Summary: Chronicling the extraordinary life of Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Biggie transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to a pregnant woman) to superstardom. He has to juggle the increasing demands of fatherhood, marriage, and a music career that is strife with chaos and controversy. On March 8, 1997, in Los...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOTSummary: In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BLIBaird, Willard Michael James
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Federated Publications 1959
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.4 BAITootard.
Contents: Laissez Passer -- Musiqa -- Sahra -- A'sfur -- Nasma Jabalyia -- Oya Marhaba -- Bayati Blues -- Roots Rock Jabali -- Circles -- Syrian Blues.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Glitterbeat Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST TOOJama-Everett, Ayize
Summary: "When Black graduate student Lyndsey begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosarium Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BOXSummary: The white princess is a tale of power, family, love and betrayal, charting one of the most tumultuous times in British history uniquely from the point of view of the women. The tempestuous marriage between Elizabeth of York and King Henry VII officially marks of the conclusion of the War of the Roses, but the real battle for the throne is far from over.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WHISummary: When civilization is destroyed by a worldwide pandemic, hardened survivor Joel is hired to take fourteen-year-old Ellie out of an oppressive quaratine zone. What should have been a quick job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey across a post-apocalypic United States, where no one can protect Joel or Ellie except each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD LASCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV LASSummary: The Doctor is traveling through time and space in his TARDIS. New traveling companions Bill Potts and Nardole, old enemies with the return of Missy, and lots of adventures are awaiting him in his season ten journey.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCDalal, A. Kamala.
Summary: Discusses current, detailed information on virtually everything that defines life in Laos, from its economy and environment to its geography and social trends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.4 DALJapan
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n] 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JAPSummary: This anthology of contemporary worship songs collects both the big, meaty choral sounds of Lindell Cooley's "More of Your Glory" and the simpler stylings of Delirious?'s "Lord You Have My Heart" and "Come Into the King's Chambers."
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SONJamal, Ahmad
Contents: Flight (6:29) -- Toulouse (6:55) -- The essence (10:10) -- Lover man (oh, where can you be?) (5:45) -- Catalina (6:40) -- Autumn leaves (6:56) -- Street of dreams (5:33) -- Bahia (6:34).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Birdology 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAMJamal, Ahmad.
Contents: Marseille -- Because I love you -- I should care -- Poinciana -- Land of dreams -- What's new -- So rare -- Whisperings -- Spring is here / Your story -- Emily
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAMSummary: Down on his luck gambler Garry and his hot streak buddy Curtis hit the road for New Orleans, hunting the big payday. On riverboats and racetracks they chase women and thrills before risking it all in the wager of their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MISJamal, Ahmad
Contents: Introduction -- Effendi -- Dolphin dance -- Manhattan reflections -- Poinciana.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Impulse! ABC Records 1972
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ JAMJAMAL, AHMAD.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAMALSummary: "Capped by one of the most famous speeches ever written, Shakespeare's Henry V recalls a truly great English victory. With comic sub-plots to be found among Henry's soldiers, the production boasts some terrific performances - including Sam Cox as the 'splendidly unhinged' Pistol (The Daily Telegraph). In the title role is Jamie Parker, who 'casts such a rapt spell that you feel the entire...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2013
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HENJamal, Ahmad
Contents: But not for me -- Surrey with the fringe on top -- Moonlight in Vermont -- Music, music, music -- No greater love -- Poinciana -- Wood'yn you? -- What's new?
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Argo 1958
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ JAMJamal, Ahmad.
Contents: But not for me -- Surrey with the fringe on top -- Moonlight in Vermont -- Music! Music! Music! (Put another nickel in) -- Woody 'n you -- Poinciana -- Too late now -- All the things you are -- Cherokee -- It might as well be spring -- I'll remember April -- Gone with the wind -- Billy boy -- It's you or no one -- You don't know what love is -- Tater pie -- This can't be love -- Old devil moon...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: GRP Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAMSaeed, Jamal
Summary: "Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAEWollard, Kathy
Summary: "Dense and humid and filled with secrets, the rain forest is home to more than half the world's plants and animals. Using unique Photicular technology, Jungle parts the mysterious veil of this sun-dappled land and reveals--in fluid 3-D motion--the living exuberance within. Watch a tarantula scuttle across the forest floor. A dancing whipsnake flick its tongue. A Bengal tiger on the prowl, and a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577 KAIWoodard, Colin
Summary: A history of coastal Maine's lobster communities describes their defense of local traditions, their resistance to groups that would exploit their resources, and the wisdom gleaned from lifetimes spent in support of community interests.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.1 WOOGreene, Jamal
Summary: "An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how the explosion of rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 GREJamal, Ahmad
Contents: New rumba / Jamal (4:39) -- A foggy day / Gershwin, Gershwin (4:23) -- All of you / Porter (3:15) -- It ain't necessarily so / Gershwin, Gershwin (3:00) -- I don't wanna be kissed (By anyone but you) / Elliot, Spina (3:26) -- I get a kick out of you / Porter (4:50) -- Jeff / Crawford (4:52) -- Darn that dream / Van Heusen, De Lange (3:10) -- Spring is here / Rodgers, Hart (4:01).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 2004