Reich, Steve
Summary: "Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.92 REIWeintraub, Aileen
Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEISummary: "When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY JOY1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Berest, Anne
Summary: "Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Berest, Anne
Summary: "Four fabulous, smart, savvy French women offer up their highly amusing insider take on Parisian life, love, and liberty How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are brilliantly deconstructs the French woman's views on culture, fashion, and attitude. Unlike other books on French style, this one is full of wit and self-deprecating humor. The authors--Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline De Maigret, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 BERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 BERPerera, Anna.
Summary: Innocent until proven guilty? Not here, you're not. He's fifteen. He's hasn't done anything wrong. It was supposed to be just a trip to visit his mum's family in Pakistan. But for Khalid Ahmed, it was the beginning of a living nightmare. He's kidnapped—then taken to a place thousands of miles from his home in the UK. A place where torture and terror are the daily routine. A place he may never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2011
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Summary: Widely hailed as the greatest film of the 1980s, this searing story charts the tortured rise and fall of middleweight boxing champion Jake 'The Bronx Bull' La Motta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RAGSummary: Jake La Motta is a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. His brother Joey falls prey to Jake's mounting paranoia and jealousy, while fifteen-year-old Vickie, becomes Jake's wife and most prized trophy. The same anger that drives Jake in the ring, ultimately drives him to beat his wife and brother, and sends Jake down a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAGPerera, Anna.
Summary: Six months after the events of September 11, 2001, Khalid, a Muslim fifteen-year-old boy from England, is kidnapped during a family trip to Pakistan and imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he is held for two years suffering interrogations, water-boarding, isolation, and more for reasons unknown to him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PERSummary: A 1950 update of the Orphic myth by Jean Cocteau that depicts a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through Cocteau's famous mirrored portal. Orpheus represents the legendary Cocteau at the height of his abilities for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORP1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORP
Power, Teresa Anne
Summary: "The ABCs of Yoga for Kids around the World is a fun-filled tour of 29 countries, introducing kid-friendly, easy-to-learn yoga poses along the way. A follow-up to the bestselling The ABCs of Yoga for Kids and written in honor of International Kids Yoga Day, this book features beautiful illustrations, charming rhymes, and fun facts about this wonderful world in which we live."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stafford House Books, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Mindful PowerPower, Teresa Anne.
Summary: "The ABCs of Yoga for Kids" uses the alphabet, rhyming vignettes, and colorful illustrations to introduce children to yoga in a kid-friendly way. Features fifty-six different poses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stafford House 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E PowCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613.7046 POWTeresa Del Riego
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chappell 1905
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: "Son is Cuba's principal dance and song form and the root of salsa. Fusing African and Spanish elements, it ranges in style from simple, rustic bands to the brassy arrangements of New York salsa. This rough guide, literally a 'who's who' in Cuban music, explores this rich tradition, from its conception in the early 1900s to the present day big-band revival"--Container verso.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ROUTeresa Del Riego
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chappell-Harms 1901
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: When Pop sells the crumbling mansion next door to waspish newcomers for more than it's worth, he celebrates with plans to build a swimming pool but his neighbors soon plot their revenge. Can the Larkin clan keep him out of prison?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LARDe Anda, Diane.
Summary: Because ten-year-old Tito is at risk of developing diabetes like some of his relatives, Tia Sofia spends a day teaching him and his cousins about healthy, low-sugar or sugar-free treats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinata Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Set Spanish de Anda 2012de Anda, Rudy
Contents: In my shoes -- Hey Mr. Sun -- June gloom (smilin') -- Miel -- Tu mirada -- WYD -- Por ti -- Coronado / Where are you baby -- The murder mystery pt. 2 -- I can't change you.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DE ANBoer, Afke den.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 784.19 BOESte. Anne de Detroit Roman Catholic Church (Detroit, Mich.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custombook 1976
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377434 DetroitGrouard de Tocqueville, Aude
Summary: Like humans, cities are mortal. They are born, they thrive, and they eventually die. In Atlas of Lost Cities, Aude de Tocqueville tells the compelling narrative of the rise and fall of such notable places as Pompeii, Teotihuacán, and Angkor. She also details the less well known places, including Centralia, an abandoned Pennsylvania town consumed by unquenchable underground fire; Nova Citas de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Fowler, Therese Anne.
Summary: "An utterly engrossing portrayal of Zelda Fitzgerald and the legendary circles in which she moved. In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, Therese Anne Fowler shines a light on Zelda instead of her more famous husband, providing both justice and the voice she struggled to have heard in her lifetime." —Sara Gruen I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we're ruined, Look closer...and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2013
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Summary: A writer is put on trial for her husband's suspicious demise, which happened while their blind son was out of the house, and the writer is well-known for turning her life into auto-fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel's The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie, marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel. Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023