Bleechington, Andrew

Summary: Follows the story of a struggling family in northern Florida as a single mother raises her two children and her teenage son has another brush with the law.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIF

Mendez, Antonio J.

Summary: A top CIA operative offers an authorized account of his double life as a Department of Defense bureaucrat and a globe-trotting spy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co. 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEN

Mendez, Antonio J.

Summary: An account of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis recalls how six of the intended American hostages escaped from Iranian militants and were rescued by the co-author and his unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders during a high-risk mission in Tehran conducted in the guise of a movie scouting expedition.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 0000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.05 MEN

Summary: The Iran hostage crisis involved 52 American diplomats, Marines, and civilians held by force at the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. Unfolding like a political thriller, see how hostages' personal lives were torn apart and scrutinized through publicity, correspondents risked their lives to discover the truth about Iran, and military forces attempted to rescue the victims.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped and a mid level agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013

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

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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ARG

Eastman, Kevin B.

Summary: What terrible events destroyed his family and left New York a crumbling, post-apocalyptic nightmare? All will be revealed in this climactic Turtle tale that sees longtime friends becoming enemies and new allies emerging in the most unexpected places. Can the surviving Turtle triumph?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 EAS

Summary: Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: Puss is so busy being a fearless hero and building his legend, he didn't realize he'd run through eight of his nine lives and for the first time finds himself fearing death and considering retirement. It's not so easy to shed those past lives, however, and when a notorious crime family hires him for one last job by destroying his placid life, he finds himself : in possession of a map to one...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PUS

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PUS

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

Summary: During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002

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

Desmond, Paul

Contents: Squeeze me / C. Williams, T. Waller -- I'm old fashioned / J. Kern, J. Mercer -- Nuages / D. Reinhardt, J. Larue -- Why shouldn't I? / C. Porter -- Everything I love / C. Porter -- Warm valley / D. Ellington -- Till the clouds roll by / J. Kern, P.G. Wodehouse -- Mean to me / R. Turk, F. Ahlert -- Song from M*A*S*H : suicide is painless / J. Mandel -- Wave / A.C. Jobin.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS 1975

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ DES

Summary: The saga of El Mariachi continues when a corrupt CIA agent forces him out of hiding to help sabotage an assassination attempt on the president of Mexico by an evil cartel kingpin. El Mariachi has his own reason for helping - he is doing it for revenge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ONC

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

Contents: Disc one, Bossa Nova Brasilia. Desafinado / A.C. Jobim, Newton Mendonca (Joao Gilberto) (2:00) -- Dindi / A.C. Jobim, Aloysio de Oliveira (Sylvia Telles) (2:36) -- One Note Samba / A.C. Jobim, Newton Mendonca (Antonio Carlos Jobim) (3:20) -- Chega De Saudade / A.C. Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes (Elizete Cardoso) (3:29) -- A Felicidade / A.C. Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes (Agostinho Dos Santos) (2:47)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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

Méndez, Jasminne

Summary: "Como a todos los niños, a Josefina le encanta comer dulces. ¡Le encantan las galletas calientes con chispas de chocolate recién salidas del horno, las magdalenas y los dulces! Una noche, mientras come un flan, Mami le pide que considere dejar los dulces por la Cuaresma, los 40 días previos a la Pascua. '¡Eso es imposible!' dice Josefina. Cuando Mami promete enseñarle cómo hacer su postre...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG MEN

Méndez, Jasminne

Summary: A powerful and expertly told novel-in-verse by about a 12-year-old Dominican American swimmer who is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis by an award-winning poet. Aniana del Mar belongs in the water like a dolphin belongs to the sea. But she and Papi keep her swim practices and meets hidden from Mami, who has never recovered from losing someone she loves to the water years ago. That is, until the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MEN

Méndez, Jasminne

Summary: A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MEN

Méndez, Jasminne

Summary: Jasminne Mendez didn't speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either black or white. She had no idea that a black girl could be a Spanish speaker. In this memoir for teens about growing up Afro Latina in the Deep South, Jasminne writes about feeling torn between her Dominican, Spanish-speaking culture at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MEN

Vivaldi, Antonio

Contents: Concerto for strings in G minor, RV 157 (5:49) -- Concerto for violoncello and strings in D major, RV 403 (6:48) -- Concerto for strings in G minor, RV 152 (5:16) -- Concerto for violoncello and strings in B minor, RV 424 (9:16) -- Concerto for strings in D minor, RV 127 (3:53) -- Concerto for 2 violins, 2 violoncellos and strings in D major, RV 564 (9:43) -- Concerto for 2 oboes and strings in...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1993

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

Vivaldi, Antonio

Contents: Concerto for violoncello, strings and basso continuo in A minor, RV 418 -- Concerto for strings and basso continuo in C major, RV 117 -- Concerto for strings and basso continuo in F minor, RV 143 -- Concerto for violin, violoncello, strings and basso continuo in B-flat major, RV 547 -- Concerto for 2 violins, 2 violoncelli, strings and basso continuo in G major, RV 575 -- Concerto for 4...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1992

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

Mendez, Paul

Summary: "An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative following nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness upbringing"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEN

Porowski, Antoni

Summary: "In the follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Antoni in the Kitchen, Queer Eye star Antoni Porowski shares exuberantly easy dinners for every night of the week"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.512 POR

Scalia, Antonin

Summary: "By any measure, Antonin Scalia lived an extraordinary life. A Supreme Court justice for three decades, he transformed the way that judges and lawyers think about the law. Married to his beloved Wife, Maureen, for more than fifty years, a father to nine children, and a grandfather to dozens, he was devoted to his family and his faith. He was gregarious, energetic, and a friend to people of all...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 815 SCA

Summary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOL