Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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Summary: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

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Contents: Secret place / Richard McKenna.--Light of other days / Bob Shaw.--Who needs insurance? / Robin S. Scott.--Among the hairy earthmen / R.A. Lafferty.--Last castle / Jack Vance.--Day million / Frederik Pohl.--When I was Miss Dow / Sonya Dorman.--Call him lord / Gordon R. Dickson.--In the Imagicon / George Henry Smith.--We can remember it for you wholesale / Philip K. Dick.--Man in his time / Brian...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stealth Press 2001

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Summary: When a 30-something fashion photographer agrees to a date with a precocious teenager, he gets far more than he bargained for.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2006

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Summary: Two men try to recover a winning lottery ticket from the underworld.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video Inc. 2003

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Summary: George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Elizabeth Taylor. Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Clift's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2001

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Summary: A driver and mechanic join a drag racing from L.A. east in a souped up '55 Chevy, where they challenge another driver to a cross country race, with their pink slips as the prize. Includes commentaries; interviews; rare screen test outtakes; and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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Frankfurt, Harry G.

Summary: After the success of his work "On bullshit," Frankfurt looks at the other side of the philosophical coin. If bullshit resides in the realm of subjective perception, then truth points to what lies outside that realm. Frankfurt is praised for his ability to speak to a wide general audience. Thus, On Truth is required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the function of truth in our culture.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006

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Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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Contents: disc 1. You upset me baby (B.B. King) -- Midnight in the Barrel House (Johnny Otis feat. Pete "Guitar" Lewis) -- First time I met the blues (Buddy Guy) -- Cotton crop blues (James Cotton feat. Pat Hare) -- Lookin' for my baby (Little Milton) -- Rock me (Muddy Waters) -- The stumble (Freddy King) -- All your love (I miss loving) (Otis Rush) -- Chicken-hearted woman (Clarence Samuels feat. Johnny...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantastic Voyage/Future Noise Music 2012

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Gershwin, George

Contents: Disc 1. Swanee (Al Jolson) -- The Yankee doodle blues (Van & Schenck) -- Do it again (Arthur Lange's Orchestra) -- Somebody loves me (Isabelle & Tom Patricola) -- Fascinating rhythm (Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards) -- Oh, lady be good (Buck & Bubbles) -- Tell me more (Alexander Gray) -- Sweet and low-down (Singing Sophomores ; Ed Smalle) -- Song of the flame (Tessa Kosta ; The Russian Art Choir)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1998

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Nilsson, Harry.

Contents: 1941 (2:39) -- Without her (2:17) -- As I wander lonely (2:30) -- Ten little indians (2:13) -- You can"t do that (2:16) -- Miss Butter's lament (2:30) -- One (2:53) -- Mr. Richland's favorite song (2:12) -- Everybody's talkin' (2:43) -- Together (2:08) -- Don't leave me (2:18) -- Good old desk (2:22) -- I will take you there (2:56) -- Girlfriend (1:50) -- Wasting my time (3:40) -- Mournin'...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1994

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Nilsson, Harry

Summary: Features nine Nilsson originals as well as covers by Jimmy Webb and Yoko Ono. With musical contributions from an all-star cast of musicians, the album features the classic Nilsson melodies that have been his trademark for over 50 years.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Nilsson, Harry.

Contents: Lazy moon (3:21) -- For me and my gal (2:47) -- It had to be you (2:46) -- Always (1:34) -- Makin' whoopee! (4:31) -- You made me love you (I didn't want to do it) (2:33) -- Lullaby in ragtime (3:40) -- I wonder who's kissing her now (2:40) -- What'll I do (2:27) -- Nevertheless (I'm in love with you) (2:40) -- This is all I ask (3:38) -- As time goes by (3:24).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1988

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Nilsson, Harry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1971

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Nilsson, Harry.

Contents: Vine Street -- Love story -- Yellow man -- Caroline -- Cowboy -- The beehive state -- I'll be home --Living without you -- Dayton, Ohio -- So long Dad.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 1988

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Nilsson, Harry.

Contents: The puppy song -- Nobody cares about the railroad anymore -- Open your window -- Mother Nature's son -- Fairfax rag -- City life -- Mournin' glory story -- Maybe -- Marchin' down Broadway -- I guess the Lord must be in New York City -- Rainmaker -- Mr. Bojangles -- Simon Smith and the amazing dancing bear.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 1969

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Nilsson, Harry.

Contents: Everybody's talkin' -- Sleep late, my lady friend -- Good old desk -- Don't leave me -- 1941 -- Cowboy -- One -- Coconut -- Daybreak -- Without you -- I guess the Lord must be in New York City -- Caroline -- Daddy's song -- Jump into the fire -- Without her -- My [i.e. Me] and my arrow -- Nobody cares about the railroad anymore -- Spaceman -- As time goes by -- Remember.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Records 1989

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Contents: Give a little love (Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers) (4:02) -- This old man (Bob Dylan) (3:05) -- Cushie Butterfield (Sting) (1:14) -- Mary had a little lamb (Paul McCartney) (3:31) -- The ballad of Davy Crockett (Stephen Bishop) (3:20) -- Itsy bitsy spider (Little Richard) (3:38) -- Chicken lips and lizard hips (Bruce Springsteen) (1:42) -- Country feelin's (Brian Wilson) (2:42) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 1991

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Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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Golson, Barry.

Summary: In 2004, Barry Golson wrote an article for AARP magazine about Mexican hot spots for retirees longing for a lifestyle they couldn't afford in the United States. A year later, he and his wife Thia joined in the growing trend: they sold their Manhattan apartment, packed up their SUV, moved to the surfing and fishing village of Sayulita ( population 1,500) on Mexico's Pacific coast, and spent a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006

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Walton, Harry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Popular Science/Harper & Row 1976

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Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Golson, Barry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2008

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