Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: "A high school senior and his familt in Kentucky struggle to cope with the identity and intentions of a town shooter." --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kumalo, Bakithi
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KUMCerati, Gustavo.
Contents: Fuerza natural -- Deja vu -- Magia -- Amor sin rodeos -- Traccion a sangre -- Desastre -- Rapto -- Cactus -- Naturaleza muerta -- Domino -- Sal -- Convoy -- He visto a Lucy.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Latin 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CERMelati ESP
Contents: Tepi memori -- Bahasa baru -- E.M.Z -- Spesimen sempurna -- Intuisi -- Kupu kupu elektronik
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Carpark Records 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MELNeate, Patrick.
Summary: Covering five continents and cities as diverse as New York, Rio, Tokyo, and Johannesburg, the author explores hip-hop's international influence on and significance in popular music.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 NEANesti, Fido
Summary: One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ORWBathala, Neeti
Summary: Leena and her mom volunteer each summer to count the horseshoe crabs that visit their beach. With their dog Bobie at their sides, the duo spends a night on the shore surveying horseshoe crabs who have come to mate and lay eggs. Readers will learn valuable facts about these ancient animals and how they can get involved in the effort to conserve horseshoe crabs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arbordale Publishing 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Blyden, Nemata Amelia
Summary: Bringing together accounts of the most significant ideas and milestones in Black history and culture, this important and thought-provoking book offers a bold and accessible overview of the history of the African continent and its peoples.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960 BLYSchreiner-Yantis, Netti
Contents: v. 1. 1-784 -- v. 2. 785-1482 -- v. 3. Index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Books in Print 1987
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3755 Schre2 available in Reference, Call number: GEN VIR
Holub, Joan
Summary: "After stumbling into a pet cemetery, Hecate meets Melinoe, who calls herself a ghost herder. She is in charge of leading the ghosts of pets and other animals to the River Styx in the Underworld. But Melinoe doesn't notice when one of her ghost animals follows Hecate home! More and more of the lost ghosts gather with Hecate, and she learns they have unfinished business left on Earth and refuse...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HOLReynolds, Emma
Summary: Emma Reynolds shines a spotlight on sixteen incredible youth activists from around the world who are fighting to protect the planet and all life on Earth. From Autumn Peltier campaigning for clean water to Edgar Edmund Tarimo turning plastic waste into building materials-and many more-these inspiring true stories highlight the importance of taking charge and creating change. Beautifully...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REYMariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
Contents: Llegaron los camperos = The countrymen arrived (3:32) -- Jalisco (8:47) -- Las ciudades = Cities (3:22) -- Jarocho II (6:23) -- José Alfred Jiménez (6:19) -- Los dos amantes = The two lovers (2:26) -- Michoacán (10:07) -- La noche de mi mal = The night of my bad fortune (3:54) -- Jarocho I (7:48) -- México lindo = Pretty Mexico (2:48).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MARSummary: Iceland's official submission to the Academy Awardsʼ for Best International Feature Film! Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. As the group's behavior escalates towards life-threatening situations, Addi begins to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEASummary: This drama chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OSASummary: A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong. Eventually, reluctantly banding...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HIDSummary: This fateful love story is set in Prague during the late 1930s and subsequent Nazi occupation. It focuses on radio journalist Emil, who is deeply in love with his glamorous Jewish movie star wife Hana. When the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is established, Hana's career is cut short and Emil's radio station put under German control. Emil chooses to collaborate with the occupiers in order...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PROShakira.
Contents: How do you do -- Illegal (feat. Carlos Santana) -- Hips don't lie (featuring Wyclef Jean) -- Animal city -- Don't Bother -- Day and the time (feat. Gustavo Cerati) -- Dreams for plans -- Hey you -- Your embrace -- Costume makes the clown -- Something -- Timor -- Tortura (alternate version) (feat. Alejandro Sanz).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epic Records 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SHASteele, Philip
Summary: "This stunning book will lead you on a thrilling journey back in time to the land of the ancient Egyptians. Meet mighty pharaohs and powerful queens. Awaken mythical gods and magical goddesses. Watch everyday life along the River Nile. Every spread reveals a fabulous treasure and its unique story. Unwrap a pharaoh's mummy, decipher hieroglyphics, discover why an amulet is lucky, and what...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Weldon Owen 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 932 STERamos, Vanessa
Summary: Sixth-grader Selena Estrella Herrera's family moves to El Paso to help care for her grandfather, and she tries to reinvent herself by claiming her identity as *Strella--but the project her team chooses is about the singer Selena after whom *Strella is actually named.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED RAMRivera, Adriana Erin
Summary: Told through diary entries, twelve-year-old Paloma and her family must navigate changes they cannot control and hope for a better future when United States soldiers invade Spanish controlled Puerto Rico in 1898.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RIVSummary: Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, the new film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) is an immersive and provocative drama. Set in the picturesque and striking landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, Winter Sleep focuses on a small village, half-empty, in the wintry off-season. The film follows a local celebrity, Aydin, an actor who runs a small...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINYolen, Jane
Summary: Readers will be delighted by the malodorous melodies of poems calling out the different pungent attributes of a full cast of foul-smelling creatures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2019