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Arias, Lisa Arias, Lisa. Bolick, Kate Lille, Mari-Liis. Vargas Llosa, Mario White, ArisaSummary: This historical drama tells the story of Juana Inés de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Presents the life of a California ex-slave, nurse, and midwife, who started many philanthropic projects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MASSummary: When a famous Danish gender activist and owner of Copenhagens first gender-neutral children's nursery is found murdered in Malmö, Saga is assigned to the case, together with a new colleague. The murder sparks the beginning of a series of spectacular crimes reaching back into Saga's own past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BRIVargas Llosa, Mario
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 864.64 VARVargas Llosa, Mario
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: Mario falls in love with and and embarks on a secret love affair with his recently divorced Aunt Julia, scandalizing the town of Lima, Peru, while Mario's friend Pedro Camacho becomes more and more obsessed with the soap operas he writes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation-- penned by none other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 VARSummary: A look at life and everyday struggles in Havana through three main stories -- when a woman dies in childbirth, the new father runs away; a lonely woman is courted by an older man, but can't forget her first love; a couple's relationship crumbles when they can't conceive a child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cine Cubano a Precios Muy Bajos 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARArias, Lisa
Summary: Rhyming text teaches young readers how to convert fractions to have common denominators so that the fractions can then be added and subtracted.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Educational Media 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.2 ARIArias, Lisa
Summary: Rhyming text provides an introduction to the concept of fractions, including how to add, subtract, and compare them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Educational Media 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.2 ARIVargas Llosa, Mario
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Publisher / Publication Date: Noonday Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. Felícito and Ismael are, each in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas Llosa, Mario
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe." This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable task. In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 VARVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world-especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon-but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAR1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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Summary: "Publicado a comienzos de la década de los setenta y desaparecido de las librerías desde hace muchos años, este ensayo, que en su origen fue la tesis que le valió a Vargas Llosa en 1971 el título de doctor por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, muestra la admiración del Nobel peruano por García Márquez y por su novela Cien años de soledad. En él se analiza en profundidad la obra del autor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH LLOVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "4/5"--Spine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Punto de lectura 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 VARBolick, Kate
Summary: On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up. For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel--what it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.4 BOLArias, Lisa
Summary: Rhyming text introduces the concept of place value in mathematics and teaches how to read and write numbers in standard and expanded notation form.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Educational Media 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513 ARIArias, Lisa.
Summary: Positive and negative numbers are addressed in this fun book with rhyming text.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Pub Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.2 ARILille, Mari-Liis.
Summary: Enter the magical world of Lilleliis. With this book in one hand and your crochet hook in the other, you will be able to create these 15 wonderful amigurumi designs. Lilleliis' handmade toys have a wide array of details you will love: the cutest color combinations, the sweetest expressions and little fabric details, this book offers the opportunity to surprise your family and friends with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Meteoor Books 2016
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Summary: Provides an introduction to the concept of division, including its relationship to multiplication, using estimation, and step-by-step solutions to problems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rourke Educational Media 2015