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Summary: ""A beautiful, fiercely honest, and nevertheless deeply empathetic look at those who police the border and the migrants who risk - and lose - their lives crossing it. In a time of often ill-informed or downright deceitful political rhetoric, this book isan invaluable corrective."--Phil Klay For Francisco Cantú the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CANTU, FRANCISCO CANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CANTU CANKleinman, Paul
Summary: Presents an introduction to philosophy, covering the origins of the discipline, some of the major figures of the past, and philosophical issues which still continue to be debated in the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2013
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Summary: Glyndebourne Festival Opera's 1972 production of Verdi's opera, based on Shakespeare's tragic play which studies the all consuming ambition of Macbeth and his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthaus Musik 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MACSummary: "1969. Marighella, Brazil's number one enemy, has no time for fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its heinous crimes of torture and infamous censorship. On the other, an intimidated people. Alongside guerrilleros 30 years younger than him and willing to fight, the revolutionary leader opts for action - all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARPatterson, James
Summary: In The 4th of July, after losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever--one that could easily be their last. A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. While awaiting trial, Lindsay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 977.162 GUPScottoline, Lisa
Summary: "Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said of the fifth book in the series, Have a Nice Guilt Trip, "Lisa and Francesca, mother and daughter, bring you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SCOScottoline, Lisa.
Summary: "Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This five book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said of the fifth book in the series, Have a Nice Guilt Trip, "Lisa and Francesca, mother and daughter, bring you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SCOTTOLINE SCOScottoline, Lisa.
Summary: "Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This four book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Booklist raved of the third book in the series, Meet Me At Emotional Baggage Claim, "readers can count on an ab-toning laugh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 SCOSummary: Obsessive-compulsive sleuth Adrian Monk is back, solving crimes and keeping things immaculate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: Everyone's favorite mother-daughter writing duo is back with a new collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. With twenty-something Francesca navigating New York City, Lisa holding down the fort in the suburbs, and Mother Mary making frequent and always entertaining appearances, there are plenty of opportunities for family-induced guilt, fighting, laughter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Brilliant but phobia-laden detective Adrian Monk never lets his obsessive-compulsive disorder stop him from solving a crime in the most ingenious way imaginable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MONStansberry, Domenic.
Summary: Set in San Francisco in the crumbling vestiges of Italian North Beach. Before becoming a private investigator, Dante Mancuso worked for a secret corporate security firm that prized effectiveness over legality. When he left, it was not on good terms, so he made sure to take enough inside information to keep himself safe from reprisal. When SFPD Detective Leanora Chin starts asking questions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASummary: From their uniquely-equipped office at SFPD headquarters, Chief Ironside continues to lead his special police unit, fighting crime others cannot. His crack team includes Sgt. Ed Brown, ex-con-turned-assistant Mark Sanger and beautiful policewoman Eve Whitfield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IRORajan, Rekha S.
Summary: "This accessible nonfiction compendium explores the creation of 10 global landmarks, from the first spark of an idea to the final layer of paint. Acclaimed educator Rekha S. Rajan encourages readers to see themselves as the engineers, builders, architects, and more through interactive stories and a unique structure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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Summary: "The date is April 18, 1906. The city of San Francisco has just been rocked and shaken by a huge earthquake. Even worse, the quake causes huge fires to break out across the city. Can you escape your damaged home before it collapses? Will you join the firefighters as they try to save the city from the devastating fires? Will you be accused of looting after helping a boy escape from some rubble?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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Summary: During the Great Depression, the impoverished residents of Canton, Ohio were offered ten dollars to pen their tales of woe. Seventy-five years later, author Ted Gup came across these moving stories and made it his goal to chronicle the families' subsequent generations. Here, Gup's sweeping narratives embody the struggles faced by the quintessential American family over the last several decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.16 Gup 2010Marzollo, Jean.
Summary: Rhymes invite the reader to find hidden objects in photographs of Christmas themes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books 2007
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E ER MAnonymous 4 (Musical group)
Contents: Prosa : Gaude virgo salutata (chant) (1:39) -- Polyphonic song : Edi beo thu hevene quene (3:34) -- Introit : Salve mater redemptoris/Salve lux langentium/Salve sine spina/Salve sancta parens (2:50) -- Motet : Lux polis refulgens/Lux et gloria (3:19) -- Kyrie : Kyria christifera (3:57) --Gloria (2:59) -- Motet : Spiritus et alme/Gaude virgo salutata (1:49) -- Song : Miro genere (1:33) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi France 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL ANOAngell, Roger.
Summary: "From the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, a compendium of writings that celebrate the view from the tenth decade of his richly lived life In February 2014, The New Yorker published an essay by Roger Angell called "This Old Man," a meditation on life at age ninety-three. With great humor and not an ounce of self-pity or sentimentality, Angell wrote about health, mind, and memory;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ANGSummary: Left wheelchair-bound by a sniper's bullet, long-time San Francisco Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside, becomes the head of his own special police unit. Operating from a specially equipped office at SFPD headquarters, Ironside fights crime using intelligence and action. His crack team includes Sgt. Ed Brown, ex-con-turned-assistant Mark Sanger, and beautiful policewoman Eve Whitfield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IROMarshall, Greg
Summary: "A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets--as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy. Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes (this is the nineties) and you'll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a wheelchair after leg surgeries, pondering why he's crushing on half...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2023