Lujan, Jarred
Summary: In this ancient Mexican folktale, the Aztec Sky god and Wind god attempt to fix silence on Earth by bringing music to the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 741.2 LUJSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOIContents: CD A. Amazing grace / Dye's Sacred Harp Singers -- How firm a foundation / Dye's Sacred Harp Singers -- Soar away / Denson Quartet -- Sabbath morning / Denson Quartet -- Rejoicing on the way / Fa Sol La Singers -- Jesus walks with me / Fa Sol La Singers -- Happy on the way / Fa Sol La Singers -- Weeping Mary / Roswell Sacred Harp Quartet -- Odem / Roswell Sacred Harp Quartet -- Bound for Canaan...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SACSummary: "Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BISSummary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASSummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: Headstrong Rosy lives on the heathered hills of Ireland's Dingle Peninsule. She cannot forsake her passionate romance with a handsome British officer. Yet, for Rosy, there is a greater love - the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles. When Rosy has an illicit affair and is ultimately charged with treason, it is Charles who will stand by her side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RYAWarren, Susan
Summary: Riding shotgun with father-and-son competitors Ron and Dick Wallace over the course of one tumultuous season, Susan Warren describes an unforgettable crew of pumpkin lunatics as people begin to compete in growing a pumpkin to crash through the 1500-pound barrier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike/Gale 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 635.62 WARWarren, Susan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Steeple Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARWarren, Susan.
Summary: An account of the annual competition among gardeners to grow the world's largest pumpkin journeys to county fairs and weigh-offs across the country in search of the ultimate prize, the world's first fifteen-hundred-pound pumpkin, over the course of a single season.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.62 WARSummary: In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions and pressures. How could they make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans? This significant new publication, accompanying an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tate Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 SOUSummary: Amid the political turmoil during 1980's Chile, a lonely transvestite engages in a risky clandestine operation after falling in love with a guerrilla who asks her to hide dangerous secrets of the revolution at home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYSummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Bala Desejo
Contents: Embala Pra Viagem (1:27 min) -- Baile De Máscaras : Recarnaval (5:03 min) -- Lua Comanche (3:35 min) -- Clama Floresta (5:49 min) -- Dourado Dourado (5:41 min) -- Nesse Sofá (5:17 min) -- Nana Del Caballo Grande (1:55 min) -- Chupeta (1:47 min) -- Lambe Lambe (5:12 min) -- Passarinha (3:55 min) -- Sim Sim Sim (0:35 min) -- Muito Só (5:27 min) -- Cronofagia : O Peixe (2:56 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bala Desejo 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL LATIN BALSummary: The stooge: Egotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JERMcAlister, Caroline
Summary: Before C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, he was a young boy named Jack who spent his days dreaming up stories of other worlds filled with knights, castles, and talking animals. His brother, Warnie, spent his days imagining worlds filled with trains, boats, and technology. One rainy day, they found a wardrobe in a little room next to the attic, and they wondered, What if the wardrobe...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Lujan, Jorge
Summary: When a little girl moves her hand, she changes the world as she discovers it. As she moves her known world, she discovers her own power and creates everything anew. The poem, written by Argentine poet Jorge Luj©Łn, comes from a culture saturated with magic, in which even the very young can make the world by reaching out and moving it. Mandana Sadat's imaginative illustrations deepen and enrich...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH LUJSummary: Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2003
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE POSLUNA2.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LUNLuyas
Contents: Too beautiful to work -- Worth mentioning -- Tiny head -- Moodslayer -- Canary -- Spherical mattress -- Cold Canada -- What mercy is -- I need mirrors -- Seeing things
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Oceans 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LUYWarren, Susan May
Summary: Alaska. Former pararescue jumper Orion Starr is haunted by the memory of a rescue gone wrong. He has no desire to join Hamilton Jones's elite rescue team, but he also can't shirk his duty when the call comes in to rescue three lost climbers on Denali. Former CIA profiler and psychiatrist Jenny Calhoun's yearly extreme challenge with her best friends is her only escape from the guilt that has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARSummary: Inspired by the true story of Dublin crime reporter Veronica Guerin. This is about an Irish journalist who investigates the world of violent crime and the bosses who control the drugs and the violence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WHESummary: A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high-turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. Among the survivors, one eccentric passenger leads the crew to build a new plane - against all odds, against all hope, and sometimes - against each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005