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In an effort to get her security consulting business off the ground, Kelsey Allen has been spending a lot of time up in the air, rappelling down buildings and climbing through windows to show business owners their vulnerabilities to thieves. When she is hired to pose as a conservator at the Pink Palace Museum in order to test their security weaknesses after some artifacts go missing, she's ecstatic. But when her investigative focus turns from theft...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At the river I stand: the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Memphis, Spring 1968 marked the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights movement. At the River I Stand skillfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation worker into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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The fabled city of Memphis has been essential to American music--home of the blues, the birthplace of rock and roll, a soul music capital. We know the greatest hits, but celebrated author Robert Gordon takes us to the people and places history has yet to record. A Memphis native, he whiles away time in a crumbling duplex with blues legend Furry Lewis, stays up late with barrelhouse piano player Mose Vinson, and sips homemade whiskey at Junior Kimbrough's...
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Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
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"The definitive tale of the birthplace of rock and roll Memphis Mayhem weaves the tale of the racial collision that led to a cultural, sociological, and musical revolution. Beginning with the 1870s yellow fever epidemics that created racial imbalance as wealthy whites fled his hometown, David Less moves beyond W.C. Handy's codification of the blues in 1909 to the mid-century advent of interracial music, the birth of punk, and finally to the growth...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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An account of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic documents how it killed more than 18,000 people in the American South, tracing its particularly catastrophic impact in Memphis, Tennessee, while noting the heroic efforts of people who remained behind to help.
10) Memphis
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Publisher
Avalon Travel
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From legendary barbecue to famous blues, soak up the best of Bluff City with Moon Memphis. See the sites: immerse yourself in history at the National Civil Rights Museum or the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. Pay respects to the King at Graceland, take an evening stroll down Beale Street where the Memphis blues were born, and watch the march of the ducks at the elegant Peabody Hotel. Get a taste of the city: feast on world-famous barbecue, fried...
12) Undefeated
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"No hope. No future-- until a football season united a team and revealed the character that turned them into heroes. Undefeated ... is the inspiring and moving tale of three underprivileged student-athletes from inner-city Memphis and the volunteer coach, Bill Courtney, trying to help them beat the odds on and off the field"--Container.
15) The rainmaker
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English
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In his final semester of law school, Rudy Baylor "finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America -- and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam."
16) Plays
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Series
Methuen contemporary dramatists volume 1
Publisher
Methuen Drama
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
17) The blind side
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
When homeless teenager Michael Oher is given a home by the Touhy family in Memphis, he learns to play football and find success in school, and they discover a new son and brother.
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Publisher
John F. Blair, Publisher
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Barbecue and politics have one thing in common: both can be messy. And nowhere is barbecue more famous or politics more strange than in Memphis, Tennessee. Pete Pigg is the owner of a popular Beale Street restaurant, the Pigg Pen, where customers ogle the "Pigglette" waitresses and toss gnawed-on pork bones into strategically placed buckets. Thanks to a quirk in the city's election laws, Pigg has managed to get himself elected mayor by campaigning...
19) The client
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English
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"Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most-sought-after dead body in America ... Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And [his lawyer] will do anything to protect her client--even take a last, desperate gamble...
20) Memphis noir
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 withBrooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.
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