Summary: Uxbal is a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad, or biutiful.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIUSummary: Three separate stories about love in Puerto Rico: a man accidentally reveals his brother's extra-marital affair to his sister-in-law when he mistakes her grief over the death of her grandmother for distress about the infidelity. The next story revolves around a man whose love for a bus driver drives him to take her and the bus passengers hostage until she consents to marriage. In the final...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MALVerdi, Giuseppe
Summary: Leonora loves a knight who serenades her as a troubadoor. The knight is in an army fighting a civil war agaist the Count, who also loves Leonora. The knight thinks he's the son of the gypsy woman who raised him & whose mother was killed by the Count, but he's actually the Count's brother. When the rivalry between the two men becomes violent, tragedy occurs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TROSummary: "A bourgeois woman is driving alone on a dirt road when she becomes distracted and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she becomes dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. The police confirm that there were no accidents reported in the area and everything...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEAMassenet, Jules
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TDK Mediactive 2003
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MANSummary: Once a third-rate superhero, Harvey Birdman is now a third-rate lawyer. His cases always involve legal disputes between cartoon characters, many from Hanna Barbera cartoons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HARHiggins, Melissa
Summary: "Simple text and full-color illustrations describe the true story of Staff Sergeant Reckless, the Korean War horse"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 951.9 HIGSummary: "Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars featuring the monsters of Latine myths and legends"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2022
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 395.24 ALVAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: A cultural exploration of the Latina fifteenth birthday celebration traces the experiences of a Queens teen preparing for her quinceañera, in an account that documents the history of the celebration's traditions as well as its growing popularity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 395.24 ALVÁlvarez, Noé
Summary: "Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALVAREZ, NOE ALVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ALVAREZ ALVHemingway, Mariel.
Summary: "A moving, compelling memoir about growing up and escaping the tragic legacy of mental illness, suicide, addiction, and depression in one of America's most famous families: the Hemingways"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HEMINGWAY, MARIEL HEMAlvarez, Danielle
Summary: "Always Add Lemon is the highly anticipated first book from American-born Danielle Alvarez--one of the most exciting young chefs cooking in Australia today. Taking the lessons, skills and tastes acquired working alongside some of the best chefs in America, Danielle translates formidable kitchen smarts into an inspiring collection of recipes and projects for nourishing, vegetable-forward,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hardie Grant Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ALVAlvarez, Julia
Summary: "A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Alvarez 2020Alvarez, Julia
Summary: A too busy butterfly who spends her day hurrying and worrying finds her own "quiet place" after learning about meditation and mindfulness from a flower bud.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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Summary: Alma Cruz doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories, literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and revisions, and the characters...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC ALVPresilla, Maricel E.
Summary: Presents five hundred recipes from the Latin world ranging from Mexico to Argentina and all the Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean including adobos, sofritos, empanadas, tamales, ceviches, moles, and flan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5972 PREJungkunz, Mariel
Summary: It's eleven days after Christmas and Lucía yearns to be in lush Puerto Rico celebrating Día de los Reyes with family and friends. But this year, instead of dancing and singing in the parrandas of her Puerto Rican neighborhood, she is surrounded by cold and silence in snow-blanketed Ohio. How will she ever be able to guide the Three Kings to her new home in the frosty Midwest? This picture book...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Astra Young Readers, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JUNAlvarez, Julia
Summary: In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2018
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2 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH ALVCall number: YA 468 SPANISH
Alvarez, Julia
Summary: Children wonder what happens to their loved ones after death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories, Triangle Square Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALVAlvarez, Lorena
Summary: After entering an empty turtle shell she found on a school trip, Sandy meets Hicotea, who has filled the shell with paintings, sculpture, and books, but when Sandy encounters Livion, a dark force, she learns a lesson about the power of art and imagination.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow 2019
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Summary: Provides a step-by-step weight loss plan that helps women lose weight and still retain their natural curves through a variety of Latin-inspired recipes, a meal-plan, and guidelines to a healthy lifestyle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Celebra Book 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 ALVAlvarez, Ted
Summary: "Backpacker The Survival Hacker's Handbook provides detailed instruction on how to use everyday items to survive in extraordinary circumstances. Sure, the quirk is here. For instance, learn how to make a fishhook out of a beer can, start a fire with hand sanitizer, or purify water with bleach. But it goes beyond the quirk to identify real solutions for real scenarios--with real items you carry...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Falcon Guides 2018