R Gilbert Agustin Lara

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: La Salle Music 1943

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

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

Summary: In 1931, Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish Civil War deserter who befriends a free-thinking artist, finds himself in a romantic dilemma when the artist's four beautiful daughters return to their country home. Which woman should he love?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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

Summary: A sharp comedy centered on a group of 20-something New Yorkers struggling to figure out themselves, their lives, and their loves. Captures the uncertainty and angst of what it is to be young, vulnerable, and desperate to find out who you are - or, perhaps more importantly, who you want to be.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011

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

Three Tenors

Contents: Le Cid. O souverain, ô juge, ô Père / Massenet (Carreras) (5:00) -- Maravilla. Amor, vida de mi vida / Moreno-Torroba (Domingo) (3:21) -- Werther. Pourquoi me réveiller / Massenet (Pavarotti) (2:38) -- Spring is here. With a song in my heart / Rodgers ; arr. Newman & Darby ; adap. Palmer (Carreras) (3:15) -- Granada / Lara ; arr. Hayes (Domingo) (3:35) -- Non ti scordar di me / De Curtis ; arr....

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1994

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL THR

Weaver, Tara Austen.

Summary: The author relates her exploration of the world of meat after her doctor blames her poor health on her vegetarianism, in a book that offers frightening personal revelations about the meat industry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEAVER, TARA AUSTIN WEA

Summary: When a local politician attempts to come between a single dad and his adopted daughter, they fight to remain a family, and the bond between father and daughter is strengthened.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Simple 2003

Hara

Summary: What do you do when your body doesn't match the ideal shape as dictated by society? What do you wear when sweats seem to be the only clothes that fit you? How do you deal with the constant, overwhelming waves of criticism about your appearance from yourself and others? A love letter to anyone striving to embrace their size, this wonderfully illustrated, uplifting comic essay by a plus-size...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 HAR

Agustín, José.

Summary: "Un editor yuppie y su socio visitan Acapulco con el pretexto de escribir un reportaje sobre los lugares oscuros del puerto y buscando pasa un buen rato. Pero sus deseos se pierden en la frialdad inexcusable del destino cuando un huracán arrasa el puerto y los obliga a modificar sus planes. La tormenta desnuda lo que permanecía escondido: mientras uno reniega de la situación, el otro se hunde...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DEBOLSILLO 2023

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

Summary: Proud first lady of a Southern Baptist megachurch, Trinitie Childs carries immense responsibility on her shoulders. After a scandal involving her husband, the church is forced to temporarily close, leaving Trinitie struggling to manage the aftermath. Now, she and her spouse must rebuild their congregation and reconcile their faith by all means necessary to make the biggest comeback that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Decal Releasing 2023

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

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

Dekker, Ted

Summary: What if you could find a way to enter another reality full of wild and life changing adventure? And what if every time you fell asleep you woke up in that other reality? Welcome to the world of Theo Dunnery, a twelve year-old boy who feels alone and full of fear when he stumbles on an ancient book that draws him into another world. In that world, he learns he must complete a quest to find the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series Dekker

Dekker, Ted

Summary: What if you could find a way to enter another reality full of wild and life changing adventure? And what if every time you fell asleep you woke up in that other reality? Welcome to the world of Theo Dunnery, a twelve year-old boy who feels alone and full of fear when he stumbles on an ancient book that draws him into another world. In that world, he learns he must complete a quest to find the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series Dekker

Summary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011

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

Deedy, Carmen Agra.

Summary: In this humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale, a cockroach interviews her suitors in order to decide whom to marry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2007

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J468 Dee Spanish

Summary: Crime abounded in late Victorian and Edwardian times--from the streets of London to the country houses of nobility; from the royal apartments of Vienna to the hotel rooms of quiet Copenhagen. Sherlock Holmes took on many of the era's crooks, killers, blackmailers, and schemers, but so did the fictional sleuths of other celebrated writers of the time. (from container.).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RIV

Summary: Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse loves playing matchmaker. When pretty, naive and socially inferior Harriet arrives, Emma decides to indulge her passion. Against the advice of family friend and surrogate older brother Mr. Knightly, she persuades Harriet to reject an advantageous marriage proposal from a local farmer in order to hold out for an offer from the dashing Mr. Elton. But Emma soon...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV EMM

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

Lala Lala (Musical group)

Contents: Destroyer -- Spy -- Water over sex -- I get cut -- Dove -- Dropout -- The flu -- Copycat -- Scary movie -- Moth -- When you die -- See you at home.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LAL

Summary: The Lowry family is in transition. They have recently moved from the city to a small town and are having a hard time adjusting. Just when their spirits need lifting, they find themselves "adopted" by a stray golden retriever named Pilot. Pilot is not only very clever and very lovable, she's also very pregnant. Although the Lowry's give the puppies up for adoption, Pilot is determined to get...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY RET

Agustin, Rafael

Summary: "What happens when the all-American high school student discovers he's undocumented? Rafa's parents didn't want him to grow up feeling different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should not have borders." Rafa had no idea of his immigration status until he tried to get his driver's license during his junior year of high school. Suddenly, his perfectly curated and slightly racist (race-ish,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AGUSTIN, RAFAEL AGU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B AGUSTIN AGU

Various artists

Contents: Dreamworld : Marco de Canaveses / David Byrne + Caetano Veloso -- O cara lindo (Mr. Gorgeous) / Smoke City -- Mulemba xangóla / Bonga + Marisa Monte + Carlinhos Brown -- Sobi esse pano, mano / General D + Funk 'n Lata -- Nha vida / Lura -- Coral / Moerno Veloso + Sadjo Djolo Koiate -- Fado hiláqrio / k.d. lang -- Os dias são à noite (Suso Saiz remix) / Madredeus -- Interlude : DJ Wally + Lura...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Bar None 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN RED

Fara, Patricia.

Summary: In this book the author rewrites science's past to provide new ways of understanding and questioning our modern technological society. Aiming not just to provide information but to make people think, it explores how science has become so powerful by describing the financial interests and imperial ambitions behind its success. Sweeping through the centuries from ancient Babylon right up to the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509 FAR