Summary: This historical drama tells the story of Juana Inés de la Cruz, one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Siglo de Oro. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There, she develops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISummary: A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NINSummary: A new arrival in British-occupied Hong Kong wants to open a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style. But a corrupt cabal of martial arts masters, led by Master Hung, refuses to allow him to teach in peace until he proves himself in a series of fights against the local master, which Ip does, in style. But even after earning the respect of the local masters, Ip's troubles are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IPSummary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSContents: CD 1: Monks and troubadours I. Antiphons: Hosanna (0:48) ; Pueri Hebraerorum (2:56) -- En mai, quant rosier sont flouri (2:07) -- Antiphon: Cum audisset (5:51) -- Alle, psallite cum luya (1:07) -- Antiphons: Coeperunt omnes (1:34) ; Occurrunt turbae (1:18) ; Cum angelis (0:37) ; Ante sex dies (2:53) -- S'on me regarde (2:23) -- Hymnus: Gloria, laus et honor (6:41) -- El mois de mai (1:35) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: After being kicked out of his boarding school, 16-year-old Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham City to find that nothing is as he left it, and when a kidnapping rattles the school, Bruce seeks answers as the dark and troubled knight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 DE LDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: After defeating Lucifer and saving the world, Schuyler Van Allen woke up in an entirely different reality... and has to do it all over again. Only this time it seems she'll have to do it alone. When Eoife shows up at Duchesne Academy, Schuyler at first thinks she must be yet another enemy. But Eoife is here to help: she's a member of an ages old secret society of heroes called the Palladins,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DE LDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: When 19-year-old Josh returns from Rome without his budding influencer girlfriend Amelia, he immediately becomes a suspect in her disappearance, but as college sophomore and hacker Harper attempts to clear his name, she unearths secrets from both Josh and Amelia's pasts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DE LDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost, the teenaged children of Disney's most evil villains search for a dragon's eye--the key to true darkness and the villains' only hope of escape.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DELCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y Fiction DelDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Schuyler Van Alen, growing comfortable with her newfound vampire powers, seeks her grandfather in Italy, while back in New York plans are being completed for the fabulous Four Hundred Ball, to be followed by an elite, teens-only event at which masks hide a terrible secret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DELDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Schuyler Van Alen's blood legacy has just been called into question: Is the young woman in fact a Blue Blood, or is it the sinister Silver Blood that runs through her veins? When one of the Gates of Hell is breached by the Silver Bloods, the Blue Bloods will need Schuyler on their side.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DELDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: When King Triton's trident enters the Isle of the Lost, Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay devise a plan to find the magical object before Mal's wicked rival Uma can get her hands on it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Hyperion 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DELDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Just as things are settling down for the Beauchamp witches, Freya, Ingrid, and their mother Joanna must deal with a series of events which culminates in an explosive Thanksgiving family reunion that results in magical mayhem.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE LADe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends, Jack Stalker, Alistair, and Gretel are once again in Never After, to help Gretel fulfill a promise to her father to recover the glass slipper he made for her cousin, Hortense, which was stolen by the cunning and manipulative Cinderella, who is determined to become Princess of Eastphalia--to do that the friends will have to infiltrate the castle, and, of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DE LDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: "Tossed back into the not-so-familiar fairy-tale world of Never After, Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends set off on another adventure . . . this time in search of Cinderella's glass slipper. Or rather, glass slippers. It turns out the classic story of Cinderella is full of lies-starting with how Cinderella herself is far from the innocent heroine everyone thinks she is. She's manipulative...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After 30 years in prison, Horcia discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused. This leads to her release and the transformative discovery of the man who framed her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMSummary: Although the fighting lasted for only six days in June of 1967, the effects of the Six Day War are still apparent today. On its 40th anniversary, the region remains trapped in conflict and is every bit as explosive as it was then. For Israel, the 1967 war was a military success. But it also redrew the map of the Middle East and mired the region in a never-ending cycle of occupation, terrorism...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIXCruz, Melissa de la.
Summary: Fanged and fabulous! The thrilling saga of New York's wealthy, powerful, and undead-—now in paperback.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Publishing Worldwide 2008
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Summary: Ellie de Florent-Stinson is celebrating her fortieth birthday with a grand celebration in her fabulous house in Palm Springs. At forty, it appears Ellie has everything she ever wanted: a handsome husband; an accomplished, college-age stepdaughter; a beautiful ten-year-old girl; two adorable and rambunctious six-year-old twin boys; lush, well-appointed homes in Los Angeles, Park City, and Palm...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE LCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DELDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: In their third adventure, Filomena and company set off to Snow Country, rescue Lord Sharif of Nottingham, reverse a spell that turned Prince Charming into a Frog, and form the League of the Seven-fearless warriors devoted to fighting the orges at any cost.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DE LDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Once upon a time, in the middle of a group of seven thousand happy islands named after King Philip of Spain, there lived a lady named Doña Esmeralda. She had a big bouffant hairdo and was much smaller than you. And she was always hungry... And so begins the wickedly hilarious tale of one very old, but very stylish little lady who loves to eat, but can only find the ooey, gooey, mushy, smelly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DE LDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos may have once been the baddest of the bad, but their wicked ways are (mostly) behind them-and now graduation is almost here! But before the seniors can don their custom-designed caps and gowns, courtesy of Evie, they've got an epic plan to put into action. There are tons of villain kids on the Isle of the Lost who are eager for their chance to come to Auradon...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD DELDe la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Just after finishing a production of High School Musical the Musical, a group of Utah high school students goes to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for a High School Musical Convention.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2021