Summary: Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six year old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Disney World.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FLOSummary: Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STASummary: Set in the year 2033, this one-of-a-kind blend of scripted drama and fascinating documentary sequences centers on twin female astronauts who courageously embark on an epic adventure: humanity's awe-inspiring quest to colonize Mars. The world's most brilliant minds in space exploration, including visionary thinkers Elon Musk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, NASA astronauts and more, share what the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARBellini, Vincenzo
Summary: During the English Civil War of the 1640's, a Puritan bride goes mad when she feels betrayed by her Royalist bridegroom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA PURSummary: A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistant questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZSummary: A charismatic yet psychotic serial killer communicates with other active serial killers and activates a cult of believers following his every command.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FOLSummary: Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Admist the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLALuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights thecontradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear--both here and back home"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 LUILuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "From the two-time NBCC Finalist, a fiercely imaginative novel about a family's summer road trip across America--a journey that, with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUIRuelas, Valeria
Summary: "Discover the vibrant culture of brujeria and embrace your own inner witch with this essential guide to spellcasting, spirit worship, tarot, crystals, and all the other elements of this increasingly popular lifestyle"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2022
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Summary: "Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer--the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMOtto.
Contents: Crua -- O leite / (feat. Céu) -- Janáina -- Meu mundo danc̦a -- 6 minutos -- Lágrimas negras / (feat. Julieta Venegas) -- Saudade / (feat. Julieta Venegas) -- Naquela mesa -- Filha -- Agora Sim.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nublu Records 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN OTTFerrari, Valeria.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Martingale & Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.592 FerrariWicker, Valeria
Summary: Inspired by a visit to an art museum, Raven sets out to create a masterpiece but her discarded mistakes start stalking her, teaching her to accept her imperfections.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Contents: Mi son (6:05) -- El caballo de Curingo (5:20) -- El perro de Juan (6:06) -- Ferecía (5:06) -- Se quema la chumbambá (3:47) -- Desenfreno (6:50) -- Déjame al menos (3:29) -- Homenaje a panchita (4:02) -- Para continuar (7:33) -- El sinsonte (4:31) -- Vivencias (6:55) -- Berenjena y quimbombó (5:46) -- Mi son (radio edit) (3:54).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN VALValerio, Geraldo
Summary: Geraldo Valério is an artist who loves birds, from majestic golden eagles and snowy owls to brilliant cardinals and jays to the tiniest of hummingbirds. Here he presents his favorites, with beautiful collage illustrations and brief descriptions that highlight intriguing facts about each one. The illustrations show a variety of feathered creatures in their natural habitats as they hunt for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: FIREF 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.789 SBOValerio, Geraldo
Summary: A little girl falls asleep, her book in hand, and as she dreams an astonishing adventure unfolds. This wordless picture book celebrates the joy and freedom that can be found in stories, dreams and the imagination.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VALMoore, Scotto
Summary: "In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scott Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages. Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to learn the secrets of "power...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOSotto, Samantha.
Summary: Three years after her husband Max's death, Paolo, an Italian editor of American coffee table books, shows Shelley some childhood photos. Paolo tells her that the man in the photos, the bearded man who Paolo says is his grandfather though he never seems to age, is Max. "Her" Max. And he is alive and well. As outrageous as Paolo's claims seem--how could her husband be alive?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOTCott, Jonathan.
Summary: A decades-long friend of John Lennon and Yoko Ono presents an intimate account of the couple's relationship that reveals the profoundly positive influence of Ono on Lennon and the ways they inspired each other creatively before the latter's death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LENNON, JOHN COTCott, Jonathan
Summary: "An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period. Polymath and master interviewer Jonathan Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak in 1976 for Rolling Stone, just at the time when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017