Practicing to walk like a heron : poems / by Ridl, Jack

Table of Contents: “…Write to Your Unknown Friends -- From Our House to Your House -- It's Hard to Know Where to Begin -- From Our House to Your House -- Growing Up in a Small Town -- Easter, 1948 -- Hands -- Ridl Was Once Spelled Hridl -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- My Father Was in Love with Peggy Lee -- Open to the Psalms -- The Steps of Pittsburgh -- It Wasn't Folklore -- Thinking of Yahweh During a Winter Thaw -- On My Parents' Sixty-fifth Wedding Anniversary -- An Afternoon Visiting My Mother in Assisted Living The Days -- A New Beginning -- The Letters -- Fractals : A Nocturne -- Searching Again for My Father -- The Enormous Mystery of Couples -- Suite For the Turning Year -- On Going with My Wife to Her Doctor -- The Enormous Mystery of Couples Theme and Variations -- Oh I Suppose -- Here in the Time Between -- Practicing to Walk Like a Heron -- Some Notes Taken While the Media Try to Come to Terms with the Life and Death of Michael Jackson -- With -- Morning Rounds -- Christmas, the Execution of Tookie Williams -- The Neighbors -- William Blake's Hiccoughs -- After Talking It Over -- Just Before He Had Another Panic Attack -- Mid-October Morning -- Ron Howard's on the Cover of AARP -- Take Love for Granted.…”
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Sinatra and the great song stylists/ by Barnes, Ken

Table of Contents: “…Al Jolson -- Louis Armstrong -- Bing Crosby -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Judy Garland -- Frank Sinatra -- Peggy Lee -- Nat 'King' Cole -- Doris Day -- Mel Torme -- Sarah Vaughan -- Tony Bennett -- Style and personality. …”

Legends in concert.

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Mel Torme's finest hour. by Torme, Mel, 1925-1999

Table of Contents: “…Wolfe Gilbert (2:48) -- Too close for comfort / Jerrold Bock ; Lawrence Holofcener ; George Weiss (4:01) -- Whatever Lola wants / Richard Adler ; Jerry Ross (3:19) -- Born to be blue / Mel Torme ; Robert Wells (2:51) -- A shine on your shoes / Arthur Schwartz ; Howard Dietz (2:48) -- At the cross roads (Malaguena) / Cassado Lecuona ; Bob Russell (2:36) -- Nina / Cole Porter (2:33) -- I'm gonna go fishin' / Duke Ellington ; Peggy Lee (2:26) -- Down for double / Freddie Green (2:31) -- I loved you once in silence / Alan Jay Lerner ; Frederick Loewe (3:12) -- What's new at the zoo? …”
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Live in Paris / by Krall, Diana

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Dakotah : the Return of the Future. by Bowden, Charles

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Figured dark : poems / by Rappleye, Greg

Table of Contents: “…-- Rainy Afternoon at the Gotham Book Mart -- Not that Happiness -- Black Dog -- Self-portrait, with Epiphany to Come -- For the Lord G-d Bird, No Longer Extinct -- At the Museum of Whiskey History -- My Mother Thinks She's Peggy Lee -- Gentians -- Near Gatlinburg -- After the Divorce -- After an Illustration by Rockwell Kent for Moby Dick, in Which a Whale Takes a Dory in its Maw, and Heads for the Bottom of the Sea -- Lost-Love Ghazals -- Feeder -- Archie Babcock Explains the Accident to John Berryman's Biographer -- Exile Valise -- Sail On, Sailor -- Making a Path to the Blackberries -- Figured Dark -- Memories of Pittsburgh and Stern -- American Kestrel -- Blue Angels -- Mason's Kitchenettes -- The Fish Lamp on the Cover of Coastal Living Magazine -- Glaucoma -- In Ambient Light -- Obbligato -- Letter to M., from Swannanoa -- Lilacs, for Instance -- Biopsy -- After the Diagnosis -- Swimming at Night -- Elegy for Light and Balance -- The Body, Burning -- Hay Devil -- Discontinuous Narrative -- Letter to the Chairwoman of the Reunion Committee -- Dancing with the Crack Whores, at the Homeless Shelter Run by My Wife -- Were We Speaking, Had You Asked -- Letter to Robert in Gearhart -- Descent -- Carolina Woodpecker -- At 48, Walking My Baby Past the Voodoo Lounge -- Blackbirds -- The Salt Cairn -- Lepidopterist -- On a Visit to His Namesake City, St. …”
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All I want is loving you : popular female singers of the 1950s / by Bergsman, Steve

Suisun marsh : ecological history and possible futures /

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Whisper not : the autobiography of Benny Golson / by Golson, Benny

Table of Contents: “…. ; Charles Mingus, Benny Goodman, Gigi Gryce, and Horace Silver ; Peggy Lee and Diana Ross ; Milt "Bags" Jackson, Larry Young, Joe Farrell, and Tony Williams ; Wynton Kelly and Chick Corea ; Miles Davis and Geoffrey Keezer ; Mickey Rooney, Redd Foxx, Jersey Joe Walcott, and Muhammad Ali -- Verses and a coda. …”
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Let's do it : the birth of pop music : a history / by Stanley, Bob, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…1900: Pop in the beginning -- Elite syncopations: Scott Joplin and ragtime -- Songs for sale: Tin Pan Alley -- Doing what comes naturally: Irving Berlin -- A culture of consolation: Music hall and musical theatre -- On the other side of a big black cloud: World War I -- A conversation of instruments: The birth of jazz -- The greatest love of all: Louis Armstrong -- The blab of the pave: Jerome Kern and Broadway -- Let me entertain you: Al Jolson -- I'm gonna do it if I like it: The jazz age -- In a silent way: Race records -- Invisible airwaves crackle with life: Radio -- Trying hard to recreate what had yet to be created: Hillbilly -- Black and tan fantasy: Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club -- Learn to croon: Rudy Vallee and the dawn of the electric era -- All Hollywood and all heaven: Talking pictures -- Ten cents a dance: The Great Depression -- Nothing but blue skies: Bing Crosby -- Industrial light and music: The movie musical -- Pardon my pups: The Boswell Sisters -- Make those people sway: British dance bands -- Fascinating rhythm: Fred Astaire and the dance-hall boom -- Eighty-eight key smile: Fats Waller and friends -- Tight like that: The age of swing -- Serenade in blue: The great American songbook -- The winds grow colder: Judy Garland and Billie Holiday -- Be like the kettle and sing: Britain at war -- Why don't you do right: America at war -- Hot licks with vanilla: Glenn Miller -- Someone to watch over me: Vocal refrains -- We had to break up the band: Post-war jazz -- Call me irresponsible: Frank Sinatra -- Saturday night fish fry: Rhythm and blues -- California suite: The long-player -- It's Mitch Miller's world and we just live in it: The 45 -- Breaks a new heart every day: Peggy Lee -- Almost like praying: Post-war Broadway -- Squeeze me: Vocal jazz -- Experiments with mice: British big bands -- Revival: Trad jazz and folk -- In a restless world: Nat King Cole -- Ports of pleasure: Exotica -- Sharks in jets clothing: Rock 'n' Roll -- The summit: Frank, Dino and Sammy -- TV is the thing: The rise of television -- I could go on singing: The next generation -- The strength of strings: Film soundtracks -- What kind of fool am I: Lionel Bart and Anthony Newly -- Whipped cream and other delights: Adventures in Beatleland -- The last waltz: Tom Jones and the new balladeers -- Some kind rapprochementent: The 1970s.…”

The environmental legacy of the UC Natural Reserve System /

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Vinyl freak : love letters to a dying medium / by Corbett, John, 1963-

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