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History of jazz / by Mwai, Melissa H.;
Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about the sizzling jazz greats of the twentieth century with this engaging nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Jazz; Jazz musicians;
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The half of it : a memoir / by Beer, Madison,1999-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A memoir from singer-songwriter Madison Beer, chronicling the past decade of her life spent in the spotlight"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Beer, Madison, 1999-; Internet and children; Internet personalities; Singers; Women musicians; Young women;
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The winter garden / by Cornick, Nicola,author.;
1605: Anne Catesby fears for her family. Her son, the darkly charismatic Robert, is secretly plotting to kill the king, placing his wife and child in grave danger. Anne must make a terrible choice: betray her only child or risk her family's security ... and her very life. Present Day: When her dreams of becoming a musician are shattered, Lucy takes refuge in her family's ancestral home in Oxfordshire. Everyone knows it was originally home to the notorious gunpowder plotter Robert Catesby. As Lucy spends more time in the beautiful winter garden that Robert made, she starts to have strange visions of a woman in Tudor dress, terrified and facing a heartbreaking dilemma. As Lucy's and Anne's stories converge, a shared secret that has echoed through the centuries separating them will change Lucy's life forever.
Subjects: Alternative histories (Fiction); Novels.; Catesby, Robert, 1573-1605; Gardens; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and sons; Secrecy;
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Michael Jackson [videorecording] : the untold story of Neverland / by Nimmer, Larry,film producer.; Gonzo Multimedia (Firm);
Includes film footage taken at Neverland during the 2005 child molestation trial, as well as other material, including some following Jackson's death.E.DVD; NTSC, all regions; full screen (4:3) presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Jackson, Michael, 1958-2009.; African American singers; Entertainers; Rock musicians; Singers;
For private home use only.
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Yoko : a biography / by Sheff, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world's most famous unknown artist. "Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does." She has only been important to history insofar as she impacted Lennon. Throughout her life, Yoko has been a caricature, curiosity, and, often, a villain -- an inscrutable seductress, manipulating con artist, and caterwauling fraud. The Lennon/Beatles saga is one of the greatest stories ever told, but Yoko's part has been missing -- hidden in the Beatles' formidable shadow, further obscured by flagrant misogyny and racism. This definitive biography of Yoko Ono's life will change that. In this book, Yoko Ono takes centerstage. Yoko's life, independent of Lennon, was an amazing journey. Yoko spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her harrowing experience as a child during the war, her arrival in avant-garde art scene in London, Tokyo, and New York City. It delves into her groundbreaking art, music, feminism, and activism. We see how she coped under the most intense, relentless, and cynical microscope as she was falsely vilified for the most heinous cultural crime imaginable: breaking up the greatest rock-and-roll band in history. This book was nearly a half century in the making. In 1980, David Sheff met Yoko and John when Sheff conducted an in-depth interview with them just months before John's murder. In the aftermath of the killing, he and Yoko became close as she rebuilt her life, survived threats and betrayals, and went on to create groundbreaking art and music while campaigning for peace and other causes. Drawing from his experiences and interviews with her, her family, closest friends, collaborators, and many others, Sheff shows us Yoko's nine decades -- one of the most unlikely and remarkable lives ever lived. Yoko is a harrowing, moving, propulsive, and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono's reputation but elevates it to iconic status"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Ono, Yōko.; Artists; Asian Americans; Japanese American artists; Japanese American musicians; Women artists; Women musicians;
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Why kill the innocent / by Harris, C. S.,author.;
"In the newest mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie, a brutal murder draws Sebastian St. Cyr into the web of the royal court, where intrigue abounds and betrayal awaits. London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful young musician is found half-buried in a snowdrift. Jane Ambrose's ties to Princess Charlotte, the only child of the Prince Regent and heir presumptive to the throne, panic the palace, which moves quickly to shut down any investigation into the death of the talented pianist. But Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, and his wife Hero refuse to allow Jane's murderer to escape justice. Untangling the secrets of Jane's world leads Sebastian into a maze of dangerous treachery where each player has his or her own unsavory agenda and no one can be trusted. As the Thames freezes over and the people of London pour onto the ice for a Frost Fair, Sebastian and Hero find their investigation circling back to the palace and building to a chilling crescendo of deceit and death"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Saint Cyr, Sebastian (Fictitious character); Murder; Regency;
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Rock & roll playground [sound recording]. -- by Harley, Bill,1954-; Rymer, Brady.; Himmelman, Peter.; Taj Mahal(Musician); Zanes, Dan.;
Sleep the whole day through (Bill Harley) -- Jump up (It's a good day) (Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could) -- Little bitty baby (Peter Himmelman) -- Willie and the hand jive (Taj Mahal and Linda Tillery) -- Let's shake (Dan Zanes and friends) -- Row row row your boat (Charity and the JAMband) -- Oh Susanna (Rhythm Child) -- This little girl's gone rockin' (Rosie Flores & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts) -- Magic carpet ride (Uncle Rock) -- At the bus stop (Melissa Green) -- The StarFish stomp (StarFish) -- Dream big! (Roger Day).Various performers.LSC
Subjects: Rock music; Children's songs.;
© p2010., Putumayo Kids,
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Hollywood Park : a memoir / by Jollett, Mikel,author.;
"Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fierce love and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer. We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or what we were or where all our parents went. They would arrive like ghosts, visiting us for a morning, an afternoon. They would sit with us or walk around the grounds, to laugh or cry or toss us in the air while we screamed. Then they'd disappear again, for weeks, for months, for years, leaving us alone with our memories and dreams, our questions and confusion. So begins Hollywood Park, Mikel Jollett's remarkable memoir. His story opens in an experimental commune in California, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon, one of the country's most infamous and dangerous cults. Per the leader's mandate, all children, including Jollett and his older brother, were separated from their parents when they were six months old, and handed over to the cult's "School." After spending years in what was essentially an orphanage, Mikel escaped the cult one morning with his mother and older brother. But in many ways, life outside Synanon was even harder and more erratic. In his raw, poetic and powerful voice, Jollett portrays a childhood filled with abject poverty, trauma, emotional abuse, delinquency and the lure of drugs and alcohol. Raised by a clinically depressed mother, tormented by his angry older brother, subjected to the unpredictability of troubled step-fathers and longing for contact with his father, a former heroin addict and ex-con, Jollett slowly, often painfully, builds a life that leads him to Stanford University and, eventually, to finding his voice as a writer and musician. Hollywood Park is told at first through the limited perspective of a child, and then broadens as Jollett begins to understand the world around him. Although Mikel Jollett's story is filled with heartbreak, it is ultimately an unforgettable portrayal of love at its fiercest and most loyal"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Jollett, Mikel; Synanon (Foundation); Rock musicians;
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The harder I fight the more I love you : a memoir / by Case, Neko,author.;
"Neko Case has long been revered as one of music's most influential artists, whose authenticity, lyrical storytelling, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics, musicians, and lifelong fans. In The Harder I Fight The More I Love You, Case brings her trademark candor and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl "raised by two dogs and a space heater" in rural Washington state to her improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent. In luminous, sharp-edged prose, Case shows readers what it's like to be left alone for hours and hours as a child, to take refuge in the woods around her home, and to channel the monotony and loneliness and joy that comes from music, camaraderie, and shared experience into art. The Harder I Fight The More I Love You is a rebellious meditation on identity and corruption, and a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world, despite the obstacles we face"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Case, Neko.; Singers;
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Respect [videorecording] / by Burgess, Tituss,actor.; Hudson, Jennifer,1981-actor.; Kilgore, Hailey,1999-actor.; Maron, Marc,actor.; McDonald, Audrey(Actor),actor.; Moorer, Brenda Nicole,actor.; Scott, Kimberly,1961-actor.; Sengbloh, Saycon,1977-actor.; Wayans, Marlon,actor.; Whitaker, Forest,actor.; Universal Studios, Inc.,film distributor.;
Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Audra Mcdonald, Saycon Sengbloh, Hailey Kilgore, Brenda Nicole Moorer, Marlon Wayans, Marc Maron, Tituss Burgess, Kimberly Scott.Follows the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a young child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, Respect is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice and become the Queen of Soul.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Historical films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Franklin, Aretha; African American women singers; Soul musicians; Women singers;
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