Edgers, Geoff.
Summary: Profiles the "King of Rock 'n Roll," focusing on how he got his start in singing and how his style influenced later musicians.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET PRESLEYMcDonald, Greg
Summary: "A fresh biography of legendary entertainment manager Colonel Tom Parker, with a contrarian and corrective point of view"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCDContents: Disc 1: Trouble/Guitar man (3:26) -- My baby left me (2:12) -- Baby, what you want me to do (3:03) -- Old Shep (4:09) -- That's when your heartaches begin (2:48) -- That's all right (1:55) -- Blue moon of Kentucky (2:02) -- Fool, fool, fool (1:57) -- Tweedlee dee (2:44) -- Baby, let's play house (2:14) -- Good rockin' tonight (2:18) -- Trying to get to you (2:30) -- Blue moon (2:42) -- When it...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA / Legacy 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PREO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: "The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life-until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 O'REICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 O'REICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult O'ReillySummary: The story of the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in 1970, which was immortalized in the most requested phonograph in the National Archives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ELVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELVSummary: "Elvis by the Presleys is the most revealing and poignant video portrait we will ever see of the artist as husband, father and friend. As never before, Priscilla Presley and Lisa Marie Presley, along with members of Elvis' family and extended family, freely share their own stories, emotions and intimate memories on camera, and they allow us to enjoy home-movie footage of Elvis never before...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony BMG Music Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ELVWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEISummary: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA PRIAlden, Ginger.
Summary: Breaking her thirty-year silence, the former fiancée to Elvis Presley tells the story of her whirlwind romance with the King and what it was like being in Graceland when fifty thousand mourners arrived to pay their respects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Christensen, Bonnie.
Summary: "Elvis Presley, perhaps better known as the King of Rock and Roll, left an amazing legacy on the worldwide music scene. But before Elvis became The King, he was just a shy kid growing up in a poor family in Mississippi. From an early age singing in church, Elvis used music as a form of hope, a means of getting by. He soon created his own style that brought together classes and races and lifted...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PREWinter, Jonah
Summary: Presents the life and legacy of Elvis, from his birth in Mississippi through his music career, his time in the army, his marriage, and his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PRESummary: Last in a three-part series in which acclaimed documentary filmmakers present ten pivotal moments in American history and their often unforeseen repercussions. This segment of three documentary films records events that changed the way Americans saw themselves. Albert Einstein's letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 16, 1939, urged the development of the atomic bomb through the Manhattan...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TEN V3Summary: A documentary on Elvis Presley consisting of interviews, rare home movies, photographs and recordings recounting Elvis early life up to his homecoming concert in Tupelo, MS in 1956.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Rose Productions 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ELVSchroer, Andreas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1993
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.66 SCHWilliamson, Joel.
Summary: In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result is a masterpiece: a vivid, gripping biography, set against the rich backdrop of Southern society--indeed, American society--in the second half of the twentieth century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRESLEY, ELVIS WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Music PresleyEvans, Mike
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRESLEY, ELVIS EVAGuralnick, Peter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRESLEY, ELVIS GURSchilling, Jerry.
Summary: A member of Elvis Presley's "Memphis Mafia" describes his long-time friendship with the legendary singer, tracing their relationship from his first meeting as a child, through his years of living and working with Presley, to Elvis's tragic death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRESLEY, ELVIS SCHFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Zoglin, Richard
Summary: The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time. The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal overdose. But in Elvis in Vegas, Richard Zoglin takes an alternate view, arguing that Vegas is where the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 ZOGSummary: Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie ElvisSummary: A teenage couple from Japan on a pilgramage to Graceland, a mysterious Italian beauty escorting her husband's body back to Italy, and an unemployed, armed misfit known as Elvis meet in Memphis. Their intertwined tales create a comic masterpiece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSGuralnick, Peter.
Summary: This book continues "Last Train to Memphis" by the same author. Here at last is the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography. Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "a triumph of biographical...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRESLEY, ELVIS GURJackson, Fleda Brown
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carnegie Mellon University Press 2004