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Avant-garde (Music) Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction Human behavior Human-animal relationships Immigrants United States Biography Juvenile literature Lakota Indians History 20th century Fiction Large type books Mexican Americans Biography Juvenile literature Police New York (State) Fiction Wolves BehaviorSoderguit, Alfredo
Summary: A beautiful, simple, and deep book about how accepting others can enrich us all. Hens and their chicks are living safe and secure in their coop, or at least it seems that way. They are happy with life as it is. Each one knows what she should be doing. They don't even seem to notice when every now and then one of them is carried off. Until one day some capybara appear. It's hunting season and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids/Greystone Books 2021
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Summary: When Alfredo Corchado moved to Philadelphia in 1987, he felt as if he was the only Mexican in the city. But in a restaurant called Tequilas, he connected with two other Mexican men and one Mexican American, all feeling similarly isolated. Over the next three decades, the four friends continued to meet, coming together over their shared Mexican roots and their love of tequila. One was a radical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 COREstrada, Alfredo José.
Summary: Takes readers from the Plaza de Armas, the tree-lined square where Havana was founded by Spanish conquistadors in 1519, to the Malecon, the elegant boulevard along the shore where Fidel Castro rode a Soviet tank in triumph. Estrada reveals the essence of his native city through the events that shaped its fascinating history and the people who left their stamp on its cobblestoned streets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 ESTQuiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
Contents: Starry Nights -- Faraway -- The Kaliman Maneuver -- Lessons from the fields -- Where the road doesn't lead -- Green eyes -- From harvest to Harvard -- In the land of giants -- Question the rules, when possible make your own -- Brainstorm -- Hopkins -- Gray matter -- Seeing the light -- Finding the steel in your soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 QUIANONES-HINOJOSA, ALFREDO QUIFest, Manfredo.
Contents: Brazilian Dorian Dream -- Facing East -- Jungle Cat -- That's What She Says -- Slaughter On Tenth Avenue -- Who Needs It -- Brazilian No. 1. Originally released in 1976.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Far Out Recordings 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN FESManfredo, Lou.
Summary: When NYPD veteran Joe Rizzo and his ambitious new partner Mike McQueen are given the delicate task of finding and returning the runaway daughter of a city councilman, they learn that the councilman may or may not be more interested in something his daughter has taken with her than in her safety--something that may or may not be evidence of his wrongdoing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANBeartrack-Algeo, Alfreda
Summary: It’s 1929 and times are hard for Alfred’s Lakota family on the Dakota prairie. Alfred knows his grandfather could use a new tractor, so with the help of his friends and the roan stallion, he makes plans to win the prize money at the annual White River Relay Race. But time is short, as the race is just weeks away.Unaware of the dangers that lie ahead, Alfred prepares to train the horse. Even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEALaredo, Ruth.
Contents: Three dances from the Three-cornered hat / Manuel de Falla (10:00) -- Songs of Spain : op. 232 / Isaac Albeniz (22:00) -- El amor brujo : suite / Manuel De Falla (16:00) -- Suite espanola / Isaac Albeniz (17:00).
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Classics 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL LARManfredo, Lou.
Summary: "Brooklyn cop Joe Rizzo is ready to retire and spend the rest of his days with his wife, doting on their grown-up girls. But when his youngest daughter Carol decides to follow her dad onto the force, Joe decides to stay on until she's settled, calling infavors to get her assigned to the easiest house, the best training officer-- anything to protect his baby girl. And while there, he's expected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANManfredo, Lou.
Summary: As twenty-year NYPD veteran Joe Rizzo edges closer to retirement he finds most baffling case of his career, a murder investigation. The victim, Robert Lauria, was practically a hermit and was dead ten days before anyone found him. So who strangled him late one night as he made tea in his kitchen? And could there be a connection to the headline-grabbing murder of a Broadway producer a day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANSummary: For the first time in years the entire Rodriguez clan comes home to Chicago to celebrate Christmas where traditions will be celebrated. During the course of this eventful week they will celebrate one member's safe return from Iraq, secrets will be revealed, old resentments forgotten, each family member will learn something about themselves and each other, and the healing power of laughter will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NOTMills, Deborah
Summary: Alfredo y su papá deben cruzar la frontera en un viaje difícil de México a los Estados Unidos. ¿Encontrarán el nuevo hogar que están buscando en el otro lado? Basándose en hechos reales, esta historia cobra vida gracias a la ilustradora Mexicana Claudia Navarro, y está repleta de notas al final del texto para iniciar conversaciones sobre inmigración.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 325 MILAlfero, Teo
Summary: The wolf has enthralled humankind for millennia, as a creature to be both feared and admired. Legends, behavioral science, and biological research all suggest that human beings picked up many of their key evolutionary traits -- such as cooperative hunting and raising of their young, and their high degree of emotional intelligence and deep bonding -- from wolves. Teo and his team at Wolf Heart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 599.773 ALFAllred, David
Contents: The cell -- Mandatory soul -- Nature's course -- Full moon -- Fading away -- Family -- Lexington Hills.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK ALLBeartrack-Algeo, Alfreda
Summary: "The Land Grab is the story of Alfred Swallow and his Lower Brule Lakota family as they fend off attempts to take their land. In 1929 Alfred is eleven years old and has many responsibilities not expected of a young boy. He and his Lakota family are being forced to leave behind their tribal values and traditions and assimilate into mainstream of American culture and society. His grandfather has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEABeartrack-Algeo, Alfreda
Summary: "To fulfill the government's policy to "destroy the Indian and save the man," Alfred Swallow and his friends Orson and Junior are forced to leave their families and homes to attend a residential mission school. The students' beautiful long hair is cut, and they are forbidden to speak their native language. Even the slightest infraction is severely punished. At the height of hopelessness, Alfred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEAManfredo, Lou.
Summary: When NYPD veteran Joe Rizzo and his ambitious new partner Mike McQueen are given the delicate task of finding and returning the runaway daughter of a city councilman, they learn that the councilman may or may not be more interested in something his daughter has taken with her than in her safety--something that may or may not be evidence of his wrongdoing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MANSacheri, Eduardo A. (Eduardo Alfredo)
Summary: "--Ese es tu problema. No se puede dudar en el medio de una guerra popular, Cabezón. --A vencer o morir, como dicen ustedes. --¡Más bien que a vencer o morir! --¿Y no pensaste qué pasa si no vencemos? ¿Estás seguro de que preferís morir? --¡No, porque vamos a vencer! --¿Y si no? --¡Si no, nada, porque vamos a vencer, te digo! Corre 1975 y dos jóvenes integrantes de distintas organizaciones...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SACSacheri, Eduardo A. (Eduardo Alfredo)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SACCoppel, Alfred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COPHITCHCOCK, ALFRED.
Summary: Contains 14 motion pictures directed by Alfred Hitchcock, originally released between 1942 and 1976.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HKazin, Alfred
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Publisher / Publication Date: MJF Books 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5 KazinSheinwold, Alfred
Summary: Includes easy-to-read instructions and illustrations of strategy for 101 card games.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.4 SHEStieglitz, Alfred
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bullfinch Press 1983