Summary: Set in Sao Paulo's House of Detention. An oncologist arrives at the jail to test patients for HIV infection. Seeing the disease, overcrowding, and rampant circulation of drugs, the doctor comes to realize the internal power structure among the prisoners. Narratives develop, including the attempted murder of Dagger, the solitary confinement of Chico, and the romance between Lady Di and Too Bad....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CARSummary: Based on a true story of the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the two DEA agents that brought the famed Medellin Cartel to its knees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NARBlau, Magda Hellinger
Summary: "In March 1942, at the age of 25, kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger was deported from her hometown in Slovakia along with 998 other young women. They were some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Very few would survive the next three years until liberation. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in day-to-day charge of the accommodation blocks and even...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLAU, MAGDA HELLINGER BLABest, Cari
Summary: "A boy turns a cardboard box into a car and imagines what it would be like to take his mama for a drive all around town"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BESBest, Cari.
Summary: Violet, who is very shy and hates for anyone to look at her in school, finally comes out of her shell when she is cast as Lady Space in a play about the solar system and saves the production from disaster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BESBest, Cari
Summary: A five-year-old girl who is brave and strong faces night noises, too much light, and spooky shadows, all without calling her parents, before finally feeling sleepy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BESBest, Cari.
Summary: Jacob watches his favorite television show, "Baking with Chef Monty," and bakes a beautiful peach pie, which he gives to his parents for their anniversary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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Summary: Ava and her sister Arlie enter a contest to win a pet but Ava is disappointed when the pet turns out to be a bird instead of a dog.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books 2012
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Summary: "Zulay is a blind girl who longs to be able to run in the race on field and track day at her school"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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Summary: When Sally Jean outgrows her beloved bicycle, Flash, she experiments with various ideas for acquiring a new, bigger one.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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Summary: In this bouncy, playful picture book for very young listeners, follow two baby friends who live in facing buildings through their day--playing, singing, and napping--till they meet in the park!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anna Schwartz Books 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE BESBest, Cari.
Summary: In the spring when trees unfreeze and grass grows green and pansies say, "Please plant me!" Nell and her dog, Rusty, can't wait to dig in dirt just right for digging. But Norman, their neighbor, says "Ewww!" to digging and dirt.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BESSummary: Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OUTContents: Rock is dead (Marilyn Manson) (3:10) -- Spybreak! (short one) (Propellerheads) (4:01) -- Bad blood (Ministry) (4:59) -- Clubbed to death (Kurayamino mix) (Rob D) (7:26) -- Prime audio soup (Meat Beat Manifesto) (6:17) -- Leave you far behind (Lunatic Calm) (3:12) -- Mindfields (Prodigy) (5:41) -- Dragula (Hot Rod Herman remix) (Rob Zombie) (4:37) -- My own summer (shove it) (Deftones) (3:35) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MATBlack, Cara
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLASummary: In the summer of 1973, a young international crew of six women and five men embarked together on a most unusual sea voyage, a close-quarters trip across the Atlantic from Spain to Mexico on a free-floating raft christened the Acali, initiated by Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genoves, who proposed to use the group as guinea pigs in his investigation of the origins of violent conflict and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BAIBaio
Contents: Brainwash yyrr face -- The names -- Sister of Pearl -- I was born in a marathon -- Needs -- All the idiots -- Matter -- Endless rhythm -- Scarlett.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Glassnote Entertainment Group 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BAISummary: "Melodic, uplifting Latin and African songs are the essence of this musical journey. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and enjoy this beautiful music from the coffee lands"--Container.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT PUTBlack, Cara
Summary: Struggling to be happy for René and his new girlfriend in spite of considerable misgivings, Aimée fears her suspicions are correct when the girlfriend disappears at the same time a man with her photograph is found murdered.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M BLABlack, Cara
Summary: Aimée Leduc is hired by a mysterious elderly Russian man to protect a valuable painting that is stolen before Aimée can start her work, a situation that is complicated by the client's murder and dangerous adversaries who also seek the painting.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlack, Cara
Summary: When Aimee Leduc's godfather, Morbier, a police "commissaire," asks her to check on his girlfriend at her home there, Aimee finds Xavierre, a "haut bourgeois" matron of Basque origin, strangled in her garden while Aimee waits inside. Circumstantial evidence makes Morbier the prime suspect, and to vindicate him, Aimee must identify the real killer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BLABlack, Cara
Summary: Parisian computer expert Aimee Leduc finds herself in the midst of murder and corruption after an anonymous telephone call leads her to an abandoned baby girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2007