Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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2014., Juvenile, Orca Book Publishers Call No: Adventure FIC Wilson Genre: Adventure Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Seven sequelsSummary Note: Steve McLean's vacation in Barcelona, Spain, is cut short when his deceased grandfather is accused of being involved in an international conspiracy involving nukes, spies, the Russian mob, and secret codes.
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c1986., Plume Call No: DRAMA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Troy Maxson, a strong, hard man who has learned how to be Black and proud in the 1950s, finds the changing spirit of the 1960s hard to deal with.
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c1986., New American Library Call No: 812.54 Wil Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Troy Maxson is a black man living in the 1950's that are yielding to the spirit of liberation of the 1960's.
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2007., Theatre Communications Group Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: A play by August Wilson in which Aunt Ester, the 285-year-old matriarch of a African-American family, helps two young men start their lives over in 1904.
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2003, c1979., Overlook Press Call No: DRAMA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A play by August Wilson that captures the experiences of African-Americans in the 1970s.
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Ã2000., The Overlook Press Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: A play by August Wilson that captures the experiences of African-Americans in the 1970s.
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[1988]., New American Library Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Herald Loomis arrives at an African-American Pittsburgh boardinghouse, after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man--in body.
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c1985., Plume Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the script for a two-act play set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where African-American band members and blues singer Ma Rainey reveal the conflicted feelings they have about their status in the white man's world.
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c1990., Plume Call No: DRAMA Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: A powerful drama of conflict between a brother and sister over the piano that bought their grandparents' freedom.
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-- August Wilson's The piano lesson.c2002., Hallmark Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a family caught between their heritage and a dream for the future. The Charles family clashes over the fate of a magnificent, carved piano that carries their family's story from their days as slaves. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano to buy a farm--the same fields their family worked as slaves. But his sister, Berniece, refuses to part with it. For her, the piano is their very soul, a legacy of pride and struggle that symbolizes their survival as a family. To resolve the conflict they must first deal with the past.
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2007., Theatre Communications Group Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Dramatizes the struggles of an African-American family as they consider selling a prized possession, an ornate upright piano, in order to buy the tract of land upon which they were once enslaved.
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2007., Theatre Communications Group Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Edition: 1st ed., September 2007. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: The last of August Wilson's ten-play chronicle of the African-American experience, in which Aunt Ester's former home in Pittsburgh is slated for demolition in 1990 to make way for a real estate venture designed to revitalize the area, and Harmond Wilks makes a run for mayor.
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[1996]., Plume Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Series Title: Plume drama.Summary Note: Chapter six in a continuing theatrical saga that explores the African-American experience in the twentieth century, following a small group of friends who have gathered together in Pittsburgh's Hill district in 1948 to mourn the death of local blues guitarist Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton.
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[2017], Juvenile, Tundra Books Call No: HI-INT 940.3 WIL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the sketchbook and diary entries of a Canadian World War I soldier who depicted the death and destruction of the war that affected both soldiers and civilian populations.
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c1991., University of Pittsburgh Press Call No: DRAMA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Contains three plays about twentieth century African-American lives.
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2007., Theatre Communications Group Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Paints a portrait of the African-American experience in the changing decade of the 1960s through the lives of restaurant owner Memphis Lee and the people who live in his Pittsburgh block, which is scheduled for demolition.
