James, Chris.
Contents: Goodbye, later for you -- Just another kick in the teeth -- I feel so good -- Messin' with white lighnin' -- Before it's too late -- A fact is a fact -- It always can be worse -- I'm gonna stop fooling myself -- Vicksburg blues -- Bobby's rock -- Take it easy (a tribute to Pinetop Perkins) -- Last call woogie.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Earwig Music Company 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES JAMContents: Low down and dirty / (Luther Allison) -- Ernestine / (Koko Taylor) -- Somebody changed the lock / (Junior Wells) -- Take five / (Hound Dog Taylor) -- Cotton picking blues / (Son Seals) -- Let me stir in your pot / (Carey Bell) -- Mama, talk to your daughter / (Magic Slim) -- Cold lonely nights / (Lonnie Brooks) -- Take it easy, baby / (Pinetop Perkins) -- My mind is gone / (Lil' Ed & the Blues...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alligator Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES CRUClapton, Eric.
Contents: Miss you (Larry McCray) -- Blues power (Koko Taylor) -- Wonderful tonight (Otis Clay) -- Lay down Sally (Carl Weathersby) -- Strange brew (Buddy Guy) -- Before you accuse me (Bo Diddley) -- Roll it over (Joe Louis Walker with James Cotton) -- Crossroads (Honeyboy Edwards with James Cotton) -- Old love (Otis Rush) -- Too bad (Pinetop Perkins with John Hammond & Bob Margolin) -- Tears in Heaven...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: House of Blues Music Co. 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BLUKrull, 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 KRUSummary: In his lifetime, Eakins's artistic reputation suffered from his uncompromising attitude toward convention in art, teaching and society. Now he is acknowledged as one of the greatest of all American painters. Thomas Eakins assesses the full breadth of his genius in its American and European context. The turmoil of his career and his extraordinary authority as a painter are explored through his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 THOLeebaert, Derek
Summary: "Drawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis. Only four people served at the top echelon of President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration from the frightening early months of spring 1933 until he died in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: "Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she's not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell's Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and Thomas Wolfe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GEN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Genius 2016Summary: In the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as US Secretary of Labor, the first woman to sit on a presidential cabinet. Against overwhelming odds, she became a driving force behind the New Deal social safety net, including Social Security, the 40-hour workweek, the 8-hour day, minimum wage, and unemployment compensation. Featuring compelling interviews...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUMBen-Joseph, Eran
Summary: As the number of passenger cars in the world increases daily, so too does Earth's supply of parking spaces. In some cities, parking lots cover more than one-third of the metropolitan footprint--but their design and function has not been rethought since the 1950s. Here, urban designer Eran Ben-Joseph shares a different vision for parking's future--aesthetically pleasing, environmentally and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 BENJenkins, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.62 JENCohen, Adam (Adam Seth)
Summary: Brings to life a fulcrum moment in American history--the tense, feverish first one hundred days of FDR's presidency, when he and his inner circle completely reinvented the role of the federal government in response to the Crash of 1929 and its consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 CohGilman, Charlotte Perkins
Summary: "Library of America presents the fullest selection ever of visionary American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman: two novels, forty-four brilliant short stories, nearly two-hundred poems, and both the published and manuscript versions of the landmark story "The yellow wall-paper." The short fiction presented here showcases Gilman's mastery of ghost stories, allegorical fantasy, and social realism...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 GILPerkins, Nichole
Summary: "Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media and the internet from the perspective of one southern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERKINS, NICHOLE PERJenkins, Jedidiah
Summary: "In this poignant memoir from the New York Times bestselling author of To Shake the Sleeping Self, a forty-year-old gay man and his eccentric conservative mother travel the country together and find surprising answers to our generational and cultural rifts. When his mother, Barbara, turned seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins was reminded of a palpable, sobering truth: Our parents won't live forever. For...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent 2023
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Summary: From New Orleans newlyweds Peter and Barbara set out on a two-and-one-half year walk through Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and to the Oregon coast.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 JENDenenberg, Barry.
Summary: In 1932, a twelve-year-old girl who lost her sight in an accident keeps a diary, recorded by her twin sister, in which she describes life at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 MARSisman, Adam
Summary: "One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Curiosity piqued, Trevor-Roper agreed to a meeting. It was to be his first encounter with Robert Parkin Peters: plagiarist, bigamist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 SISMerkin, Daphne
Summary: "Despair is always described as dull," writes Daphne Merkin, "when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver." This Close to Happy--Merkin's rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression--captures this strange light. Daphne Merkin has been hospitalized three times: first, in grade school, for childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MERKIN, DAPHNE MERBerg, A. Scott (Andrew Scott)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PERKINS, MAXWELL E BERGilman, Charlotte Perkins
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Wisconsin Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILMAN, CHARLOTTER PERKINS GILJerkins, Morgan
Summary: An acclaimed cultural critic presents the story of her journey to understand her northern and southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020