Castillo, Marcelo Hernandez
Summary: "With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his familys encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his fathers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CASTILLO, MARCELO HERNANDEZ CASSummary: "With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows. Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN Promotes. Veering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacLehose Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.0.84 SORSummary: A soccer player and three other prisioners awaiting execution in a horrific detention center, risk their lives to escape. Based on the memoirs and testimony of two of the prisoners, who were later witnesses at a war crimes trial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHRSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MALSummary: Uxbal is a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad, or biutiful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIUMassenet, Jules
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Publisher / Publication Date: TDK Mediactive 2003
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MANSummary: Aliens from the planet Hondo cancel their plans of world domination to form a bluegrass band and fall in love in this wonderfully odd, surprisingly sweet sci-fi musical comedy. A FilmBuff Presentation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FilmBuff 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HISSummary: Roy and Jessie are a couple are in a rocky relationship. Following a stay in Beijing they decide to give their relationship one last go and have another adventure together. They decide to travel on the Transsiberian from China to Moscow. The couple discover that the days of the train's glorious luxury has faded and has been replace with cold steel carriages and indifferent fellow passengers. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Studios 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Suite, no. 3 in D major, BWV 1068. Air / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Concerto for guitar, D major, RV 93. Largo / Antonio Vivaldi -- Gymnopédies, nos. 1 and 3 / Erik Satie (orch., Claude Debussy) -- Thaïs. Meditation / Jules Massenet -- Carnival of the animals. The swan / Camille Saint-Saëns -- Concerto for harpsichord, no. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056. Largo / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Rèverie / Claude...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music & Video 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE FORSummary: It is the haunting, hypnotic tale of a mysterious disappearance set in a little Sicilian village on the edge of a forest. Thirteen-year-old Luna, always dreaming, has a crush on her handsome classmate Giuseppe; they begin a tentative romance. But one day Giuseppe fails to show up at school. As the days pass with no sign of him, Luna tries to raise concern with family and friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SICParcels
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PARGabriel, Juan
Contents: Querida (4:55) -- Se Me Olvid ̤Otra Vez (3:17) -- (8:48) -- La Diferencia (3:32) -- Si Quieres (5:42) -- As ̕Fue (6:33) -- Yo Te Bendigo Mi Amor (4:20) -- Caray (4:05) -- Siempre En Mi Mente (3:57) -- Abrz̀ame Muy Fuerte (6:01) -- Te Lo Pido Por Favor (4:04) -- Vers̀ (4:26) -- Amor Es Amor (4:11) -- Pero Que Necesidad (5:43) -- Ya No Vivo Por Vivir (6:14) -- Vienes O Voy (3:38).
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Publisher / Publication Date: UMLE - Fonovisa 2015
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Gleiser, Marcelo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 GLEMarcelo, Tif
Summary: "Diana Gallagher-Cary is at a tipping point. As a Washington, DC, OB/GYN at a prestigious hospital, she uses her career to distract herself from her grief over her granny's death and her breakup from her long-term boyfriend after her free-spirited mother moves in with her. But when she makes a medical decision that disparages the hospital, she is forced to go on a short sabbatical. Never one to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MARGleiser, Marcelo
Summary: "An award-winning astronomer and physicist's spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity--the foundations of science--to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 501 GLEGleiser, Marcelo
Summary: "Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, to understand our origins and the meaning of our lives. In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 501 GLEMarcelo, Tif
Summary: Three Army wives, estranged friends, must overcome their differences when one of them is desperate for help" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSummary: Before he was the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. A compelling drama about a group of unsung heroes who put themselves in harm's way to rise above hatred and oppression during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ReFernandez, Caroline
Summary: "Grandma keeps running off doing funny business. On a field trip! And if she doesn't stop, we'll miss the school bus. It's field trip day and all we want to do is have a simple, no shenanigans, fun day at the museum. But when dust makes Grandma start sneezing, we know we're in for a wild time. With each sneeze, Grandma turns into a different dinosaur and takes off. It's up to me and Moonie to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Common Deer Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERMarcero, Deborah
Summary: "When Haylee's old BFF returns to town, she and Comet learn to welcome a new friend to their twosome"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MARValladolid, Marcela
Summary: When Valladolid starting cooking just for herself and her familia, she started making achievable recipes with flavors that brought her back to childhood. Recipes that preserve meaningful traditions for the future. Here she shares recipes that she tested with thousands of students cooking along-- recipes that she hope will help you bring joy and connection to the people you love. -- adapted from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious, Little Brown & Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Marcero, Deborah
Summary: "Rose wants to bring something truly unique for show-and-tell, so she creates maps to explore her imagination in search of something no one has ever seen before"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MARHernández, Mili
Summary: Federico the cat travels from roof to roof to visit all his families; among them are Tadeo, who lives with his grandparents, Ana and her two moms, and Virginia with her father and mother. They are different families and Federico loves them all equally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NubeOcho 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD HERHernández, Daisy
Summary: "Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases, and even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas--or the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2021