Summary: Despite their hardships, five sisters living in rural Ireland in 1936 are able to embrace life and all its complexities and dance with joy in their hearts.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAN

Summary: Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEA

Quinn, Julia

Summary: Se trata de una tentadora guía de seducción que explica justo lo que la joven necesita. Ella sabe que debe casarse con un millonario; en la Inglaterra de 1815 no existen demasiadas opciones para una muchacha sin bienes familiares que, además, tiene tres hermanos menores que mantener. Su suerte parece mejorar aún más cuando James Sidwell, el sobrino de lady Danbury, se ofrece como voluntario...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Titania Editores 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION QUI

Summary: The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIV

Summary: Early eighteenth-century England is at war with the French. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne, and her friend Lady Sarah tends to her ill health. When a new servant Abigail arrives, Sarah takes her under her wing, and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become time-consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps in to fill in as the Queen's companion....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FAV

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAV

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAV

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Favourite 2019

Summary: An aspiring artist and the aspiring singer he loves join the most berserk brood of sun-and-funners on Nantucket Island in New England.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONE

Enriquez, Mariana

Summary: El mundo de Mariana Enriquez no tiene por qué ser el nuestro, y, sin embargo, lo termina siendo. Bastan pocas frases para pisarlo, respirarlo y no olvidarlo gracias a una viveza emocional insólita. Con la cotidianidad hecha pesadilla, el lector se despierta abatido, perturbado por historias e imágenes que jamás conseguirá sacarse de la cabeza. Las autodenominadas "mujeres ardientes," que...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC ENR

Summary: When Anna's four-year anniversary to her boyfriend passes without an engagement ring, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Inspired by an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on Leap Day, Anna follows Jeremy to Dublin to propose to him. But after landing on the wrong side of Ireland, she must enlist the help of Declan, a handsome and carefree local man, to get her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LEA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEA

Summary: A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies a savagery and violence that could destroy the couple.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER STR

Summary: One of the wackiest and zaniest comedians of all time takes center stage in three of his best films ever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STE

Summary: In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OF

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OFM

Frías, Carlos.

Summary: Carlos Frías, award-winning journalist and the US-born son of Cuban exiles, grew up hearing stories about the homeland of his parents. Sent to Cuba by his newspaper when the country began to close to the foreign press in August 2006, Frías embarked on the journey of his life -- a secret twelve day trip to the land of his parents. That experience led to this evocative, dramatic and unforgettable...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C.A. Press, Penguin Group 2014

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH FRI

Summary: Photographs and accompanying text depict everyday events in the Soviet Union.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Collins Publishers in association with I. Shapiro 1987

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 947.0854 DAY

Summary: In his lifetime, Eakins's artistic reputation suffered from his uncompromising attitude toward convention in art, teaching and society. Now he is acknowledged as one of the greatest of all American painters. Thomas Eakins assesses the full breadth of his genius in its American and European context. The turmoil of his career and his extraordinary authority as a painter are explored through his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press 1993

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 THO

Summary: Comedian Chris Rock tackles the very personal issue of hair, and how attaining good hair can impact African American's activities, relationships, wallets, and a self-esteem. Engages in frank, funny conversations with haircare professionals, beautyshop and barbershop patrons, as well as featuring interviews with Dr. Maya Angelou, Nia Long, Ice-T, Raven Symone, and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GOO

Faulkner, William

Summary: This collection of Faulkner's best hunting stories was first published in 1958. Each of the stories is introduced by a prelude, and the final story is followed by an epilogue. Included is Faulkner's most famous story, "The Bear", in its original version.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Faulkner

Pacheco, José Emilio.

Summary: Carlos remembers that in the 1940's everything seemed possible in Mexico. However, no experience was as intense for this boy on the verge of becoming an adolescent as the experience of falling hopelessly in love with the mother of his friend Jim. The story of this first love is also a story of the reaction of adult society during those years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ediciones Era 2011

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 PAC SPANISH

Barner, Bob.

Summary: With sugar skulls, sweet-smelling marigold petals and joyful songs, Hispanic families welcome back ancestors on this holiday.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2010

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH 468 BAR

Summary: Capitán Dinesen toma un trabajo con el ejército argentino y trae sus quince años de edad, hija, Ingeborg, junto. Al ser la única mujer en la zona, que provoca un gran revuelo entre los hombres. Ella se enamora de un joven soldado, y una noche que huir juntos. Cuando se da cuenta de lo que pasó Dinesen, decide aventurarse en territorio enemigo para encontrarlos.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JAU

Summary: A country's bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante's transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-life indictment of the authoritarian Efran̕ Ro̕s Montt for crimes against humanity. A notorious, now aging former military dictator stands trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities. While...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN LLO

Summary: Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Pride 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD P

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI RATED PG

Summary: Stella, an uncouth, lower-class woman, marries wealthy, well-bred Stephen Dallas to escape her poor surroundings. When their class differences lead to divorce, she undergoes a self-sacrificing struggle to give their daughter a better life, away from her damaging influence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STE

Summary: An English governess is hired to teach the King of Siam's children, but ruins the country's traditions during her work.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS KIN