Summary: A painterly and sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian farm life that lovingly focuses on four families working for one landowner on an isolated estate in the province of Bergamo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRESummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE AVASummary: An older writer, Fernando, returns to his hometown, Medellin, Colombia. There he falls in love with 16-year-old assassin, Alexis. After Alexis is killed, Fernando hunts for his killer in the Medellin slums and falls in love with Wilmar, a boy who resembles Alexis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OURFernando Trueba
Summary: Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMCervantes, Fernando
Summary: "A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world "The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 CERVilela, Fernando
Summary: "Cauã and Inaê are a brother and sister who live in a small community along the Tapajós River in Brazil. Here, the homes are on stilts and everyone travels around by boat -- even to school! When the rainy season comes, they must leave their village and relocate to higher ground for a while. But after moving this year, Cauã and Inaê realize they've left behind something important: their pet...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VILBalius, Fernando
Summary: "A portrayal in graphic novel format of the author's battle with auditory hallucinations, depicted as a monster, and his journey to understand and cope with his illness"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi, an imprint of The Pennsylvania State University Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 BALIUS, FERNANDO BALBotero, Fernando
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement Llc 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOTPessoa, Fernando
Summary: Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa left a prodigious body of work, much of it credited to "heteronyms"--alter egos with startlingly different styles, points of view, and biographies. Offering a unique sampling of his famous voices, this collection features Pessoa's major, best known works and several stunning poems that have only come to light in this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 861.141 PESBotero, Fernando
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cameo/Abrams 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.9861 BOTPessoa, Fernando
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 869.141 PESValverde, Fernando
Summary: "In Fernando Valverde's América, "sorrow is ancient." Mournfully lyrical, politically sharp, with a sweeping view of American roots, dysfunctions, and ideals--as if from above, and yet also from within--this is a book that deconstructs the legacy of empire. From the Mississippi River to Fulton Avenue, from slavery to "lone wolf" shooters, Valverde grieves but does not wince away from all that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 VALCapobianco, Fernanda
Summary: "Creator of the acclaimed Vegan Divas product line and the chef and owner of NYC's Vegan Divas Bakery Fernanda Capobianco shares her award-winning recipes for creating decadent, flavorful treats adored by vegans and carnivores alike"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 CAPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5637 CAPGerman, Edward
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: McKinley Music 1900
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMGermano, Lisa.
Contents: Way below the radio -- No color here -- Tomorrowing -- Electrified -- Slide -- If I think of love -- Crash -- Wood floors -- Turning into Betty -- Guillotine -- Reptile.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 4AD 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GEREberstadt, Fernanda
Summary: Rat is fifteen-year-old Celia Bonnet, who lives with her unmarried mother, Vanessa, a free-spirited local beauty, in a farmhouse compound with other single-parent families. Rat is the result of a one-night encounter between Vanessa and Gillem, the son of a London model from the 1960s, who used to spend summers in the area and whom Rat has never spoken to or met. But when Vanessa's current...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EBEMelchor, Fernanda
Summary: "The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELGermano, Kate
Summary: The Marine Corps continues to be the only service where men and women train separately in boot camp or basic training. This segregation negatively affects interaction with male marines later on, and, lower expectations of female recruits are actively maintained and encouraged. But Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano arrived at the Fourth Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island--which...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GERMANO, KATE GERGerman, Roger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.5 GERZullo, Germano.
Summary: "A man drives his truck up to a cliff's edge. Unable to go any further, he opens the back door of his truck and a flock of birds flies out, but, as the man soon discovers, a small timid bird remains. Surprised and delighted, the man acts kindly towards the bird and an intimacy develops. After lunch, the man tries to show the bird that he should fly off and join his friends. The man's comic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ZULUgalde Ruiz, Fernando.
Contents: The flames beyond the cold mountain -- A heart has asked for the pleasure -- Yearning -- Are you there? -- The remains of the day -- Moonlight.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Temporary Residence 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MONFernández, Bernardo
Summary: ¿Y si los dragones fueran reales? ¿Y si todos esos avistamientos en lagos africanos y en los océanos de Indonesia fueran ciertos? ¿Y si los hemos confundido con dinosaurios? ¿Y si fueran capaces de volar, de respirar bajo el agua, de reproducirse...? En la que considera la más querida de sus novelas, Bef nos cuenta que la respuesta a todas esas preguntas pudo haberse hallado en el barrio chino...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gran Travesía 2019
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FERRossi, Ferdinando.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 729.7 ROSFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: Kady makes waves in the bathtub, and plays with the fish, polar bears, and sea otters while singing the bathtub song.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 1996