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Bonfa, Luiz. Bonfá, Luiz. Campbell, Melodie Céu. Edwards, Melodie Elodie. Ruiz, Gabriel. Schwarcz, LuizCéu.
Contents: Sobre o amor e seu trabalho silencioso -- Cangote (feat. Gigante Brazil) -- Comadi -- Bubuia (feat. Negresko Sis) -- Nascente -- Grains de beaut -̌- Vira lata (feat. Luiz Melodia) -- Papa -- Ponteiro -- Cordô da insn̥ia -- Rosa menina rosa (feat. Los Sebozos Postizos) -- Sonm̂bulo -- Espaȯnave.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Urban Jungle Records 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN CEUSummary: "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.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ROURuiz, Gabriel.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Promotora Hispano Americana de Musica 1943
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMContents: Disc 1. Penny reel / Lord Power & Calypso Quintet -- Lollipop girl / The Jiving Juniors with Duke Reid & his Group -- Judgment Day / Laurel Aitken with Ken Richards & his Harmonisers -- In and out the window / Monty & Roy with Drumbago's Orchestra -- Feel so fine (aka feel so good) / Derrick & Patsy with Drumbago's Band -- River bank part 1 (aka bank to bank) / Baba Brooks & his Band -- Rough...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sanctuary Records Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TRESummary: For the first time in years the entire Rodriguez clan comes home to Chicago to celebrate Christmas where traditions will be celebrated. During the course of this eventful week they will celebrate one member's safe return from Iraq, secrets will be revealed, old resentments forgotten, each family member will learn something about themselves and each other, and the healing power of laughter will...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NOTSummary: In a twisted social experiment, a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogota, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's speaker system to participate in a series of murderous moral decisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BELSummary: Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot, individual tableaus that parallel Christ's journey to his own crucifixion, this film is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STASummary: Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for a new season. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of love, hardship, and triumph that transcend borders and merge to form an American root system fortified by its diversity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FINSummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELBonfa, Luiz.
Contents: Samba de Orfeo (3:33). -- A sombra da mangueira /[In the shade of the mango tree] (2:22). -- Danca India /[Indian dance] (3:20). -- Sensible (2:47). -- Adeus [Good-bye] (2:22). -- Passeio no Rio /[Walk in Rio] (2:43). -- Mar encantado /[Enchanted sea] (2:49). -- Xango (2:25). -- Manha de carnaval [Morning of carnival] (2:51). -- Non-stop to Brazil (3:05). -- Sambolero (2:23). -- Gentle rain...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Chesky Records 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BONSummary: Message in a bottle: While jogging along the Cape Cod shore, a thirtysomething single mother struggling to recover from a difficult divorce stumbles upon a half-buried bottle containing a touching love letter that sends her on an uncertain odyssey of self-discovery, renewal, and the possibility of new love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MESElodie.
Contents: La Vallée Du Sommeil -- Corridor -- Vieux Silence -- La Nuit Voilée -- Au Point Du Jour -- Le Temps d'Antan -- Entre Deux Mondes -- La Saison Blanche.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ideologic Organ 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ELOSchwarcz, Luiz
Summary: "A literary sensation in Brazil and now a global publishing event, Luiz Schwarcz's wise and tender memoir bravely interrogates the story of his own ordeal of depression in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence-the long echo of the Holocaust across generations When Luiz Schwarcz was a child, he was told little about his grandfather and namesake Láios-"Luiz" in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHWARCZ, LUIZ SCHBonfá, Luiz.
Contents: Pernambuco (1:37) -- Night and day (2:07) -- Shearing (1:23) -- Sambolero (1:23) -- Calypso minor (1:44) -- Uma prece = A prayer (2:32) -- Bonfabuloso (2:07) -- Quebra mar = The seawall (2:35) -- Luzes do Rio = Lights of Rio (2:30) -- Perdido de amor = Lost in love (3:22) -- Manhã de Carnaval (2:24) -- Amor sem adeus = Love without goodbye (2:00) -- Variações em violão = Variations on guitar...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BONSummary: Europe's wealth represents a golden opportunity for those who smuggle cheap, easily exploited workers across international borders. But how does the loathsome mechanism of human trafficking actually occur, and what are EU authorities doing to fight it? This program investigates by recording the experiences of human trafficking victims and evaluating the work of the EU government in the battle...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Defining "European" is one of the main challenges facing the EU Parliament. This program outlines the history of the governing body and assesses the actions it has taken to shape and organize the EU. Shedding light on electoral and procedural methods adopted by the Parliament, the film documents political fanfare and maneuvering accompanying the eastward expansion of the union with the entry of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: What prevents minority communities from joining the European mainstream? Is there an appropriate balance between assimilation and preserving one's cultural heritage? This program wrestles with questions of identity-racial, cultural, and sexual-resulting from the startling new diversity of European society. Depicting daily life in immigrant communities on the Continent and in Great Britain, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Eva is a newlywed with a successful career as a top marriage counselor, a hot husband, and the answers to everything. But when she finds out that her parents are getting a divorce, and her hubby has neglected to mention his first wife, Eva's perfect world begins to crumble. Is true love little more that a fairy tale or is marriage really just an institution for the committed?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LoSummary: With a low birth rate and an aging workforce, the European Union needs immigrants-but how temporary or permanent their status should be is a matter of debate. This film examines existing and proposed guest worker programs, in addition to other EU measures, designed to address the results of globalization and shifting demographics. Focusing not only on the EU's tremendous economic advances but...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Racial tension has become a politically explosive and socially divisive threat to stability in the European Union. This program looks at the racism and xenophobia brought to the surface by a massive influx of foreign workers and job-seekers into Western Europe; it also describes the search for equitable solutions by moderate EU leaders and citizens. Islamophobia, religious fundamentalism, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Edwards, Melodie
Summary: "This modern reimagining of Persuasion is full of witty banter, romantic angst, and compelling characters as it captures the heart of the classic Jane Austen novel. When Anne Elliott broke up with Ben Wentworth it seemed like the right thing to do, but now eight years later, she's not so sure. In her tourist destination hometown, Anne is comfortable and confident in the life she's built for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024
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Summary: "This powerful retelling of Jane Eyre, set in a modern-day law firm, is full of romance and hope as it follows the echoing heartbeats of the classic story. A former foster kid, Jane has led a quiet, solitary life as a waitress in the Toronto suburbs, working hard to get by. Tired of years of barely scraping a living, Jane takes night classes to become a legal assistant, and soon accepts a job...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023