Summary: This is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his beautiful girlfriend Reina leaves his life in Colombia to illegally cross the border and find fortune in New York. Marlon's journey, which takes him to through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, and the streets of Jackson Heights, ultimately takes him to a place he could have never predicted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distibuted in the USA by Phase 4 Films 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PARSummary: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "While traveling across [Alabama in the 1930s], Grace discovers the isolated plantation of Manderlay, a place where no one knows that slavery has been long abolished. With a good heart and pure intentions, Grace tries to emancipate the slaves and open the residents' eyes to the truth, with shocking results"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANContents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLI1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLIN
Bela, Dalila
Summary: When the Odd Squad is in danger of being disbanded because a rival agency has a gadget that seemingly fixes any problem, the Odd Squad teams up to save the world from destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ODDSummary: Detective Jackson Brodie takes on the case of a girl who disappeared 30 years ago, helps a crime novelist who becomes involved in a road rage incident, investigates the mystery of a novelist's holiday in Russia, and looks for another missing girl after being released from jail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CASSummary: Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad") returns in the explosive second season of Your Honor. Disbarred, disgraced, and all but destroyed, ex-judge Michael Desiato is offered a ray of hope when a federal agent recruits him to take down the empire of corruption and vengeance that runs New Orleans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime 2023
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YOUMullin, Mike.
Summary: More than six months after the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, Alex and Darla retrace their steps to Iowa hoping to find Alex's parents and bring them to the tenuous safety of Illinois, but the journey is ever more perilous as the remaining communities fight to the death for food and power.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tanglewood 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MULMullin, Mike.
Summary: It's been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex's relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It's also been six months of waiting for Alex's parents to return from Iowa. Alex and Darla decide they can wait no longer and must...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tanglewood Press 2012
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Mullin, Mike.
Summary: Many visitors to Yellowstone National Park don't realize that the boiling hot springs and spraying geysers are caused by an underlying supervolcano so large that the caldera can only be seen by plane or satellite. And by some scientific measurements it could be overdue for an eruption. For Alex being left alone for the weekend means having the freedom to play computer games and hang out with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tanglewood Press 2011
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Mullin, Mike.
Summary: Nearly a year after the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, survival has become harder than ever and Alex and Darla must risk everything to try to create a community that can withstand the ongoing disaster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tanglewood 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MULAsimov, Isaac
Summary: "For nearly fifty years, Isaac Asimov thrilled millions of readers with his internationally bestselling Foundation Series, a spell-binding tale of the future that spans hundreds of years and dozens of worlds. Here, now, is Forward the Foundation, the seventh and final volume in the series. Completed just before his death, it is the Grand Master's last gift to his legions of admirers. Here, at...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASIAsimov, Isaac
Summary: Continues the Foundation trilogy. Golan Trevise, former councliman of the First Foundation, is entrusted with formidable task--to determine the future of Galactic development.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASIAsimov, Isaac
Summary: A space colony arrives at a planet only to find it is slated for destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1989
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF ASIFitzgerald, Isaac
Summary: Told by the neighborhood boys that she cannot be a pirate, Cece seeks reassurance from her grandfather who knows about boats and has tattoos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FITMillman, Isaac.
Summary: Moses and his schoolmates, all deaf, attend a concert where the orchestra's percussionist is also deaf. Includes illustrations in sign language and a page showing the manual alphabet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MILIsaacs, Anne.
Summary: In the backwoods of New England, a young girl cleverly fends off the threats of wild animals by trading her clothes for her safety.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ISAIsaacs, Susan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ISAAsimov, Isaac
Summary: "Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location outside of place and time, Harlan's job is to create carefully controlled and enacted Reality Changes. These Changes are small, exactingly calculated shifts in the course of history, made for the benefit of humankind. Though each Change has been made for the greater good, there are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2010
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Summary: At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASIAsimov, Isaac
Summary: Here, Isaac Asimov, one of the Grand Masters of science fiction, tells us the stories of the robots of which he dreamed, from the first days of their creation to the days of their ultimate sophistication.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDAsimov, Isaac
Contents: The acquisitive chuckle -- Ph as in phony -- Early Sunday morning -- The obvious factor -- The iron gem -- To the barest -- Sixty million trillion combinations -- The redhead -- The wrong house -- Triple devil -- The men who read Isaac Asimov / by William Brittain -- Northwestward -- Yes, but why? -- Lost in a space warp -- Police at the door -- The haunted cabin -- The guest's guest -- The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASIAsimov, Isaac
Summary: Dr. Kelden Amadiro is determined to bring total annihilation of the planet Earth, but Lady Gladia vows to stop him at any cost and seal Earth's fate and all who live there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1985