Borges, Jorge Luis
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Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta-Agostini 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC BORSummary: An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY AVANT-GARDE ERACarle, Eric
Summary: "Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book? Yes, there's something strange, something funny, and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But it's not a mistake--it's nonsense! And it's also surrealism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CARCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Carle 2015Carle, Eric.
Summary: Spanish translation of "From head to toe". Encourages the reader to exercise by following the movements of various animals; presented in a question and answer format. For preschool and primary (K-3) school children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 1997
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH CARAmery, Heather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Preschool Amery 2006Summary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOSummary: Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE AVARuiz-Flores, Lupe
Summary: Lupita is excited about dancing la raspa, a Mexican folk dance, with her first-grade class at a celebration of Children's Day. But she's devastated when she learns right before the show that her partner Ernesto sprained his right ankle. She had been practicing for weeks. And now her family won't get to see her, swishing and swaying in her beautiful dress full of colorful ribbons. Lupita sadly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Summary: This illustrated book for children introduces words in English and Spanish for several foods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD EMBMoers, Walter
Summary: Rumo, a little Wolperting who will become Zamonia's greatest hero, encounters many strange characters as he fights his way across Overworld and Netherworld with his talking sword Dandelion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIJoseph, Lauren John
Summary: "It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise that it's February 29th - the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago. Ten years earlier, and our young narrator and a boy named Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSMontt, Alberto
Summary: "Este libro es un homenaje a la raza que desde tiempos inmemoriables impulsó la construcción de pirámides, inspiró a dioses, propició memes y acompañó a nuestros solteros y solteras empedernidos hasta el fin de los tiempos." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 MONSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIMiéville, China
Summary: In the chaos of wartime Marseille, 1941, American engineer--and occult disciple--Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist Andre Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIEPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Presents a selection of critical writings, short fiction, and poetry by American author Edgar Allan Poe, including the title story in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003
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Summary: ¡Mi comunidad! es un libro emotivo y lleno de vida en español y en inglés, que celebra a los ayudantes de la comunidad. El libro viene acompañado por dos canciones nuevas -- una en cada idioma -- para leer y cantar en familia. Con ¡Mi Comunidad! nos paseamos por nuestra comunidad y conocemos a algunas de las personas que nos ayudan a estar a salvo, a aprender y a seguir adelante.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH 468 ANDElya, Susan Middleton
Summary: El prìcipe knows this girl is the one for him. But, as usual, his mother doesn't agree. The queen has a secret test in mind to see if this girl is really a princesa. But the prince might just have a sneaky plan, too ... Readers will be enchanted by this Latino twist on the classic story, and captivated by the vibrant art inspired by the culture of Peru. -- From dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH ELYHoffman, Alice.
Summary: For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well; as children, the sisters were outsiders. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, but all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFJemisin, N. K.
Summary: In a city where Gatherers harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to judge the corrupt, Ehiru, the most famous of the city's Gatherers, learns that he must protect the woman he was sent to kill or watch the city be devoured by forbidden magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2012
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Summary: "A mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenko's novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the ways that memory and language construct our identity, and how we hold on to it no matter what. The novel tells the story of Haba Habinsky, a refugee from Ukraine's Donbas region, who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2022