Summary: Set against the backdrop of Pakistan during the turbulent 1960s, a family is ripped apart by religious beliefs and civil war. A young boy from Bangladesh is sent away by his Muslim father to a Madrasah. He struggles to adapt to a harsh monastic life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLASummary: This tenth installment of "Love peace & poetry" covers Chile from the years 1967 to 1973, an era of tremendous political turmoil in the region that hardly stopped local longhairs from plugging in and, if anything, was a source of motivation.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Q.D.K. Media 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Ebensperger, Gabriel
Summary: "A child who feels like an outsider in a world that's set against him. A boy who sings on the playground instead of playing soccer, who likes Barbies, and whose secretly favorite car is the one called Tutti Frutti. Gabriel Ebensperger shares with us his struggles with his own inadequacy, his feelings of guilt, and above all, his fear that his "difference" will be discovered. The vibrant bright...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EBENSPERGER, GABRIEL EBESummary: In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 33 RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIOSummary: The oldest skate park in Santiago, Los Reyes, brings together teenagers from very different social and cultural backgrounds. Chola is young and vigorous and spends her days playing with balls that she throws to the pools in which skaters ride. Football is an old dog, but beautiful and energetic, that obsessively accompanies Chola in this game. As Football grows old and Chola is left alone, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REYFranklin, Jonathan
Summary: This is the account of the 2010 San Jose mine rescue in Chile, after one of the longest human entrapments in history. With his coveted "rescue pass," the author was permitted access far past the police perimeter. It would be seventeen long days before the miners were discovered alive and the world press descended. It would be another fifty-two days before the miners were all successfully...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.11 FRALi, Zhuqing
Summary: "Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each other's best friends until, in their twenties, they were separated by chance at the end of the Chinese Civil War. For the next thirty years, while one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LIPowell, Michael
Summary: The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 POWSummary: Director Patricio Guzman travels to the driest place on earth, Chile's Atacama Desert, where astronomers examine distant galaxies, archaeologists uncover traces of ancient civilizations, and women dig for the remains of disappeared relatives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOSAronson, Marc.
Summary: "The amazing story of the Chilean miners and their incredible rescue!"-- Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.11 AROManríquez, Rafael.
Contents: La cueca de los poetas = The cueca of the poets (2:01) -- La golondrina chilota = The swallow from Chiloé (3:30) -- Espigas para un recuerdo = Ears of wheat as a memento (3:11) -- La burrerita = The little burro driver (3:16) -- Enredaderas = The creeping vine (3:18) -- Brindis por Violeta Parra = Toast to Violeta Parra (:57) -- Adios, corazón amante = Good-bye, dear lover (3:04) -- Mi casa de...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MANHunt, Dallas
Summary: "As young Awâsis searches for the ingredients to make Kohkum's world-famous bannock recipe, they run into a variety of other-than-human relatives that help them along in their journey. Includes a pronunciation guide and Kohkum's world-famous bannock recipe at the back of the book."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Highwater Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HUNRedford, Ruth
Summary: "Periods. Every person who menstruates has a different relationship with their "Aunt Flow": some good, and some...not-so-good. This 4-color graphic novel guide embraces all the icky, all the sticky, and all the confusing of our monthly cycle, acknowledging that there's no cookie cutter way to manage the physical and emotion mayhem. Filled with consumable, bite-sized tips, tricks, and "inside"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mayo Clinic Press Kids, an imprint of Mayo Clinic Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Koons, Jon.
Summary: The villagers of Chelm, in the rabbi's absence, send a messenger to a nearby village in order to be reminded how to prepare for the coming Hanukkah.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC KOOSummary: After enduring unspeakable torture, Dean escapes from Hell, rescued by an angel who recruits Sam and Dean into Heaven's battle against Hell for the future of humankind. Amid whispers that a certain Fallen Angel will soon be freed from his prison deep in Hell. If Sam and Dean can't stop Lucifer from walking free, he'll bring on the Apocalypse. Meanwhile, the Winchester brothers reunite and hit...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SUPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUPSummary: A glum, middle-aged bachelor, Don Andres, is the heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family. Andres suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his abusive and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money off of his well-to-do rival. The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinematica 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CORTijoux, Ana
Contents: Vengo -- Somos sur (with Shadia Mansour) -- Antipatriarca -- Somos todos erroristas (with Hordatoj) -- Er-rrro-r -- Los peces gordos no pueden volar -- Creo en ti (with Juanito Ayala) -- Los diablitos -- Interludio agua -- Rio abajo -- Oro negro -- Delta (with MC Niel) -- No más -- Todo lo sólido se desvanece en el aire -- Emilia (with RR Burning) -- Bonus tracks: Rumbo al sol -- Mi verdad.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nacional Records 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN TIJTobar, Héctor
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San José mine collapse outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.11 TOBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 983 TOBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 983 TOBChatwin, Bruce
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.28 CHAFlorence, Melanie
Summary: "This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLOCooper, Marc.
Summary: The earthshaking news of October 1998 that General Pinochet had been arrested in Britain unleashed two years of international interest in the case and its ramifications for traveling tyrants the world over. But even after the General's return home, the media has ignored the more important story of how his detention lifted a stranglehold that had suffocated Chile's moral sensibility for a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VERSO 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 983 COOCrouch, Gregory
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.27 CROSummary: Learn all about the seven continents and their defining characteristics. What was Pangaea? What is a continental shelf? What countries comprise each continent? How can I easily remember all of the continents? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with exciting video and dynamic graphics that reinforce important concepts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023