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Summary: For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo traveled the villages of northern Colombia, playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. He eventually married and settled in a small town, leaving the nomadic life behind. But after the traumatic death of his wife, he vows never to play again, and embarks on one last journey to return the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010

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

Summary: A billionaire decides on a whim to create a movie, hiring a team he considers the best: a renowned filmmaker and two egotistical actors -- one from Hollywood and the other from experimental theatre -- who cannot get along. While the director creates bizarre rituals to test their abilities, the actors find themselves confronting each other as well as their pasts and their bodies of work.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

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

Enriquez, Mariana

Summary: "Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENR

Martínez, Guillermo

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MAR

Martínez, Rueben

Summary: A collection of seven traditional tales from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain retold in English and Spanish. Includes notes about each story.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2010

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Marciano, Johnny

Summary: Warlord cat Klawde continues to suffer in exile as Raj faces starting a new school, but a further complication arises when both are unexpectedly confronted by figures from their pasts.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MAR

Azuela, Mariano

Summary: "The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Mac©Ưas, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villa's army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly factionalized. At once a spare, moving depiction of the limits of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Azuela 2008

Marciano, Johnny

Summary: Klawde is not your basic cat. He's an emperor from another planet, exiled to Earth. He's cruel. He's cunning. He's brilliant ... and he's also Raj Banerjee's best friend. Following a humiliating, defeated effort to conquer Earth, Klawde has had it with this this dismal planet. And anyway, what's the point in conquering such an insignificant corner of the galaxy, when there's an entire universe...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MAR

Marciano, Johnny

Summary: Klawde, the exiled ruler of the planet Lyttyrboks, and Raj, who just moved from Brooklyn to tiny Elba, Oregon, forge an unlikely friendship as they find their footing in a strange new world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAR

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAR

Marciano, Johnny

Summary: While his evil pet cat Klawde, an exiled emperor from across the universe, faces a treasonous plot to overthrow him, Raj has to survive an even more perilous group: the students and parents of the Elba Middle School newspaper club.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MAR

Marciano, Johnny

Summary: When a dog arrives on Earth to bring Klawde to justice, Klawde must evade the spacedog and continue his plot for revenge.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019

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Gala, Marcial

Summary: "The story of an enormous cathedral constructed in a marginal, majority-black neighborhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, told by a chorus of narrators whose sometimes conflicting, overlapping accounts knit together to form a portrait of the neighborhood and the family of outsiders whose arrival in Cienfuegos sparks a series of dramatic events"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAL

Marciano, Johnny

Summary: With Klawde now stuck on this dismal planet, he has set his sights on a new target to conquer: Earth. But to succeed, he needs two simple things: an army of zombie squirrels and money. Lots of money. Luckily, he has a plan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 0000

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J 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

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Marcinko, Richard.

Summary: In the wake of a series of terrorist attacks that culminate in a chemical explosion, a train hijacking, and a high-profile murder, the Rogue Warrior uncovers a plot to attack the United States' most relevant landmarks and institutions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

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

Marchant, Catherine.

Summary: At the Habitation, a large and decaying riverside house, the Crawfords were on the verge of bankruptcy - and when Martha Mary was obliged to take on the responsibility for her family, a series of dramatic events occurred that would test her indomitable fortitude.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1976

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Marchant, Kate

Summary: A heartfelt summer read for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han about holding on and letting go. Waverly Lyons has been caught in the middle of her parents' divorce for as long as she can remember. This summer, the battle rages over who she'll spend her vacation with, and when Waverly's options are shot down, it's bye-bye Fairbanks, Alaska and hello Holden, Florida to stay with her aunt. Coming...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wattpad Books 2022

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Meriano, Anna

Summary: Wanting to be a part of her family's Dia de los Muertos preparations, Leonora sneaks out of school to discover her mother, aunt, and older sisters have been keeping a secret.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MER

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MER

Marchand, Nancy

Summary: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the teachers and students at a rural elementary school hear alarms go off and seek protection in different bomb shelters to wait and see if the attack is real or a false alarm.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020

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

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