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African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Children's stories, American Ghost stories Monsters Latin America Fiction Murder Investigation Murder Investigation New York (State) New York Drama Murder New York (State) New York Drama Operas Parties FictionEscandón, María Amparo
Summary: "FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Touré, Amara.
Contents: N'Nijo -- Temedy -- Lamento Cubano -- Cuando Llegare -- Fatou -- N'ga Digne M'be -- Salamouti -- Afalago -- Tela -- Africa.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Analog Africa Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN TOUAmara, Philip
Summary: "This is an illustrated children's anthology of noteworthy Asian Americans: 20 groundbreaking men and women from diverse backgrounds and vocations"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AMAAmara, Philip.
Summary: Presents a step-by-step guide to creating, publishing and marketing comic books, including developing compelling characters, approaching publishers, and adapting storylines for video games and movies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars featuring the monsters of Latine myths and legends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
King's Noyse (Musical group)
Contents: Galliard III based on La Mantoana / Giovanni Maria Trabaci (2:55) -- Galliard / Giovanni Leonardo dell'Arpa (2:41) -- Non ha'l ciel cotanti lumi = Heaven hath not so many stars / Claudio Monteverdi (3:01) -- Qual cadavero spirante = Like a dying corpse / Jacopo Peri (4:34) -- Pavane II / Carlo Farina (12:52) -- Se pur è ver = If it be true / Filippo Vitali (5:14) -- Dances from Il scolaro. Aria...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi France 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL KINSummary: A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DEASummary: An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NIGSummary: Laura and her children travel from Buenos Aires to the small Spanish village where she was born to attend her sister's wedding. Unexpected events soon lead to a crisis that exposes the family's hidden past. Suspicions mount, loved ones begin to turn on one another, and dark secrets long hidden threaten to come to light, revealing shocking truths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EVESummary: The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUISummary: "In director Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other - to become brothers again like they used to be. Their 'spiritual quest', however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Darjeeling 2007Summary: A radio host from New York City attempts to solve the murder of a girl he hooked up with and travels down south to investigate the circumstances of her death and discover what happened to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VENPuccini, Giacomo
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA PUCStilton, Geronimo
Summary: The famous opera singer Violetta von Cacklefur is in Gloomeria to perform at the Royal Mosetropolitan Theater! But the mischievous phantom of the theater has an old grudge against her. It's up to Creepella and Geronimo to track him down in the theater's spooky basement ... before the curtains rise and he ruins the show! -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION STICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIClooney, George
Summary: When his wife ends up on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King discovers she was having an affair, so he takes his two daughters on a trip to Kauai to confront the man she was seeing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DES RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DESSummary: A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NICSummary: Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lion's Gate Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AMOMarta
Contents: Intro -- Today -- When it's going wrong -- Nowhere -- Think of you -- Moving through water -- Swimming away -- Walking -- Czarno czarny.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MARMacha
Contents: You and the new plastic -- Never underdose -- Hey goodbye -- Only the bodies survive -- How are your windows? -- Believe.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jetset 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MACGarcía Esperón, María
Summary: Presents a collection of stories from nations and cultures across our two continents, the Sea-Ringed World, as the Aztecs called it, from the edge of Argentina all the way up to Alaska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 GAROrtiz, Amparo
Summary: "Playing in the Blazewrath World Cup with Team Puerto Rico and the Sol de Noche dragons had been Lana Torres's dream come true...To rid the world of the dragon supremacists, Lana and her friends had to cancel the games forever...Someone is kidnapping dragons...To keep their dragons safe, Team Puerto Rico has to take down an underground cabal of evil magic users who are fighting stolen dragons...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ORTMaita
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAIMachado, Ana Maria
Summary: A child decides to invite a few friends for a birthday party, encouraging guests to bring food and friends, but the guest list soon gets out of control and becomes the craziest, wildest party ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2013