Summary: Fernando, a respected university professor, and Lili, his devoted wife, have lived happily together in Buenos Aires for many years. Without warning, they find their comfortable life threatened when Fernando is forced into early retirement as a result of Argentina's economic crisis. Facing an uncertain future, the couple relocates to the countryside where they bravely set out on a new chapter of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMBécquer, Gustavo Adolfo
Summary: The famed nineteenth-century lyric poet Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870) is best known for the two works in this collection. Usually published together, they include his celebrated "Rhymes--a suite of poems characterized by melancholy and bitterness. The romantic tales comprising "Legends have varied themes: some depict supernatural and semi-religious events; others describe common...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 BECSummary: Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon. Only 12 American men have walked upon its surface and they remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Now for the first time, a combination of archival material from the original NASA film footage, much of it never before seen and interviews with the surviving astronauts tells...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2008
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Summary: "Mythmaker, master storyteller, and a writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his native New Mexico, Rudolfo Anaya is one of the undisputed fathers of Chicano literature. Writing in an era when Latino voices were marginalized and just beginning to be read and acknowledged, Anaya broke new ground with Bless Me, Ultima (1972), a mythic novel that captures the richness and complexity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANAGandolfo, Flora.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.9359 GANHungry Wolf, Adolf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Book Pub. Co. 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.4 HUNRodolfo, Jesus.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Pentatone Classics 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RODAdolph, Jonathan
Summary: "Heatproof, transparent, and durable, the mason jar is a science lab just waiting to be discovered. Unlock its potential with 40 dynamic experiments for budding scientists ages 8 and up. Using just a jar and a few ordinary household items, children learnto create miniature clouds, tiny tornadoes, small stalactites, and, of course, great goo and super slime! With a little ingenuity, the jar can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2018
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Summary: This graphic retelling of the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission follows astronaut Michael Collins, commander of the lunar orbiter, to the far side of the moon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COLAdoff, Arnold.
Summary: Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned father, two children, and their various relatives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ADODollo, Xavier
Summary: Who is considered the world's first science fiction author? How did American science fiction begin? What sci-fi novel is the all-time best-seller? What were the "Pulps" and how did they predict with uncanny accuracy the 21st century world around us? The answers are here, along with detailed chapters dedicated to the founders of the genre and their modern-day successors. Discover the origins of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Humanoids, Inc. 2021
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Contents: Ivory -- Talk -- No good reason -- Invincible (feat. Daniel Caesar) -- Endlessly interlude -- Killing me -- Go away -- Waiting on you -- Petrified -- Personally -- En el olvido -- Tamagotchi -- Can't get over you -- Evergreen -- Bad life (feat. Kali Uchis) -- Mr. Neighbor.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK APOBrown, Apollo
Contents: The smell -- Panties in a jumble -- Diamonds -- The aura -- Dalai Lama slang (feat. Willie the Kid) -- Tiger bone -- Duffles -- Avant garde -- Deep in the casket -- Fire (feat. Tristate) -- Speak volumes -- Pain -- Get back -- Nine steamin' (feat. Guilty Simpson) -- You love me.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mello Music Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BROBrown, Apollo
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BROSummary: Tells the dramatic story of the Apollo missions and their heroic astronauts, from President John F. Kennedy's historic speech to the manned space missions and through to the defining moment of the space program--putting a man on the moon. These are the stories of the men, women and children who lived, breathed and manufactured from the power of human will, one of the greatest achievements in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2005
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Contents: Brushstrokes -- Reflection -- My block -- Cocaine fingertips -- Grace of God (featuring DJ Los) -- That place -- Word... -- Decisions -- Timberlan'd up (featuring Royce Da 5'9") -- Come back home -- Mona Lisa.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mello Music Group 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BROBrown, Apollo
Contents: Got it good -- Time lost -- It just is -- Flowers die -- Nervous goodbyes -- Escapism -- Just like home -- Changes in the truth -- Jupiter gold -- Orange & more orange -- Pipe dreams -- Butter -- Harm's way -- Unattached -- Who they thought we were -- Two steps behind -- Kite strings -- The light of day -- Delusional -- Watch the ball drop -- Catching moments.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BROBrown, Apollo.
Contents: Soapbox -- One in the same / feat. Patty Crash -- Jordan's & A gold chain -- A couple of dollars / feat. Joell Ortiz - Basquiat on the draw / feat. Westside Gunn & Conway -- The vibes -- On the Stretch & Bob Show -- Spoils to the victor -- Visionary riches -- They parked a Bently on the corner -- The flyest essence -- Innocent ambition -- Care packages -- Payout / feat. Stalley -- Nodding off.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mellow Music Group 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BROBrown, Apollo
Contents: Anti-social -- Anti-social (II) -- Blood is thicker -- Hustle don't give -- Hustle don't give (II) -- Money orientated -- 12 hours -- Hold it down -- Hold it down (II) -- Daddy's girl -- Worth gold -- The apple -- The apple (II) -- Freedom -- Follow the wisdom -- Follow the wisdom (II) -- Winter -- Live by the code -- '94.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mello Music Group 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP BROBrown, Apollo
Summary: Apollo Brown & Planet Asia's long awaited follow up to Anchovies. This is hip-hop as hard-bodied wizardry. Apollo cauterizes soul samples offering new alchemy out of old spells. Planet Asia spits acid rain. Featuring Sick Jacken and TriState, Marv Won and Ty Farris.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Tony faces the daunting prospect of growing up amidst constant religious and cultural uncertainty. His mother is a devoted Catholic, but her influence is challenged by Ultima--a woman with magical healing powers. As Tony follows his own path toward adulthood, he relies on Ultima's wisdom. With her guidance, he is able to forge his unique identity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ANASummary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESUllrich, Volker
Summary: "From the author of Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939--a riveting account of the dictator's final years, when he got the war he wanted but his leadership led to catastrophe for his nation, the world, and himself."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Bodley Head 2020