Summary: Connected By Coffee tells the story of Latin American coffee farmers and how our daily brew is deeply connected to the region's troubled past and hopeful future. Following a 1000-mile journey from Mexico to Nicaragua, the film shows how equitable trading relationships are helping empower communities and take a step towards social justice. On every step of the film s journey we see the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CONSummary: Examines the myth and reality of Che Guevara including his friendship with Castro, his world travels, his days as guerilla leader and his death at age 39.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHEDe León, Jason
Summary: "An intimate and one-of-a-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist. Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet media and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 DE LLoya, Olga.
Summary: A bilingual collection in English and Spanish of fairy tales from Latin America. The 15 entries include Mayan and Aztec versions of the creation of the world. Fifteen stories, full of momentos magicos and presented in equally vibrant English and Spanish, include tales of the supernatural, of animals and tricksters, of strong women, and myths. In stories from Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Puerto...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: August House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 LOYOrtiz, Paul
Summary: "Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 ORTKoehler, Jeff
Summary: Coffee is one of the largest and most valuable commodities in the world. This is the story of its origins, its history, and the threat to its future, by the IACP Award–winning author of Darjeeling. Located between the Great Rift Valley and the Nile, the cloud forests in southwestern Ethiopia are the original home of Arabica, the most prevalent and superior of the two main species of coffee...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 KOEUchis, Kali
Summary: Grammy Award winner Kali Uchis releases her fourth studio album. Marking Uchis's striking return to Spanish-language music, the project features a superstar lineup with Karol G, Peso Pluma, El Alfa, and JT. Inspired by the sensual allure of Colombia's national flower, the orchid, it traverses multiple Latin genres including reggaeton, dembow, bolero, and salsa, furthering Uchis's connection to...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech that proclaimed that it was time -- long overdue -- for all people to be treated as equals. Today his beliefs are more important than ever, and author Jane Kurtz explains Dr. King's words in language even the youngest reader can understand.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2008
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Summary: Motown music emerged in the United States in the 1960s. It launched the careers of many African American musicians. Motown music shaped culture and society during the American civil rights movement. The Making of Motown explores the history and legacy of Motown. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J338.761 HARSanta Cecilia (Popular music group)
Contents: Sacudo la pereza (3:54) -- I won't cry for you (3:21) -- Calaverita (3:20) -- Nunca más (3:36) -- Here we go again (3:31) -- Tragos de amargo licor (featuring Enrique Bunbury) (3:24) -- Vámonos (featuring Fito Páez) (3:36) -- Caminante nocturno (featuring Latino Arts String Program of Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (3:26) -- Pa' que trabajar (3:39) -- Sucede (3:27).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SANClark, Taylor
Summary: Traces the meteoric rise of the Starbucks chain while evaluating the myriad ways in which the coffeehouse movement has impacted everyday life, in an investigative account that credits specific societal groups with the corporation's success.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.17373 CLARContents: Saoko -- Candy -- La fama / feat. The Weeknd -- Bulerías -- Chicken teriyaki -- Hentai -- Bizcochito -- G3 N15 -- Motomami -- Diablo / feat. James Blake -- Delirio de grandeza -- CUUUUuuuuuute -- Como un G -- Abcdefg -- La combi Versace / feat. Tokischa -- Sakura.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ROSChao, Manu.
Summary: Following one of his most extensive tours to date, Manu Chao returns with his first new studio album in nearly six years.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nacional Records 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CHAEggers, Dave
Summary: "From bestselling author Dave Eggers, the incredible true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astonishing history of coffee and Yemen's central place in it. He leaves San...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALKHANSHALI, MOKHTAR EGGSummary: "The World Today Series: Latin America offers the latest available economic, demographic, political, and cultural information. Including solid statistical data expressing freedom, violence, and governmental orientation. Consideration is given to the evolving relationships with the United States and other Latin American nations. Revisions have also addressed new historical interpretations, for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 980 LATLabrecque, Ellen
Summary: "Viva la revolucion! Find out how Che Guevara--a doctor turned communist leader and much more than a face on a T-shirt--ended up paying the ultimate price for his cause. His very image has become associated with a spirit of rebellion, but Ernesto Guevara--known around the world simply as Che--didn't dream of becoming a revolutionary. Author Ellen Labrecque takes readers on a journey through...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUELaferte, Mon
Contents: Pa' dónde se fue -- Que sí -- Mi buen amor / (ft. Enrique Bunbury) -- Ana -- Amárrame (ft. Juanes) -- Yo te qui -- Primaveral -- No te fumes mi mariguana -- Cielito de abril (ft. Manuel García) -- Flaco -- La trenza -- Bonus tracks: Aleli (ft. Caloncho) -- Vendaval -- Palomita -- Cuando era flor -- Antes de ti.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN LAFCapella, Anthony.
Summary: In 1896 London, impoverished poet Robert Wallis accepts a commission from eccentric coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorize the diverse and elusive coffee flavors, an assignment that will transform his life as he falls in love with his assistant, Pinker's daughter Emily.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPStewart, Jeffrey C.
Summary: "A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. In The New Negro : The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOCKE, ALAIN STEGibson, Carrie
Summary: "Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots--ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GIBResidente (Musical group)
Contents: Intro ADN/DNA (1:40) -- Somos anormales (3:38) -- Interludio entre montañas siberianas (2:22) -- Una leyenda China (4:29) -- Interludo haruna fati (:40) -- Dogomabas en tamale (3:55) -- Desencuentro (4:44) -- Guerra (5:34) -- Apocaliptico (6:12) -- La sombra (4:04) -- Milo (6:03) -- El futuro es nuestro (4:26) -- Hijos del cañaveral (6:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Latin 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN RESJesse & Joy
Summary: Jesse & Joy's fourth studio album release. It not only presents thirteen new, wonderful, and captivating songs, but it also brings collaborations with some of today's biggest names in Latin music, including Juan Luis Guerra, Tommy Torres, and Alejandro Sanz.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN JESKurutz, Steven
Summary: "The little-engine-that-could story of how a band of scrappy entrepreneurs are reviving the enterprise of manufacturing clothing in the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1999