Summary: Romero is the true story of the Catholic priest Archbishop Oscar Romero who lived in El Salvador during the political unrest in the 1970s. The government launched a 'terror campaign' against the guerillas in an attempt to crush them. Archbishop Romero's protests against governments' actions was perceived as disloyalty. As an example to others, the government began to destroy churches and murder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vision Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROMSummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOAda, Alma Flor.
Summary: A young girl enjoys the similarities and the differences between her English-speaking and Spanish-speaking grandparents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 1998
Copies Available at Peninsula
2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 468 SpanishCall number: JE FIC ADA
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ADASummary: Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2015
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EXCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI EXSummary: "Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONSummary: FBI agent Don and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie, work together to solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very distinct perspective.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMKornbluh, Felicia Ann
Summary: "Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, historian Felicia Kornbluh delivers an urgent book about two key reproductive rights victories in New York that set the tone for the nation. A Woman's Life Is a Human Life is the story of two movements that transformed the politics of reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize abortion and the campaign against...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.08 KORSummary: Tells the story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his ailing yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONDSummary: Collection of eight classic stories. Swashbuckling pirates, talking rabbits in top hats, majestic horses, and flittering fairies spring into action, setting into motion the tales that have delighted audiences for ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STOSummary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIDSummary: The Ultra City Smiths story unfolds via the stop-motion animation of baby dolls repurposed as a grown-up cast of characters. The series hinges on an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of fictional metropolis Ultra City's most famous magnate. Two intrepid detectives follow the case, rallying to fight against their city's dangerous corruption, at a high cost to themselves and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ULTSummary: Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUG1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SUG
Summary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESSummary: Drama about an FBI agent who recruits his mathematical-genius brother to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. The two brothers take on the most confounding criminal cases from a very distinctive perspective. Inspired by actual events, the series depicts how the confluence of police work and mathematics provides unexpected revelations and answers to the most...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMAvicii
Contents: Peace of mind -- Heaven -- SOS -- Tough love -- Bad reputation -- Ain't a thing -- Hold the line -- Freak -- Excuse me Mr. Sir -- Heart upon my sleeve -- Never leave me -- Fades away.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AVISummary: In season two of the Finnish Nordic Noir hit, chief investigator Kari Sorjonen of the Serious Crimes Unit deals with a variety of harrowing homicides on the border between Finland and Russia. Each of these murder cases takes the viewer on a journey into humanity's dark underbelly, in which no one will be able to escape their past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV BORMana
Contents: disc 1. De pies a cabeza (5:40) -- Oye mi amor (4:54) -- Refrigerador (3:59) -- Donde jugaran los niños (Obertura) (6:30) -- Soledad (6:12) -- Huele a tristeza (7:12) -- Te llore un rio (6:34) -- Estoy agotado (4:16) -- Perdido en un barco (4:19) -- Buscandola (4:11) --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: WEA Latina 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MANContents: Roar (Katy Perry) -- Blurred lines (Robin Thicke ; featuring T.I. and Pharrell) -- Take back the night (Justin Timberlake) -- Summertime sadness (Cedric Gervais remix edit) (Lana Del Rey) -- Get lucky (Daft Punk) -- Treasure (Bruno Mars) -- Love somebody (Maroon 5) -- Wake me up (Avicii) -- We can't stop (Miley Cyrus) -- Applause (Lady Gaga) -- Slow down (Selena Gomez) -- Everything has changed...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Group 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NowAvicii
Contents: Waiting for love -- Talk to myself -- Touch me -- Ten more days -- For a better day -- Broken arrows -- True believer -- City lights -- Pure grinding -- Sunset Jesus -- Can't catch me -- Somewhere in Stockhollm -- Trouble -- Gonna love ya.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AVIAvicii
Contents: Wake me up (4:09) -- You make me (3:53) -- Hey brother (4:15) -- Addicted to you (2:28) -- Dear boy (7:59) -- Liar liar (3:59) -- Shame on me (4:13) -- Lay me down (5:00) -- Hope there's someone (6:21) -- Heart upon my sleeve (4:43).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AVIContents: Lonely boy (the Black Keys) -- Stronger (what doesn't kill you) (Kelly Clarkson) -- We are never ever getting back together (Taylor Swift) -- Somebody that I used to know (Gotye ; featuring Kimbra) -- Wide awake (Wide awake) -- We are young (Fun ; featuring Janelle Monáe) -- Shake it out (Florence + the machine) -- Try (P!nk) -- Payphone (Maroon 5 ; featuring Wiz Khalifa) -- Call me maybe...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GraSummary: A female investment banker, fighting to rise to the top of the corporate ladder at a competitive Wall Street firm, navigates a controversial tech IPO in the post-financial crisis world, where loyalties are suspect, regulations are tight, but pressure to bring in "big money" remains high.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016