Summary: Seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti's long career was dogged by persistent accusations of conspiracy, Mafia connections and state-sponsored terror. This compelling film explores the shocking political machinations and shady criminal underworld surrounding this fascinating and controversial figure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2009
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIVSummary: Against the backdrop of Italy's political upheaval, Fascism and chaos during the tumultuous post-war period between 1938 and 1948, Detective De Luca does the one thing he knows how to do: be a cop. He investigates and solves crimes in the war-torn city of Bologna and along the Adriatic coast with little or no regard for those in power, whoever they happen to be.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MHz Networks Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DETSummary: Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBGraziosi, Barbara.
Summary: "The gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly. Yet for all their foibles and flaws, they proved to be tough survivors, far outlasting classical Greece itself. In Egypt, the Olympian gods claimed to have given birth to pharaohs; in Rome, they led respectable citizens into orgiastic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014
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Contents: Total immersion -- Blues is loss -- Light, raking -- Changed -- The water wheel -- Old maps -- Some songs -- Anchoress.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK POLPablo.
Contents: Disc 1-Turntable technology--Sing--Fairchild (live at the lab)--Sky is high--Turn the page--Speed check--The story of sampling--Record shop--Goes to pluto--Music maestro--Rooftop chase--High jazz.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soma records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TURCognetti, Paolo
Summary: "For fans of Elena Ferrante, Fredrik Backman, and Paulo Coelho comes the international sensation about the friendship between two young Italian boys from different backgrounds and how their incredibly strong connection evolves, changes, and challenges them throughout their lives. Pietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his parents becoming more distant each day, the only thing the family...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COGConte, Paolo
Contents: Reveries (3:49) -- Gioco d'azzardo (4:20) -- Dancing (3:58) -- Aguaplano (4:03) -- Nord (6:50) -- I giardini pensili hanno fatto il loro tempo (3:30) -- Fuga all'inglese (4:01) -- Madeleine (4:33) -- Blue tangos (3:56) -- Novecento (3:32) -- L'avance (5:59) -- Sudamerica (3:01) -- Parigi (3:26) -- Chiamami adesso (2:54) -- Diavolo rosso (6:13) -- Come mi vuoi (4:23)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL ConteLazzarin, Paolo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 2004
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Summary: In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BACBacigalupi, Paolo.
Summary: While practicing for their next baseball game, thirteen-year-old friends Rabi, Miguel, and Joe discover that the nefarious activities of the Delbe, Iowa, meatpacking plant have caused cows to turn into zombies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BACChikiamco, Paolo
Summary: "Manila--the walled city recently freed from a dictator's iron-fisted rule--is a magical metropolis where monsters roam the neon-lit streets. In this noir-tinged graphic novel, the capital exists in an alternate reality where myth and fantasy collide. Tensions between the human and nonhuman realms are about to hit a breaking point in a city now governed by the mysterious Societies. Who will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHIGiordano, Paolo
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIOBacigalupi, Paolo.
Summary: In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION BACBacigalupi, Paolo.
Summary: What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACGiordano, Paolo
Summary: "When a young married couple hire a middle-aged widow during the wife, Nora's, difficult pregnancy, they don't realize the dominating force she will become in their small family. Signora A--maid, nanny, and confidante--becomes the glue in their household, and over time, the steady and loving presence whose benign influence allows them to negotiate the complexities of married life. But the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIOTullio, Paolo
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.85 TULArduini, Paolo.
Summary: Discusses the science, evolution, and history of fossils and describes how they are formed, where they can be found, and what people can learn from them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560 ARDBacigalupi, Paolo.
Summary: "The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that lush, luxurious...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BACGiordano, Paolo
Summary: Every year, after her school in Turin closes for the summer holidays, Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia and endures weeks of heat and boredom. This summer she meets the three boys who live on the farm next door: Nicola; Tommaso; and charismatic Bern. Raised like brothers, they don't go to school, but instead live in a kind of commune led by Cesare, a teacher and father...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GIONutini, Paolo
Contents: Afterneath -- Radio -- Through the echoes -- Acid eyes -- Stranded words (interlude) -- Lose it -- Petrified in love -- Everywhere -- Abigail -- Children of the stars -- Heart filled up -- Shine a light -- Desperation -- Julianne -- Take me take mine -- Writer.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NUTHumeniuk, Pavlo.
Contents: Oi ia sobi kozak lepkii = I'm a good looking Cossack -- I ia toe divcha liubliu = I love this girl -- Iak zachuiu kolomyiku = When I hear the Kolomyika -- Ukrainske wesilia, part 1 = Ukrainian wedding -- Ukrainske wesilia, part 2 = Ukrainian wedding -- Winkopletyny = Garland weaving ceremony -- Zaruczyny = Engagement celebration -- Poprawiny, part 1 = Party after the wedding -- Poprawiny, part...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arhoolie Folklyric 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN HUMPole
Contents: Arena -- Round two -- The bell -- Back home.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mute Corporation 2003