Jackson, Tiffany D.
Summary: "When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JACDuncan, Alice Faye
Summary: "Traveling across the Mississippi Delta, Bo Willie searches blues landmarks like Dockery Farms and Beale Street for his missing dog.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUNCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUNWells, Allen R.
Summary: Moving in with his uncles in a different town after he and his mom lose their housing, Danté misses his friends and neighborhood until his Uncle Ron teaches him to play the saxophone, showing him how to turn his blues into his muse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WELKeil, Kenny
Summary: Four friends are dreaming of boy band stardom in this New Jack Swing-inspired story about fame, friendship, and why all that glitters isn't double platinum.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ONI Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KEIMosley, Walter.
Summary: RL's Drean is a novel about the blues - the blues as an expression of black poetry and black tragedy and how they sit in judgement on the American experience. In contemporary New York, aging bluesman Soupspoon Wise is alone, ill, and dying.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSDavis, Dana
Summary: Dylan and Langston used to be best friends. After he moved away, Langston became a star R&B artist. He returns for visit and stays with Dylan and her family. They start to renew their friendship--and maybe see their relationship grow into something else.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyscape 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DAVSoria, Gabriel.
Summary: "A meditation on music, race, obsession, and how far someone will go to see their vision become real, Murder Ballads follows the fall and reinvention of Nate Theodore, the dead-broke and deadbeat owner of a failed record label who is on a cross-country drive in the dead of winter with his wife Mary, fleeing the wreckage of their business and heading towards the destruction of their marriage....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Z2 Comics 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SORSummary: Chess Records was located on the south side of Chicago. In 1947, it began recording blues music with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. This eventually gave birth to rock and roll in 1955 with Chuck Berry. Record producer, Leonard Chess has an ear for this different type of music and believes he can cash in by signing up new talent such as songwriter, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CADSummary: Diana Ross stars in this musical drama charting the life of Billie Holiday, a life tormented by racism and drug abuse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LadyCook, Christopher
Summary: Two violent drifters and one beautiful woman embark on a wild, bloody crime spree across Texas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COOHarper, Ben
Contents: CD. Don't look twice (3:13) ; I'm in I'm out and I'm gone (4:37) ; We can't end this way (3:37) ; I don't believe a word you say (3:34) ; You found another lover (I lost another friend) (4:13) ; I ride at dawn (4:42) ; Blood side out (2:52) ; Get up! (6:17) ; She got kick (2:56) ; All that matters now (4:53) -- DVD. Short feature about Get up! (featuring interviews with Ben Harper and Charlie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES HARJackson, Tiffany D.
Summary: "When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JACWilliams-Garcia, Rita
Summary: Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILAtkins, Ace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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Summary: In Harlem, New York City, an artist follows the rhythms of blues music as he recalls his North Carolina childhood while painting, cutting, and pasting to make art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HarveyDubus, Andre
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBRosen, Renée
Summary: "The bestselling author of White Collar Girl and What the Lady Wants explores one woman's journey of self-discovery set against the backdrop of a musical and social revolution. In the middle of the twentieth century, the music of the Mississippi Delta arrived in Chicago, drawing the attention of entrepreneurs like the Chess brothers. Their label, Chess Records, helped shape that music into the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSSmith, Brian
Summary: "When Pea, Bee, & Jay hear stories of Gramp's youth, they find each yarn to be wilder than the last. He once had a pet dog, was a professional wrestling champ, and even led a jailbreak out of a can of peas...But when Gramps goes missing, it's up to the trio to bring him home."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SMIDean, Kim
Summary: When a cloudy sky ruins Pete the Cat's beach plans, a big box is all he needs to beat the rainy-day blues.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DEACopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE PETSummary: Hit men Ray and Ken have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INContents: Discs 1 & 2: Blu-ray 3D, extended edition, parts 1 & 2 -- Disc 3: Blu-ray, extended edition, plus the filmmakers commentary (includes New Zealand: Home of Middle-Earth: Part 3) -- Disc 4: Blu-ray, the appendices part II: The gathering storm/chronicles of the Hobbit; part 3 -- Disc 5: Blu-ray, the appendices part 12: Here at journey's end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu3D DVD Movie HobbitWalton, Julia
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Phoebe Townsend created her blog, The Circle in the Square, as a place for her research into sex, and now she answers other teens' questions while trying to stay anonymous, but as the number of her followers rises, Phoebe finds herself exposed to the darker side of social media.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WALDaywalt, Drew
Summary: Monkey has a big box, which he tells Cake has a cat inside, but only when the box is closed; Cake suggest that maybe it is a dinosaur instead, and the two friends puzzle over how they can solve the problem of finding out what is in the box, if it is always empty when opened.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019