Contents: CD 1. I'm the face / The High Numbers -- Bo Street runner / The Bo Street Runners -- Country line special / Cyril Davies & his R&B All Stars -- Chills and fever / Tom Jones -- Crawling up a hill / John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers -- You'd better make up your mind / The Koobas -- Desdemona / John's Children -- Tick tock / Shyster -- Wasn't it you / Billie Davis -- Bus stop / The Hollies -- Tell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Eddo-Lodge, Reni.
Summary: In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote on her blog about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. Her words hit a nerve. The post went viral and comments flooded in from others desperate to speak up about their own experiences. Galvanised, she decided to dig into the source of these feelings....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Circus 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 EDDBeatles
Contents: A hard day's night -- I should have known better -- If I fell -- I'm happy just to dance with you-- And I love her -- Tell me why -- Can't buy me love -- Any time at all -- I'll cry instead -- Things we said today -- When I get home -- You can't do that -- I'll be back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK BEAStanley, Bob
Summary: A renowned pop music scholar presents a dazzling biography of the Bee Gees--Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, which is an extraordinary human story of career highs and lows that shows, even in the Gibbs' darkest times, their music was rarely out of the charts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 STAGregory, Philippa
Summary: "Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just a few of the startling findings you will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Rubinate, Amy
Summary: In September 1666 Kate and her little sister Lizzie accompany their grandfather to London to sell their apple crop only to be caught up in the Great Fire of London--and when their grandfather is forced to be part of a fire brigade it is Kate who must keep her sister, their horse and cart safe from both thieves and flames.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RUB (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Nirvana (Musical group)
Contents: Smells like teen spirit (5:00) -- In bloom (4:18) -- Come as you are (3:38) -- Breed (3:03) -- Lithium (4:16) -- Polly (2:56) -- Territorial pissings (2:22) -- Drain you (3:43) -- Lounge act (2:35) -- Stay away (3:30) -- On a plain (3:12) -- Something in the way (3:43).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK NIRBayarri, Jordi
Summary: "Ada Lovelace turned her powerful imagination into a vision of the future, predicting the impact of computers on human life. Lovelace had a unique education and embraced mathematics. She became one of the biggest believers in engineer Charles Babbage's ideas for calculation machines. This graphic biography shows how Lovelace helped spread awareness of what an early computer could do and how she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BAYOstler, Catherine
Summary: Elizabeth Chudleigh lived a privileged life in 18th century England where she was part of the Hanoverian court as maid of honor to the Princess of Wales. Known for her style and wit, Elizabeth delighted and scandalized the press and public. She married twice: in secret to a young heir to an earldom and later to a duke. Eventually charged with bigamy, her trial was Georgian England's greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRISTOL, ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH OSTLance, Rachel
Summary: "This is a previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers-men and women-who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks to make D-Day a success"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LANElkins, Caroline
Summary: "Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 ELKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 ELKBreach, Jen
Summary: "An action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Germany and its allies had occupied a great deal of Europe-including part of France. With the enemy just a few miles from England, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was determined to help free France....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BRESunwatchers (Musical group)
Contents: Welcome -- Noise beers -- Wipe-up -- For Sunny -- El ojo caliente -- Akha chunks -- Creep herds (wipe-up II).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK SUNBowie, David.
Contents: Side 1. Five years -- Soul love -- Moonage daydream -- Starman -- It ain't easy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parlophone 1972
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK BOWFollett, Ken
Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLContents: Ireland. Women of Ireland (O'Reada) -- Brian Boru's march (Anon.) -- Father Brian Mac Dermot Roe ; Lord Inchiquin (Turlough O'Carolan) -- Miss Hamilton (Cornelius Lyons) -- Lord Mayo (David Murphy) -- Planxty Murphy (Turlough O'Carolan) -- Irish lullaby (Anon.) -- Hugh O'Donnell (Turlough O'Carolan) -- Scotland. Jenny (Thomas d'Urfey) -- Joy to the person of my love (Anon.) -- Over the hills...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorian Recordings 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL ENCManchester, William
Summary: "This second volume in William Manchester's three-volume biography of Winston Churchill challenges the assumption that Churchill's finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932-1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors (at one point he had to put up his home for sale), he remained solvent only by writing an extraordinary number of books and magazine articles. He was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHURCHILL, WINSTON MANSmith, Sally Bedell
Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMIPaige, Robin.
Summary: Kathryn Ardleigh tries to adapt to high-society life with her newly lorded husband, Charles, and she discovers a new friend in Jennie Churchill, who is embroiled in a scandal involving claims that Jack the Ripper is the father of her son, the future leader Winston Churchill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Cale, John
Contents: CD1/DVD1. Autobiography (4:39) -- Oh la la (2:38) -- Evidence (3:24) -- Magazines (3:36) -- Model Beirut recital (3:29) -- Streets of Laredo (2:40) -- Dr. Mudd (3:46) -- Leaving it up to you (5:43) -- Caribbean sunset (4:40) -- The hunt (3:45) -- Fear is the man's best friend (3:44) -- Heartbreak hotel (4:01) -- Paris 1919 (3:49) -- Waiting for the man (6:09) -- Mercenaries (Ready for war)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CALCan (Musical group)
Contents: Disc 1. Brighton 75 Eins ; Brighton 75 Zwei ; Brighton 75 Drei ; Brighton 75 Vier -- Disc 2. Brighton 75 Fünf ; Brighton 74 Sechs ; Brighton 75 Sieben.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK CANHalls, Stacey
Summary: In a house full of secrets, the nanny hides her own. West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALScott, Caroline
Summary: "With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English countryside in search of great food, Good Taste is the perfect historical novel for fans of Dear Mrs. Bird and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. You can tell a lot about a person from what they like to eat... England in 1932 is in the grip of the Great Depression. Stella Douglas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022