Summary: Today, Jim Allison is a name to be reckoned with throughout the scientific world, holding a 2018 Nobel Prize for discovering the role of the immune system in defeating cancer. But for decades, he waged a lonely war against the skepticism of the medical establishment and the resistance of Big Pharma. This is the astounding true story of one warm-hearted, stubborn man's visionary quest to find a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JIMViña, Rose
Summary: "As a young girl in Cuba, Alicia Alonso practiced ballet in tennis shoes. Within a few years, she was in New York City, with a promising ballet career. But her eyesight began to fail. When Alicia needed surgeries to save her vision, dancing was impossible, but she wouldn't give up her dream. She found the strength and determination to return to the stage and become a prima ballerina. This is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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Summary: Draws on the experiences of patients, physicians, and researchers to explain the revolutionary development of immunotherapy as a treatment for cancer and how that information is being harnessed to create more effective patient therapies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 GRAEstrellas de Areito (Musical group)
Contents: Pónganse para las cosas (10:20) ; Hasta pantojo baila mi son (11:34) ; Que traigan el guaguancó (6:27) ; Mi amanecer campesino (13:55) / Pedro Aranzola -- Llora timbero / Israel Rodríguez (7:12) -- Yo sí como candela / Luis "Lili" Martinez Griñán (10:28) -- Fefita / José Urfe (10:24) -- Guaguancó a todos los barríos / Pedro Aranzola (14:29) -- El pregón de la montaña / Pio Leyva (10:05) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Circuit/Nonesuch 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ESTOchoa, Eliades.
Contents: Ay papacito = Oh little darling (4:09) -- Pintate los labios María = Put on your lipstick Maria (4:52) -- Carino falso = False love (4:07) -- Sublime ilusión (4:12) -- Volver = Return (4:09) -- Saludo compay = Greetings, friend (4:55) -- Qué humanidad = What humanity (3:56) -- Un negrito en La Habana = A black boy in Havana (3:43) -- Mi sueño prohibido = My forbidden dream (2:12) -- Mi...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Higher Octave World 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN OCHValdez, Carlos.
Contents: San Francisco tiene su propio son (9:41) -- Descarga en faux (5:41) -- Desde el fondo del rio (7:16) -- Luz (6:55) -- Yo tengo ritmo (3:08) -- Guloya swing (4:27) -- Oguerre (5:25) -- Son de Patato (7:17) -- Señor Blues/Mbula enoka (8:15) -- Guajira en el espacio (2:28) -- Sangre de Africa (4:20) -- Kora-son (6:31).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN VALContents: Mi rumba echando candela (Celeste Mendoza) (3:28) -- Eso no es na' (María Teresa Vera) (3:28) -- Manzanillo (Orquesta Original de Manzanillo) (4:44) -- Yayabo (Orquesta Riverside) (2:53) -- Guarapachanga (Chapottín y sus Estrellas) (2:55) -- Llegué llegué/Guararey de Pastorita (Los Van Van) (6:28) -- No me llores (Conjunto Rumbavana) (5:20) -- Fifi, Teté y Popó (Orquesta Revé "Changüí '68")...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Luaka Bop/Sire/Warner Bros. 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CUBFrías, Carlos.
Summary: Carlos Frías, award-winning journalist and the US-born son of Cuban exiles, grew up hearing stories about the homeland of his parents. Sent to Cuba by his newspaper when the country began to close to the foreign press in August 2006, Frías embarked on the journey of his life -- a secret twelve day trip to the land of his parents. That experience led to this evocative, dramatic and unforgettable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: C.A. Press, Penguin Group 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH FRISummary: "This Cardio-Latin dance program combines high energy dance routines and a total body workout that will help you sculpt and tone the dancer's body you're looking for."--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kym Johnson 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KYMArtist Not Provided
Summary: Champion ballroom instructors Alec Mazo and Edyta Sliwinska teach four different dances, breaking them into beginning, intermediate, and advanced sections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Retroactive Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.3307 DANSummary: The owner of Montmartre's most notorious nightspot, the Café Le Bal Du Paradis, Simone Pistache spends a great deal of her time in court, thanks to the banning of that "lewd and lascivious" dance, the Can-Can. So when her nightlife-loving lawyer and boyfriend, François Durnais, refuses to settle down and marry her, Simone decides to play up to his rival in romance, Parisian judge Philipe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CANTruman, Margaret
Summary: Former CIA agent Max Pauling agrees to fly medical supplies to Havana as a favor to an old friend, but his simple mission takes a deadly turn when Max's contact in Havana is found dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUHakes, Jasmin 'Iolani
Summary: "Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but there's a lot she doesn't understand. She's never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the identity of her father. Worse, unspoken divides within her tight-knit community have started to grow, creating fractures whose origins are somehow entangled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAKCachao.
Contents: Los tres golpes -- Bemba è cuchara -- El progress -- El guapachoso -- Descarga A -- Cunde echa un pie -- Romántica mujer -- Sigue a Paquito si puedes -- El timbalero travieso -- Africa suite: Eleggua (Intro) -- Africa viva -- Juana la coja -- Eleggua con cachao (Coda).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Crescent Moon Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CACBuena Vista Social Club (Musical group)
Contents: Chan chan -- De camino a la vereda -- Cuarto de Tula -- Pueblo nuevo -- Dos gardenias -- Y tu que has hecho? -- Veinte anos -- Carretero -- Candela -- Amor de loca juventud orgullecida -- Murmullo -- Buena Vista Social Club -- Bayamesa.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Circuit/Nonesuch 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BUESummary: In 1996, music legend Ry Cooder went to Cuba to search for buried treasure. He found gold. Looking for lost songs and forgotten singers, Cooder discovered an exotic land of passion, sensuality and music.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BUEGonzalez, Ruben
Contents: Chanchullo (5:08) -- De una manera espantosa (4:19) -- La Iluvia (5:14) -- Central Constancia (5:55) -- QuizGas, quizGas (2:25) -- Choco's Guajira (6:46) -- Si te contarGa (1:27) -- El Bodeguero (5:09) -- Isora Club (5:32) -- Rico vacilGon (4:09) -- Pa' gozar (4:30).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Circuit/Nonesuch 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN GONCubanismo! (Musical group)
Contents: Calor en Santiago (guaracha son) -- El solar (rumba) -- Petit mambo (mambo) -- Paloma sin nido (bolero) -- Congo real (Afro son) -- Descarga caliente (descarga) -- Celebrando (pilon) -- Presteme su mujer (guaracha son) -- Idilio (son) -- Mi proposicion (songo) -- Estiro bastidores (son pregon).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: AIM 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CUBEngle, Margarita.
Summary: A young girl fulfills her dreams in this video treatment of the acclaimed Pura Belpre' Award winner. -- Girls cannot be drummers. No one questioned that rule; until one dream girl. When at last her dream-bright music was heard, it was decided everybody should be free to drum and dream!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DRUP18 (Musical group)
Contents: Urban Cuban (2:53) -- Escuchen mi conga (3:52) -- Somos el futuro (3:21) -- Kid Chocolate (4:14) -- La verdolaga (2:49)-- Oye mulata (3:27)-- Yayabo (1:57) -- Light and fire (3:46) -- Mi Cuba (5:53) -- Yemaya (4:26) -- Le tour du monde (4:52).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Higher Octave World 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT P18Engle, Margarita
Summary: "Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023