Summary: With his provocative question, 'why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?' Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. An extraordinary testament to one man's perseverance, this examines the life and legacy of the Polish-Jewish lawyer and linguist who coined the term genocide.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WATGottschalk, Louis Moreau
Contents: Le banjo : fantasie grotesque, op. 15 (3:12) -- Bamboula : danse de nègres, op. 2 (9:20) -- Le bananier : chanson nègre, op. 5 (2:44) -- La savane : ballade créole, op. 3 (7:01) -- Tremolo : grande étude de concert, op. 58 (3:54) -- La jota aragonesa : caprice espagnol, op. 14 (2:57) -- Manchega : étude de concert, op. 38 (3:03) -- Souvenirs d'Andalousie : caprice de concert sur la caña, op. 22...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GOTTSGottschalk, Louis Moreau
Contents: The banjo : fantasie grotesque : opus 15 (3:22) -- La scintilla = The spark : mazurka, opus 20 (2:56) -- Ojos criollos = Les yeux creoles, or, Danse cubaine : opus 37 (2:15) -- Marche funèbre : opus 64 (posthumous) (5:28) -- Bamboula : danse des nègres : opus 2 (7:12) -- Souvenir de Porto Rico : marche des Gibaros : opus 31 (5:10) -- The dying poet = Le poète mourant : méditation (5:00) -- Le...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GOTSummary: Documentary about the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, from the viewpoint of a former Marine who returned home and decided to bring the story to the public.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVGottschalk, Louis Moreau
Contents: Célèbre tarantelle, op. 67, no. 5 / arr. Nicolas Ruiz Espadero, 1874 (7:24) -- Souvenir de Porto Rico, Marche des Gibaros / orch. Jack Elliott, 1982 (5:56) -- The dying poet : meditation / orch. Jack Elliott, 1982 (5:32) -- Tournament galop / orch. Jack Elliott, 1982 (3:19) -- O! ma charmante / orch. Jack Elliott, 1982 (3:56) -- Le Bananier : chanson Nègre / orch. Jack Elliott, 1982 (3:05) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GOTTSGarrel, Louis
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GODGabriele, Lisa
Summary: "A spellbindingly suspenseful new novel set in the moneyed world of the Hamptons, about secrets that refuse to remain buried and consequences that can't be escaped. After a whirlwind romance, a young woman returns to the opulent, secluded Long Island mansion of her new fiancé Max Winter--a wealthy politician and recent widower--and a life of luxury she's never known. But all is not as it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABGabriele, Lisa.
Summary: There were never such devoted sisters, or ones so hilariously and heartbreakingly conflicted about loyalty... Thoughtful, married-mom Georgie Peachy Archer and big-city-girl Beth, her older sister, grow up on a Canadian farm with their hairdressing, Vietnam draft-dodging dad, Lou, and share the pain of their mom's suicide. But that's where the similarities end--until the sisters swap lives for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GABSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Tora and her father set out to go camping, as Tora imagines a forest filled with all sorts of wild animals and tries to convince her father that they're real.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MORSummary: Set in French Indochina in the 1930s as the Vietnamese begin to rebel against French colonialism. Dramatizes the last years of French rule through the relationship between plantation owner Éliane, French by birth but born and raised in Indochina, and her adopted daughter Camille, an orphaned Annamese princess who becomes a Vietnamese revolutionary and representative at the Geneva Conference...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INDSummary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TANSummary: A former marine turned doorman must call upon all her lethal fighting skills to protect her sister's family and stop a group of vicious art thieves at a New York City high-rise.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOOSummary: After a bridegroom is shot on the steps of the church on his wedding day, his widow traces the group of men responsible and eliminates them one by one.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BRIMoreno, Clara
Contents: Mas que nada -- Tim dom dom -- Balança pema -- Vem morena -- Chove chuva -- É só sambar -- Rosa, menina rosa -- Quero esquecer você -- Uála uálalá -- A tamba -- Menina bonita não chora -- Por causa de você, menina.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Far Out Recordings 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MORSummary: Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to live with his divorced father and womanizing, slacking younger brother, Jonathan. With little success, his carefree sibling and doting father try to cheer him up with women, wine, and home-cooked meals. When, in the midnight hour, Paul is forced to entertain one of his brother's desperate girlfriends, he begins to realize that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DANCastaneda, Carlos
Summary: "For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms. Originally published as Castaneda's master thesis in anthropology, Teachings documents Castaneda's supposed apprenticeship with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer, Don Juan Matus. Dividing the work into two sections, Castaneda begins by describing Don Juan's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 299 CASElsberg, Marc
Summary: One night, the lights go out across Europe. The electrical grids collapse on an epic scale and unleash a devastating chaos in the total blackout. And unbeknownst to the general population, nuclear reactors are starting to overheat. When a former hacker and activist who knows a thing or two about infiltrating networks starts investigating the cause of this disaster, he soon becomes a prime...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ELSGrandin, Greg
Summary: Grandin documents an extraordinary early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's "Beneto Cereno," tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.362 GRAMoreno.
Contents: Adidja -- Kaka Punguza Wivu -- Aoka (Danger Girl) -- Sister Pili -- Rehema-Piri -- Teresia.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterns Africa 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN MORSummary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIOSummary: Based on a true story, Darlene longs for love, family and passion. She leaves her small rural town to find the one man that can fulfill all of her desires. One child, still single and three years later, Darlene, comes back home. She accepts a marriage proposal from a neighbor who turns her into his personal slave. Her husband's cousin comes to live with them and she finds comfort with him. A...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001