Hokeah, Oscar
Summary: "Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father's injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband, the constant resettlement of the family, and the legacy of centuries of injustice all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOKSummary: Romero is the true story of the Catholic priest Archbishop Oscar Romero who lived in El Salvador during the political unrest in the 1970s. The government launched a 'terror campaign' against the guerillas in an attempt to crush them. Archbishop Romero's protests against governments' actions was perceived as disloyalty. As an example to others, the government began to destroy churches and murder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vision Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROMTosca.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ToscaMunsch, Robert N.
Summary: "When Saoussan immigrated with her family from war-torn Lebanon, she was only seven years old. This picture book tells the story of how she had to adjust to her new home in Canada. She describes the frustration of not understanding the teacher when she started school, not knowing how to ask to go to the bathroom, and being terrified of a prop skeleton. This is the perfect book to help kids...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUNTosca
Contents: disc 1. My first -- Elitsa -- Springer -- Birthday -- Oysters in May -- Joe si ha -- Elektra Bregenz -- Fondue -- Rosa -- Raymondo -- Mrs. Bongo -- No hassle --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: !K7 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TOSTosca
Contents: Nobody cares -- Gentleman -- Osam -- Shout sister -- Tropical -- Clean up -- Troststrasse -- Entrecote -- Dementamente -- Early bird -- Make up -- ECM2
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TOSHijuelos, Oscar.
Summary: In New York, a father's worst nightmare arrives just before Christmas when Edward Ives learns his son Robert, 17, was murdered in the street for $10 by another teenager. The novel describes his coming to terms with his loss. By the author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIJLopez, Oscar.
Contents: Forgive me (Perdóname) -- Bailando rumba -- Lucia -- Loco por ti -- Walking through the pyramid -- Thinking of you (Pensando en ti) -- Flavor -- Gentle seduction -- Classical soul -- Loving you -- Looking back -- Fire and fury (Fuego y furia) -- Merenguiando baby -- Guitarras from heaven -- Armando's fire.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Narada World/Virgin Music 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN LOPWilde, Oscar
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Publisher / Publication Date: HRPRC 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.8 WILWilde, Oscar
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1990
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.8 WILCall number: 822.8 Wilde
Hammerstein, Oscar
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1949
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 RODPeterson, Oscar
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Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PETERSON, OSCAR PETPeterson, Oscar
Contents: Someone to watch over me / G. & F. Gershwin (4:10) -- Perdido / Juan Tizol (6:10) -- Body and soul / Johnnie Green (4:28) -- Who can I turn to / Bricusse, Newley (4:53) -- Bye, bye blackbird / Dixon, Henderson (4:50) -- I should care / Stordah, Weston (4:42) -- Lulu's back in town / Warren, Dubin (2:00) -- Little girl blue / Rodgers, Hart (6:02) -- Take the A-train / Billy Strayhorn (2:37).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MPS Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PETPeterson, Oscar
Summary: Performances featuring the jazz pianist, filmed for the television programs, Mr̜k sang (Sweden, 1963), Swing it Oscar (Denmark, 1964) and Live in Finland (Finland, 1965).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Reelin' in the Years Productions 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC OSCPeterson, Oscar
Contents: God rest ye merry gentlemen -- What child is this? -- Let it snow -- White Christmas -- Jingle bells -- I'll be home for Christmas -- Santa Claus is coming to town -- O little town of Bethlehem -- Christmas waltz -- Have yourself a merry little Christmas -- Silent night -- Winter wonderland -- Away in a manger -- O Christmas tree.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Telarc 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD HOL PetersonPeterson, Oscar
Contents: Green Dolphin Street / Kaper-Washington (7:28) --Heartstrings / Jackson (5:39) -- The work song /Adderley (7:29) -- John Brown's body / anon. (7:45) --A wonderful guy / Rodgers-Hammerstein (4:53) --Reunion blues / Jackson (7:21).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PETWilde, Oscar
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wise 1940
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 WILWilde, Oscar
Summary: The story of two dissatisfied gentlemen, one from the country and the other from the city, who invent imaginary acquaintances as an excuse to leave their own environments for awhile. The play mixes hilarious comedy with sharp social criticism on topics such as morality, marriage, and class.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN WILWilde, Oscar
Summary: Includes the following works: Novels- The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays-Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings-De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are accompanied...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 WILCargill, Oscar
Contents: The drive to distinction. Watch and ward ; Roderick Hudson ; The American ; The Europeans ; Confidence ; The Portrait of a lady -- The Gallic issue. The Bostonians ; The Princess Casamassima ; The Reverberator ; The Tragic muse -- The Augean stable. The Other house ; The Spoils of Poynton ; What Maisie knew ; The Awkward age ; The Sacred fount -- The major phase....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1961
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCasares, Oscar
Summary: "From the acclaimed author Brownsville and Amigoland--a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. Brownsville, Texas, has a dangerous reputation: it sits on the U.S. side of the bridge into Matamoros, Mexico, a city controlled by notorious cartels. But that isn't why...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Casares 2019Hammel, Oscar.
Contents: Souris Blanche (3:58) -- Latino du midi (3:48) -- AmGedGee (3:57) -- Alberto (4:51) -- Comptine des combines (5:59) -- De chGvre (2:59) -- Vago (3:48) -- Emmenez-moi (3:36) -- Indiana (4:49) -- EnamourGe (3:55) -- Castagne (3:55) -- Fatalement beau (3:46).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tinder Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN HAMHijuelos, Oscar.
Summary: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love is a contemporary American classic, a book that still captivates and inspires readers twenty years after its first publication. Now, in Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos returns to this indelible story, to tell it from the point of view of its beloved heroine, Maria. She's the great Cuban beauty who stole musician Nestor Castillo's heart and broke it,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Isaac, Oscar
Summary: During a violent year in New York City, a man struggles to keep his heating company running while dealing with his competitors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2015