Summary: One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA GRESummary: A wealthy older man has an affair with a young maid played by twodifferent actresses in this darkly humorous satire on sexualobsession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THASummary: "An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DISSummary: Three separate stories about love in Puerto Rico: a man accidentally reveals his brother's extra-marital affair to his sister-in-law when he mistakes her grief over the death of her grandmother for distress about the infidelity. The next story revolves around a man whose love for a bus driver drives him to take her and the bus passengers hostage until she consents to marriage. In the final...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MALSummary: Caye, a Madrid prostitute, comes to the aid of Zulema, a Dominican streetwalker beaten by a government official blackmailing her for free sex. They form a strong bond and imagine themselves as royalty, to offer them a glimpse of hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PRIThompson, Kim Mitzo.
Summary: In What should I wear?, you will learn about the kinds of clothes people wear for different occasions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Twin Sisters IP, LLC 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CONEngle, Margarita
Summary: "De niña, a Teresa Carreño le encantaba dejar que sus manos bailaran a lo largo de las hermosas teclas del piano. Si se sentía triste, la música le levantaba el ánimo y, cuando estaba feliz, el piano la ayudaba a compartir esa alegría. Pronto comenzó a escribir sus propias canciones y a tocar en grandes catedrales. Entonces, una revolución en Venezuela hizo que su familia tuviera que huir a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH ENGBotero, Fernando
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement Llc 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOTFernando Trueba
Summary: Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMCarter, Carlene.
Contents: Little Black Train (2:50) -- Give Me The Roses (3:28) -- Me And The Wildwood Rose (4:31) -- Blackie's Gunman (4:24) -- I'll Be All Smiles Tonight (4:47) -- Poor Old Heartsick Me (2:41) -- Troublesome Waters (5:18) -- Lonesome Valley 2003 (5:29) -- Tall Lover Man (3:55) -- Gold Watch And Chain (3:17) -- Black Jack David (2:49) -- I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow (2:44).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New Rounder 2014
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Carter, Carlene.
Contents: Little black train -- Give me the roses -- Me and the wildwood rose -- Blackie's gunman (duet with Elizabeth Cook) -- I'll be all smiles tonight -- Poor old heartsick me -- Troublesome waters (duet with Willie Nelson) -- Lonesome Valley 2003 (with special guest Vince Gill) -- Tall lover man -- Gold watch and chain -- Black Jack David (duet with Kris Kristofferson) -- I ain't gonna work tomorrow...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CARCervantes, Fernando
Summary: "A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world "The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 CERVilela, Fernando
Summary: "Cauã and Inaê are a brother and sister who live in a small community along the Tapajós River in Brazil. Here, the homes are on stilts and everyone travels around by boat -- even to school! When the rainy season comes, they must leave their village and relocate to higher ground for a while. But after moving this year, Cauã and Inaê realize they've left behind something important: their pet...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VILCapobianco, Fernanda
Summary: "Creator of the acclaimed Vegan Divas product line and the chef and owner of NYC's Vegan Divas Bakery Fernanda Capobianco shares her award-winning recipes for creating decadent, flavorful treats adored by vegans and carnivores alike"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 CAPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5637 CAPCarter, Carlene.
Contents: Little love letter # :57. -- Every little thing 3:12. -- Wastin' time with you 3:38. -- Unbreakable heart 3:39. -- Sweet meant to be 3:15. --tNowhere train 3:13. -- Long hard fall 4:19. -- Little love letter #2 :46. -- I love you 'cause I want to 3:35. -- World of miracles 4:24. -- First kiss 1:34. -- Hallelujah in my heart 2:41. -- The rain 3:47. -- Heart is right 3:20.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Giant 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CARCarrère, Emmanuel
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 CARPessoa, Fernando
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 869.141 PESValverde, Fernando
Summary: "In Fernando Valverde's América, "sorrow is ancient." Mournfully lyrical, politically sharp, with a sweeping view of American roots, dysfunctions, and ideals--as if from above, and yet also from within--this is a book that deconstructs the legacy of empire. From the Mississippi River to Fulton Avenue, from slavery to "lone wolf" shooters, Valverde grieves but does not wince away from all that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 VALEberstadt, Fernanda
Summary: Rat is fifteen-year-old Celia Bonnet, who lives with her unmarried mother, Vanessa, a free-spirited local beauty, in a farmhouse compound with other single-parent families. Rat is the result of a one-night encounter between Vanessa and Gillem, the son of a London model from the 1960s, who used to spend summers in the area and whom Rat has never spoken to or met. But when Vanessa's current...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EBEMelchor, Fernanda
Summary: "The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELCarrère, Emmanuel
Summary: Story of lives racked by tragedy and redeemed by love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCarrère, Emmanuel
Summary: "A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures This is how Emmanuel Carrère, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, chameleon, describes his subject: "Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He was a rogue in Ukraine; an idol of the Soviet underground under Brezhnev; a bum, then a multimillionaire's valet in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014