Summary: Just as Magda is diagnosed with breast cancer, she meets Arturo, a devoted husband and father in the midst of unspeakable loss. Their chance encounter leads both down a path of strength, grace, love, and rebirth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MASummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vision Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROMCortázar, Julio
Summary: "In time for his centenary: two groundbreaking works from a major figure of world literature, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. With these two books--the "counter-novel" Hopscotch and the short-story collection Blow-Up--Cortazar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORJunko
Summary: "DIVINE INTERVENTION. Has a concert ever changed your life? Azusa adores Chika-kun, the cutest and most popular star in the idol group Prince 4 U, and she's thrilled to get front-row seats to his latest show. She would do anything for him. So when a stage light falls, Azusa leaps onstage and...fails to save Chika's life. The two are off to heaven, where God gives them a second chance--except a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 STAIglesias, Gabino
Summary: From an award-winning author comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence. Buried in debt due to his young daughter's illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGLIglesias, Gabino.
Summary: "A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the mother of chaos. A boy joins corpse destroyers to seek vengeance for the death of his father."--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broken River Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGLSummary: Sword of vengeance: He was Ogami Itto, a man who held himself to the harsh code of Bushido. Their first commission: to save the life of Daimyo and kill the traitors that plot his death. Baby Cart at the River Styx: The Yagyu clan has murdered Ogami Itto's wife, and had him stripped of his position of Official Shogunate Second. Now Ogami and his son Diagoro wander the countryside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1986
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young man who survived a plane crash becomes more wildly alive and takes more risks when he discovers that the crash transformed him into a man without fear of death. Meanwhile, his wife struggles to find within him the man she married, and another survivor of the crash believes nothing and no one can heal her pain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FEAAnta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTTorres, Julio
Summary: An ambitious toilet plunger expresses his desire to be a vase.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: This is the story of the relationship between Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret. Spanning thirty years, the novel alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret's life as she says good-bye to her family, friends, and children--and to Enrique. Inspired by the author's own marriage to his wife who died in 2004, this achingly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC YGLYglesias, Helen.
Summary: A novel on a geriatric community in Miami Beach, featuring three Jewish sisters. It is narrated by the youngest, who is 85. She describes everyday activity, as well as attitudes to life and death, some people hoping to go soon, others fighting to stick around.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delphinium Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YGLYglesias, Helen.
Summary: These days the news is full of reports about the graying of America, yet it's rare that old people appear in contemporary fiction except as stock characters: the indulgent grandmother, the wicked witch. In her first novel in a dozen years, the acclaimed author of How She Died and Sweetsir gives us four grand old ladies, sisters, each unique and indelibly real, in a poignant and very funny story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delphinium Books 2012
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Zeh, Juli
Summary: "An explosive thriller about two couples who are caught in a web of conflicting passions while deep-sea diving off the beautiful Canary Islands; Sven Fiedler is a young lawyer in Germany who decides he's had enough. No more competing with coworkers for his boss's attention, no more flaunting this or that new purchase to keep his friends impressed, no more endless workweeks under...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZEHZeh, Juli
Summary: A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists. Part suspenseful thriller, part wickedly effective social satire, "Empty Hearts" is a novel for our times, examining urgent questions of morality, politics, and culture, and presenting a startling vision of a future where empathy is a thing of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZEHAllio, Kirstin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLHerbert, Julián
Summary: As he sits by his dying mother, a son immerses himself in his memories of his childhood and youth while he investigates the complex relationship with his mother, his own children and his country, Mexico.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHulin, Rachel
Summary: "A brilliant, hilarious, endlessly inventive debut, Hey Harry, Hey Matilda is the story--told entirely in emails--of fraternal twins Harry and Matilda Goodman as they fumble into adulthood, telling lies and keeping secrets, and finally confronting their complicated twin-ship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HULJuliano, Larissa
Summary: Explore Grandpa's Workshop and discover delights and surprises around every corner. When a boy and his grandfather spend the afternoon in his wood-smelling shed, they scan the shelves and organize the workshop, sorting nails, screws, and other trinkets. And, no workshop is complete without a sparkly, sticky spider web to marvel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clever Publshing 2020
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: BRDMishima, Yukio
Summary: Irresistible to women, the beautiful, young Yuichi embarks on a loveless marriage while he enters a homosexual underworld during postwar Japan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1968
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISJurjevics, Juris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Translated into English for the first time, a gripping short novel about an affair gone wrong, from the acclaimed Japanese author, Yukio Mishima. Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beasts tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakado; and Ippei's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018