Grossman, Vasily
Summary: "Vassily Grossman (1905 - 1964) has become well-known in the last twenty years - above all for his novel Life and Fate. This has often been described as a Soviet (or anti-Soviet) War and Peace. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a dilogy. The first half, originally titled Stalingrad but published in 1952 under the title For a just cause, has received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROAslan, Çiğdem
Contents: Kardiokleftra (Heart thief) -- I Mortissa tis Kokkinias (Mortissa from Kokkinia) -- Ithela na 'rtho to Vradi (I wanted to come by tonight) -- Çile Bülbülüm (Sing my nightingale) -- Evlerinin Önü Handır (In front of their house is an inn) -- Tourna (Crane) -- Destmala min (My handkerchief) -- Zaira (Zaira)-- Gennithika gia na Pono (Born to suffer) -- I Lili i Skandaliara (Cheeky Lili) -- Lingo...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Asphalt Tango Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN ASLArcher, Aleksei
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VaTsitsanēs, Vasilēs.
Contents: Disc A. 1936-1938. S 'ena deke skarosame -- Mandili chrysokendimeno -- Pikros ine o ponos mou -- Na yiati perno -- Yitonissa -- Mario ke manavis -- Gouvernanda -- Ola ta' cho varethi -- Xelogiastra -- Xelogiastra -- Ola ta' cho varethi -- Me liker ke me sampania -- Me thambonoun -- Yia sena xenychto -- Ta hano san se flepo -- O Tsitsanis sto Monte Carlo -- Trikalini chakpina -- Tha 'rtho mia...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN TSIAnsamblʹ pesni i pli͡a︡ski "Krasnai͡a︡ zvezda."
Contents: Regimental polka / music, B. Terentiev ; words, V. Gurian (3:12) -- Meadowland / music, Lev Knipper ; words, V. Gusev (2:24) -- Kalinka : Russian folk song (4:35) -- Volga Boat song : Russian folk song (4:59) -- The sun set [i.e. sunset] behind a mountain / music, M. Blanter ; words, A. Kovalenko (3:03) -- The swallow : Armenian folk song (4:03) -- The pine trees are rustling : Russian folk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teldec 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/RUSSIAN REDFadeeva, Olʹga (Olga Alekseevna)
Summary: "This browsable book explores the wind's role in our planet and its history, from carrying pollen to shaping sand dunes to pushing record-breaking ships across the ocean"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.51 FADLi͡ubimov, Alekseĭ Borisovich
Contents: Post scriptum : sonata for violin and piano (17:00) ; Misterioso : for clarinet solo (with piano) / Valentin Silvestrov (19:31)-- Spiegel im Spiegel : version for clarinet and piano / Arvo Pärt (7:33) -- Trio for clarinet, violin and piano (17:00) ; Sonata for violin and piano (19:39) / Galina Ustvolskaya.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ECM Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MISFadeeva, Olʹga (Olga Alekseevna)
Summary: "This browsable nonfiction book explores water at work in our world, from the Great Lakes to rainstorms to sea gods to the water in our taps"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 553.7 FADCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 553.7 FADTolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raduga Pub. 1932
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLTolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raduga Pub. 1932
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLSummary: 1987, Communist Romania. During the course of one day, Otilia helps her friend and roommate Gabita get a late-term abortion. With abortion, let alone any kind of contraceptive, being illegal, the women have to use illegal means to achieve their goal. Shows the rough and gritty situation in which these college students, particularly Otilia, must make decisions and deal with their consequences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FOUMedunjanin, Amira.
Contents: Eleno Kerko = Helen, darling : trad. Macedonia -- Čula jesam da se dragi ženi = I heard my love set to marry : trad. Croatia -- Kradem ti se u večeri = Stealing away in thy evening : trad. Bosnia -- Iz banju ide šejtan devojče = From the baths a devilish girl goes : trad. Serbia -- Sejdefu majka buđaše = Sejdefa by her mother awakened : trad. Montenegro -- Ima dana = There are days : trad....
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Village UK 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MEDSummary: Don Rumata is one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to the planet Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet's political or historical development. Treated by the planet's natives as a kind of divinity, Don is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HARMarinca, Anamaria
Summary: Set during the final days of communism in Romania, two college roommates have twenty-four hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for an illegal abortion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOUSummary: A grumpy MIC-MIC, the bear, doesn't think he needs friends, especially Oscar, the hare, who is planning a trip to the moon in his house rocket. When Oscar unexpectedly lands in MIC-MIC's honeybee yard after being thrown from the exploding rocket, MIC-MIC is furious at him. Just then, Carl the stork mistakenly delivers a baby panda to him. MIC-MIC decides to travel downriver by himself to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2020
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BIGAndrew, Christopher M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.124 ANDAclin, Justin
Summary: From the brilliant imagination of video game auteur American McGee comes a dazzling reenvisioning of Red Riding Hood set in the wondrous world of Japanese folklore! Justin Aclin and Vasilis Lolos take Kani--a young woman torn between two cultures--on an epic adventure battling devious yokai for the fate of her world!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ACLSummary: Silent film reenactment detailing the events leading up to the Russian Revolution. The film was commissioned to Sergei Eisenstein to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Eisenstein chose to capture the spirit of the era by focusing on one place at one point in time: Petrograd between February and October 1917, and using a political perspective. The original version was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Corinth Films 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OCTSummary: A painstakingly detailed adaptation of the Tolstoy novel which follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats from 1805 to 1812, including Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sabata: Sabata is a mysterious steely-eyed gunslinger who, after he discovers the town of Daugherty's elite are the masterminds behind the big bank heist, imposes his bullet-laced brand of justice on the town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2005
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SABDe la Bedoyere, Camilla
Summary: Provides an introduction into the life of an octopus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: QEB Publishing 2015