Summary: Angela is a university student in Madrid writing her thesis about violence in the media. During her research, she comes across a shocking 'snuff' film (a film where a murder is actually committed for the camera) that has apparently been shot on the campus. Investigating further, she uncovers clues that the university's administrators may be involved in an unexplained series of student...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TES

Summary: Naples 1904: Italian theatre is thriving, and comic actor, Eduardo Scarpetta is the box office king. Known in the Neapolitan theater for his cheeky alter egos, Scarpetta's larger-than-life stage productions were matched only by his eccentric personal life. Composed of wives, partners, lovers, legitimate and illegitimate children, Scarpetta's home situation resembled one of his comedies more...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KIN

Summary: In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. CGesar tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, CGesar's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2001

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OPE

Martínez, Guillermo

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MAR

Summary: Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPL

Sacheri, Eduardo A. (Eduardo Alfredo)

Summary: "--Ese es tu problema. No se puede dudar en el medio de una guerra popular, Cabezón. --A vencer o morir, como dicen ustedes. --¡Más bien que a vencer o morir! --¿Y no pensaste qué pasa si no vencemos? ¿Estás seguro de que preferís morir? --¡No, porque vamos a vencer! --¿Y si no? --¡Si no, nada, porque vamos a vencer, te digo! Corre 1975 y dos jóvenes integrantes de distintas organizaciones...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SAC

Sacheri, Eduardo A. (Eduardo Alfredo)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAC

Summary: "British ex-con Wilson (Terence Stamp) arrives in Los Angeles to investigate the mystery of his daughter's 'accidental' death. His prime suspect, the wealthy, heavily guarded music promoter Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), is no easy target. Propelled into an increasingly brutal search for truth, Wilson, with single-mindedness and terrifying precision, moves unstoppably toward revenge."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LIM

Albert, Edoardo

Summary: In 604 AD, Edwin, the deposed king of Northumbria, seeks refuge at the court of King Raedwald of East Anglia. But Raedwald is urged to kill his guest by Aethelfrith, Edwin's usurper. As Edwin walks by the shore, alone and at bay, he is confronted by a mysterious figure--the missionary Paulinus--who prophesies that he will ascend to greater heights than any of his forefathers. Through battles...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Martn̕ez, Guillermo

Summary: When an Argentine math student discovers the smothered body of his landlady, conventional wisdom points to a family member with the most prosaic of motives. But then renowned logician Arthur Seldom, author of a book on the mathematics of serial killers, tells of a strange note left in his mailbox. The note indicates that the murder is the first in a series linked by a mysterious pattern. Each...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M MAR

Martínez, Ernesto Javier

Summary: A reclamation of the Mexican serenata tradition, follow the story of a young boy who asks his father if there is a song for a boy who loves a boy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reflection Press 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAR

Martínez, Tomás Eloy.

Summary: Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Martinez, Juan

Summary: "Praise for Juan Martinez: "A little out of the ordinary.... He takes this very unnatural environment and changes it into a landscape."-Hannah Tinti "I loved it."- Etgar Keret These are the best Americans, the worst Americans. In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers, wildernesses. Voices sound slightly different than ex-pected. There's humor, but it's going to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Small Beer Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Summary: A crime-thriller about judicial cover-ups and corruption in Argentina, told through flashbacks.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEC
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEC

Leavitt, Martine

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Leavitt has traveled by covered wagon from Utah to the Northwest Territories of Canada, where her father and brothers are now homesteading and establishing a new community with other Latter-Day Saints. Rebecca is old enough to get married, but what kind of man would she marry and who would have a girl like her -- a girl filled with ideas and opinions? Someone gallant...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEA

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEA

Manceau, Edouard

Summary: At bedtime, a brave child makes a monster disappear by tickling its various parts, such as its teeth so it cannot bite, and the parts transform into new objects that create a non-threatening scene.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAN

Hoem, Edvard

Summary: "The year is 1874. Nesje is a recent widower with a young son, working as a haymaker on an estate in the town of Molde and steadily clearing his own small holding. Then he meets Serianna--an outsider, looking for work, who takes him fishing and smokes a pipe. Soon the two fall in love and marry, and Nesje begins to dream of a prosperous future. But prosperity is hard to come by. Some...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOE

Martinez, Michele

Summary: Television reporter Suzanne Shepard was a ruthless celebrity scandalmonger with a roster of high-profile enemies. But which one left her mutilated, lifeless body in the dark recesses of New York's Central Park? Federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas needs to find out. Was it the sinister Park Avenue plastic surgeon with a secret past? Or the trendy personal trainer selling recreational drugs to his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Murray, Martine

Summary: Molly longs for normalcy but when her mother accidentally turns herself into a tree, Molly must embrace all the things she has tried to run away from.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MUR

Martinez, Al.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Martinez, Michele

Summary: In a glittering penthouse high above Park Avenue, two beautiful teenagers, students at an exclusive Manhattan girls' school, lie dead under suspicious circumstances. Feeling pressure from the top to solve the high-profile case fast, Melanie breaks all the rules and goes undercover. Teamed with Dan O'Reilly, a hard-to-resist FBI agent with a talent for making her pulse race, Melanie embarks on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Summary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DES

Martinez, Melanie

Contents: Wheels on the bus -- Class fight -- The principal -- Show & tell -- Nurse's office -- Drama club -- Strawberry Shortcake -- Lunchbox friends -- Orange juice -- Detention -- Teacher's pet -- High school sweethearts -- Recess.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAR