Summary: "Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian ... and his cynical producer Costa ... arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EVEHernández, Mili
Summary: Federico the cat travels from roof to roof to visit all his families; among them are Tadeo, who lives with his grandparents, Ana and her two moms, and Virginia with her father and mother. They are different families and Federico loves them all equally.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NubeOcho 2020
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Summary: Mr. Pig only wants to tend to his garden but his neighbor, Little Tortoise, wants him to play. Mr Pig resorts to extreme measures to ensure his privacy but it dosen't work out like he planned...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HERFernández, Kelly
Summary: "Set at a magical school for girls, a funny and heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel adventure about friendship, defying expectations, and finding your place. Manu is always getting into trouble. The headmistress at school believes Manu has the potential to help people with her magic, but Manu would rather have fun than fit in. The other students claim she's secretly a demon and that she was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FERFernández, Bernardo
Summary: ¿Y si los dragones fueran reales? ¿Y si todos esos avistamientos en lagos africanos y en los océanos de Indonesia fueran ciertos? ¿Y si los hemos confundido con dinosaurios? ¿Y si fueran capaces de volar, de respirar bajo el agua, de reproducirse...? En la que considera la más querida de sus novelas, Bef nos cuenta que la respuesta a todas esas preguntas pudo haberse hallado en el barrio chino...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gran Travesía 2019
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FERFernández, Nona
Summary: "Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella's braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2019
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Summary: When two brothers return to the camp of the UFO death cult they once believed in, they discover unexplainable phenomena.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Inc 2018
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR ENDHernandez, Gilbert
Summary: Comics luminary Gilbert Hernandez envisions his strangest, most thrilling future yet! A drug called "spin" offers the wildest trip imaginable, followed by its users' inevitable, rapid deterioration into undead flesh eaters. Despite the side effect, the drug is so popular that the human population is dying out! With no cure to be found, the beautiful, lovesick Fatima may be the only thing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2014
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Hernandez, Sarah
Summary: On Día de los Muertos, Miguel goes in search of a new guitar and finds one that transports him to the Land of the Dead where he solves a long-time family mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HERFernandez, Caroline
Summary: "Grandma keeps running off doing funny business. On a field trip! And if she doesn't stop, we'll miss the school bus. It's field trip day and all we want to do is have a simple, no shenanigans, fun day at the museum. But when dust makes Grandma start sneezing, we know we're in for a wild time. With each sneeze, Grandma turns into a different dinosaur and takes off. It's up to me and Moonie to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Common Deer Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERHernández Bergstrom, Adriana
Summary: Anita helps her grandmother make flan for her grandfather's birthday.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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Summary: Milly is thrilled to be accepted into the elite Unicorn School, although she is a donkey in disguise, but her first day reveals she has much in common with her fellow newcomers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HERHernandez, Leeza
Summary: A lost pet cat finds her way home with help from a kindly passerby and the animal shelter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HERHernandez, Lolita
Summary: Drawing on memories of growing up in Detroit with Caribbean roots, Hernandez reveals a hidden community that craves sun and saltwater, dances to calypso, and makes callaloo, bakes, buljol, sanchocho, and pelau in their kitchens. Making Callaloo in Detroit explores questions of how we assimilate and retain identity, how families evolve as generations pass, how memory guides the present, and how...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHernandez, Gilbert.
Summary: One year after the troubled teenager, Miguel Serra, has been in a coma, he wakes up virtually unchanged--except for his sloth-like pace. Will Miguel find love in this coming-of-age tale in which the author defines what it means to truly be alive in a land where life is not generally considered precious.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertigo 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HERHernandez, Laurie
Summary: When Zoe sees a gymnast competing on television, she wants to start gymnastics, but learns that becoming a star is harder than she thought.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HERHernandez, Laurie
Summary: "Even Olympians have to start somewhere. And in this charming illustrated book, Laurie Hernandez tells the story of Zoe, a little girl who dreams of flying--and becoming a gymnast. When Zoe sees a gymnast on TV, she realizes that gymnastics is just like flying. But when she first goes to class and falls off the balance beam, she discovers that following her dreams is harder and scarier than she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Summary: For her entire life, the Name-Bearer's sole purpose has been to receive and deliver the names of the future monarchy from the Flowers of Prophecy. But when the child is finally born and the Name-Bearer is sent to the Flowers, they refuse to name him. Instead they deliver a prophecy; another child was born who is more worthy of the Naming, and if they are found and brought before them it will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HERFernandez, Cristina
Summary: Astrid's plan for college is clear: friends, classes, and extracurriculars all carefully selected to get her into medical school. Until Max Martin, a nerdy boy from her high school, crashes back into her life. Things with Max were never simple, and he doesn't keep to her schedule. He disappears in the middle of dates and cancels at the last minute with stupid excuses. When a supervillain breaks...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A touching story about women whose emotional lives are as rich as their surroundings are poor. Maria is a troubled woman who drinks, smokes, and steals, desperate for oblivion and angry at the entire world. Emotional rescue comes in the form of her own mother who comes to visit while her father is in the hospital. Her mother cooks, crochets and befriends the gentlemanly neighbor who lives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOLHernández-Linares, Leticia
Summary: Nine-year-old Alejandria rallies her family and community to fight and save their neighborhood from rising rent prices and evictions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Feminist Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HERSummary: Four outcast high school girls a brainiac student, a scandal-ridden cynic, a tomboy, and a fashion maven join together to form their own "girl gang" and trigger a rock-'n'-roll revolution at Rydell High. Of course, the adults are in a 1950s moral panic over the burgeoning new era, but the Pink Ladies are ready to get this party started.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDAbbs, Annabel
Summary: "Based on the true story of the first modern cookery writer, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen is a spellbinding novel about female friend­ship, the struggle for independence, and the transcendent pleasures and solace of food"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ABBLyon, Annabel
Summary: A bold reimaging of one of history's most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the Great.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010