Platt, Christine A.
Summary: "It's Spring Break! During Carnival, Ana & Andrew travel to visit their family on the island of Trinidad. They love watching the parade and dancing to the music. This year, they learn how their ancestors helped create the holiday!"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAPastro, Joana
Summary: In the city of Olinda, Brazil, Clara is looking forward to the Carnaval street parade, with the colorful, fantastic costumes that her great-grandmother makes for the family--but her Bisa is too old to follow the parade, so Clara decides to bring the parade to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PASContents: [v. 1.] Folk & traditional = Folclórico e tradicional. Ella diz que tem (Carmen Miranda ; Banda Da Lua) (2:41) -- Deixa esta mulher sofrer (Ary Barrosa ; Com Fon-Fon e sua orchestra) (2;52) -- Yao (Orquestra Brasiĺia) (3:38) -- Fica mais um pouco, amor (Adoniran Barbosa) (3:44) -- Candomblé : 1976 (various artists) (3:14) -- Okolofé (Wilson Moreira) (4:13) -- Gente que vem de Lisboa/Peixinhos...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Jackel Entertainment 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BRAPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "It's Spring Break! During Carnival, Ana & Andrew travel to visit their family on the island of Trinidad. They love watching the parade and dancing to the music. This year, they learn how their ancestors helped create the holiday!"--Title page verso.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR PURPLE SPANISH PLAContents: Say na hey (4:06) / The Soul Rebels -- Goin' back to New Orleans (2:53) / Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers -- Mardi Gras mambo (2:28) / Zachary Richard -- Funky Liza (7:11) / New Orleans Nightcrawlers -- La danse de Mardi Gras (3:43) / Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys -- Jockamo a.k.a. Iko-iko (1:32) / Larry Williams -- Carnival time (2:42) / Al Johnson -- Big shot (3:55) / Macia Ball -- Go to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN MEEMayer, Mark
Summary: Aerialists is a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world. A young misogynist finds a confidante in a cable-TV strongwoman. A realtor for the one percent invokes his inner murder clown. A skin-and-bones mathematician and his bearded wife plot revolution. A friendless peach farmer holds a funeral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYDepestre, René
Summary: "Takes place primarily during carnival in 1938 in the Haitian village of Jacmel. A beautiful young French woman, Hadriana, is about to marry a Haitian boy from a prominent family. But on the morning of the wedding, Hadriana drinks a mysterious potion and collapses at the altar. Transformed into a zombie, her wedding becomes her funeral. She is buried by the town, revived by an evil sorcerer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEPBlackman-Thornhill, Nailah
Summary: "A girl and her grandpa enjoy Carnival together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.434 LINMilway, Alex
Summary: "It's carnival time on Animal Boulevard! And Hotel Flamingo is all set to join the party. But Anna and her team have their work cut out when the Nocturnal Animals come to stay - the biggest rock group on the planet! Can Anna keep every guest happy and still make the biggest splash at the carnival?" --Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller 2020
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Summary: "Join YouTube superstar PrestonPlayz and his friends on this thrillingly spooky middle grade graphic novel adventure where Preston and his crew have to escape a creepy amusement park's haunted house--before it's too late! When Wadsworth's Family Wonderland comes to town, Preston, Bri, Grumpus, and Shivers are thrilled to check out all the rides! But when the four friends show up for the fun,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "The sights, sounds and tastes of vibrant Saint Lucia come to life in this cumulative #OwnVoices tale of a girl's journey to Carnival. When a series of unexpected delays disrupts her journey to the big parade, Melba must adjust both her expectations and her route to the festivities. Who will she meet and what will she learn along the way?"
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The film follows a carnival owner, a labor-recruiter, and workers from a small town in Mexico who join the carnival legally on seasonal visas ... an honest on-the-ground portrait of the financial, emotional, and physical challenges they all face"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Media Distribution 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FARSummary: Discover Brazil through the eyes of its people and explore the surrounding beaches, jungles, and landscaping mountains that make this land so vibrant. A country built on belief, unlike any other, where tradition and transformation live together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BRASummary: The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2008, the celebration is still racially segregated. Go into the parallel hearts of the city's two carnivals. With unprecedented access, the director traces the exotic world of secret mystic societies and centuries-old traditions and pageantry. From the crowns, the gowns, the surreal masks, to the enormous paper mache...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORDSummary: A collection of vibrant Trinidad party music blending Carribbean carnival rhythms with soul, funk, hip-hop and r&b.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Honest Jon's Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/CARIBBEAN LIFContents: That's enough of that stuff / Marcia Ball -- Mardi Gras mambo / Zachary Richard -- Mardi Gras blues / Beau Jocque & the Zydeco Hi-Rollers - - I went to the Mardi Gras / Snooks Eaglin -- Funky Liza / New Orleans Nightcrawlers -- Chanson de Mardi Gras / FilGe -- Mardi Gras in the city / Earl King & Roomful of Blues -- Do whatcha wanna, pt. 3 / ReBirth Brass Band -- Iko, Iko / Bo Dollis & the Wild...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EasyDisc/Rounder 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN MARBrown, Sandra
Summary: Former New Orleans policeman Burke Basile kidnaps a mobster's beautiful wife in revenge for the death of his partner. Unforeseen problems begin almost immediately as Basile, hiding with her in a secluded cabin, realizes he is falling in love. The lady is no gangster's moll, her marriage a sacrifice for her family. By the author of Exclusive. Subject HeadingsCarnival -- Fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRODunn, Katherine
Summary: Aloysious and Lillian Binewski, proprietors of a traveling carnival, attempt to reduce overhead by breeding their own freak show, with tragic results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNSchindler, Henri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 394.25 SCHWhitney, Phyllis A.
Summary: In the 1890's, eighteen-year-old Laurè, after years of living with her strict aunt in New York City, accompanies her famous actor father to New Orleans during Mardi Gras to acquaint herself with the city where her father grew up and where she was born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHICarwile, Mike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 748.2097 CARChilds, Laura
Summary: An exploding Mardi Gras float has got to be the strangest murder weapon scrappy sleuth Carmela Bertrand has ever encountered in this latest Scrapbooking Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author. It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans and scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand is excited to be attending the Pluvius Parade along with her best friend Ava. Carmela's ex-husband Shamus rides by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIEdwards, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 2003