Summary: What happens when an Afrikaans guy and a Zulu girl fall in love and have to navigate their way through the complicated process of lobola? A contemporary romantic comedy about love and tradition in a rapidly evolving society. Funny yet hard-hitting, the film tackles the thorny subject of cross-cultural relationships with humor and honesty.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FANSummary: Director Robert J. Flaherty journeyed with his wife, Frances, and their children to the South Seas island of Savai'i to capture on film the exotic lifestyles of the Samoan people. In doing so, they resurrected and dramatized the recently vanished customs and struggles of the people just before modernization permanently altered the cultural landscape of the island. In 1975, nearly 50 years after...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOASummary: 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 NOTMontana, Bob
Summary: It's Archie's third volume in our all-time bestselling The Best of Archie Comics graphic novel series, featuring even more great stories from Archie's eight decades of excellence! This fun full-color collection of more of Archie's all-time favorite stories, lovingly hand-selected and introduced by Archie creators, editors, and historians from 200,000 pages of material, is a must-have for any...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Archie Comics 2013
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Montana, Gladiola.
Summary: Henry Ward Beecher said "the common sense of one century is the common sense of the next." That said, these pocket-sized humor books pack quite a bit of punch--lines that is. With more than 1.5 million copies in print, their all-new look will leave a whole new generation in stitches!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs-Smith 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 MONMana
Contents: disc 1. De pies a cabeza (5:40) -- Oye mi amor (4:54) -- Refrigerador (3:59) -- Donde jugaran los niños (Obertura) (6:30) -- Soledad (6:12) -- Huele a tristeza (7:12) -- Te llore un rio (6:34) -- Estoy agotado (4:16) -- Perdido en un barco (4:19) -- Buscandola (4:11) --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: WEA Latina 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MANMontana, Dick.
Contents: Indigo rider (5:40) -- Rich man's town (3:58) -- The home front, part one (:31) -- Headed out for Texas (2:26) -- Picture of you (2:29) -- Anywhere (4:06) -- I wanted you to know (3:46) -- The home front, part two (:54) -- Listen to her heart (2:28) -- Hurt by love (3:08) -- Party dolls and wine (3:31) -- It's only cocaine (3:17) -- Green door (2:26) -- Trendy shitbag (3:07) -- The home front,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bar/None Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MONMontana, Patsy.
Contents: I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart -- That silver haired daddy of mine -- Sixteen pounds -- Riding down the canyon -- Another cowboy song -- Roll along, Kentucky moon -- I've traded my city feller (for a cowboy's sweetheart) -- Western medley: Streets of Laredo ; Red River Valley ; Home on the range ; Cattle call ; Cool water -- The cowgirl song -- Renfro Valley.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Fish 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MONKing, Morgana.
Contents: It's a quiet thing -- Dindl -- Useless landscape -- Gone with the wind -- Little girl blue -- Mountain high, valley low -- How insensitive -- Here's that rainy day -- Deep song -- If you should leave me -- Anything goes -- Nobody else but me -- I thought of you last night --- You are a story -- Don't explain -- Bee-bom ; Disc 2 You fascinate me -- The moment of truth -- The shadow of your smile...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Label M 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ King,Mofina, Rick.
Summary: Lisa Palmer has barely recovered from the sudden death of her husband when she is drawn into a new nightmare. On her way home from upstate New York, Lisa stops at a service center minutes before an armored car heist. Four men are executed before her eyes—one, an off-duty FBI agent she tried to help. Now Lisa is the FBI's secret witness and the key to finding the fugitive killers. FBI agent...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2012
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Robinson, Roxana.
Summary: After four years in Iraq, Conrad returns home to Katonah, but finds that the place that he once loved, and he himself, have changed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBSmetana, Bedřich
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Orfeo 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SMEMolina, Juana.
Contents: Un da̕ -- Vive solo -- Lo dejamos -- Los hongos de Marosa -- Quiň? (suite) -- El vestido -- No llama -- Dar (Qu ďifc̕il).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Domino 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOLMotian, Paul.
Contents: Good morning heartache (4:48) -- You and the night and the music (5:32) -- Moonlight becomes you (4:38) -- But not for me (7:22) -- Bess, oh where is my Bess (4:20) -- I got rhythm (5:23) -- All the things you are (7:00) -- Nice work if you can get it (4:15) -- It might as well be spring (5:51) -- Look to the rainbow (3:12) -- Body and soul (5:45).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JMT 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MOTSmetana, Bedřich
Contents: The Moldau = Vltava (11:55) ; From Bohemia's meadows and forests (12:29) / Bedřich Smetana -- Slavonic dances : op. 46. No. 1 in C major : presto ; No. 2 in E minor : allegretto scherzando ; No. 3 in A-flat major : poco allegro ; No. 4 in F major : tempo di minuetto ; No. 6 in D major : allegretto scherzando ; No. 7 in C minor : allegro assai (27:48) ; Slavonic dances : op. 72. No. 2 in E minor...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MOLSolana, Teresa
Summary: An impressive and very funny collection of stories by Teresa Solana but the fun is very dark indeed. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are vengeful killers, a prehistoric detective on the verge of becoming the first religious charlatan trails a triple murder that is threatening cave life as the early innocents knew it. The collection also...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bitter Lemon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLTanaka, Hosana.
Summary: A group of female ninjas help a young man trying to regain his role as ruler of the kingdom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA GRAPHIC TANMontana-Leblanc, Phyllis.
Summary: Hurricane Katrina survivor LeBlanc--featured in Spike Lee's acclaimed HBO documentary "When the Levees Broke"--offers an astounding and poignant account of her struggle to survive one of the nation's worst disasters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.34 MONFontana, David
Summary: The New Secret Language of Symbols is a beautifully illustrated sourcebook of symbols and symbol systems. An illuminating introduction looks at the cultural and psychological explanations of symbols - including the Jungian idea of the collective unconscious. Then follows "The World of Symbols," the heart of the book in which more than 500 symbols are presented and explained theme by theme -...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Watkins 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 FONHart, Rosana
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Juniper Ridge Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.296 HARMotoya, Yukiko
Summary: In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien--and, through it, find a way to liberation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOTMozina, Andrew
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOZEyre, Makana
Summary: Drawing on oral history and testimony, as well as extensive archival research, this powerful story recounts the transformation of Polish nationalist Aleksander Kulisiewicz after an unlikely friendship with a Jewish conductor in Sachsenhausen who tasked him with a mission: to save the musical heritage of the victims of the Nazi camps.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KULISIEWICZ, ALEKSANDER TYTUS EYRLapena, Shari
Summary: William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn't feel so...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023