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Summary: ABC News' World News Tonight has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Quitline Consortium to provide viewers with a comprehensive look at the leading cause of preventable death in America: lung cancer. This compilation of WNT segments reports on issues ranging from tobacco-related public health policy, to the latest...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Estrellas de Areito (Musical group)

Contents: Pónganse para las cosas (10:20) ; Hasta pantojo baila mi son (11:34) ; Que traigan el guaguancó (6:27) ; Mi amanecer campesino (13:55) / Pedro Aranzola -- Llora timbero / Israel Rodríguez (7:12) -- Yo sí como candela / Luis "Lili" Martinez Griñán (10:28) -- Fefita / José Urfe (10:24) -- Guaguancó a todos los barríos / Pedro Aranzola (14:29) -- El pregón de la montaña / Pio Leyva (10:05) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: World Circuit/Nonesuch 1998

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

Ochoa, Eliades.

Contents: Ay papacito = Oh little darling (4:09) -- Pintate los labios María = Put on your lipstick Maria (4:52) -- Carino falso = False love (4:07) -- Sublime ilusión (4:12) -- Volver = Return (4:09) -- Saludo compay = Greetings, friend (4:55) -- Qué humanidad = What humanity (3:56) -- Un negrito en La Habana = A black boy in Havana (3:43) -- Mi sueño prohibido = My forbidden dream (2:12) -- Mi...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Higher Octave World 1999

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

Summary: Revisit with the remaining original members of the Buena Vista Social Club and explore their contribution to the unknown history of Cuba.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BUE

Schiller, J. H. (Joan H.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 SCH

Katz, Anne (Anne Jennifer)

Summary: "Prostate Cancer and the Man You Love is for the women and men who love and support a man with prostate cancer. Each chapter tells the story of a man and his partner dealing with this cancer, from diagnosis through survivorship. Fully updated and comprehensive, this book educates and informs partners on the latest studies and findings"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 KAT

Gonzalez, Ruben

Contents: Chanchullo (5:08) -- De una manera espantosa (4:19) -- La Iluvia (5:14) -- Central Constancia (5:55) -- QuizGas, quizGas (2:25) -- Choco's Guajira (6:46) -- Si te contarGa (1:27) -- El Bodeguero (5:09) -- Isora Club (5:32) -- Rico vacilGon (4:09) -- Pa' gozar (4:30).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: World Circuit/Nonesuch 2000

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

Kalanithi, Paul

Summary: At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air, which features a Foreword by Dr....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 KALANITHI, PAUL Kal

Buena Vista Social Club (Musical group)

Contents: Chan chan -- De camino a la vereda -- Cuarto de Tula -- Pueblo nuevo -- Dos gardenias -- Y tu que has hecho? -- Veinte anos -- Carretero -- Candela -- Amor de loca juventud orgullecida -- Murmullo -- Buena Vista Social Club -- Bayamesa.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: World Circuit/Nonesuch 1997

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

Behar, Ruth

Summary: Estrella learns about her Cuban and Jewish heritage as she helps her aunt move from her Miami apartment to an assisted living community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEH

Contents: The Hukilau song -- My little grass shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii -- The cockeyed mayor of Kaunakakai -- Blue lei -- E Naughty Mai Nei -- Lovely hula hands -- A song of old Hawaii -- Hapa Heole hula girl -- (If you wanna) dance the hula -- Hawaiian hospitality -- Little brown gal -- Across the sea -- Keep your eyes on your hands -- Sweet someone -- Maui girl -- Island moon -- Pau Pilikia -- To...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Crescendo Records 1992

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/OCEANIC HUK

Viña, Rose

Summary: "As a young girl in Cuba, Alicia Alonso practiced ballet in tennis shoes. Within a few years, she was in New York City, with a promising ballet career. But her eyesight began to fail. When Alicia needed surgeries to save her vision, dancing was impossible, but she wouldn't give up her dream. She found the strength and determination to return to the stage and become a prima ballerina. This is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021

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Saborit

Contents: La invitacion de Tomasa : son montuno / Daniel Alarcon (5:30) -- Caminito de Guarena : guaracha / Villo Frometa (3:13) -- Que bueno suena la timba : son / Bartolo Hernandez (3:23) -- El Don Juan : son / Miguel Arias Napoles (3:47) -- Amargo dolor : cumbia / Cinesio Figueredo (5:18) -- La cocaleca : guaracha (3:16) -- El platanar de Bartolo : pilon / Electo Rossell Chepin (2:29) -- Dame tu amor...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tumi 2006

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

Funk, Kristi

Summary: "A comprehensive guide to total breast health from the go-to breast care expert for Good Morning America and The Doctors. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer over the course of their lives, and breast cancer is the #1 killer of women ages 20-59. But did you know that only 15 percent of those diagnosed have a single relative with breast cancer? For most of us, family history...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 FUN

Barroso, Abelardo.

Contents: En Guantánamo -- La hija de Juan Simón -- Tiene sabor -- El guajiro de cunagua -- Un brujo en guanabacoa -- El panquelero -- El huerfanito -- El manisero -- La mulata rumbera -- Yo ta cansá (Ña Teresa) -- Macorina -- Bruca maniguá -- La reina del guaguancó -- Triste lucha.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: World Circuit 2014

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

Hoxie, Jim

Summary: "When Grandpa loses his sight, he attends a school for veterans who are visually impaired. There he regains his confidence for independent living. Grandpa shares these experiences and talks about educating children about the tall white cane."--Publisher

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Disabl Hoxie

Draycott, Jane (Jane Louise)

Summary: "The first biography of one of the most fascinating yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. Years ago, archaeologists excavating near Pompeii unearthed a hoard of Roman treasures, among them a bowl depicting a woman with thick, curly hair and sporting an elephant-scalp headdress. For decades, theories circulated about her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEOPATRA, QUEEN DRA

Marusic, Kristina

Summary: "For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer. We're better than ever at treating the disease, yet cancer still claims the lives of one in five men and one in six women in the US. The astonishing news is that up to two-thirds of all cancer cases are linked to preventable environmental causes. If we can stop cancer before it begins, why don't we? That was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 MAR

Summary: "Five legendary sessions (originally released 1956-1964) featuring an all-star line-up including: Julio Gutiérrez, Niño Rivera, José Fajardo and Cachao. Reissued together in their entirely for the first time, encapsulating a panorama of Cuban music; from mambo to Afro-Cuban rumba, big band son montuno, cha-cha-cha and more." Package label.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Contents: Mi rumba echando candela (Celeste Mendoza) (3:28) -- Eso no es na' (María Teresa Vera) (3:28) -- Manzanillo (Orquesta Original de Manzanillo) (4:44) -- Yayabo (Orquesta Riverside) (2:53) -- Guarapachanga (Chapottín y sus Estrellas) (2:55) -- Llegué llegué/Guararey de Pastorita (Los Van Van) (6:28) -- No me llores (Conjunto Rumbavana) (5:20) -- Fifi, Teté y Popó (Orquesta Revé "Changüí '68")...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Luaka Bop/Sire/Warner Bros. 2000

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

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Summary: Cancer is not a laughing matter, but the archaic way people are beating it is. With a dose of good humor, heart, and a touch of rock'n'roll, this documentary reveals the forces that are keeping people sick and dares to ask: if up to 70% of cancer deaths are preventable, what are people waiting for?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF C

Valdez, Carlos.

Contents: San Francisco tiene su propio son (9:41) -- Descarga en faux (5:41) -- Desde el fondo del rio (7:16) -- Luz (6:55) -- Yo tengo ritmo (3:08) -- Guloya swing (4:27) -- Oguerre (5:25) -- Son de Patato (7:17) -- Señor Blues/Mbula enoka (8:15) -- Guajira en el espacio (2:28) -- Sangre de Africa (4:20) -- Kora-son (6:31).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees 2000

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

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: The story of a Paul Pena, a blind American blues musician, and his trek to Tuva to live among its inhabitants and compete in their triennial khoomei (throat singing) contest. He is accompanied by a documentary film team and Tuvinian throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2000

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

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