Summary: For Anna Maria, a woman in her fifties, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work, so that Austria may be brought back to the path of virtue. On her daily pilgrimage through Vienna, she goes from door to door, carrying a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary. When her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home after years of absence,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PARDuchovny, David
Summary: "Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that--her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and chatting with her best friend, Mallory. One night, Elsie and Mallory sneak out of their pasture ... [and] Elsie finds herself drawn to the farmhouse. Through the window, she sees the farmer's family gathered around a bright Box God--and what the Box God reveals about something called an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUCSummary: Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CASLafourcade, Natalia
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music 2022
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Contents: Tú sí sabes quererme -- Soledad y el mar -- Mexicana hermosa -- Qué he sacado con quererte -- Rocío de todos los campos -- Mi tierra veracruzana -- Te vi pasar -- Son amores (That's amore) -- Tú me acostumbraste (featuring los Macorinos y Omara Portuondo) -- Soy lo prohibido -- Tonada de luna llena -- Vals poético (instrumental).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Bmg Music 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN LAFPutin, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Contents: Preface -- Principle [sic] figures in First Person -- The Son -- The Schoolboy -- The University Student -- The Young Specialist -- The Spy -- The Democrat -- The Bureaucrat -- The Family Man -- The Politician.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PUTSummary: The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris. Find yourself transported by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic, and beautiful stories.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PARGamarra, Katalina
Summary: "Beatriz Herrera is a fierce woman who will take you down with her quick wit and keen intellect. And after the results of the 2016 election worked hard to erase her identity as a queer biracial woman, she'd be right to. Especially if you come for her sweet BFF cousin, Hero. Beatriz would do anything for her, a loyalty that lands Beatriz precisely where she doesn't want to be: spending a week at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAMGinzburg, Natalia
Summary: "In a quiet Italian town after World War Two, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is a constant concern to her obsessive, hypochondriac mother. But her mother does not know that Elsa has fallen in love with Tommasino, the elusive youngest son of the De Francisci family, who own the textile factory that dominates the town. Over the course...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GINLafourcade, Natalia
Summary: Natalia Lafourcade builds upon the success of her Latin Grammy Award winning album with a second volume. It includes musical accompaniment from the veteran guitar duo Los Macorinos.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN LAFRojas, Natalia
Summary: "A gorgeously illustrated and interactive full-color guide to more than 181 birds of North America, based on the bestselling board game, Wingspan"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.097 ROJSylvester, Natalia
Summary: "When Abuela comes to visit from Peru, she brings a suitcase full of treasures and her granddaughter learns that home is not just a place, but the love between family no matter the distance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose hasn't said a word in eleven years—ever since the day she was found lying in a snowbank during a howling storm. Like her voice, her memories of her mother and what happened that night were frozen. Set during the roaring 1920s in the beautiful, wild area on Rainy Lake where Minnesota meets Canada, Frozen tells the intriguing story of Sadie Rose, whose mother died...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2012
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA--women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace) in the treacherous post-WWII era"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 HOLCasanova, Mary.
Summary: While out playing with his family one night, Little Otter shows that he knows what to do when danger is near.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Casanova 2011Hernandez, Natalia
Summary: For her entire life, the Name-Bearer's sole purpose has been to receive and deliver the names of the future monarchy from the Flowers of Prophecy. But when the child is finally born and the Name-Bearer is sent to the Flowers, they refuse to name him. Instead they deliver a prophecy; another child was born who is more worthy of the Naming, and if they are found and brought before them it will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HERLafourcade, Natalia
Contents: El balajú / (con Los Cojolites ) ; Serenata huasteca -- Mexicana hermosa (con Carlos Rivera)-- Veracruz-- Una vida-- Hasta la raíz (con Los Cojolites y Los Auténticos Decadentes) -- Ya no vivo por vivir (con Leonel García) -- Mi religión -- Para qué sufrir (con Jorge Drexler) -- Nunca es suficiente -- Sembrando flores (con Los Cojolites) -- Lo que construimos (con Meme (Emmanuel del Real)) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN LAFSylvester, Natalia
Summary: "When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero-while the whole country is watching"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SYLRose, Natalia.
Summary: "A leading light in the alternative health community, Natalia Rose is widely recognized for her "detox diet" program. Her popular book, The Raw Food Detox Diet, is by now considered a classic of its genre. The Fresh Energy Cookbook is the essential companion guide for anyone who wants to bring those dietary principles to life in the comfort of their own kitchen. The emphasis is on living foods...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56 ROSSylvester, Natalia
Summary: "Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and Verónica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SYLSylvester, Natalia
Summary: The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he's already dead--an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. So Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar's family--especially his wife, Elda--to let him redeem himself. Isabel and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2018
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SYLBurian, Natalka
Summary: "In rural West Virginia, Joanie and her foster siblings live on a farm tending a mysterious plant called the vine. The older girls are responsible for cultivating the vine, performing sacred rituals to make it grow. After Joanie's arranged marriage goes horribly wrong, leaving her widowed and with a baby, she plots her escape with the help of her foster brother Cello. But before they can get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURHolt, Nathalia
Summary: During World War Il, when the brand-new minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate jet velocities and plot missile trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women--known as "computers"--who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design and helped bring about America's first ballistic missiles. But they were never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 HOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 629.4072 HOLCasanova, Mary.
Summary: When Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks' cast comes off she dives back into gymnastics training in hopes of making the competitive team, but after volunteering at a therapeutic horseback riding center, she considers broadening her interests.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012