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- King of the blues : the rise and reign of B.B. King / by De Visé, Daniel,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Riley King, ever to be known as B.B. (1925-2015), was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister's guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker, and encouraged by his cousin, the established bluesman Bukka White, B.B. taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style that, along with his relentless work ethic and humanity, became his trademark. In turn, generations of artists claimed him as inspiration, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to Carlos Santana and the Edge. King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in ninety countries over nearly sixty years)-in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including landmark gigs at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco and Chicago's Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always rose back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many ways record companies took advantage of artists, especially those of color. Daniel de Visé has interviewed almost every surviving member of B.B. King's inner circle-family, band members, retainers, managers, and more-and their voices and memories enrich and enliven the life of this Mississippi blues titan, whom his contemporary Bobby "Blue" Bland simply called "the man.""--
- Subjects: Biographies.; King, B. B.; Blues musicians; Guitarists;
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- Gertrude Stein : An Afterlife. by Wade, Francesca.;
Drawing on never-before-seen interviews, this book is a richly researched, sweeping examination of Gertrude Stein, one of the most influential and mythologized literary figures of the 20th century and her partners emergence from the shadows after her death, in the decades-long fight to ensure her legacy.Library Bound Incorporated
- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women;
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- That one patient : doctors and nurses' stories of the patients who changed their lives forever / by Visser, Ellen de,1966-author.; Annable, Brent,translator.; translation of:Visser, Ellen de,1966-Die ene patiënt.English.;
For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didnt expect, changing their entire outlook on life. This inspiring and deeply moving book is the story of those patients, and features interviews with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dame Sally Davies, and Dr. Jim Down.
- Subjects: Anecdotes.; Medicine; Physicians; Nurses;
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- The glass house [videorecording (DVD)] by Sackheim, Dan.; Sobieski, Leelee,1982-; Lane, Diane; Skarsgård, Stellan.;
Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgard.When Ruby's parents die and leave her a $4 million inheritance, she begins to suspect that her current foster parents, and parent's best friends, had something to do with her parents death and are after her money.CHV rating: 14A.MPAA rating: PG-13.NTSC 1, Dolby digital 5.1, surround. Anamorphic video.
- Subjects: Inheritance and succession; Foster parents; Detective and mystery films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Feature films;
- © c2001., Columbia TriStar Home Video,
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- Richer, wiser, happier : how the world's greatest investors win in markets and life / by Green, William,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.From William Green, a financial journalist who has written for The New Yorker, Time, and Fortune, comes a fresh and unexpectedly profound book that draws on interviews with more than 40 of the worlds super-investors to demonstrate that the keys for building wealth hold other life lessons as well.
- Subjects: Capitalists and financiers.; Finance, Personal.; Investments.; Stocks.;
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- And then all hell broke loose : two decades in the Middle East / by Engel, Richard,1973-;
"Based on two decades of reporting, NBC's chief foreign correspondent's riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close--sometimes dangerously so. When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo museum. This is his first view of the carnage these years would pile on. Over two decades Engel has been under fire, blown out of hotel beds, taken hostage. He has watched Mubarak and Morsi in Egypt arrested and condemned, reported from Jerusalem, been through the Lebanese war, covered the whole shooting match in Iraq, interviewed Libyan rebels who toppled Gaddafi, reported from Syria as Al-Qaeda stepped in, was kidnapped in the Syrian crosscurrents of fighting. He goes into Afghanistan with the Taliban and to Iraq with ISIS. In the page-turning And Then All Hell Broke Loose, he shares his adventure tale. Engel takes chances, though not reckless ones, keeps a level head and a sense of humor, as well as a grasp of history in the making. Reporting as NBC's Chief-Foreign Correspondent, he reveals his unparalleled access to the major figures, the gritty soldiers, and the helpless victims in the Middle East during this watershed time. We can experience the unforgettable suffering and despair of the local populations. Engel's vivid description is intimate and personal. Importantly, it is a succinct and authoritative account of the ever-changing currents in that dangerous land"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: Engel, Richard, 1973-; Foreign correspondents;
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- Vietnam : an epic tragedy, 1945-75 / by Hastings, Max,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the 1968 Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and much less familiar battles such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh's warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed two million people. Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people, of whom forty died for every American. US blunders and atrocities were matched by those committed by their enemies. While all the world has seen the image of a screaming, naked girl seared by napalm, it forgets countless eviscerations, beheadings and murders carried out by the communists. The people of both former Vietnams paid a bitter price in privation and oppression for the Northerners' victory. Here is testimony from Vietcong guerrillas, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bar girls and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen from South Dakota, Huey pilots from North Carolina, Marines from Arkansas. No past volume has blended a political and military narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences, in the fashion that Max Hastings' readers know so well. He marshals testimony from warlords and peasants, statesmen and soldiers, to create an extraordinary record."--Jacket flap.
- Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975.;
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- My adventures with Superman. [videorecording] / by Lee, Alice,1989-voice actor.; Quaid, Jack,1992-voice actor.; Sahid, Ishmel,voice actor.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,publisher.;
Jack Quaid, Alice Lee, Ishmel Sahid, Darrell Brown, Joel De La Fuente, Jake Green.MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN follows Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen, three twenty-somethings figuring out who they are, who they want to be, and saving their city! Clark spent his whole life hiding his powers and wondering where he came from. But now, he'll have to embrace his powers to keep Metropolis safe, all while falling in love with Lois and trying to uncover who he is.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's television programs.; Action and adventure television programs.; Animated television programs.; Superhero television programs.; Superman (Fictitious character); Lane, Lois (Fictitious character); Olsen, Jimmy (Fictitious character); Metropolis (Imaginary place); Man-woman relationships; Superheroes; Supervillains;
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- Mayor of Kingstown. [videorecording] / by Chandler, Kyle,actor.; Dillon, Hugh,1963-creator,actor.; Gillen, Aidan,1968-actor.; Handley, Taylor,1984-actor.; Laird, Emma,actor.; Renner, Jeremy,actor.; Sheridan, Taylor,creator.; Webster, Derek,1981-actor.; Wiest, Dianne,actor.; Bamtefa, Tobi,actor.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Jeremy Renner, High Dillon, Tobi Bamtefa, Taylor Handley, Emma Laird.A series of explosions rock Kingstown and its citizens, as a new face of the Russian mob sets up shop in the city, and a drug war rages inside and outside prison walls. The pressure is on Mike McLusky to end the war but things get complicated when a familiar face from his incarcerated past threatens to undermine the Mayor's attempts to keep the peace among all factions.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Television crime shows.; Brokers; Corruption; Family-owned business enterprises; Imprisonment; Racism;
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- The power of the dog [videorecording] / by Campion, Jane,1954-film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Cumberbatch, Benedict,1976-actor.; Dunst, Kirsten,1982-actor.; Plemons, Jesse,1988-actor.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.;
Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-Mcphee.After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother, whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or destruction.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.2021 Academy Awards: Directing (Jane Campion) ; 2022 BAFTA Awards: Best film, Best director
- Subjects: Feature films.; Romance films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Western films.; Brothers; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and sons; Ranch life;
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