Summary: Clara, a young single doctor, has everything she wants, except love. Invited to a family wedding in Mexico, Clara convinces a charming coworker to pose as her current boyfriend, only to run into her old flame at the festivities. Now, with a little help from her colorful family, Clara must choose between two men, and two futures, in this heartwarming romantic comedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EvSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Alarcón, Francisco X.
Summary: Presents a series of brief poems in English and Spanish for each day of the week that celebrate the joys of family and other relationships.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 811 ALASummary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIOSummary: This compilation features some of Cuba's most legendary musicians. All of them have appeared in the Buena Vista Social Club film. In addition there are some until now unreleased songs with special appearances by 75 year old Raúl Planas, Teresa García Caturla and Felix Baloy, all key figures of the Afro-Cuban All Stars.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN STAVarious artists.
Contents: El son de la santiaguera (Ibrahim Ferrer) -- Sera cuando tu digas (Compay Segundo) -- Sabrosona (Habana All Stars) -- Pena (Eliades Ochoa y Compay Segundo) -- Qu ̌cosas tiene la vida (Pupy y Los Que Son Son) -- El patalm͠ (Sur Caribe) -- Ten un poquito de f ̌(Felix Baloy) -- Anita (Compay Segundo) -- Piensa en mi (Omara Portuondo) -- La gloria eres t ͠(Rubň Gonzl̀ez) -- Que te parece cholito...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: In2 Music 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CUBSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BUESummary: "Son is Cuba's principal dance and song form and the root of salsa. Fusing African and Spanish elements, it ranges in style from simple, rustic bands to the brassy arrangements of New York salsa. This rough guide, literally a 'who's who' in Cuban music, explores this rich tradition, from its conception in the early 1900s to the present day big-band revival"--Container verso.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ROUSummary: The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUIBuena 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 BUEBrosnan, Peter L.
Summary: "In 1923, pioneer filmmaker Cecil. B. DeMille built the largest set in movie history for his silent (and early Technicolor) epic, The Ten Commandments. It was called 'The City of the Pharaoh.' When filming was completed, DeMille ordered that the entire edifice be dismantled... and secretly buried. And there it lay, forgotten, for the next 60 years.... the 'Lost city of Cecil B. DeMille.' In...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOSSummary: Young and pretty with a soul of pure steel, Jane Hammond is a good girl married to one of the worst baddies in town. When her husband Bill turns against his own gang, the vicious Bishop Boys, and returns home barely alive with eight bullets in his back, Jane knows it's time to ditch the dress for a pair of pants and strap on her own gun.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JANGonzales.
Contents: Chilly in F minor -- Variations on a scheme -- (Another) so called party -- This one jam -- Lovertits -- Soft shoe snoozin' -- You are -- Why don't we disappear -- The joy of thinking -- Decisions -- Take me to Broadway -- Starlight -- Let's groove again -- Dans tes yeux -- Love scene/Higher than you.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Pias/Kitty-Yo 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GONSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FASStork, Francisco.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2012
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Summary: His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Milk 2009Summary: In the wealthy, seaside community of Neptune, California, the rich and powerful make the rules. Unfortunately for them, there's Veronica Mars, a smart, fearless 17-year-old apprentice private investigator solving the town's toughest mysteries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VERStork, Francisco.
Summary: An intense and heartwarming story of finding love and finding yourself. Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear—part of an autism-like condition that no doctor has been able to identify. But his father has never fully believed in the music or Marcelo’s differences, and he challenges Marcelo to work in the mailroom of his law firm for the summer. There Marcelo meets the beautiful...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2009
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Zumaqué, Francisco.
Contents: The convocation. Conjuro -- Ritual of peace. Obatalá -- Ritual to Mother Earth. Aché. Onoma -- Ritual of pain. Nos duelen -- Ritual for slaves. Echú. Eleguá -- Ritual of parting. Voy pa' la ciudad -- The offering. Ofrenda -- The requiem. Requiem for the Amazon -- Harvest ritual. Invocación. Carrizo -- Song of hope. Llegará el tiempo -- Funeral rite. Oré. The last song of Grey Hawk.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tropical Music 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ZUMSedita, Francesco
Summary: Kyle, Vic, Harry, Beth, and Nate try to return home after being transported fifty years into the past while attempting to avoid questions about who--and from when--they are.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022