Carter Family (Musical group)
Contents: Disc A. (75 min.): Bury me under the weeping willow -- Little log cabin by the sea -- The orphan child -- The storms are on the ocean -- Single girl, married girl -- The wandering boy -- Meet me by the moonlight, alone -- Little darling, pal of mine -- Keep on the sunny side -- Anchored in love -- John Hardy was a desparate little man -- I ain't goin' to work tomorrow -- Will you miss me when...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2001
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Summary: "Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how the rules of romantic courtly love irrevocably shaped the politics and international diplomacy of the period. Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love have captivated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.05 GRIOstler, 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 OSTSarah
Summary: The author documents a low period in her life and how she found strength in her struggles with adversity and eventually regained her sense of purpose for her life with the help of friends and several celebrity experts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SARAH, DUCHESS OF YORK SARSchulman, Sarah
Summary: In this book, the author, a playwright and social critic, explores the family, the first place where all people, straight, gay, and bisexual, learn homophobia. For it is within the family that homophobia begins to control people's lives, whether as perpetrators or recipients. Written in the tradition of Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, which reconceptualized rape and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 SCHInner Circle (Musical group)
Contents: I'm a rastaman (Rastman chant) -- Forward Jah Jah children -- Love is the drug -- Ghetto on fire -- Tired fe lick weed in a bush -- Music is for everyone -- Roman soldiers of Babylon -- 80,000 carless Ethiopians --This world -- Jah music.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cema Special Markets 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE INNHendrix, Isi
Summary: "Life is tough for twelve-year-old orphan Adia. Her aunt and uncle believe she's an ogbanje, a demon-possessed child that brings misfortune wherever they go, and Adia can't disagree, especially when she suddenly manifests mysterious powers that she can't control, causing an earthquake in her village. So when Adia is offered a kitchen apprenticeship at the faraway Academy of Shamans, she flees...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HENSummary: For thousands of years, the only threat to polar bears came from humans. Nothing has changed-except now it is fossil fuel consumption, not spears and guns, that pushes Ursus maritimus toward extinction. Depicting the hapless species as the proverbial canary in a coal mine, this program studies the intensifying impact of climate change on the Arctic region. Viewers learn how the entire Arctic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Royal, Sarah
Summary: An intimate and deeply original exploration of the life and work of the television pioneer, the First Lady of Comedy, Lucille Bal--A.K.A. Lucy. With stories illuminating the many different facets of the woman, [this book] details how Ball transformed the face of comedy and the entertainment industry. -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALL, LUCILLE ROYScoles, Sarah
Summary: Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren’t encouraged to do much outside the home, Tarter ventured as far out as she could—into the three-Kelvin cold of deep space. And she hasn’t stopped investigating a subject that takes and takes without giving much back. Today, her computer's screensaver is just the text “SO…ARE WE...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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Summary: "The Lost Art of Silence encourages us to embrace this pursuit and allow the warm light of silence to glow. Invoking the wisdom of many of the greatest writers, thinkers, contemplatives, historians, musicians, and artists, Sarah Anderson reveals the sublime nature of quiet that's all too often undervalued. Throughout, she shares her own penetrating insights into the potential for silence to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2023
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Summary: "With its promise of escape from the strains of everyday life, the beach has a hold on the popular imagination as the ultimate paradise. In The Last Resort, Sarah Stodola dives into the psyche of the beachgoer and gets to the heart of what drives humans to seek out the sand. At the same time, she grapples with the darker realities of resort culture: strangleholds on local economies, reckless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.78 STOSilverman, Sarah.
Summary: Comedian Silverman's memoir that mixes showbiz moments with the more serious subject of her teenage bout with depression as well as stories of her childhood and adolescence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins 2010
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Summary: "When they were born on May 28, 1934, quintuplets Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Émilie, and Marie captivated the world, defying medical history with every breath they took. In an effort to protect them from hucksters and showmen, the Ontario government took custody of the quints, sequestering them in a private, custom-built hospital across the road from their family. Here, Sarah Miller reconstructs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 MILHurwitz, Sarah
Summary: "After a decade as a political speechwriter for leaders like Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama, and as head speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama, Sarah Hurwitz decided to apply her skills as a communicator to writing a book...about Judaism.And no one is more surprised than she is. Hurwitz was the quintessential lapsed Jew - until, at age thirty-six, after a tough break-up, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296 HURDiGregorio, Sarah
Summary: "Impelled by the premature birth of her daughter, a journalist explores how modern medicine has changed regarding the care of babies born too early and of the ethical issues that can be involved"--Kirkus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 DIGConover, Sarah
Summary: Collection of traditional Buddhist tales following the Buddha through his various prior births.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skinner House Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 CONRuden, Sarah.
Summary: Explores the ways in which Apostle Paul's edicts may have been misinterpreted, in an account that translates his writings from Koine Greek to assess how he may have been wrongly perceived as a misogynist and social conformist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2010
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Summary: A prequel to Throne of Glass, this collection of five novellas offers listeners a deeper look into the history of this cunning assassin and her enthralling, and deadly world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MAADiGregorio, Sarah
Summary: "Nurses have always been vital to human existence. A nurse was likely there when you were born and a nurse might well be there when you die. Familiar in hospitals and doctors' offices, these dedicated health professionals can also be found in schools, prisons, and people's homes; at summer camps; on cruise ships, and even at NASA. Yet despite being celebrated during the Covid-19 epidemic,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.73 DIGSummary: The Broadway musical is one of America’s great indigenous popular forms, a glorious hybrid that emerged “out of our speech, our tempo, our moral attitudes, our way of moving” (as Leonard Bernstein put it). Now, in this first volume of a landmark two-volume collection, The Library of America presents eight enduring masterpieces charting the Broadway musical’s narrative tradition from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 AMEMachajewski, Sarah
Summary: "The US Constitution famously opens with "We the people." What about the rest of it? This valuable volume takes readers on a deep dive into the Constitution and its last four articles. Covering Articles IV to VI, the accessible text explains important concepts like states' rights, amendments, laws and treaties, and the process for ratification. Written to support elementary social studies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Traces the sobering history of World War II's largest female concentration camp, revealing the torturous experiences and deaths of thousands of women prisoners of more than twenty nationalities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HELMaas, Sarah J.
Summary: In these five prequel novellas to "Throne of Glass," feared assassin Celaena embarks on daring missions that take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and avenge tyranny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014