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Harlem after midnight / by Hare, Louise,author.;
"A body falls from a town house window in Harlem, and it looks just like the newest singer at the Apollo ... in this evocative, twisting new novel from the author of Miss Aldridge Regrets. Harlem, 1936: Lena Aldridge grew up in a cramped corner of London, hearing stories of the bright lights of Broadway. She always imagined that when she finally went to New York City, she'd be there with her father. But now he's dead, and she's newly arrived and alone, chasing a dream that has quickly dried up. When Will Goodman-the handsome musician she met on the crossing from England-offers for her to stay with his friends in Harlem, she agrees. She has nowhere else to go, and this will give her a chance to get to know Will better and see if she can find any trace of the family she might have remaining. Will's friends welcome her with open arms, but just as Lena discovers the stories her father once told her were missing giant pieces of information, she also starts to realize the man she's falling too fast and too hard for has secrets of his own. And they might just place a target on her back. Especially when she is drawn to the brightest stage in town"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; African American women singers; Harlem Renaissance; Male musicians; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy; Women jazz singers;
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Buckshot [videorecording] / by Smith, Joshua J.,screenwriter,film director.; Collison, Frank,1950-actor.; Cavanaugh, Michael,1942-actor.; Wasserman, Allan,actor.; Stillman Films, LLC,film distributor.;
Frank Collison, Tim DeZarn, Allan Wasserman.Buckshot is a dark comedy that follows Charlie Stillman, a struggling country singer from New Jersey, who journeys to Nashville to follow in his father's footsteps of becoming a country star. But when his father's checkered past derails his chances, his only job offer is to drive Buckshot Thomas, an aging, hard-living, honky tonk legend, cross-country to his final concert. Along the way, the two men forge a rare friendship, which could change both their lives forever.PG.DVD.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Buddy films.; Road films.; Country musicians; Country music; Fathers and sons; Male friendship;
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The banshees of Inisherin [videorecording] / by Condon, Kerry,1983-actor.; Farrell, Colin,1976-actor.; Gleeson, Brendan,actor.; Keoghan, Barry,1992-actor.; Lydon, Gary,1964-actor.; McDonagh, Martin,screenwriter,film director.; Pearse, David,actor.; Shortt, Pat,actor.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan, Pat Shortt, Gary Lydon, David Pearse.On a small Erin isle in the early 1920s, folk musician Colm Doherty (Brendan Gleeson) decided he was weary of the company of longtime, affable but dull drinking buddy Pádraic Súilleabháin (Colin Farrell)-and told him so. The hurt Pádraic's insistent efforts to get back in Colm's good graces take a series of bizarrely violent turns that put their tiny community up in arms.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, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Best friends; Folk musicians; Islands; Male friendship; Villages;
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The storyteller : tales of life and music / by Grohl, David,author.;
"In The Storyteller, a collection of moments from all periods of his life, Dave Grohl offers something rare--a real, raw, and honest portrait of an extraordinary life made up of ordinary moments. From his visceral love for music and his fellow musicians, to his deep connection to his hometown of Springfield, Virginia, to the way he writes with awe about raising his daughters, Dave Grohl tells stories like he writes songs--from his soul. Packed with reflections on touring with Scream, joining Nirvana and watching it all crumble, creating Foo Fighters when his life was a crossroads, and now crisscrossing the world as a family man, The Storytelling is brimming with life, humor, and Dave's clear-eye perspective on fame"--Book jacket.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Grohl, David.; Foo Fighters (Musical group); Nirvana (Musical group); Drummers (Musicians); Male singers; Rock groups; Rock musicians;
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The storyteller [sound recording] : tales of life and music / by Grohl, David,author,narrator.; Harper Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author."In The Storyteller, a collection of moments from all periods of his life, Dave Grohl offers something rare--a real, raw, and honest portrait of an extraordinary life made up of ordinary moments. From his visceral love for music and his fellow musicians, to his deep connection to his hometown of Springfield, Virginia, to the way he writes with awe about raising his daughters, Dave Grohl tells stories like he writes songs--from his soul. Packed with reflections on touring with Scream, joining Nirvana and watching it all crumble, creating Foo Fighters when his life was a crossroads, and now crisscrossing the world as a family man, The Storytelling is brimming with life, humor, and Dave's clear-eye perspective on fame"--Book jacket.
Subjects: Biographies.; Audiobooks.; Autobiographies.; Grohl, David.; Foo Fighters (Musical group); Nirvana (Musical group); Drummers (Musicians); Male singers; Rock groups; Rock musicians;
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Barbershop. [videorecording] / by Cedric,the Entertainer,1965-; Common.; Eve(Musician); Ice Cube(Musician); Minaj, Nicki.; Hall, Regina.; Smoove, J. B.,1964-; Cube Vision (Firm); Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.; State Street Pictures.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Ice Cube, Cedric The Entertainer, Regina Hall, JB Smoove, Eve, Common, Nicki Minaj.It's been more than 10 years since our last appointment at Calvin's Barbershop. Calvin (Ice Cube) and his longtime crew, including Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer), are still there, but the shop has undergone some major changes. Most noticeably, our once male-dominated sanctuary is now co-ed. The ladies bring their own flavor, drama and gossip to the shop challenging the fellas at every turn. Despite the good times and camaraderie within the shop, the surrounding community has taken a turn for the worse, forcing Calvin and our crew to come together to not only save the shop, but their neighborhood.MPAA rating: PG-13.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; African American barbers; Barbershops; Male friendship; Man-woman relationships;
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The other fab four : the remarkable true story of The Liverbirds, Britain's first female rock band / by McGlory, Mary,author.; Saunders, Sylvia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."When John Lennon told the four members of The Liverbirds-Britain's first female rock band-that girls couldn't play guitar, they proved him wrong. This is their story. The idea for Britain's first female rock band, The Liverbirds, started one evening in 1962, when Mary McGlory, then age 16, saw The Beatles play live at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, the nightclub famously known as the "cradle of British pop music." Then and there, she decided she was going to be just like them-and be the first girl to do it. Joining ranks in 1963 with three other working-class girls from Liverpool-drummer Sylvia Saunders and guitarists Valerie Gell and Pamela Birch, also self-taught musicians determined to "break the male monopoly of the beat world"-The Liverbirds went on to tour alongside the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and Chuck Berry, and were on track to hit international stardom-until life intervened, and the group was forced to disband just five years after forming in 1968. Now, Mary and Sylvia, the band's two surviving members, are ready to tell their stories. From that fateful night in 1962, when Mary, who once aspired to become a nun, decided to provide for her family by becoming a rich-and-famous rocker, to the circumstances that led to the band splitting up-Sylvia's dangerously complicated pregnancy, and the tragic accident that paralyzed Valerie's beau-The Liverbirds tackles family, friendship, addiction, aging, and the forces-even destiny-that initially brought the four women together"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Liverbirds (Musical group); Rock groups; Rock musicians; Women rock musicians;
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The farewell tour : a novel / by Clifford, Stephanie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.It's 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time. Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow of a packed house before she makes the last, and most important, stop on the tour: the farm she left behind at age ten and the sister she is finally ready to confront about an agonizing betrayal in their childhood. As the novel crisscrosses eras, moving between Lillian's youth--the Depression, the Second World War, the rise of Nashville--and her middle-aged life in 1980, we see her striving to build a career in the male-dominated world of country music, including the hard choices she makes as she tries to redefine music, love, aging, and womanhood on her own terms. Nearing her final tour stop, Lil is forced to confront those choices and how they shaped her life. Would a different version of herself have found the happiness and success that has eluded her? When she reaches her Washington hometown for her very last show, though, she'll undergo a reckoning with the past that forces her to reconsider her entire life story. Exploring one unforgettable woman's creativity, ambition, and sacrifices in a world--and an art form--made for men, The Farewell Tour asks us to consider how much of our past we can ever leave behind.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Country musicians; Homecoming; Identity (Psychology); Self-actualization (Psychology); Sisters; Tours; Women ; Women country musicians;
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Rebel girl : my life as a feminist punk / by Hanna, Kathleen,1968-author.;
"An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the '90s and beyond. Her band Bikini Kill embodies this iconic time, and today her personal yet feminist lyrics on anthems like "Rebel Girl" and "Double Dare Ya" are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from? In Rebel Girl, Hanna's raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumultuous childhood home to her formative college years in Olympia, Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting hard for gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes clear, being in a "girl band," especially a punk girl band, in those years was not a simple or safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a lightning rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination. But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her -- including with her bandmates, Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Johanna Fateman; her friendships with Kurt Cobain and Ian MacKaye; and her introduction to Joan Jett -- were all a testament to how the punk world could nurture and care for its own. Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her musical growth in her bands Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. She also writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement, documenting with love its grassroots origins but critiquing its later exclusivity. In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the hardest times along with the most joyful-and how it continues to fuel her revolutionary art and music"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Hanna, Kathleen, 1968-; Bikini Kill (Musical group); Tigre (Punk rock group); Punk rock musicians; Riot grrrl movement.; Singers; Women punk rock musicians;
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Ride along. [videorecording] / by Ice Cube(Musician),producer,actor.; Bratt, Benjamin,1963-; Hart, Kevin,1979-actor.; Jeong, Ken,1969-; McGill, Bruce,1950-; Munn, Olivia,1980-; Story, Tim,film director.; Sumpter, Tika,actor.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter, Benjamin Bratt, Olivia Munn.Police rookie Ben accompanies his soon-to-be brother-in-law James to Miami on a lead that threatens both the case James is working on and Ben's upcoming wedding.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1, DVS 2.0.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Criminal investigation; Fiancés; Male friendship; Man-woman relationships; Police; Police;
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