Summary: Middle-aged Magdalena has lost contact with her son after he took off with a friend from their town of Guanajuato to cross the border into the U.S., hopeful to find work. Desperate to find out what happened to him, and to know whether or not he's even alive, she embarks on an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous journey to discover the truth. At the same time, a young man named Miguel has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IDECapobianco, 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"--
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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 CAPEberstadt, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELFernando 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 MEMValdez, Rex
Summary: "Bunso meets the Filipino boogeyman, a creature Filipino parents use as a motivator to get their kids to behave." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paw Prints Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VALValdes, Bebo
Contents: Lamento Cubano (3:29) -- Son de la Loma (3:24) -- El MaraSnGon (3:13) -- Bolero potpourri (3:09) -- PriquitGin Pin Pon (4:25) -- Negro de sociedad (2:15) -- Buche y Pluma "Na mGa" (3:59) -- El reloj de Pastora (3:50) -- Conga potpourri (3:39) -- Ogguere (6:44) -- Pare Cochero (2:14) -- Cumbanchero (4:30) -- Si llego a besarte (3:39) -- Guaracha potpourri (3:32) -- Romance en la Habana (4:29) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN VALValdez, Patricia
Summary: Looks at the inspiring story of Joan Procter, a pioneering female scientist who loved reptiles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PROCervantes, 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...
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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 VILCanal,Maria Fernanda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barrons Educational Series, Inc. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Art Crafts Llado i RibaSummary: A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegría's poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COWValdez, Carlos.
Contents: San Francisco tiene su propio son (9:41) -- Descarga en faux (5:41) -- Desde el fondo del rio (7:16) -- Luz (6:55) -- Yo tengo ritmo (3:08) -- Guloya swing (4:27) -- Oguerre (5:25) -- Son de Patato (7:17) -- Señor Blues/Mbula enoka (8:15) -- Guajira en el espacio (2:28) -- Sangre de Africa (4:20) -- Kora-son (6:31).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN VALBalius, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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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
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameo/Abrams 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.9861 BOTPessoa, Fernando
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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 VALFernandes, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FERFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: Autumn has settled on the farm but fallen leaves aren't the only signs of the season. Find out what animals Kitten sees preparing themselves for winter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERUgalde 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 MONFernandez, Caroline
Summary: "Grandma keeps running off doing funny business. On a field trip! And if she doesn't stop, we'll miss the school bus. It's field trip day and all we want to do is have a simple, no shenanigans, fun day at the museum. But when dust makes Grandma start sneezing, we know we're in for a wild time. With each sneeze, Grandma turns into a different dinosaur and takes off. It's up to me and Moonie to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Common Deer Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: When the rain starts suddenly, Kitten and the other animals must find someplace dry to stay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2011