Contents: Disc 1. Yma dream / Thomas Meehan (10:46)-- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara (20:00)-- The fix / Percival Everett (29:22)-- disc 2. The H Street sledding record / Ron Carlson (21:01)-- The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri (51:50)-- disc 3. Valor / Richard Bausch (47:25)-- Enough / Alice McDermott (20:06).
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELBambara, Toni Cade.
Summary: Set in Claybourne, a town somewhere in the South, The Salt Eaters is the story of a community of black people who are searching for the healing properties of salt, and who witness an event that will change their lives forever. "A book full of marvels".--The New Yorker.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAMSummary: A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in their London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYDane, Barbara
Contents: Disc one. I am a weary and lonesome traveler (4:19) -- Way behind the sun (3:51) -- Victim to the blues (2:10) -- Working people's blues (2:47) -- Come by here (5:33) -- It isn't nice (4:08) -- Deportees (Plane wreck at Los Gatos) (5:48) -- I don't want your millions, mister (3:35) -- Ballad of Richard Campos (4:09) -- Join the GI movement (2:22) -- Song of the coat makers (2:53) -- Mill worker...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK DANDane, Barbara.
Contents: I'm going back, baby (back behind the sun) 5:28. -- I know you've got another man 3:38. -- Sometimes I believe she loves me 4:51. -- Baby, shake that thing 1:51. -- It's a lonesome old town 4:54. -- Don't push me (til you find out what I want) 3:49. -- Let me be your rag doll 3:15. -- Mother earth 5:36. -- Mama told Papa 3:01. -- Careless love 4:21. -- Love with a feeling 3:03. -- Betty and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arhoolie 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES DaneSummary: Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as 'Grimms', charged with keeping balance between humanity and the mythological creatures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONL Case L Stevens
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Sherman,Clay & Co. 1920
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 641.0973 KINSummary: Arrested for fatally beating an elderly widow, Barbara Graham at first goads the police, refusing to answer their questions. But when an alleged accomplice turns state's evidence, Graham insists that she is innocent. Condemned by the press and the public, Graham is found guilty of murder and sentenced to die in the gas chamber. With her execution date getting near, Graham desperately attempts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ISummary: Jean Valjean is a young man accused of stealing. He escapes prison and spends the rest of his life miserable and being chased by one man: a policeman named Javert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANFarlie, Barbara L.
Summary: Presents step-by-step instructions for making miniature houses, rooms, furniture, and accessories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bobbs-Merrill 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 FarlieBowling, Barbara L.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.7 BOWBowling, Barbara L.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 634.7 BOWSummary: Lavish Biblical epic that tells the life story of Moses, who turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom outside Egypt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TENSummary: Perfect school: Brian O'Connor likes to play jokes on his little brother, Riley. Maybe he doesn't clean his room or make his bed enough to satisfy his parents, but that's no reason to send him away to boarding school, is it?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV GOOWood, Barbara L.
Summary: This is a book written for parents in recovery from alcoholism, co-dependence, and other addictive problems. It helps recovering parents to understand the impact of parental alcoholism and co-dependency on family structure, and on the developing child. It also helps them to become "therapeutic " parents: active and compassionate listeners and sensitive guides to children in crisis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Createspace Independent Pub 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Banker, Judy.
Contents: Written in the sky -- If you really loved me -- Easy Street -- Crazy for you -- Gone -- For the good -- Out of time -- One more day -- Train whistle -- Love's curse -- How many times -- This old house
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rooftop Recording
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LOCAL BANSummary: An anthology of short stories exploring interracial and other relationships, in which differences are front and center, but may or may not matter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Case, Leonardd L.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1985