Summary: For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspring and cautionary. Whether it's a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselvs and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESRessa, Maria
Summary: Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to a democracy. As a reporter from CNN, she transformed news coverage in her region, which led her in 2012 to create a new and innovative online news organization, Rappler....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RESSA, MARIA RESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B RESSA RESSummary: During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DEVSummary: Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSContents: Friend of the devil (Jerry Garcia and David Grisman) (3:41) -- Strong enough (Sheryl Crow) (3:06) -- Sweet Jane (Lou Reed) (3:23) -- Too much (Dave Matthews Band) (3:44) -- Think (Aretha Franklin) (2:32) -- I don't want to wait (Paula Cole) (3:39) -- God give me strength (Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach) (3:49) -- Funny how time slips away (Lyle Lovett and Al Green) (3:29) -- Have I told you...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 1997
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LIVCall number: CD SHOW MUSIC LIV
Menocal, Maria Rosa.
Summary: Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as a young prince in exile--the last heir to an Islamic dynasty--founds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. Combining the best of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.02 MENE.S.T
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Japan 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ E.S.TE.S.T
Contents: Somewhere else before (5:31) -- Dodge the dodo (5:11) -- From Gagarin's point of view (4:02) -- The return of Mohammed (6:27) -- The face of love (6:50) -- Pavane (3:42) -- The wraith (9:19) -- The chapel (4:11) -- In the face of day (6:50) -- Spam-boo-limbo (4:36).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ESTM.I.A.
Contents: Banana (skit) -- Pull up the people -- Bucky done gun -- Fire fire -- Freedom (skit) -- Amazon -- Bingo -- Hombre -- One for the head (skit) -- 10 dollar -- Sunshowers -- Galang.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: XL Recordings 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC M.I.AM.I.A.
Contents: Borders -- Go off -- Bird song -- Jump in -- Freedun / feat. Zayn -- Foreign friend / feat. Dexta Daps -- Finally -- A.M.P. (All my people) -- Ali r u ok? -- Visa -- Fly pirate -- Survivor -- Bird song -- The new international sound pt. 2 / feat. Generation -- Swords -- Talk -- Platforms.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MIASummary: Comedy film about a woman who has been jilted by the love of her life, her friend who discovers her lover is a a Shiite terrorist, and her ex-lover's crazed wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMGillespie, Marcia.
Summary: An observation of Maya Angelou's life as well as her myriad interests and accomplishments by longtime friends Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard Long, and her niece Rosa Johnson Butler.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 818.5409 ANGC.I.A
Contents: Fear -- Reputation -- Pleasure Seeker -- Gutted -- Seduction -- Power -- Harm Joy -- Oblivion -- S O S -- Gunslinger
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Records
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CIASummary: Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LURM.I.A.
Contents: Karmageddon -- Matangi -- Only 1 U -- Warriors -- Come walk with me -- Atention -- Exodus (ft. the Weeknd) -- Bad girls -- Boom skit -- Double bubble trouble -- Y.A.L.A. -- Bring the noize -- Lights -- Know it ain't right -- Sexodus (ft. the Weeknd).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC M.I.A.M.I.A.
Contents: The message (:57) -- Steppin' up (4:00) -- XXXO (2:58) -- Teqkilla (6:20) -- Lovalot (2:50) -- Story to be told (3:32) -- It takes a muscle (3:00) -- It iz what it iz (3:29) -- Born free (4:14) -- Meds and feds (3:09) -- Tell me why (4:11) -- Space (3:08)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: XL Recordings 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC M.I.A.Summary: Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Journalist Maria Ressa places the tools of the free press, and her freedom, on the line in defense of truth and democracy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV THOSummary: This remarkable story from the past is especially timely today. Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this film retraces the 800 years in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ORNSummary: "A bourgeois woman is driving alone on a dirt road when she becomes distracted and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she becomes dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. The police confirm that there were no accidents reported in the area and everything...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEASummary: In 1931, Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish Civil War deserter who befriends a free-thinking artist, finds himself in a romantic dilemma when the artist's four beautiful daughters return to their country home. Which woman should he love?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGESummary: Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VOLSummary: Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters cross the thin line that divides civilization and barbarism. A lover's betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WIL