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Androids Androids Comic books, strips, etc Androïdes Bandes dessinées Giants Good and evil Good and evil Comic books, strips, etc Guerres et batailles imaginaires Bandes dessinées Géants Bandes dessinées Imaginary wars and battles Imaginary wars and battles Comic books, strips, etcSummary: In 1980, Richard Boyle, a veteran war photographer whose career needs a boost, heads for El Salvador to cover the civil war there. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerrillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. After the murder of Archbishop Romero, the rape and murder of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SALSummary: Romero is the true story of the Catholic priest Archbishop Oscar Romero who lived in El Salvador during the political unrest in the 1970s. The government launched a 'terror campaign' against the guerillas in an attempt to crush them. Archbishop Romero's protests against governments' actions was perceived as disloyalty. As an example to others, the government began to destroy churches and murder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vision Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROMSummary: As Chava nears his twelfth birthday, he and his mother struggle to avoid his conscription in the El Salvadoran army during the civil war of the nineteen eighties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lightyear Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Basada en una historia real, Voces inocentes es una cuenta la conmovedora historia de Chava, un niño de once años que atrapado en medio de la guerra civil de los años 80 en El Salvador, tiene que convertirse en "el hombre de la casa" después de que su padre los abandona.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VOCRamos, Vanessa
Summary: Sixth-grader Selena Estrella Herrera's family moves to El Paso to help care for her grandfather, and she tries to reinvent herself by claiming her identity as *Strella--but the project her team chooses is about the singer Selena after whom *Strella is actually named.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED RAMContreras-Rosado, Rosalina.
Summary: Tatiana and Irene visit for the first time their mother's homeland, El Salvador.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WPR Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 ConCussler, Clive
Summary: "The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack by tomb raiders on an archaeological site along the banks of the Nile. Is there a link between these violent events? The answer may lie in the tale of an Egyptian princess forced to flee the armies of her father three thousand years ago. During what was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cussler 2019Tobar, Héctor
Summary: "In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tobar 2020Isayama, Hajime
Summary: "The saga of humanity and the predatory Titans edges closer to its thrilling conclusions. The mysteries of the Titans are being revealed ... who will escape death at the hands of giants and human beings?"-- Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ATTIsayama, Hajime
Summary: "Eren has infiltrated Marley territory and dealt the empire a devastating blow. But the real goal of the mission was always to get Zeke back to Paradis Island in secrecy. Now that this Titan heir of royal blood is inside the Walls, the island's military government has its "earth-rumbling" weapon of mass destruction. But has this supposed deterrent actually started a countdown to total world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ATTIsayama, Hajime
Summary: "To activate the true power of the Founding Titan that courses through his veins, Eren must make contact with Zeke, a Titan of royal blood. Though Zeke has escaped Levi and the Survey Corps, he's made little headway before the Marleyan military and its Titan warriors attack. Eren pummels his way through the Marleyan trap and past his former friends, but as the battle rages, he stumbles into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ATTIsayama, Hajime
Summary: "After breaking through a stronghold of old friends and enemies, Zeke hands down his plan for the Eldians to Eren. But what Eren was plotting with his rumbling powers leaves his brother in the dust, betrayed and alone once more. Now, with some help from Ymir, a parade of massive Titans are roused from their centuries-long slumber, breaking free of the Walls to answer their founder's call. Where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ATTIsayama, Hajime
Summary: As the dangerous rebel Eren Yeager mows down civilians and deals a massive blow to the Marleyan army, the Eldian soldiers, including Mikasa, Connie, and Sasha, spread chaos in the city and disrupt military communications.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ATTKinney, Jeff
Summary: "In Diper Överlöde, book 17 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley is finding out that the road to fame and glory comes with some hard knocks. When he decides to tag along with his brother Rodrick's band, Löded Diper, Greg doesn't realize what he's getting into. But he soon learns that late nights, unpaid gigs, fighting between band...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TANSummary: Includes all ten episodes of season two. The next chapter in Kurt Sutter's award-winning Sons of Anarchy saga. Set in a post-Jax Teller world, Ezekiel 'EZ' Reyes is fresh out of prison and a prospect in the Mayans M.C. charter on the California/Mexico border. Now, EZ must carve out his new identity in a town where he was once the golden boy with the American Dream in his grasp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAYHunter, Dianna
Summary: "Susan B. Ellingson (SB to those who know her) publishes a struggling newspaper with the help of a retired librarian. Near the mining town of Iron, Minnesota, waters split three ways along the Laurentian Divide, carrying minerals and contaminants to Hudson's Bay, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico. When a corporation seeks a permit to dig for copper and nickel and store potentially harmful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holy Cow! Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNSeuss
Summary: Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by a cat who shows them tricks and games.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beginner Books 1967
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 SEUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 468.2 SEUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 468.2 SEUSmoker, M. L. (Mandy L.)
Summary: "If Aiyana hears one more traditional Lakota story, she'll scream! More interested in her social media presence than her Native American heritage, Aiyana is shocked when she suddenly finds herself in a magical world-with no cell coverage! Pursued by the trickster Raven, Aiyana struggles to get back home, but is helped by friends and allies she meets along the way. Her dangerous journey through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curiosity Books, an imprint of Curiosity Ink Media, LLC 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SMOFagan, Deva
Summary: Paro questions the system she once believed in and joins the Seafoxes, a ragtag team of players seeking to win the deadly Noctis games, to saver her grandfather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FAGVan Alst, Theodore C.
Summary: "Growing up in a gang in the city can be dark. Growing up Native American in a gang in Chicago is a whole different story. This book takes a trip through that unexplored part of Indian Country, an intense journey that is full of surprises, shining a light on the interior lives of people whose intellectual and emotional concerns are often overlooked. This dark, compelling, occasionally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANMcGowan, Anthony
Summary: When Kenny and Nicky spot a glint of gold in the murky waters of Bacon Pond, they can't leave it alone. It means money, and money helps patch things up when you haven't got any. But sometimes it's better not to look too deep. Not when there are local gangsters involved, and tough questions about your own family's past. But Nicky can't help looking back. He knows it's a bad idea, and it could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2024