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Yee, Betty G.

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YEE

Contents: Disc 1. Some Commodore highlights: Love is just around the corner Eddie Condon (3:03) -- Strange fruit Billie Holiday (3:10) -- A good man is hard to find pt. 1 (jam session) (4:25) -- (You're some) Pretty doll Fats Waller (with Eddie Condon) (2:49) -- (Back home in) Indiana Don Byas, Slam Stewart (5:13) -- At a Georgia camp meeting Sidney Bechet (3:13) -- A handful of stars: Way down yonder in...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: GRP Records 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ COM

Contents: Gossip (Cyril Neville) (2:35) -- If it's good to you (it's good for you) (Eddie Bo) (2:29) -- Right place, wrong time (Ray J.) (2:55) -- Chicken strut (The Meters) (2:45) -- Tequila (Allen Toussaint) (3:11) -- Hot Tamales (The Prime Mates) (2:37) -- Show it (Betty Harris) (2:55) -- Four corners (Lee Dorsey) (2:51) -- You keep me hangin on (Bonnie and Sheila) (2:42) -- Yeah you're right, you...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2008

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEW

Summary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DAR

Contents: 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 FIR

Summary: The complete third season of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone," featuring thirty-seven episodes aired in 1961-62.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Contents: Disc one: Yakety yak / Coasters -- What'd I say / Ray Charles -- Mack the knife / Bobby Darin -- Stand by me / Ben E. King -- In the midnight hour / Wilson Pickett -- I got you babe / Sonny & Cher -- When a man loves a woman / Percy Sledge -- Respect / Aretha Franklin -- Soul man / Sam & Dave -- (Sittin' on) the dock of the bay / Otis Redding -- Sunshine of your love / Cream -- Suite: Judy blue...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1998

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK Fif

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VA 50 Years

Contents: disc 1. You upset me baby (B.B. King) -- Midnight in the Barrel House (Johnny Otis feat. Pete "Guitar" Lewis) -- First time I met the blues (Buddy Guy) -- Cotton crop blues (James Cotton feat. Pat Hare) -- Lookin' for my baby (Little Milton) -- Rock me (Muddy Waters) -- The stumble (Freddy King) -- All your love (I miss loving) (Otis Rush) -- Chicken-hearted woman (Clarence Samuels feat. Johnny...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantastic Voyage/Future Noise Music 2012

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SCR

Botts, Lee.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7394 BOT
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 363.7394 BOT

Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOL

Contents: Fire / Crazy World of Arthur Brown. -- White room Cream. -- I've gotta get a message to you / Bee Gees. -- Sky pilot, pt. 1 / Eric Burdon & the Animals. -- Reflections of my life / Marmalade. -- Something in the air / Thunderclap Newman. -- Zabadak / Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. -- I don't want our loving to die / Herd. -- Rainbow chaser / Nirvana. -- Atlantis / Donovan. -- Long cool...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1991

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BRI
Call number: CD POP/ROCK Bri

Crosby, Bette Lee

Summary: Tracy Briggs has finally gotten her act together. She's focusing on her own life and helping her hearing-impaired son learn to talk. With her sister married and exploring a new career, Tracy has begun to run the family's magazine business and feels her life is pretty much perfect. That is, until her son's deadbeat dad shows up in Magnolia Grove asking for a second chance. Now that her son is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRO

Russell, Pee Wee.

Contents: If I could be with you (one hour tonight) (8:50) / Johnson-Creamer -- Tin tin deo (8:50) / Pozo-Fuller -- Mariooch (7:15) / Russell-Pierce-Hinton -- All too soon (7:26) / Ellington-Sigman -- 28th and 8th (7:24) / Russell-Pierce -- What am I here for (7:46) / Ellington.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Barnaby Records 1978

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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ RUS

Birney, Betty G

Summary: Humphrey, the pet hamster of Classroom 26, is helping Richie with a science project, but Richie's feisty puppy gets in the way.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014

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Birney, Betty G.

Summary: When Humphrey the hamster returns to Mrs. Brisbane's class after the winter break, a new class pet and some other surprises give him an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of friendship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction Bir

Birney, Betty G.

Summary: Humphrey the hamster is puzzled when unfamiliar students fill Mrs. Brisbane's classroom at summer's end, but he soon learns that his friends from last year are fine and that the new class needs his special help.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BIR

Birney, Betty G.

Summary: "To Humphrey and the students at Longfellow School, spring seems impossibly late this year. Fortunately, planning a school Family Fun Night keeps the students (and classroom pets) busy as they look for signs of the changing seasons"--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Birney, Betty G.

Summary: When summer arrives, Humphrey, the pet hamster of Longfellow School's Room 26, is surprised and pleased to learn that he will be going to Camp Happy Hollow.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BIR

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BIR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BIR

Birney, Betty G.

Summary: Humphrey, the pet hamster of Longfellow School's Room 26, relates the ups and downs experienced by his human classmates as they begin a project to create a model town complete with houses and community services.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2007

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Birney, Betty G

Summary: Og loves the kids in Room 26, but he's awfully curious about the human world outside his tank! His friend Humphrey has no problem getting out and about, but it's harder for Og because he can't climb the way a hamster can. But Og never let hard work or fear stop him from going after what he wants. And he's determined to help the tads in Room 26 understand that taking risks can pay off --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BIR

Birney, Betty G

Summary: Presents a collection of puzzles, jokes, and brain teasers that star Humphrey, the classroom hamster from Room 26 at Longfellow School.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2013

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Birney, Betty G

Summary: When a dog gets too close to Humphrey at the town pet show, Og the Frog saves the day and Humphrey sees that having a great friend is the best prize he could possibly win.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018

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Birney, Betty G

Summary: "When Mandy, one of the students from classroom 26, brings a special hamster-sized racecar to class, it means just one thing--Humphrey is going to be in a hamster race"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014

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Birney, Betty G.

Summary: "The students of Room 26 are doing reports about the jobs they want to have when they grow up--and Humphrey the classroom pet hamster helps aspiring magician Miranda show the class about her own dream job"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BIR

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