Jay-Z knocks us to Kingdom Come
by tkj
So... Jay-Z is retired... right... just like Jordan was...
Anyway, check out Jay-Z in his seventh solo album, Kingdom Come. It was just released around Thanksgiving and it debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200.
Let's see if it even comes close to The Black Album...
South Africa Remembered
by RiponGood
Explore social issues in the mid-20th century of South Africa in , Cry, The Beloved Country, by Alan Paton. Paton, a native white of South Africa explores the power of ideas in this story of a old Zulu parson as he searches for his son. The murder of a white man, devoted to helping the native South African, results in far reaching changes in both a white and a black family, along with a rural native tribe.
Incubus Has Number One
by Sis
Incubus has its first number one album on the Billboard 200 Chart this week with Light Grenades. In 2004, A Crow Left of the Murder debuted at number two on the Chart.
Burning Ring of Fire
by RiponGood
Warm up on a cold winter night by reading or listening to this great book on Johnny Cash, The Man Called Cash. Follow the steps of Johnny Cash from his humble beginnings in Arkansas as a sharecropper's son to his death in Nashville. The Book on CD is read by Rex Linn, who offers his Southern voice to give the story a very nostalgic feel.
Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
by Bertha
Hey, Listen to this! Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life is available on BOCD. Simone is somebody worth getting to know. She's witty. She's adopted. She's in love with a boy who spends most of his time with another girl. Her birth mother, Rivka, steps into her life at age sixteen, and everything she's taken for granted about family, love, and faith needs to be re-examined.
Pas de duck
by joy k
Fairy tales meet ballet in the anime series Princess Tutu. The mysterious Herr Drosselmeyer offers Duck—a sweet but clumsy ballet student—the chance to help one of her classmates. When she accepts, he gives her a pendant that transforms her into the magical Princess Tutu, whose beautiful dancing has the power to heal people’s hearts. There’s just one problem: whenever Duck acts like a duck, she turns into one. Quack! Is she a girl dreaming of being a duck, or a duck dreaming of being a girl?
The library also has lots of books about ballet and sound recordings of the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, both of which are referenced in the series.
New Kids BOCD
by fletch
If you enjoyed the listening to the Harry Potter BOCD series, the narrator Jim Dale has also recently released a version of Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie in a BOCD format! Charlie Bone and the Hidden King by Jennifer Nimmo has now been released in the BOCD format also. If you enjoyed the Harry Potter Books these are along the same lines and lots of fun. The narrator for these BOCD's has a great storytelling voice. Both of these books on CD are now available at the library!
The Play Ground
by Albert
"Hallelujah, Hallelujah." Tis the season to sing and hear the glorious Handel's Messiah. We have sung it and listened to it and there is great pleasure in both. The University Musical Society Choral Union and the Ann Arbor Symphony's annual concert is Saturday, December 2 and Sunday, December 3 at Hill Auditorium.
Bahumbugs Beware: Local Holiday Events!
by Sancho Panza
Missed out on this year’s earlier-than-usual Children’s Holiday parade? Not to worry--there are plenty of holiday traditions left to enjoy. Though a certain someone shudders every time I play another Christmas CD, there’s only so much time to enjoy the festive mood before January sets in (blah), so why not enjoy? First up, Kerrytown’s own Tree Lighting Ceremony, Sunday, November 26 at 5p.m. Followed by the 60th Annual Greens Market at the Women’s City Club on Thursday the 30th. Finally, head downtown on December 1st for the biannual tradition, Midnight Madness—stores open late, legendary Le Dog soup at night, and sales galore—what could be better?
NOW 23 Reaches No. 1
by Sis
In a week heavy with new releases, the 23rd installment of the Now That's What I Call Music series is number one on the Billboard 200 chart. Now 23 is the 10th number one for the series. This volume includes several Hot 100 number one hits including songs by Fergie and Justin Timberlake.