Summary: "One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CANSummary: Friends navigate interpersonal relationships and cross the country in search of an ideal connection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SHO1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHORoberton, Fiona
Summary: When Cuckoo hatches and does not speak the same language as the rest of his family, he bravely sets out to find someone who can understand him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLRecchioni, Roberto
Summary: "A devastating energy beam strikes the Earth, instantly killing a sixth ofthe world population. Deemed to be a premeditated attack by aliens from a distant planet, a Serbian scientist named Jsana Juric and a Japanese army colonel named Takeshi Nakamura gather a group of orphaned children who survived the disaster to become lethal soldiers trained to invade the hostile planet in hopes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Lion Forge, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RECBolaño, Roberto
Summary: Mexico, 1970s. Jan and Remo find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world- or sacrifice themselves to it. The city tugs them in opposite directions. Jan withdraws from the world, shutting himself in their shared rooftop apartment where he feverishly composes fan letters to the stars of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLGavaldon, Roberto
Summary: Tells the story of an immigrant family in Spain of the 19th century struggling to establish a farm amidst the hostility of the townspeople.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARSaviano, Roberto
Summary: Roberto Saviano returns to the streets of Naples and the boy bosses who run them in Savage Kiss, the hotly anticipated follow-up to The Piranhas. Nicolas Fiorilla and his gang of children--his paranza--control the squares of Forcella after their rapid rise to power. But it isn't easy being at the top. Now that the Piranhas have power in the city, Nicolas must undermine the old families of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: "An unfinished masterpiece from the author of THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES and 2666"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLPiumini, Roberto.
Summary: Geppetto is glad when one of his puppets comes to life. He calls the little wooden boy Pinocchio and raises him as his son. Pinocchio wants to be just like real boys, but as he sets out in the real world, it doesn't take long for him to get in trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 PIUBolaño, Roberto
Summary: In Mexico City, poet Arturo Belano forms a fundamentalist literary movement. A short while later, he sets out to discover the whereabouts of his hero, poet Cesr̀ea Tinajero. Consequently, the movement rises and declines over the course of 20 years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2006
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Contents: Sensini -- Henry Simon Leprince -- Enrique Martín -- A literary adventure -- Phone calls -- The grub -- Anne Moore's life -- Mauricio ("the Eye") Silva -- Gómez Palacio -- Last evenings on Earth -- Days of 1978 -- Vagabond in France and Belgium -- Dentist -- Dance card.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Books 2006
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Summary: Nicolas Fiorillo is a brilliant and ambitious fifteen-year-old from the slums of Naples, eager to make his mark and to acquire power and the money that comes with it. With nine friends, he sets out to create a new paranza, or gang. Together they roam the streets on their motorscooters, learning how to break into the network of small-time hoodlums that controls drug-dealing and petty crime in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAVProbert, Tim
Summary: After a battle that nearly cost them their lives, Bea and Cad awaken in the hidden settlement of the Arsai, mysterious creatures who can glimpse into the future. The Arsai's vision paints a dire picture for their planet, as the bird Kest Ke Belenus--now awoken from a restless slumber--threatens to destroy all the Lights of Irpa. Desperate for a solution, Bea and Cad seek out the help of a water...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PRORoberson, Chris
Summary: "Izzie Lefevre was the newest investigator for the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit when she first came to Recondito, a coastal city that's been shrouded in mystery and legend for centuries. Local law enforcement had requested the Bureau's assistance in hunting a sword-wielding serial killer who'd left a dozen mutilated bodies in his wake. Patrick Tevake was a local homicide detective assigned to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBMotoya, Yukiko
Summary: In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien--and, through it, find a way to liberation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOTRotert, Rebecca
Summary: "A highly ambitious and stylish literary debut set against the 1960's Chicago jazz scene about a talented but troubled singer's heartbreaking relationship with her precocious ten-year-old daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATRoberson, Jennifer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBEco, Umberto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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Summary: "From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder. A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news. A paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving the cadaver of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015