Perkins, Useni Eugene, author
Summary: "A lyrical, empowering poem that celebrates black children and seeks to inspire all young ones to dream big and achieve their goals"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: LB Keys/Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD PERPerkins, Useni Eugene
Summary: Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this classic, inspirational poem to life, written by poet Useni Eugene Perkins. Hey black child, Do you know who you are? Who really are? Do you know you can be, What you want to be, If you try to be What you can be? This lyrical, empowering poem celebrates black children and seeks to inspire...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG PERContents: Too young / Nat King Cole -- Wild, wild young men / Ruth Brown -- Seventeen / Boyd Bennett and his Rockets -- Teenage prayer / Gale Storm -- Boogie woogie teenage / Don Julian and the Meadowlarks -- Teenage mambo / The Gaylarks -- Teenage partner / Gene Vincent -- Teenage crush / Tommy Sands -- I'm not a juvenile delinquent / Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers -- Teenage party / Tommy Steele --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TEEContents: Disc 1. The camp meeting jubilee (Unknown) -- My man rocks me (Trixie Smith) -- Kansas city blues (Jim Jackson) -- Going to move to Alabama (Charley Patton) -- Move it on over (Hank Williams) -- It's tight like that (Tampa Red) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Clarence "Pinetop" Smith) -- Jimmy's blues (Jimmy Blythe) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves) -- Tiger rag (Washboard Rhythm...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FIRSummary: In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SHOSummary: The life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in Memphis in 1968. Including archival footage, this film is an indispensable primary resource of a pivotal moment in American and world history. Originally screened in theaters for only a single night in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KINauthor.
Summary: Algeria-born French intellectual Hélène Cixous is a feminist legend, a May 68 activist, and a major postmodern author. With friends like the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the artist Adel Abdessemed, and stage director Ariane Mnouchkine, Cixous examines the wounds of our time while allowing us to hear the cry of literature. In his "road movie" documentary EVER, RÊVE, HÉLÈNE CIXOUS, director...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC EVESummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUKrull, Kathleen
Summary: "Biography of Frances Perkins, the first female member of the presidential cabinet, and architect of much of the New Deal legislation as Secretary of Labor."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PERKINS KRUCulligan, Matthew J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File Inc. 1983
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Place a hold to request this item.Adrià, Ferran
Summary: A collection of simple, tasty and affordable recipes for the dishes that the staff at elBulli eats every day. Shows the reader the step-by-step secrets of how to plan, prepare and cook everyday meals in the easiest way possible.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon Press Inc 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ADRSummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMSummary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMKatz, Vernon.
Summary: The Upanishads are often considered the most important literature from ancient India. Yet many academic translators fail to capture the work's philosophical and spiritual subtlety, while others convey its poetry at the cost of literal meaning. This new translation by Vernon Katz and Thomas Egenes fills the need for an Upanishads that is clear, simple, and insightful-yet remains faithful to the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 294.5 KATVarious authors.
Contents: To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf. -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka. -- The prussian officer / D. H. Lawrence. -- The waste land / T.S. Eliot. -- Mourning becomes electra / Eugene O'Neill. -- The great gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald. -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner. -- Mother courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht. -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway. --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EncyclopŒdia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC LitSummary: This documentary focuses attention on the United States' aging population and the many adult children who are undertaking the primary care for their aging parents, underscoring today's struggle to keep parents at home, tensions between siblings and social, cultural and economic issues. Immediately followed by a 30-minute panel discussion with medical correspondent Dr. Art Ulene which offers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Video 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8084 CARPiazzolla, Astor.
Contents: Volume 1 : Astor Piazzolla, 1974-1975. Libertango (2:45) -- Meditango (5:37) -- Undertango (4:06) -- Adiós Nonino (5:35) -- Violentango (3:33) -- Novitango (3:33) -- Amelitango (3:58) -- Tristango (6:58) --Lumière. Solitude (4:06) ; Mort (5:48) ; L'amour (4:10) ; L'évasion (4:50) -- Suite troileana. Bandoneón (4:00) ; Zita (4:25) ; Whisky (4:23) ; Escolaso (4:32).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Just A Memory 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN PIACash, Johnny.
Contents: Folsom Prison blues -- Busted -- Dark as the dungeon -- I still miss someone -- Cocaine blues -- 25 minutes to go -- Orange blossom special -- Long black veil -- Send a picture of mother -- Wall -- Dirty old egg-suckin' dog -- Flushed from the bathroom of your heart -- Joe Bean -- Jackson (with June Carter) -- Give my love to Rose (with June Carter) -- I got stripes -- Legend of John Henry's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CashSummary: Nora is sheltered first by her father and then by her husband. All her life, she has been protected like a fragile possession ... like a doll in a doll's house. Years ago, Nora Helmer committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring. But...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOLSummary: As a compassionate American Ambassador to the strife-torn Southeast Asian nation of Sarkhan, Brando tries to keep Communists in the North from overrunning the weakened democracy in the South by making sure a vital road into the country's inaccessible interior goes through.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011