Summary: A tall ten-year-old girl (noun 1. a female child; 2. a very young single woman) who's determined to figure out how the world works, heads out on a heroic adventure (noun 1. extraordinary journey, 2. an unexpected event that deserves to be reported, 3. chance) to look for the only person who she believes has the answers: the prime minister of Portugal. An economic crisis, the Discovery Channel,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SAD

Andreu, Maria E.

Summary: Feeling blocked after moving from Argentina to New Jersey, a sixteen-year-old poet finds herself torn between a cute American boy in her math class and a Greek student who understands the struggles she is facing in an ESL class.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AND

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC AND

Andreu, Maria E.

Summary: When seventeen-year-old Julieta starts writing a rom-com mystery and posting it online, she unexpectedly receives comments from a mysterious user, so with three suspects in mind, Julieta sets out to find her secret admirer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: YA FIC AND

Summary: Tom, Sandra, Randy and Curt are office co-workers who live in a city's downtown where virtually all the office buildings and malls are connected by a maze of glassed-in bridges. They have all staked a month's salary on a bet to see who can stay indoors the longest.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WAY

Summary: 10-year-old Luke lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Hank is a "hill person" who doesn't take kindly to people looking down on him. Luke witnesses a fight that Hank gets into that causes the death of another person. With better times ahead to look forward to, the town gets...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAI

Summary: Madea gets coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas, but the biggest surprise is what they'll find when they arrive. As the small, rural town prepares for its annual Christmas Carnival, new secrets are revealed and old relationships are tested while Madea dishes her own brand of Christmas Spirit to all.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAD

Mariza.

Contents: O silencio da guitarra -- Cavaleiro monge -- Feira de Castro -- Vielas de Alfama -- Retrato -- Fado curvo -- Menino do bairro negro -- Caravelas -- Entre o rio e a razao -- O deserto -- Primavera -- Aneis do meu cabelo.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Square Records 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MAR

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DAN

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Summary: A man who has served a sentence for arson returns to his rural home in Galicia, Spain, and tries to resume normal life with his elderly mother, but when another devastating fire starts in the region, he becomes the primary suspect.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIR

Mariza

Contents: Trigueirinha -- Quem me dera -- Amor perfeito -- Oração -- Sou (rochedo) -- É mentira -- Semente viva -- Por tanto te amar -- Nosso tempo -- Verde limão -- Quebranto -- Oi nha mãe -- Fado errado -- Fado refúgio -- Triguerinha.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Music 2018

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MAR

Mariza.

Summary: Master of Portugal's fado, Mariza'a debut finds her escaping with a familiar sound of her voice accompanied by her evocative guitar.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Square Records 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MAR

Summary: With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CIE

Summary: A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIC

Summary: "Julián receives an unexpected visit from his friend Tomás, who lives in Canada. The two men, accompanied by Julián's faithful dog, Truman, will share emotional and surprising moments prompted by Julián's complicated situation."--IMDb.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRU

Contents: Jai ganesh / (Anandi Bhattacharya) (5:44) -- Tillie sage / (Kyle Carey) (4:19) -- Ouden oida = I know nothing / (Kristi Stassinopoulou with Stathis Kalyviotis) (4:31) -- Ya mo / (Dozan, featuring Shireen Abu-Khader) (3:28) -- Me so wa yen / (Sally Nyolo) (3:30) -- Benim yarim / (Olcay Bayir) (5:01) -- Annapoorne / (Jyotsna Srikanth) (5:20) -- Baǧa girdim / (She' Koyokh, featuring Çiǧdem Aslan)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT ROU

Ottaviani, Jim

Summary: Introduces the lives and work of three eminent primatologists, sharing insights into their educations under mentor Louis Leakey while exploring their pivotal contributions to twentieth-century natural science.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, First Second 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 OTT

Summary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAM

Marta

Contents: Intro -- Today -- When it's going wrong -- Nowhere -- Think of you -- Moving through water -- Swimming away -- Walking -- Czarno czarny.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MAR

Mariza

Summary: New Best of from much-loved Portuguese Fado singer, who was a smash at the Sydney Festival in 2006 and subsequently toured Australia again in 2007 and 2009 (both times performing at the Sydney Opera House). The album features a guest appearance from recent Australian visitor Buika.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MAR

Mariza.

Contents: Loucura -- Medo -- Maria Lisboa -- Montras -- Há uma música do povo -- Menino do bairro negro -- Meu fado meu -- Duas lágrimas de orvalho -- Cavaleiro monge -- Recusa -- Há palavras que nos beijam -- Feira de Castro -- Desejos vãos -- Primavera -- Chuva -- Ó gente da minha terra.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Square Records 2007

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MAR

Summary: A black comedy in which a young man's sexual impulses go haywire when he discovers that the woman he has just slept with happens to be his mother's lesbian lover. Set against Reykjavik's swinging nightlife, Hlynur soon finds that he can't continue resisting adulthood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONE

Summary: An exceptional anthology exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration-- written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands... while also dancing at weddings, keeping diaries, teaching ESL. In presenting the myriad facets...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COM