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A waiter in Paris : adventures in the dark heart of the city / by Chisholm, Edward,author.;
Introduction -- Amuse-bouche -- L'apéritif -- La soupe -- L'entrée -- Le plat principal -- Le fromage -- Le dessert -- Le digestif."An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young waiter scraping out a living in the City of Light. A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door . . . is hell. Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you beneath the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world--and right into its glorious underbelly. He inhabits a world of inhuman hours, snatched sleep and dive bars; scraping by on coffee, bread and cigarettes, often under sadistic managers, with a wage so low you're fighting your colleagues for tips. Your colleagues--including thieves, narcissists, ex-soldiers, immigrants, wannabe actors, and drug dealers--are the closest thing to family that you've got. It's physically demanding, frequently humiliating and incredibly competitive. But it doesn't matter because you're in Paris, the center of the universe, and there's nowhere else you'd rather be in the world"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Chisholm, Edward; Waiters; Authors, English;
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The Wiggles. [videorecording] / by Armstrong, Barry.; Ashley, Leeanne.; Barbey, Gavin.; Cook, Murray,1960-; Covell, Dean.; Dawson, Kerry.; Fatt, Jeff,1954-; Field, Anthony,1963-(CARDINAL)347551; Halloran, Leanne.; Horne, Andrew,-1328; Horne, Andrew.; Martin, Charmaine.; McTavish, Chisholm.; Mill, Jonathon.; Paddick, Paul.; Page, Greg,1972-; Rees, Stephen.; Rooke, Edward.; HIT Entertainment.(CARDINAL)355145; Lyrick Studios.; Wiggles (Musical group)(CARDINAL)347546;
Camera, Barry Armstrong ; art direction, Gavin Barbey ; editors, Stephen Rees, Chisholm McTavish ; wardrobe, Kerry Dawson ; production designer, Andrew Horne ; choreographer, Leanne Halloran.Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page, Paul Paddick, Leeanne Ashley, Charmaine Martin, Edward Rooke, Jonathon Mill.Join Murray, Jeff, Anthony, Greg and friends as they take you on a sleigh-riding Yuletide sing-along with new holiday tunes and some old festive favorites.MPAA rating: Not rated; recommended ages 1-8.DVD, Region 1 encoding.
Subjects: Children's films.; Feature films.; Musical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Children's songs; Christmas; Feature films.; Musical films.; Singing games; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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The wizard [videorecording] / by Bridges, Beau,actor.(CARDINAL)342958; Edwards, Luke,actor.(CARDINAL)846064; Holland, Todd,film directoractor.(CARDINAL)687527; Lewis, Jenny,actor.; Savage, Fred,1976-actor.; Slater, Christian,actor.(CARDINAL)343219; Shout! Factory (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)346726;
Beau Bridges, Fred Savage, Christian Slater, Luke Edwards, Jenny Lewis, Todd Holland.A boy decides to take his autistic video game-playing brother to a national video game competition across the country.Rating: PG.Blu-ray; Widescreen (aspect ratio 1.85:1) presentation; requires Blu-ray player.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Children's films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Autistic children; Brothers; Contests; Families; Friendship; Hitchhiking; Video games;
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The wizard [videorecording] / by Savage, Fred,1976-; Bridges, Beau.(CARDINAL)342958; Slater, Christian.(CARDINAL)343219; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)344011;
Fred Savage, Beau Bridges, Christian Slater, Luke Edwards, Jenny Lewis.A boy decides to take his autistic video game-playing brother to a national video game competition across the country.MPAA rating: PG.DVD
Subjects: Feature films.; Video games; Brothers; Autistic children; Family;
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All eyes are upon us : race and politics from Boston to Brooklyn / by Sokol, Jason,author.(CARDINAL)279470;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-371) and index.The northern mystique -- pt. I: North of Jim Crow. -- And to think that it happened in Springfield : Pioneering pluralism, practicing segregation (1939-1945) -- Something in the Air : Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn (1947-1957) -- "If we were segregationists" : The struggle to integrate northeastern schools (1957-1965) -- pt. II: Forerunners. -- The color-blind commonwealth? : The election of Edward Brooke (1966) -- Shirley Chisholm's place : Winning New York's 12th congressional district (1968) -- pt. III: Mirrors. -- "The north is guilty" : Abraham Ribicoff's crusade (1970) -- "This bedeviling busing business" : The long 1970s, the trials of Edward Brooke, and the fall of the north (1968-1979) -- pt. IV: The death and life of the north. -- A tale of two Hartfords : Politics and poverty in a land of plenty (1980-1987) -- The ghost of Willie Turks : Racial violence and Black politics in New York City (1982-1993) -- The north rises again : Deval Patrick, Barack Obama, and the twenty-first century (2006-2012)."The Northeastern United States--home to abolitionism and a refuge for blacks fleeing the Jim Crow South--has had a long and celebrated history of racial equality and political liberalism. After World War II, the region appeared poised to continue this legacy, electing black politicians and rallying behind black athletes and cultural leaders. However, as historian Jason Sokol reveals in All Eyes Are Upon Us, these achievements obscured the harsh reality of a region riven by segregation and deep-seated racism. White fans from across Brooklyn--Irish, Jewish, and Italian--came out to support Jackie Robinson when he broke baseball's color barrier with the Dodgers in 1947, even as the city's blacks were shunted into segregated neighborhoods. The African-American politician Ed Brooke won a senate seat in Massachusetts in 1966, when the state was 97% white, yet his political career was undone by the resistance to busing in Boston. Across the Northeast over the last half-century, blacks have encountered housing and employment discrimination as well as racial violence. But the gap between the northern ideal and the region's segregated reality left small but meaningful room for racial progress. Forced to reckon with the disparity between their racial practices and their racial preaching, blacks and whites forged interracial coalitions and demanded that the region live up to its promise of equal opportunity. A revelatory account of the tumultuous modern history of race and politics in the Northeast, All Eyes Are Upon Us presents the Northeast as a microcosm of America as a whole: outwardly democratic, inwardly conflicted, but always striving to live up to its highest ideals"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Progressivism (United States politics); Racism; Racism.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Young, gifted and black : meet 52 black heroes from past and present / by Wilson, Jamia,1980-author.(CARDINAL)350884; Pippins, Andrea,illustrator.(CARDINAL)350883;
"Join us on a journey across borders, through time and even through space to meet 52 icons of color from the past and present in a celebration of achievement. Meet figureheads, leaders, and pioneers such as Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Rosa Parks, as well as cultural trailblazers and sporting heroes, including Stevie Wonder, Oprah Winfrey, and Serena Williams. Discover how their childhood dreams and experiences influenced their adult achievements. This book will help the next generation to chase their own dream . . . whatever it may be"--This book brings together 52 iconic talents from the past and present and celebrates their inspirational achievements. Meet figureheads, leaders and pioneers such as Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Rosa Parks, as well as cultural trailblazers and sporting heroes, including Stevie Wonder, Oprah Winfrey and Serena Williams.1110LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Beyoncé, 1981-; Pelé, 1940-2022.; Solange, 1986-; Adams, Nicola.; Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-; Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016; Angelou, Maya.; Annan, Kofi A. (Kofi Atta); Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971.; Ashley, Maurice.; Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.; Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 1960-1988.; Biles, Simone, 1997-; Blackman, Malorie.; Bolt, Usain, 1986-; Campbell, Naomi.; Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943.; Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005.; Coleman, Bessie, 1892-1926.; Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 1875-1912.; Copeland, Misty.; Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.; Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870.; DuVernay, Ava.; Farah, Mo, 1983-; Freeman, Cathy, 1973-; Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955.; Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.; Jemison, Mae, 1956-; Johnson, Katherine G.; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.; Lara, Brian, 1969-; Maathai, Wangari.; Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013.; McQueen, Steve.; Morrison, Toni.; Obama, Barack.; Obama, Michelle, 1964-; Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980.; Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.; Poitier, Sidney.; Seacole, Mary, 1805-1881.; Simone, Nina, 1933-2003.; Smith, Zadie.; Spalding, Esperanza, 1984-; Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913.; Walker, C. J., Madam, 1867-1919.; Williams, Serena, 1981-; Williams, Venus, 1980-; Winfrey, Oprah.; Wonder, Stevie.; Yannick, Noah, 1960-; African-American biographies.; African American interest.; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Black people; Classism.; Discrimination.; Epilepsy.; Foster home care.; Multiculturalism.; People with disabilities; People with disabilities; People with disabilities; Poverty.; Prejudices.; Race discrimination; Racism.; Sexism.; Women with disabilities.; Racism.; Sexism.; Black people;
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A wealth of wisdom : legendary African American elders speak / by Cosby, Camille O.(Camille Olivia),1944-(CARDINAL)382656; Cosby, Camille O.(Camille Olivia),1944-(CARDINAL)382656; Poussaint, Renee.(CARDINAL)643506;
Maya Angelou -- Lee Archer -- Rudolph Belisle -- Keter Betts -- Adolpho A. Birch Jr. -- J. Robert Bradley -- Edward Brooke -- Jerome Brooks -- Roscoe Lee Browne -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Ray Charles -- Mary Alice Chineworth -- Shirley Chisholm -- Robert Churchwell -- Flora Davis Crittenden -- Ruby Dee -- Ossie Davis -- Carmen de Lavallade -- Georgia Smith Dickens -- David Dinkins -- David Driskell -- Katherine Dunham -- Norman C. Francis -- John Hope Franklin -- Dick Gregory -- Robert Guillaume -- Marcus Gunter -- Barbara Harris -- Charles Harris -- Jimmy Heath -- Dorothy Height -- Geoffrey Holder -- Ola G. Hudson -- Esther Cooper Jackson -- John H. Johnson -- Howard Owen Jones -- Del Jupiter -- Dolores Kendrick -- Coretta Scott King -- Leatrice McKissack -- Henry H. Mitchell -- Gordon Parks -- Norman Maurice Rates -- Fred Shuttlesworth -- Percy Sutton -- Edward S. Temple -- Jayme Coleman Williams -- McDonald Williams -- Andrew Young.A collection of reminiscences, personal anecdotes, and words of wisdom from fifty-four African American leaders over the age of seventy includes Ossie Davis, David Dinkins, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, and Maya Angelou.
Subjects: Biographies.; Interviews.; Trivia and miscellanea.; African Americans; Conduct of life; Leadership; Older African Americans; Social values; Wisdom;
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The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. by Chisholm, Hugh,1866-1924.(CARDINAL)175261;
Includes bibliographical references and index.v. 1. A-Androphagi -- v. 2. Andros-Austria -- v. 3. Austria Lower-Bisectrix -- v. 4. Bisharin-Calgary -- v. 5. Calhoun-Chatelaine -- v. 6. Chatelet-Constantine -- v. 7. Constantine Pavlovich-Demidov -- v. 8. Demijohn-Edward -- v. 9. Edwardes-Evangelical Association -- v. 10. Evangelical Church-Francis Joseph -- v. 11. Franciscans-Gibson -- v. 12. Gichtel-Harmonium -- v. 13. Harmony-Hurstmonceaux -- v. 14. Husband-Italic -- v. 15. Italy-Kyshtym -- v. 16. L-Lord Advocate -- v. 17. Lord Chamberlain-Mecklenberg -- v. 18. Medal-Mumps -- v. 19. Mun-Oddfellows -- v. 20. Ode-Payment of Members -- v. 21. Payn-Polka -- v. 22. Poll-Reeves -- v. 23. Refectory-Sainte Beuve -- v. 24. Sainte-Claire Deville-Shuttle -- v. 25. Shuvalov-Subliminal Self -- v. 26. Submarine Mines-Tom-tom -- v. 27. Tonalite-Vesuvius -- v. 28. Vetch-Zymotic Diseases -- v. 29. Index."The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, and unabashed racism, pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics ... Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten - except by the historians, scholars"-- The Guardian.
Subjects: Encyclopedias.; Encyclopedias and dictionaries.;
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Famous Blacks give secrets of success. /
(Con.) Ersa H. Poston -- Alvin Poussaint, M.D. -- Leontyne Price -- Charley Pride -- Wilson C. Riles -- Diana Ross -- Richard Roundtree -- Carl T. Rowan -- John H. Sengstecke -- Kenneth N. Sherwood -- Naomi Sims -- Willi Smith -- The Reverend Leon H. Sullivan -- Percy Sutton -- Dempsey Travis -- C. DeLores Tucker -- Cicely Tyson -- Melvin Van Peebles -- Walter E. Washington -- Barbara Watson -- Andre Watts -- Clifton Wharton -- Frederick Wilkinson -- Flip Wilson -- Stevie Wonder -- Thomas A. Wood -- Andrew Young Jr.Milton Allen -- Harry Belafonte -- Lerone Bennett Jr. -- Edward W. Brooke Jr. -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- James Brown -- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke -- LeRoy Callender -- Wilt Chamberlain -- James E. Cheek -- Shirley Chisholm -- Algernon J. Cooper -- Sammy Davis Jr. -- James DePriest -- Robert Dunham -- Nelson Jack Edwards -- Clarence Finley -- George Foreman -- Redd Foxx -- A. G. Gaston -- Berry Gordon Jr. -- Samuel L. Gravely Jr. -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Patricia Roberts Harris -- Jerome Heartwell Holland -- Richard Hunt -- Jesse L. Jackson -- Michael Jackson -- Major General Daniel James Jr. -- George E. Johnson -- John H. Johnson -- Nathaniel R. Jones -- Quincy Jones -- Barbara Jordan -- Percy Lavon Julian -- Robert O. Lowery -- Jackie "Moms" Mabley -- Henry W. McGee Jr. -- Thurgood Marshall -- Winston E. Moore -- Constance Baker Motley -- Gordon Parks Sr. -- Henry G. Parks Jr. -- Lois Mailou Jones Pierre-Noel -- Sidney PoitierCollects inspirational anecdotes from the lives of noteworthy individuals, including professional athletes, writers, and singers.
Subjects: Biographies.; African Americans;
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Sons of the South : portraits / by Rand, Clayton,1891-1971.(CARDINAL)212637;
Subjects: Biographies.; Washington, George, 1732-1799.; Madison, James.; Henry, Patrick.; Monroe, James.; Jefferson, Thomas.; Mason, George.; Randolph, John.; Marshall, John.; Calver, Leonard.; Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.; Bienville, Jean Baptiste le Moyne de.; Woodruff, William E.; Oglethorpe, James.; Tyler, John.; de Bor?, Etienne.; Quitman, John Anthony, 1798-1858.; Sevier, John, 1745-1815.; Ross, John.; Dunbar, William.; Opothleyaholo, approximately 1798-1862.; Boone, Daniel.; Gorrie, John.; Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820.; Mouron, Alexandre.; Jackson, Andrew.; Prentiss, Seargent S.; Pushmataha, approximately 1764-1824.; Pike, Albert.; Claiborne, William C. C. (William Charles Cole), 1775-1817.; Long, Crawford Williamson, 1815-1878.; Sequoyah, 1770?-1843.; Houston, Samuel.; Dale, Samuel.; Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836.; Crawford, William Harris, 1772-1834.; Travis, William Barret, 1809-1836.; Clay, Henry.; Bowie, Jim, 1796?-1836.; Calhoun, John Caldwell.; Crockett, David.; McDonogh, John.; Lamar, Mirabeau B. (Mirabeau Buonaparte), 1798-1859.; Bibb, William Wyatt, 1781-1820.; Conway, James Sevier, 1798-1855.; Taylor, Zachary.; Shelby, Isaac.; Davis, Jefferson.; Longstreet, James, 1821-1904.; Johnston, Albert Sidney, 1803-1862.; Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877.; Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873.; Breckinridge, John Cabell.; Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864.; Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863.; Semmes, Raphael.; Kirby-Smith, Edmund, 1824-1893.; Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885.; Yancey, William Lowndes, 1814-1863.; Slidell, John, 1793-1871.; Taylor, Richard.; Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884.; Cleburne, Patrick Ronayne, 1828-1864.; Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1812-1883.; Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894.; Cobb, Howell.; Garland, A. H. (Augustus Hill), 1832-1899.; Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876.; Stuart, Jeb, 1833-1864.; Beauregard, Pierre Gustav Tourant.; Wheeler, Joseph.; Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-1866.; Lee, Robert E.; Johnson, Andrew.; Goodnight, Charles, 1836-1929.; Hampton, Wade.; Grady, Henry Woodfin, 1850-1889.; Lamar, L. Q. C. (Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus), 1825-1893.; Gorgas, William Crawford, 1854-1920.; George, James Z. (James Zachariah), 1826-1897.; Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918.; Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill), 1833-1908.; Wilson, Woodrow.; Nicholls, Francis T. (Francis Tillou), 1834-1912.; Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.; Watterson, Henry, 1840-1921.; Kuke, James Buchanan.; White, Edward Douglas III.; Cullinan, J. S. (Joseph Stephen), 1860-1937.; Tillman, Benjamin Ryan.; Hobson, Richmond Pearson.; Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911.; Robinson, Joseph Taylor, 1872-1937.; Plant, Henry B.; Couch, Harvey Crowley, 1877-1941.; Flagler, Henry M.; Rogers, W. (Will); Coke, Richard, 1829-1897.; Matas, Rudolph, 1860-1957.; Chisholm, Jesse.; Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955.;
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