Summary: The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction VandriverLópez Narváez, Concha
Summary: Enraged at not being invited to the princess's christening, a wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bruño 2013
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 398.2 LOPEZ NARLópez Narváez, Concha
Summary: Relates the adventures of the three little pigs who leave home to seek their fortune and how they deal with the big bad wolf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bruño 2013
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 398.2 LOPEZ NARSummary: Unable to defend himself and his family from a ruthless enemy, Kao hires two swordsmen who needed the money for wine and women. They soon discover Kao has an evil plan of his own as their friendship and trust are tested through challenges.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN LASChin, Jason
Summary: A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2009
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Summary: Various people cross paths in a sequence of events propelled by a Louis Vuitton bag full of cash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEAChen, Jiang Hong
Summary: When a tigress whose cubs were killed by hunters ravages villages, the king gathers his army but Lao Lao, a seer, advises him to send his son, Wen, to the tiger, instead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New York Review Children's Collection 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHENSummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINJeong, You-Jeong
Summary: ""A cool, crafty did-he-do-it thriller...The Good Son will rivet readers of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith." --A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window. The Talented Mr. Ripley meets The Bad Seed in this breathless, chilling psychological thriller by the #1 international bestselling novelist known as "Korea's Stephen King" Who can you trust if you can't trust...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC JEOSummary: Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN OKJSummary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INFChaon, Dan
Summary: "In 1983, Dustin Tillman's family--his parents and his aunt and uncle--were murdered in a shocking massacre. His foster brother, Rusty, was convicted of the crime, in a trial that was steeped in the "Satanic Cult" paranoia of the 1980s. Thirty years later, Rusty's conviction is overturned, and suddenly Dustin, now a psychologist, must question whether his testimony that imprisoned his brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChoo, Yangsze
Summary: "Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for. Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master's dying wish:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Choo 2019Ison, Tara.
Summary: Sarah, a California native, retreats to Rockaway Beach during the summer of 2001 with the hope of rekindling her passion for painting, and she finds inspiration in Marty, an elderly musician, who provokes unexpected feelings in her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISOJain, Vibhuti
Summary: Babur "Bobby" Singh, single parent and owner of fledging Uber business "Move with Bobby," remains ever hopeful about ascending the ladder of American success. He lives in an affluent suburb of New York with his daughter Angie, an introverted teenager who is uncomfortable in her own skin unless she's swimming. During summer break, Angie is walking home after training at the high school pool when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Oh, Jiwon.
Summary: On the first day of school, Mouse is upset when Cat spends time with her old friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Pub 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OHChaon, Dan.
Contents: Safety man -- I demand to know where you're taking me -- Big me -- Prodigal -- Passengers, remain calm -- The illustrated encyclopedia of the animal kingdom -- Among the missing -- Prothesis -- Here's a little something to remember me by -- Late for the wedding -- Falling backwards -- Burn with me.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChong, Kevin
Summary: In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old Benny, his ailing grandmother, and his strange neighbor Constantine, a man who believes he's a reincarnated medieval samurai. When his grandmother is hospitalized, Benny manages to survive on his own until a social worker comes snooping. With no other family, he is reluctantly taken in by Constantine and soon, an unlikely bond forms between...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: JT CD Fiction ChongMeyer, Deon.
Summary: After a teenage American tourist has her throat slit in Cape Town, detective Benny Griessel must find her friend, Rachel Anderson, before she meets the same fate; and when he's also put on the case of a murdered music executive, he realizes he must solve both crimes for Rachel to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYS MEYFerry, Beth
Summary: Teetu the bunny writes a book during a much-needed break from his crowded burrow but before long, he is lost, hungry, and lonely.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: In 1918 Britain, Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle investigates after a dead man is found in the River Thames, but the man's flirtatious wife, a supposed South African actor, and a bevy of other suspects complicate matters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISOMeyer, Deon
Summary: Early on a May morning in the depth of South Africa's winter, a woman's naked body, washed in bleach, is discovered on a stone wall beside the N2 highway at the top of Sir Lowry's Pass, some thirty-five miles from Cape Town. The local investigation stalls, so the case is referred to Captain Benny Griessel and his colorful partner Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks--the Directorate for Priority Crime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019