Fraction, Matt
Summary: After the fall of Attilan and the Terrigen Bomb explosion, thousands of people across the globe have transformed into Inhumans Their new powers are dangerous and terrifying, making them targets. With Black Bolt believed dead, who can these new Inhumans turn to? As the Avengers face Karnak, who has discovered the Inhumans' secret, Medusa struggles to rule her vastly increased population, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 INHSummary: Explores the indomitable spirit of three "Lost Boys" from the Sudan who are forced to leave their homeland due to a tumultuous civil war. Chronicles their triumph over seemingly insurmountable adversities and a relocation to the United States, where the Lost Boys build active and fulfilling new lives but remain deeply committed to helping friends and family they have left behind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GODSummary: Alex Ventura, a young and inexperienced diplomat, leads a team of explorers and experts to recover the undersea treasure stolen by Frank Wild, an adventurer who crosses the world looting common heritage from the depths of the sea.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FORDiaz, Joey Coco
Summary: Joey Diaz wasn't always a star, but he was always a comedian, it just took him a while to figure it out. To be fair, much of his youth was spent in addiction and depression until he found his calling.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DIAZ, JOEY DIASummary: "Set in Fo Shan, China during the Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man vividly brings to life the brutality of the infamous Japanese occupation, where once proud men are forced to fight [to the] death for a precious bag of rice. Defined by courage and humility, Ip Man, whose fighting skills are revered all over China, rises to the fore front. Upon refusing to teach his martial arts to the invading...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPO'Farrill, Arturo.
Contents: Moment's notice / John Coltrane -- Brava / Santa Debriano -- Chinas y criollas / Rob Mounsey -- Pure emotion / Chico O'Farrill -- Ya yo / Papo Vasquez -- Little Susan / Randy Weston -- Arturo's closet / Vasquez, O'Farrill -- Siboney / Ernesto Lecuona -- Walking batterie woman / Carla Bley -- Darn that dream / Delange, Van Heusen.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ O'FABottletop Band (Musical group)
Contents: Intro -- Voices -- End is the beginning -- One in a million -- Be together -- Fall of rome -- Insisto -- You'll get nothing -- Dream service -- Mana -- A Message.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bottletop Trading Limited
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BOTSummary: A single mother discovers a scheme in her son's book to rescue a young girl from the hands of her abusive stepfather and sets out to execute the plan at any cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOOCartaya, Pablo/ Rivas, Miguel Diaz (ILT)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIAZ, JAQUIRA DIADíaz, Junot
Summary: A collection of eleven stories by a young writer evoke his hard-fought youth in the barrios of the Dominican Republic and the bleak urban landscapes of New Jersey, combining a journalist's dispassionate eye with an ear for poetry
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIAWay, Daniel
Summary: "Deadpool heads into space to increase his intergalactic cred. Will taking on galactic assassin Macho Gomez and the immense Id the Selfish Moon cement Deadpool as the solar system's best, most ruthless mercenary? Not as far as his 'old friends' back on Earth are concerned - Hydra Bob, Big Bertha, Taskmaster and Blind Al all want to claim a piece of his hide! Deadpool flirts with both mortality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An epic three-part series that charts the rise and fall of the Boleyn family. This story of love, sex, betrayal and obsession is told from the unique perspective of the Boleyn family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BOLRoca, Paco
Summary: "In Paco Roca's intimate and international award-winning graphic novel, The House, three adult siblings return to their family's quaint vacation home a year after their father's death with the intention to clean up the residence and put it on the market. But as garbage is hauled off and dust is wiped away, decades-old resentments quickly fill the vacant home. Through flashbacks into each...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROCSummary: Jackie Peyton is a sharp-tongued and quick-witted nurse who is trying to survive the chaotic grind of saving lives in a hectic New York City hospital. Jackie's a woman of substance who knows how to handle it all. With a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a steady dose of pain relievers for her chronic back pain, Jackie does whatever it takes to get the job done.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NURSummary: On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BREContents: Disc 1: Being with you / Smokey Robinson. -- Get closer / Seals and Crofts. -- There'll be sad songs (to make you cry) / Billy Ocean. -- Precious and few / Climax. -- Joanna / Kool and the Gang. -- Lost in love / Air Supply. -- You don't have to be a star (to be in my show) / Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. -- I get weak / Belinda Carlisle. -- Crazy love / Poco. -- Hey there lonely girl /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1996
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 468 Dia SpanishDíaz, Junot
Summary: Dominican American, Oscar has never had it easy. A romantic who dreamt of becoming the Domican J.R.R. Tolkien, wanted more than anything else to find true love. But, he may never get the chance thanks to the ancient curse put on his family dooming them for generations to torture, prison, tragic accidents and star-crossed love relationships.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DiaCalvo, Paco
Summary: "Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with one another, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is the new evidence that plants may actually be sentient. Although plants may not have brains, their microscopic commerce exposes a system not unlike the neuronal networks running through our own bodies. They can learn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 571.201 CALRoca, Paco
Summary: "The celebrated Spanish cartoonist's most ambitious work yet is a touching homage to his mother and a bittersweet depiction of life in post-war Spain. It all starts with a photograph: an ordinary scene of a young woman and her family picnicking at a Valencian beach in 1947. Now in her twilight years, Antonia cherishes this photo dearly; it holds the memories of her upbringing, her family --the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.5 ROCUnderhill, Paco.
Summary: The science, mechanics, demographics, and dynamaics of shopping.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.834 UNDHaskins, Don
Summary: A basketball coach describes how, in 1966, as coach of Texas Western College, he used a starting lineup of five black players to beat the top-ranked University of Kentucky team, paving the way for desegregation of all Southern college teams.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2006