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Alba, Víctor. Awad, Amal Factor Fernando Trueba Glass, Joe Tobar, Héctor Villa-Lobos, Heitor.Fernando 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMAlba, Víctor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Heritage Pub. Co. 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972 ALBSummary: After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria's England, hides behind the walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure. The doctor is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOLSummary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRASummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: The summer after Ana's high school graduation is a turning point in her life. She has to decide whether to go to college and experience life, or stay home, get married and work at her sister's struggling garment factory.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY REAGlass, Joe
Summary: "In The Pride, Fabman is sick of being seen as a joke. Tired of the LGBTQ+ community being seen as inferior to straight heroes, he thinks it's about damn time he did something about it. Bringing together some of the world's greatest LGBTQ+ superheroes, the Pride is born to protect the world and fight prejudice, misrepresentation, and injustice--not to mention a pesky supervillain or two. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GLASummary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHESummary: Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he hears the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris has invited the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He gathers together his former musicians and a young solo violin virtuoso to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. If they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ARC Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CONAwad, Amal
Summary: For as long as humans have existed, we have consulted everything from the stars to stones with symbols on them. Growing up in an Arab Muslim family, SBS journalist and TEDx presenter Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life - superstition, fatalism and magical jinn were more real to her than any Hollywood fantasy. From fundy (aka fundamentalist) Muslim to New Age...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Murdoch Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.092 AWASummary: Follows the intertwining storylines of a diverse group of Los Angelenos as they navigate their way through romance and heartbreak over the course of one Valentine's Day. Couples and singles experience the pinnacles and pitfalls of finding, keeping or ending relationships in a day in the life of love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VAL RATED PG-13Summary: A charismatic yet psychotic serial killer communicates with other active serial killers and activates a cult of believers following his every command.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FOLVilla-Lobos, Heitor.
Contents: No. 1 (36:55) -- No. 2 (26:26) -- No. 3 (25:50) -- No. 4 (29:08) -- No. 5 (20:41).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: London 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL VILFactor
Contents: Out of the same thing (feat. the Gaff) -- One record -- Home again (feat. Nomad) -- More rude than handsome (feat. Awol One) -- The leen (feat. Josh Martinez) -- Electric furs of a lynx (feat. Noah 23) -- Moonlight (feat. Josh Fischel) -- Lonely city (feat. Moka Only) -- New day -- Time of the year (feat. Sadat X) -- Good old Smokey (my kanine [sic]) (feat. Myka 9) -- On my way (feat. Kirby...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fake Four 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP FACSummary: As a Latin American nation nears collapse, idealistic policeman Agustin Rejas faces his greatest challenge: to catch the mysterious terrorist leader Ezequiel. Mass panic sets in as the terrorist attacks become more ferocious, and Rejas finds himself drawn to Yolanda, his daughter's beautiful ballet teacher. As the search for Ezequil comes nearer, he and Yolanda must choose between love, country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DANSummary: "All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: "October, 1940. Manchester, England. As valiant Jewish RAF pilot David defends the skies against the Luftwaffe, Harry and Kasia finally arrive home. How will Robina cope with another refugee under roof? When yet another house guest arrives -- Sir James, a civil servant on official business -- he looks set to beguile his host, but will Kasia be charmed as well? Meanwhile, in Berlin, teenager...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WORSummary: "They are The Unit, a covert Special Forces team operating outside the usual military chain of command, risking their lives on undercover missions at home and abroad. Their identities are highly classified, a secret that's also fiercely guarded by their wives. But despite the men's determination to protect their families from the dangers of the job, they've learned that the enemy they have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNITobar, Héctor
Summary: "Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students to offer a spirited rebuke to racist ideas about Latino...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.868 TOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.868 TOBSummary: "One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CANSummary: The Unit is a covert Special Forces team that operates outside the military chain of command. They are on the front lines, protecting U.S. citizens and foreigners alike, risking their lives daily in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNITobar, Héctor
Summary: "In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tobar 2020Summary: The Doctor is traveling through time and space in his TARDIS. New traveling companions Bill Potts and Nardole, old enemies with the return of Missy, and lots of adventures are awaiting him in his season ten journey.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCTobar, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014