Summary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CANSummary: 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 PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Sandoval, Arturo.
Contents: Moontrane (5:40) -- Swingin' (8:15) -- Moment's notice (7:18) -- Streets of desire (7:43) -- Real Mcbop (6:08) -- Weirdfun (6:27) -- Dizzy's atmosphere (3:50) -- Reflection (7:32) -- Woody (7:11) -- It never gets old (5:25) -- Mack "The knife" (5:41).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: GRP Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SANArturia
Summary: Whether you’re looking for your first, affordable hardware synth or are a collector looking for original sounds and unique interface, MicroFreak is the synth you need. This out-there little music machine features a versatile digital oscillator so you can create rare and interesting sounds with ease. Modes like Wavetable, KarplusStrong, Harmonic OSC, and Superwave give adventurous musicians the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arturia 0000
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Summary: What does integrity do in the face of adversity/oppression? What does honesty do in the face of lies/deception? What does decency do in the face of insult? How does virtue meet brute force? These four questions posed by the great African American civil rights activist and author W. E. B. Du Bois in his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk are expounded upon in a speech given by Dr. Cornel West...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ O'FAO'Farrill, Arturo.
Contents: Moment's notice / John Coltrane -- Brava / Santa Debriano -- Chinas y criollas / Rob Mounsey -- Pure emotion / Chico O'Farrill -- Ya yo / Papo Vasquez -- Little Susan / Randy Weston -- Arturo's closet / Vasquez, O'Farrill -- Siboney / Ernesto Lecuona -- Walking batterie woman / Carla Bley -- Darn that dream / Delange, Van Heusen.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ O'FASandoval, Arturo.
Contents: Real McBop -- Eso es lo que hay -- Eastern blues -- Blues for Diz -- Lovely one -- Sureña -- If I ain't got you -- Rhythm of our world.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Half Note Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SANSandoval, Arturo.
Contents: Luna de miel en Guama (3:58) -- Maria (2:56) -- Reggae mi lugar (4:51) -- A mi manera = My way (4:02) -- Almendra (4:27) -- Red moon (5:27) -- A night in Tunisia (15:36) -- Blues en dos partes (6:46)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Milan Latino 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SandoSangalli, Arturo
Summary: The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript had never been found? Where would it be located? Two mathematicians, one American, one British, set out, unbeknownst to each other, to find the missing manuscript.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANKrieger, Allegra
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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Place a hold to request this item.Allegra, Mike
Summary: Kimmie and Myron invent a machine that can collect golf balls from the bottom of their local course's pond scum, but they discover a friendly creature lurking beneath the water.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALLPérez-Reverte, Arturo.
Summary: A hacker breaks into the pope's computer, asking him to save from demolition a 17th century church in Seville. The Vatican dispatches handsome Father Lorenzo Quart who quickly attracts the attention of an aristocratic beauty embroiled in the affair. By the author of The Flanders Panel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERRubinstein, Artur
Contents: Op. 9 (17:00) -- Op. 15 (14:00) -- Op. 27 (12:00) -- Op. 32 (11:00) -- Op. 37 (14:00) -- Op. 48 (14:00) -- Op. 55 (12:00) -- Op. 62 (13:00) -- Op. 72 (4:40).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Red Seal 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CHOPerez-Reverte, Arturo.
Summary: When she discovers that her boyfriend Guero, a Mexican drug smuggler, has been killed by rivals and that she is the next target, Teresa Mendoza must give up her old life and become a member of a dark and deadly world in order to survive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPřez-Reverte, Arturo.
Summary: Max and Mercedes first meet in 1928, when she is the wife of a noted composer and he is a professional dance partner on the ship taking her to Buenos Aires, and their romance does not end although life takes them in different directions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468 PERPérez-Reverte, Arturo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPérez-Reverte, Arturo
Summary: En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise ship. There Max teaches the stunning stranger and her erudite husband to dance the tango. A steamy affair ignites at sea and continues as the seedy decadence of Buenos Aires envelops the secret lovers. Nice, 1937. Still drawn to one another a decade later, Max and Mecha rekindle their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERGallego, Ruben
Summary: "Opening up for the first time about his combat experience, Congressman Ruben Gallego (D, AZ) delivers a moving and unforgettable memoir of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GALLEGO, RUBEN GALContents: Disc 1. The triumphant journey / Dafnis Prieto (6:03) -- The Afro Latin jazz suite. Mother Africa ; All of the Americas ; Adagio ; What now? / Arturo O'Farrill (21:41) -- Guajira simple / Alexis Bosch (9:28) -- Alabanza / Michele Rosewoman (9:45) -- Blues guaguancó / Bobby Carcassés (6:02) --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Motema Music 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ O'FHuston, Allegra
Summary: This is the time to run away, she thinks, to call it a mistake, to race back to home and safety. If I don't go home I will never feel safe again. On meeting Micajah Burnett, the son of an old school friend, Eve Armanton is faced with a choice. Years of a miserable marriage means she's as broken as the beautiful antique violin she's just found, and Micajah offers a spark of life, an opportunity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSKent, Allegra.
Summary: Sophie the swan joins a ballet class and works hard to earn a part in the end-of-year performance of Swan Lake.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KENKrieger, Allegra
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK KRIAalegra, Snoh
Contents: Indecisive -- Lost you -- In your eyes -- Just like that -- Neon peach (feat. Tyler, the Creator) -- We don't have to talk about it -- Tangerine dream -- Temporary highs -- Violet skies -- In the moment (feat. Tyler, the Creator) -- On my mind (feat. James Fauntleroy) -- Taste -- Everything -- Dying 4 your love -- Save yourself.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SHOAllegra, Mike
Summary: Kimmie is overwhelmed with deadlines as she fulfills tooth fairy commissions, scrambles to invent a machine with her best friend Myron to enter in a contest and to beat her rival, and has to help an incorrigible alien repair his UFO.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2022