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African American motion picture producers and directors Blues (Music) Castle Rock (Me. : Imaginary place) Fiction Humorous stories Magic paraphernalia Fiction Missing children Fiction Philadelphia (Pa.) Genealogy Popular music Soccer stories Wills Pennsylvania Philadelphia IndexesSummary: "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 PAUContents: 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: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009Summary: Collects the original broadcast episodes from the fourth season of Star trek, the next generation. Picking up decades after Gene Roddenberry's original, it follows the intergalactic adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew aboard an all-new USS Enterprise.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OHarvey, Mark W. T. (Mark William Thornton)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.51 HARE Arnold,H Horton T Dibeck
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Adams-Vee& Abbott, Inc. 1947
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Contents: Volume 1. Dirty mother for you / (Roosevelt Sykes) -- So glad you're mine / (Arthur "Big BOy" crudup -- Too much alcohol / (J.B. Hutto & his Hawks) -- I wonder why / (Jimmy "Fast Fingers" Dawkins) -- Help me (A tribute to Sonny Boy Williamson) / (Junior Wells) -- I've got a mind to give up living / (B.B. King with Sonny Freeman and the Unusuals) -- John Henry / (Mississippi Fred McDowell) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ANNContents: All your love (I miss loving) (Otis Rush) -- Hound dog (Willi Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton) -- It ain't right (Little Walter) -- Hey, hey (Big Bill Broonzy) -- I can't hold out (Elmore James) -- Mean ole Frisco blues (Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup) -- Five long years (Eddie Boyd) -- Have you ever loved a woman (Freddy King) -- Stormy Monday (T-Bone Walker) -- Blues before sunrise (Leroy Carr) -- You don't...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MOJSummary: A sheriff attempts to capture an escaped convict before a bloodthirsty mob lynches him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Chizmar, Richard T.
Summary: As a teen, Gwendy Peterson was given a box that offered her gifts if she fed it. The box was taken, but inexplicably returns decades later, and seems to be connected to the disappearance of two girls.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIMorris, Richard T.
Summary: An assortment of animals living separate lives discover they need each other when they have a chance encounter on a river.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MORMorris, Richard T.
Summary: 100 sheep have leapt over a fence to help a child fall asleep, but when the 101st sheep gets stuck, chaos ensues.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E MORFord, Richard T. (Richard Thompson)
Summary: A law professor and cultural critic offers an eye-opening exploration of the laws of fashion throughout history, from the middle ages to the present day, examining the canons, mores and customs of clothing rules that we often take for granted.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.009 FORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult FordChizmar, Richard T.
Summary: With the mysterious reappearance of Richard Farris' button box, 37-year old Gwendy Peterson leaves Washington, D.C. for Castle Rock, Maine to help save two missing girls in the aftermath of a winter storm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 2019
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Summary: Once there was a river flowing through a forest. The river didn't know it was capable of adventures until a big bear came along. But adventures aren't any fun by yourself, and so enters Froggy, Turtles, Beaver, Racoons, and Duck. These very different animals take off downstream, but they didn't know they needed one another until thankfully, the river came along.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Williams, Richard T.
Contents: [1] 1682-1782.--[2] 1783-1810.--[3] 1811-1831.--[4] 1832-1850.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.]. 1972
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3748 INDWilliams, Richard T.
Contents: [1] 1682-1782.--[2] 1783-1810.--[3] 1811-1831.--[4] 1832-1850.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.]. 1972
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3748 INDWilliams, Richard T.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1971
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3748 WilliMorris, Richard T.
Summary: Director Billy Waddler is trying to film a documentary about moose, but the moose in question has no intention of spending his life in the woods and his animal friends, who have dreams of their own, help him prove his point.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014