canned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Music Special Markets 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC VIESummary: Increase flexibility & strength, improve your health & vitality, transform yourself, feel younger & more energized. Tai Chi for beginners is the perfect way to explore and experience the numerous benefits of Tai Chi. These 8 easy-to-follow lessons teach the Tai Chi postures with clear, step-by-step instructions. This ancient, meditative practice of the Yang style 24 posture form is designed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Body Wisdom Media 2006
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Summary: Even in a world of skeptics, a parent's belief is unbreakable. Set in a magical imagining of Scotland's Loch Ness, I Believe in You is an ode to a loving adult's unconditional acceptance of their young one. Featuring appearances from unbelievably fun paranormal characters including a unicorn, grey alien, Sasquatch, and ghost, this is a heartwarming celebration of the unwaving bond--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hazy Dell Press 2020
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BARSummary: This tenth installment of "Love peace & poetry" covers Chile from the years 1967 to 1973, an era of tremendous political turmoil in the region that hardly stopped local longhairs from plugging in and, if anything, was a source of motivation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Q.D.K. Media 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOVBontigao, Lynnor
Summary: "Nora loves spending summers with Lola at her sari-sari store, a treasure trove filled with everything you could need, from hair accessories to toys, creamy yema to sour tamarind candy. And this year, Nora is big enough to help her grandmother. But when a heat wave strikes and no one comes to the store, Nora worries that she won't get to spend the rest of the summer with her lola -- until she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A crossover anthology depicts Kung Fu Master Shang-Chi's high-action partnerships with other fan-favorite Marvel superheroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARDuncan, Mike
Summary: "Few in history can match the breadth and depth of the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought as one with righteous revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic. As an idealistic and courageous teenager serving in the American Revolution, he used his considerable wealth and savvy to help the Americans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021