Summary: In episode 2, The Salsa Revolution, the melting pot of music is stirred into an entirely new genre. As told by the artists themselves, Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in New York combine the Cuban son (sound) with the Puerto Rican plena beat. By taking a fiery Latino vibe and adding elements from soul and jazz they create the sound - now renowned worldwide - of salsa music. This vibrant and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Reporter, teacher, Ph.D. from Harvard, John Merrow has spent over 20 years examining the extraordinarily high dropout rate among Latinos. While language is key, both language and cultural barriers play a part. In this documentary, Merrow explores English-only, bilingual, and dual language programs. Interviews with Latino students and educators expose additional reasons why some Latino children...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: Drawing on interviews with more than fifty major personalities from a broad cross-section of disciplines, this tour de force both analyzes and celebrates the growing influence of Latino culture in the U.S. Featured guests include artist Andres Serrano, poet Pedro Pietri, composer Luis Dias, dancer Paloma Herrera, actor Guillermo Diaz, fashion designer Willey Esco, photographer Mariluz Gordillo,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Contents: Todos vuelven (RubGen Blades) (4:26) -- El desierto (Lhasa) (3:54) -- Fried neck bones and some home fries (Willie Bobo) (3:01) -- Suavecito (Malo) (6:36) -- Eva (Ozomatli) (3:09) -- Low rider (War) (3:20) -- A matter of time (los Lobos) (3:48) -- Guajira (Santana) (5:38) -- QuGe tengo que hacer (Frankie NegrGon) (5:06) -- Melao de caSna (Celie Cruz) (2:51) -- Postizo (Marc Ribot y los Cubanos...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Recording Corp. 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN AMERylant, Cynthia.
Summary: A family of animals that lives in a lighthouse helps an otter, whose sister is trapped in an old fishing net.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Series Lighthouse Rylant 2016Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RYLSummary: When her husband dies at his surprise party, Tess gets a bigger shock when she learns he had a secret family. Now she and her uptight daughter, Cathy, must get to know playful Marilyn and her daughter, Cat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV OTHSummary: In part one of this program, Hedrick Smith reports on how the Alliance of Concerned Men stopped a youth gang war in Benning Terrace, a public housing project in the nation's capital that had become a war zone. Alliance members Tyrone Parker and Rico Rush, former felons with new lives and a new mission, negotiate a truce with the rival gangs that ends the killing and brings hope and new...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This is a passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seems unable to live with him or without him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VINTutti, Carter.
Contents: So slow the knife -- Lowlands -- Torn windows -- Woven clouds -- It was -- Breathless endings -- Forest floor -- Acid tongue -- Sun shone that day -- Black dust -- Feral vapours.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BM CTI 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TUTOther Years (Musical group)
Contents: Red-tailed hawk -- Adaline -- Sinks of Gandy -- Talkeetna -- Fair Ellen -- White marble -- Chapel of Pine Mountain -- Lantern song -- Wildegesses -- Bridges.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OTHSummary: When two mismatched NYPD detectives stumble into a seemingly dull case that no other detective wants to bother with, it turns out to be New York City's biggest crime. The two seize the opportunity to step up like the city's top cops, whom they idolize. But do these two guys have the right stuff?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Other People Place
Contents: Eye contact -- It's your love -- Moonlight rendezvous -- You said you want me -- Let me be me -- Running from love -- Lifestyles of the casual -- Sunrays.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warp Music 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC OtherCohen, Rhaina
Summary: "Why do we assume romantic relationships are more important than friendships? What do we lose when we expect a spouse to meet all our needs? And what can we learn about commitment, love, and family from people who put deep friendship at the center of their lives? In The Other Significant Others, NPR's Rhaina Cohen invites us into the lives of people who have defied convention by choosing a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Green Day
Contents: Brutal love -- Missing you -- 8th Avenue serenade -- Drama queen -- X-Kid -- Sex, drugs & violence -- A little boy named Train -- Amanda -- Walk away -- Dirty rotten bastards -- 99 revolutions -- The forgotten.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.King Tuff
Contents: The other -- Raindrop blue -- Thru the cracks -- Psycho star -- Infinite mile -- Birds of paradise -- Circuits in the sand -- Ultraviolet -- Neverending sunshine -- No man's land.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KINStilton, Thea
Summary: Taking a road trip to San Jose along Route 66 while stopping in Chicago, St. Louis, and other iconic cities, the Thea Sisters are dismayed to learn that an unknown saboteur has wiped a special video game project off of a programmer friend's computer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STICarson, Rachel
Summary: This deluxe Library of America volume presents one of the landmark books of the twentieth century together with rare letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the personal courage and passionate commitment of its author, Rachel Carson. A huge bestseller when published in September 1962, Silent Spring led not only to many of the laws and government agencies that protect our air, land,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 CARKaufman, Amie
Summary: "Prince North's home is in the sky, in a gleaming city held aloft by intricate engines, powered by technology. Nimh is the living goddess of her people on the Surface, responsible for providing answers, direction--hope. North's and Nimh's lives are entwined--though their hearts can never be. Linked by a terrifying prophecy and caught between duty and fate, they must choose between saving their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAUGuzmán, Lila
Contents: Life in Puerto Rico -- Arriba! let's go -- Roberto helps the Pirates -- 1971 World Series -- Earthquake -- Timeline -- Words to know -- Learn more about Roberto Clemente (books and internet addresses) -- Index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2006
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CLEMENTE GuzRylant, Cynthia.
Summary: A family of animals that lives in a lighthouse helps an otter, whose sister is trapped in an old fishing net.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Golightly, Holly.
Contents: Walk a mile -- All around the houses -- Without you here -- One neck -- Time will tell -- Black night -- It's all me -- She said -- Tell me now so I know -- You have yet to win -- Sent -- This ship -- There's an end.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Damaged Goods 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GoligMidlake (Musical group)
Contents: Acts of man -- Winter dies -- Small mountain -- Core of nature -- Fortune -- Rulers, ruling all things -- Children of the grounds -- Bring down -- The horn -- The courage of others -- In the ground.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bella Union 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ernie Cortes isn't a business tycoon and he hasn't been elected to public office, but a Texas business magazine named him one of the five most powerful Texans, along with people like H. Ross Perot. Ernie Cortes' influence, though, reaches beyond Texas and he has been called "the most effective Latino grassroots organizer in the country today. He is a man who empowers, a member of the national...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007