Summary: "Charles is a renowned author whose alcoholism drove his family away years back. New he spends his days drowning his sorrow in copious amounts of wine. To make matters even worse, he receives a surprising visit from a man claiming to be his brain cancer! Annoying, talkative and wickedly sarcastic, the cancer lingers and taunts while Charles begins to reexamine his life. With time running...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Métropole 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BRUSummary: A captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto: the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AALSmile Down Upon Us (Musical group)
Contents: Girl of a skin-coloured blanket no 2 -- Child's walk -- My body continents -- Two weeks last summer -- Qookino farm and tractor factory band -- Kotoba no yukue -- Rayla no lullaby -- Ken ken pah -- A vessel in the fragrance -- Child's walk reprise -- Tip toe through the tulips
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: digital
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SMISummary: "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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: What starts out as a weekly anonymous tryst between a divorced man and a married woman turns into a searing portrait of loneliness and emotional need.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTGoldsmith, Howard.
Summary: Young Thomas Edison saves a child from being hit by a train and, as his reward, asks for training as a telegraph operator because that will help him prepare to become an inventor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE GolMassenet, Jules
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TDK Mediactive 2003
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MANEnrigue, Alvaro
Summary: A 1599 Roman tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Quevedo represents the way the world changed in their times, in a novel that goes from the execution of Anne Boleyn to Mexico after the conquest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENREnrigue, Alvaro
Summary: "From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cortés was accompanied by his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ENRSummary: How does your brain create your reality? Are you in control, or is your brain controlling you? Discover the surprising answers based on the latest research in this journey into the human brain with neuroscientist Heather Berlin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV YOUAncel
Summary: The ANCEL AD310 can easily determine the cause of the check engine light coming on, quickly read and clear diagnostic trouble codes, read live data and hard memory data, view freezeframe, I/M monitor readiness, and collect vehicle information. Supporting OBDII protocols such as KWP2000, J1850 VPW, ISO9141, J1850 PWM and CAN, this device is compatible with 1996 US-based, 2000 EU-based and Asian...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: OBDSpace Technology co., Ltd. 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Ortiz, Álvaro
Summary: "Polly, Moho, and Piter haven't seen each other in years. Maybe for good reasons. But to help their dead friend reach his final resting place, they've piled into a car for a long and surreal road trip--aided only by a map marked with a mysterious 'x'...and an ex-circus monkey. While our heroes wrestle with the ghosts of their past, up ahead are rusting ships, banjo-playing bounty hunters,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ORTLecrae
Summary: Lecrae Moore, known by his stage name Lecrae, is an American Christian hip hop artist, record producer, and occasional actor. He is the president, co-owner and co-founder of the independent record label Reach Records, and is also the co-founder of the non-profit organization ReachLife Ministries. To date, he has released five studio albums and one mixtape as a solo artist, and has released four...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reach 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Lecrae 2012Aline
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALIAnile.
Contents: False tense -- Jack of clubs -- Inside my head -- Don't tell me -- City of injustice -- Losing my mind -- Seventh sound -- Stay with me -- Fortune tells -- Not the way (to run) -- Exchange -- Between the sides -- Running from time
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Med School Music
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ANISummary: Bill Nye is a man on a mission, to stop the spread of anti-scientific thinking across the world. With intimate and exclusive access, as well as plenty of wonder and whimsy, this behind the scenes portrait of Nye follows him as he takes off his Science Guy lab coat and takes on those who deny climate change, evolution, and a science-based world view.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BILGrosz, Marty.
Contents: Why couldn't it be poor little me? (3:46) -- A jazz holiday (5:14) -- Intro to blue (and broken hearted) (1:13) -- Blue (and broken hearted) (3:31) -- In a little Spanish town (4:21) -- Sweet Sue (just you) (4:19) -- My daddy rocks me (4:42) -- Prince of Wails (2:47) -- Hold me (3:43) -- Diga diga doo (4:09) -- Forevermore (3:26) -- Rose of Washington Square (4:39) -- How deep is the ocean...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Delmark Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GROStrager, Hanne
Summary: "This book delves into our dual nature with orcas, as they are both feared and persecuted, as well as admired and worshiped"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Milbourne, Anna
Summary: On the way to the market, a strange little man gives Jack a few magic beans for his cow. What happens next changes Jack's life forever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC MILSummary: The story centers on Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern-day São Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers' needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val's estranged daughter Jessica shows up, the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SECAlvar, Mia
Summary: "A powerful, globe-trotting debut short-story collection from an exciting new writer--vivid, character-driven stories about Filipinos from every walk of life. Mia Alvar's stunning debut gives us a vivid, insightful picture of the Filipino diaspora: exiles and emigrants and wanderers uprooting their families to begin new lives in the Middle East and America--and, sometimes, turning back. One man...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVManne, Shelly.
Contents: The dart game -- Bea's flat -- Parthenia -- Un poco loco -- Bernie's tune -- Doxy -- Slan -- A gem from Tiffany.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MANSchneider, Anny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.321 SCHDuncan, Arne
Summary: Drawing on nearly three decades in education--from his mother's after-school program on Chicago's South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in DC--How Schools Work follows Arne (as he insists you call him) as he takes on challenges at every turn: gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who call him racist, teachers who insist they can't help poor kids, unions that refuse to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018