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18 and life on Skid Row / by Bach, Sebastian,author.(CARDINAL)552545;
The former front man for Skid Row traces his rise from choir boy to rock star at the height of the heavy metal era, describing his unconventional youth, friendships with fellow performers, and successful solo career.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Bach, Sebastian.; Skid Row (Musical group); Rock musicians;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Lost angels [videorecording] Skid Row is my home / by Keener, Catherine.(CARDINAL)341552; Napper, Thomas Q.; Orsi, Agi.; Triano, Christine.; Agi Orsi Productions.; Cinema Libre Studio.; Krasnoff/Foster Entertainment (Firm);
Music, Walter Werzowa ; editor, Tyler Hubby ; cinematography, Seamus McGarvey, Fortunato Procopio, Christopher Gosch.Narrator, Catherine Keener.Takes an uncompromising yet life-affirming look at the lives of eight remarkable individuals, people who have found a way to make a life for themselves within the community of homelessness. Shows how their descent into society's basement has been exacerbated by the forces of gentrification and the increasing criminalization of homeless people, while exposing the draconian changes to the mental health care system that have brought us here.Not rated.DVD, NTSC all regions; 5.1 surround sound.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Homeless persons; Homelessness; Mental health services;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Stations of the lost; the treatment of skid row alcoholics / by Wiseman, Jacqueline P.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Alcoholics; Alcoholics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Disaffiliated man; essays and bibliography on skid row, vagrancy, and outsiders / by Bahr, Howard M.(CARDINAL)141592;
"Annotated bibliography": pages 94-394.
Subjects: Bibliographies.; Tramps; Alcoholism; Social isolation; Social isolation.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The soloist [large print] : a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music / by Lopez, Steve.(CARDINAL)381150;
Subjects: Large print books.; Biographies.; Ayers, Nathaniel Anthony.; Violinists; Homeless persons; Skid row;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The soloist [sound recording] : a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music by Lopez, Steve.; Hughes, William,1957-;
Read by William Hughes.A portrait of gifted violinist Nathaniel Ayers traces his education at Juilliard, his struggles with schizophrenia, the factors that led to his homelessness in Los Angeles, his friendship with the author, and the author's efforts to improve the musician's life.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Compact discs.; Audiobooks.; Ayers, Nathaniel Anthony.; Violinists; Homeless persons; Skid row;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Skid Road : on the frontier of health and homelessness in an American city / by Ensign, Josephine,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-275) and index."This book is a work of narrative history set in Seattle, Washington, that explores the relationship between the health care safety net and homelessness. The book traces the social determinants of health from Seattle's earliest days"--
Subjects: Homelessness; Homeless persons; Mentally ill homeless persons; Skid row;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The soloist : a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music / by Lopez, Steve,author.(CARDINAL)381150;
When Steve Lopez see Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles' Skid Row, he finds it impossible to walk away. At first, he is drawn by the opportunity to crank out another column for the Los Angeles Times, just one more item on an ever-growing to-do list: "Violin Man." But what Lopez begins to unearth about the mysterious street musician leaves an indelible impression. More than thirty years earlier, Ayers had been a promising classical bass student at Juilliard- ambitious, charming, and one of the few African-Americans- until he gradually lost his ability to function, overcome by a mental breakdown. When Lopez finds him, Ayers is alone, suspicious of everyone, and deeply troubled, but glimmers of that brilliance are still there. From an impromptu concert of Beethoven's Eighth in the Second Street tunnel to a performance of Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites on Skid Row, the two men learn to communicate through Ayers's music. Lopez collects donated violins, a cello, even a stand-up bass and a piano with the hope that Ayers can be swayed to move off the streets, where every day his well-being is threatened. Their bond takes tortuous turns as Lopez imagines he can change Ayers's life- finding him lodging, reconnecting him to his family, taking him to Disney Concert Hall to meet a former Juilliard classmate. For each triumph, there is a crashing disappointment, yet neither man gives up. And although it's Ayers he initially sets out to save, Lopez finds his own life is profoundly changed. This book is a about unwavering commitment, artistic devotion, and the transformative magic of music.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Ayers, Nathaniel Anthony.; Violinists; Homeless persons; Skid row;
Available copies: 27 / Total copies: 39
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Dr. Knox / by Spiegelman, Peter,author.(CARDINAL)543824;
Adam Knox comes from a long line of patrician Connecticut doctors, a line he broke to serve with an NGO in the war-torn Central African Republic. His attempt to protect his patients there from a brutal militia ended in disaster and disgrace, and now he runs a clinic near Los Angeles's Skid Row, making ends meet by making house calls, cash only, no questions asked, on those too famous or too criminal to seek other medical care. When a young boy is abandoned at his clinic, Knox is determined to find the boy's family and save him from the not-so-tender mercies of the child welfare bureaucracy. But Knox's search for the volatile woman who may or may not be the boy's mother leads him and his friend, a former Special Forces operator, into a labyrinth of human traffickers, Russian mobsters, and corporate security thugs; and squarely into the sights of a powerful, secretive, and utterly ruthless family that threatens to destroy Dr. Knox and everything and everyone he holds dear.
Subjects: Gangster fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Physicians; Clinics; Abandoned children; Secrecy; Skid row; Secrecy.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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The soloist : a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music [sound recording]. by Lopez, Steve.;
Read by William Hughes.
Subjects: Violinists; Homeless persons; Skid row; Ayers, Nathaniel Anthony.; Audiobooks.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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