Summary: In northern Albania a teenage brother and sister are physically and emotionally trapped in a cycle of violence, a result of their father's entanglement with a rival clan over a piece of land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2012
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FORContents: Kaba me klarinte -- Kaba me violine -- Qerbela -- Dallendyshe e vogel -- Ezmerke me ishe -- Kur dola jashte -- Melodi gajdexhiut -- Vallja e vajzave -- Vallja e Osman Taka -- Cobankat -- Lonte beu me hankon -- Valle e kendura arumune ; Martina t'ia marri jelekun ia lete -- Motra dhe vellai -- Ajkuna qan Omerin ; Kenge Kreshnike -- Shepherd's song on the flute -- Vajtim -- To traketi meklino ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN ANTKadare, Ismail
Summary: "At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the main square of Constantinople, a niche is carved into ancient stone. Here, the sultan displays the severed heads of his adversaries. People flock to see the latest head and gossip about the state of the empire: the province of Albania is demanding independence again, and the niche awaits a new trophy... Tundj Hata, the imperial courier, is charged...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KADIsokratisses (Musical group)
Contents: Between the three seas -- On Deropoli's plain -- The ballad of the handkerchief -- Five months married -- Bitter orange -- Last night's dream -- You've put a spell on me -- Rina, Katerina -- All day long -- Little apple tree on the cliff -- My basil -- Verginada -- Nani nani.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN ISOYpi, Lea
Summary: "A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few "graduated", she swore loyalty to the Party. In her eyes,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B YPI YPITerciero, Rey
Summary: Odette and Dillie are supposed to be enemies. Their kingdoms have been feuding since before they were born. But when the two princesses meet each other at the lake that separates their castles, it's clear they were destined to be best friends. Odette--who lives with a curse that magically transforms her into a swan when the sun rises--is happy to find someone who treats her like everyone else....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TERKelly, Arthur C. M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.C.M. Kelly 1993
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3747 MARContents: Tana -- Kaba me violinë -- Penxherenë e zotrisë sate -- Valle Postenançe -- Trëndafili fletë-fletë -- Goca e berberit -- Valle Minushi -- Nënockë -- Kaba me klarinetë -- Bëje dru në përcëllime -- Fole moj mike një fjalë -- Valle e Osman Takës -- O bandill mustaqezi -- Avaz -- Doli Laceja nga stani.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN SAZSpecter, Baron
Summary: When he accidentally trips over a grave Stan Summer lands in the middle of a century-old feud between two rival ghost families, and finds himself cast in the role of peacemaker.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2013
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2001
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTPSummary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAMDukes, Kristopher
Summary: When eighteen-year-old Eleanora's father is shot dead on the cobblestone streets of 1910 Albania, Eleanora must abandon her dream of studying art in Italy as she struggles to survive in a remote mountain village with her stepmother Meria. Nearing starvation, Meria secretly sells Eleanora into marriage with the cruel heir of a powerful clan. Intent on keeping her freedom, Eleanora takes an oath...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Located along the west coast of Europe’s Balkan Peninsula, Albania is a nation that has experienced tremendous changes in recent decades. Once a communist nation, its current government was established after a revolution in the early 1990s. Since then, it has been steadily growing and changing. Readers will find out what it is like to live in Albania today, explore the country’s long history,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Summary: The death of Enver Hoxha and the loss of his father leave Bujar growing up in the ruins of Communist Albania and of his own family. Only his fearless best friend Agim--who is facing his own realizations about his gender and sexuality--gives him hope for the future. Together the two decide to leave everything behind and try their luck in Italy. But the struggle to feel at home--in a foreign...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STACarreras, Hernán
Summary: In this graphic version of Shakespeare's play, teenagers Romeo and Juliet, from rival families in Verona, fall deeply in love, with tragic consequences for both the Montagues and the Capulets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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Summary: "There's a storm brewing in Oklahoma Territory, and this time, it's deadly serious. Local cattle ranches are being targeted by Texas rustlers - and the only man who can keep it from turning into a bloodbath is U.S. Deputy Marshal Will Tanner. The newly married lawman hates to leave his beautiful bride Sophie, but duty calls - for better or worse. In Tanner's experience, it's usually worse. An...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHSummary: James Bond turns renegade to hunt down a master criminal. James leaves the British Secret Service and begins a fierce vendetta after his friend Felix Leiter is brutally attacked by drug lord Franz Sanchez.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LICGrey, Zane
Summary: After a Texan stole another man's woman, a feud errupted into war. A son and daughter of the feuding clans fell in love, becoming pawns in a bloodbath that raged until no one was left to kill.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.J. Black, Inc. 1950
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREBrandenburg, Lauren H.
Summary: "Roy Blackwell has proposed to Margarette Toft. A controversial decision given their families are sworn enemies! Soon Coraloo's feuding clans are competing to organize events for the most talked about wedding of the year... and glorious chaos ensues! But as the depth of the two families' animosity becomes clear, Roy and Margarette's relationship begins to falter. Then Roy unearths a town secret...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Hudson Limited 2020
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC BRANeuman, Andrés
Summary: "Un viajero enigmático. Una ciudad en forma de laberinto de la que parece imposible salir. Cuando el viajero está a punto de marcharse, un insólito personaje lo detiene, cambiando para siempre su destino. Lo demás será amor y literatura: un amor memorable, que agitará por igual camas y libros; y un mundo imaginario que condensará, a pequeña escala, los conflictos de la Europa moderna."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Debolsillo 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC NEUSummary: Keaton stars as youthful dreamer Willie McKay, who travels westward on a rickety locomotive to claim his birthright, only to find that his inheritance is a rundown shack. On top of that, he learns that the object of his affection is the daughter of a man with whom his family has been engaged in a long, violent feud. McKay's personal struggles are punctuated by brilliant slapstick set pieces...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OURKing, Dean.
Summary: Describes the little-known truths behind the legendary feud between two Appalachian families that ultimately killed thirteen members in a dispute that became newspaper fodder and eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.44 KINLee, Fonda
Summary: "In Jade War, the sequel to the Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award-nominated Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2019