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(2009, p2008)., Adult, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Cadillac Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Cadillac Records chronicles the rise of Leonard Chess' (Adrien Brody) Chess Records and its recording artists including Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Little Walter (Columbus Short), Chuck Berry (Mos Def), Willie Dixon (Cedric The Entertainer) and the great Etta James (Beyonce Knowles). In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in Chicago of the 1950s and 60s, the film follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's greatest musical legends."--Container.
![Cadillac Records [DVD] (2008). Directed by Darnell Martin.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Cadillac Records [DVD] (2008). Directed by Darnell Martin.")
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-- Bobby Fischer's remarkable rise and fall from America's brightest prodigy to the edge of madnessc2011., General, Crown Publishers Call No: Bio F531e Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A biography that captures the complete, remarkable arc of the life of the chess master Bobby Fischer.
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c2008., Ballantine Books Call No: Fic Nev Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 2003, Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned home to her family's ancestral Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother's birthday. Thirty years ago, her parents, Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin, believed that they had scattered the pieces of the Montglane Service around the world, burying with them the secrets of the power that comes with possessing it. But Alexandra arrives to find that her mother is missing and that a series of strategically placed clues, followed swiftly by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious assortment of houseguests, indicates that something sinister is afoot. 1822, Albania: Thirty years after the French Revolution, when the chess service was unearthed, all of Europe hovers on the brink of the War of Greek Independence. Ali Pasha, the most powerful ruler in the Ottoman Empire, has angered the sultan and is about to be attacked by Turkish forces. Now he sends the only person he can rely upon-his young daughter, Haidee--on a dangerous mission to smuggle a valuable relic out of Albania, through the mountains and over the sea, to the hands of the one man who might be able to save it.
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c2006., Bond Street Books Call No: 794.1 S546i Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view
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c2012., Adult, Dial Press Call No: Fic Dub Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Abandoning her life when her father succumbs to Huntington's disease, Massachusetts native Irina discovers an unanswered letter from her father to an internationally renowned chess champion and political dissident, whom she decides to visit in Russia.
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2015., Bleeker Street Media Call No: DVD Fic Pawn Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
![Pawn sacrifice [DVD] (2015). Directed by Edward Zwick.](/Library/images/~imageCT80237.JPG "Pawn sacrifice [DVD] (2015). Directed by Edward Zwick.")