Summary: A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGVerdi, Giuseppe
Summary: The four parts of the opera have the titles The Duel, The Gypsy, The Gypsy's Son and The Execution. Ferrando tells the story of the revenge taken by a gypsy for the death of her mother, the apparent destruction in the fire of the son of the old Count di Luna. In the palace gardens Leonora waits for her lover, the troubadour Manrico, mistaking the Count di Luna, who also loves her, for him, an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TROCatozzella, Giuseppe
Summary: Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her "professional coach." Eight-year-old Ali trains her, times her, and pushes her to achieve her goals. For both children, Samia's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2016
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Summary: Leonora loves a knight who serenades her as a troubadoor. The knight is in an army fighting a civil war agaist the Count, who also loves Leonora. The knight thinks he's the son of the gypsy woman who raised him & whose mother was killed by the Count, but he's actually the Count's brother. When the rivalry between the two men becomes violent, tragedy occurs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TROTomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe
Summary: Set in the 1860s, a story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOMFerrari, Alessandro
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of UP, seventy-eight-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. He discovers too late that an 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell has stowed away.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC DISLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
Summary: Glyndebourne Festival Opera's 1972 production of Verdi's opera, based on Shakespeare's tragic play which studies the all consuming ambition of Macbeth and his wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MACSummary: A widowed woman and her five sons move from the depressed south of Italy to Milan and become immersed in personal conflict and political injustice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROCSummary: When video game villain Wreck-It Ralph grows tired of his role, he goes on an action-packed adventure to prove that he is a true hero.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC DISSummary: Epic story of two families in Italy traces both the rise of fascism and the conflict between the sons of the families, both born on January 1, 1900.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NINSummary: One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BITStilton, Geronimo
Summary: Discovering that the gift-distributing Elfix aliens have disappeared as the Night of Dancing Stars approaches, Geronimo Stiltonix and his spacemice crewmates race to find the missing aliens before the celebration is ruined.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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3 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIStilton, Geronimo
Summary: Grandfather Shortpaws sends Geronimo Stilton on a hunt for his old friend, the Red Bandit, in Arizona.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIStilton, 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 STIFerrari, Alessandro
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of the Toy Story motion picture.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC DISStilton, Geronimo.
Summary: While Geronimo Stilton is on his way to New York City to meet his family for the holidays, his luggage gets switched with another mouse's, and he must scurry all over the Big Apple trying to find all his presents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2008
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STISummary: When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman to evaluate her late parents' collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil's carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves ever...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BeCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BESSummary: An American writer in Italy becomes an amateur sleuth when he witnesses a failed attempt by a serial killer to take the life of the wife of a wealthy gallery owner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BIRSummary: During planting season in Northern Italy's Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker falls in with a small-time criminal who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend. Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BITStilton, Geronimo
Summary: He is a spacemouse - the Geronimo Stilton of a parallel universe! He is captain of the spaceship MouseStar1. While flying through the cosmos, he visits distant planets and meet crazy aliens. His adventures are out of this world! -- Alien Escape -- Geronimo Stiltonix's spaceship is in danger of exploding! The only solution is to replace the engine's batteries by tracking down a rare element When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Geronimo Stilton 2014Stilton, Geronimo
Summary: Geronimo Stilton's ancient ancestor Geronimo Stiltonoot is back in another prehistoric adventure. Geronimo Stiltonoot and his family are off to find a cure for Grandma Ratrock's aches and pains. She's heard that a remedy hides in a legendary valley, and Geronimo isn't even sure it exists. Little does he know that getting there will be an adventure among geysers, volcanoes, and rivers of molten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIStilton, Geronimo
Summary: Friends of the spacemice have disappeared on a strange ice planet, Polarix! Geronimo Stiltonix and his crew are called to search for them. When the spacemice arrive on Polarix, they're surprised at the inhabitants -- cute little aliens that look like colorful fuzz balls! But are these creatures as harmless as they look?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STIStilton, Geronimo
Summary: When they receive a damaged message in a bottle from the Oofa Oofa rodents in the ancient far north, Geronimo Stiltonord and the micekings set sail to Oofadale but are attacked by a band of dragons while on their voyage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017