Marya, Rupa
Summary: "Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 MARSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Riva, Maria
Summary: Sweeping and panoramic, You Were There Before My Eyes is the epic and intimate story of a young woman who chafes at the stifling routine and tradition of her small, turn-of-the-century Italian village. When an opportunity presents itself for her to emigrate to America, her hunger for escape compels her to leave everything behind for the gleaming promises await her and her young husband in Mr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVPopa, Maya C.
Summary: "A ravishing volume of poems that explore appetite, desire, and our gratitude for one another and the vanishing world. Award-winning poet Maya C. Popa suggests that our restless desires are inseparable from our mortality in this pressing and precise collection. In lucid, musically rich poems, she appeals to a dwindling natural world and summons moments from the lives of literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 POPIbrahim, Maiya
Summary: The first book in an epic fantasy series set in an Arabian-inspired land with secret spice magic. Raised to protect her nation from the monsters lurking in the sands, sixteen-year-old Imani must fight to find her brother, whose betrayal is now the country's greatest threat. In the hidden desert city of Qalia, there is secret spice magic that awakens the affinities of those who drink the misra...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IBRContents: M'envoyer des fleurs (Sandrine Kiberlain) (2:33) -- Grano de arena (Marta Topferova) (4:23) -- Sunnyroad (Emiliana Torrini) (3:03) -- Não se apavore (Luca Mundaca) (4:35) -- Bida mariadu (Lura) (4:51) -- Sekna (Mona) (3:37) -- Tuca' la louna (Tamara Obrovac) (3:16) -- Ola ta aiskola (Anastasia Moutsatsou) (2:36) -- Paula Ausente (Marta Gómez) (3:57) -- Wa (Kaïssa) (3:18) -- One voice (Wailin'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putumayo World Music 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT PUTContents: Corazón contento / (Marisol) (2:58) -- Creo en ti / (Rocío Dúrcal) (1:56) -- Ya verás / (Karina) (2:34) -- Pinta mi mundo / (Gelu) (2:46)-- Molino al viento / (Los Stop) (1:56) -- Aquí en mi nube / (Sonia) (2:33) -- Si llegara el amor / (Rosalia) (2:19) -- Nunca hay bastante / (Adriángela) (2:51) -- No sé por qué / (Massiel) (2:51)-- Prima o poi / (Silvana Velasco) (2:11) -- Tendrás que llorar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace International 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BEARuiz-Flores, Lupe
Summary: Lupita is excited about dancing la raspa, a Mexican folk dance, with her first-grade class at a celebration of Children's Day. But she's devastated when she learns right before the show that her partner Ernesto sprained his right ankle. She had been practicing for weeks. And now her family won't get to see her, swishing and swaying in her beautiful dress full of colorful ribbons. Lupita sadly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG RUIPaszkiewicz, Piotr
Summary: Provides background information on the Canary Islands; describes the major sights, and suggests hotels, restaurants, entertainment, and outdoor activities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL EUROPESummary: Based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in her husband, Russ' conviction. When his conviction was overturned, the crime set off a chain of events that exposed a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV THISummary: "A bourgeois woman is driving alone on a dirt road when she becomes distracted and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she becomes dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. The police confirm that there were no accidents reported in the area and everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEAMenocal, Maria Rosa.
Summary: Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as a young prince in exile--the last heir to an Islamic dynasty--founds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. Combining the best of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.02 MENGioffre, Daryl
Summary: When you break your sugar addiction, you cut out a major contributor to inflammation, brain fog, aging, and chronic disease. Gioffre shows you how to go from stress eating to strength eating with a 21 day plan. This is your guide to turning your body into a strength-eating, energy-filled, acid-kicking machine! -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 GIOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 GIOSummary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMGioffre, Daryl
Summary: "Let's talk about the four-letter word that's secretly destroying your health: ACID. An acidic lifestyle--consuming foods such as sugar, grains, dairy, excess animal proteins, processed food, artificial sweeteners, along with lack of exercise and proper hydration, and stress--causes inflammation. And inflammation is the culprit behind many of our current ailments, from weight gain to chronic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 GIOSummary: "Son is Cuba's principal dance and song form and the root of salsa. Fusing African and Spanish elements, it ranges in style from simple, rustic bands to the brassy arrangements of New York salsa. This rough guide, literally a 'who's who' in Cuban music, explores this rich tradition, from its conception in the early 1900s to the present day big-band revival"--Container verso.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ROUSummary: A series of sinister terror strikes, combined with severe fuel shortages, has plunged Britain into crisis. As a chronically weakened prime minister fights to hold onto power, the public mood turns increasingly anarchic. MI-5 supremo Harry Pearce and team leader Adam Carter begin to face the horrifying possibility that the country is under attack from sinister forces right at the heart of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MI-5Summary: "Fistful of dollars" : A mysterious gunman has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim and dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw", the stranger soon receives lucrative offers of employment from each gang. He accepts both offers, setting in motion a plan to destroy the criminals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FISChan, Crystal S.
Summary: "Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables - instead, they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anne turns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Manga Classics, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ANNSummary: Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Vision International 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STOSummary: Follows the story of Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking. As a teenager, eager to break free from her loving but strict religious family in rural Sweden, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she embarks for Denmark to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BECDi Duca, Marc
Summary: Lonely Planet's Puerto Rico is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for popular and lesser-known experiences. Follow Old San Juan's labyrinthine laneways, laze on the sand at Playa Flamenco, or kayak into the bioluminescent bay at Vieques; all with your trusted travel companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie BarbieCopies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: With little dialogue, this film is a meditation on the mysterious cycles of life. Set in Italy's mountainous region of Calabria, it traces the path of one goatherder's soul as it passes from human to animal to vegetable to mineral. Director Michelangelo Frammartino was inspired by Pythagoras' belief in 'four-fold transmigration' of souls, but his film is far more physical than philosophical.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Kino Lorber, Inc. 2011