Summary: An absorbing drama about a Belgian teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of abusing illegal alien workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PROSummary: "What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous U.S.-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there's nowhere to hide from the unrelenting,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DESWides-Muñoz, Laura
Summary: "A timely and powerful chronicle of a generation's great civil rights battle as witnessed through the experiences of five young undocumented immigrants fighting to become Americans. We often call them DREAMers: young people who were brought or sent to the United States as children. They attend our local schools; work jobs that contribute to our economy. Some apply to attend university here,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.7 WIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.7 WIDSummary: Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives comfortably and happily with her family in the suburbs. That is until the day she accidentally gets locked into a walk-in freezer. She escapes the next morning, half frozen and barely alive, only to realize that her husband and two children didn't even notice she was missing. But when Fiona develops an obsession for everything cold and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ICEGreen, Tim
Summary: Tim Green returns with a new legal thriller featuring his female protagonist from one of his most successful books, The letter of the law, Casey Jordan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GREGreen, Tim
Summary: "Tim Green returns with a new legal thriller featuring his female protagonist from one of his most successful books, The letter of the law, Casey Jordan"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRESummary: Through a glass darkly : The Venetian island of Murano is known for its artisans who specialize in the traditional craft of glass making. When the owner of a glass factory is found murdered, Commissario Brunetti uncovers a connection between the colorful, filigree glass products that he made and some very toxic poisons. How else to explain the colorful slime containing arsenic oozing out from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Mayan Indian peasants are tired of being thought of as nothing more than manual laborers. They organize an effort to improve their lot in life, but are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village and family, Enrique and Rosa, a teenage brother and sister, who barely escaped the massacre, decide they must flee to United States. After receiving clandestine help from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NORSummary: A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALAOlivas, Michael A
Summary: ""Perchance to DREAM" is a legal and political historical exploration of the DREAM Act and DACA"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 OLIGrippando, James
Summary: Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her daughter and save herself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GRIFloyd, James Krishna
Summary: While on a vigilante border patrol, Jackson shoots and kills a young Mexican teenager and then flees into Mexico, becoming an illegal alien himself in order to seek forgiveness from the boy's father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2021
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE NOCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOMSmall, Cathleen
Summary: Deportation can be a frightening concept, especially for immigrants or people whose friends or relatives are from another country. Why do people get deported, and what happens to them after the deportation decision is made? The answers to these questions and more are found in this thorough examination of a topic that is often in the news. Comprehensive text and fact-filled sidebars, and vivid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Press, an imprint of Greenhaven Publishing, LLC 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364 SMASummary: College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet, and fall for each other, over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE SUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
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2 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SuSummary: Comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents' matchmaking by announcing that he's engaged. What he doesn't count on is that they'll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WEDDiffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DIFSmall, Cathleen
Summary: Why are some immigrants considered illegal? What happens to illegal immigrants after they are discovered in the United States? These questions and more are answered by this comprehensive look at a hot topic that is often debated on news programs and online. The accessible, objective text and full-color photographs give readers a balanced look at this complicated issue, and detailed sidebars...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364 SMADe Becker, Gavin
Summary: Covering all the dangerous situations people typically face -- street crime, domestic abuse, violence in the workplace -- de Becker provides real-life examples and offers specific advice on restraining orders, self-defense, and more. But the key to self-protection, he demonstrates, is learning how to trust -- and act on -- our own intuitions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.88 De BeSummary: Pittsburgh corporate lawyer Nick Fallin's high life has gotten the best of him. Arrested for drug use, he is sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service. He must now squeeze those hours into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions, and board meetings. Reluctantly, he is now a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2009
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Summary: "The true story of Lt. Robert Grimes running for his life as he evades being captured by Nazi soldiers. Robert Grimes escapes danger with help from the Comet Line, a resistance group that rescued Allied soldiers during WWII"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 CHAGrippando, James
Summary: Julia Rodriguez and her teenage daughter Beatriz escaped bloodthirsty gangs, random violence and, Julia's abusive husband back in El Salvador. Arriving in Miami, mother and daughter struggled to carve their own piece of the American dream. While life in the States is hard, it is safer, until Julia's rejects her boss's unwanted sexual advances. Suddenly--thanks to an "anonymous" tip to U. S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRISummary: Set along the tumultuous Arizona-Mexico border, Frontera follows Miguel (Michael Peą), a hardworking father and devoted husband who crosses the border illegally and is wrongfully accused of murdering the wife (Amy Madigan) of a former sheriff (Ed Harris). Miguel's pregnant wife (Eva Longoria) lands in the hands of corrupt Mexican "Coyote" smugglers as she tries to help her husband, while the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Pictures 2014