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Action and adventure films Blackjack (Game) Drama Cantatas, Sacred Card counting Nevada Las Vegas Drama Casinos Nevada Las Vegas Drama Children's writings College students Conduct of life Drama Las Vegas (Nev.) Drama Massachusetts Institute of Technology Drama Progressive rock musicNúñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar
Summary: "This edition of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca'a Relacion offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 NUNAlyan, Hala
Summary: A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection--a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Boundaries and borders blur between space and time and poetic form--small banal moments of daily life live within geopolitical brutalities and, vice versa, the desire for stability lives in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ALYNew College (University of Oxford)
Contents: Agnus Dei / Barber (7:57) -- Cantique de Jean Racine / Fauré (5:14) -- Kyrie (from Missa Papae Marcelli) / Palestrina (4:14) -- Ave Verum Corpus / Mozart (3:05) -- Jesus bleibet meine Freude / Bach (2:56) -- Ave Maria / Rachmaninov (3:25) -- Lux aeterna / Elgar (3:43) -- Totsu Tuus / Górecki (9:07) -- Hear my prayer / Mendelssohn (10:57) -- The lamb / Tavener (3:10) -- In paradisum (requiem) /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Erato 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL AGNAlyan, Hala
Summary: "A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Alyan, Hala
Summary: On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Contents: Solo quiero caminar (6:16) -- La Tumbona (4:19) -- Convite (3:55) -- Montiño (4:02) -- Chanela (3:56) -- Monasterio de sal (4:52) -- Piñonate (4:44) -- Palenque (4:51).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Philips 1981
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN LUCAlyan, Hala
Summary: The Nasr family is spread across the globe--Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. Still, they've always had their ancestral home in Beirut--a constant touchstone--and the complicated, messy family love that binds them. But following his father's recent death, Idris, the family's new...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALYAlyan, Hala
Summary: "From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALYSummary: From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TORSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRSummary: A Depression-era woman meets a miserable millionaire in Central Park and accompanies him on a giddy, glamorous birthday whirl through Manhattan. Enchanted, the millionaire installs her in his mansion where the rags-to-riches story becomes a laugh riot as she grabs his selfish, suspicious family by the scruff of the neck and shakes sense into them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIFAllan, Hawa
Summary: "Long before the uprising at the Capitol, the threat of insurrection has held a mirror to America's highest ideals and deepest fears. The Insurrection Act of 1807-passed amid pervasive fears of slave rebellion-authorizes the president to deploy federal troops to quell domestic uprisings. Invoked during Reconstruction and the civil rights movement, the Act was deployed to enforce the promise of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 ALLSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A tale of best friends Lila and Elena, which started at the school in the 1950s. As an elderly woman, Elena tries to unravel the mystery of her brilliant friend, who also became her worst enemy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series My 2019Summary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED PG-13Summary: In this highly anticipated sequel to the popular TNT original movie, Noah Wyle reprises his role as Flynn Carsen, the nerdy yet precocious librarian who was called to protect the world's greatest secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Librarian 2006Contents: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: It's A Happening Thing -- Love: !Que Vida! -- The Monkees: She Hangs Out (Single Version) -- The Cryan' Shames: Mr. Unreliable (Single Version) -- Rose, Tim: Morning Dew -- The Spike-Drivers: Strange Mysterious Sounds -- The Blues Magoos: Pipe Dream -- The Blues Project: No Time Like The Right Time -- The Youngbloods: Merry-Go-Round -- Fowley, Kim: Strangers From...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Various Artists
Contents: Ego war / Audio Bullys. -- Tangerine / DJ Touche vs. Pepe. -- Gold top filta facta theme / Filta Facta. -- Supernatural / King Britt presents Firefly, featuring Ursula Rucker. -- Hypnotizing / Kid Creme. -- Incidental / Milton Jackson. -- Theme de Rio / Salome de Bahia. -- The lunge / Tim Wright. -- Stick 'em / Dr. Luke and Liquid Todd. -- Don't you never stop / Lax, featuring Ajai. -- Square /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Journeys by DJ 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DJTSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: Inspired by classical progressive rock bands of 40 years ago such as King Crimson, Emerson Lake, and Palmer and Pink Floyd, young bands of today have transformed progressive music into something new. Ignored by today's music industry but empowered by the tools of the Internet, these young bands are trying to find their audience while crafting a personal sound as an alternative to mainstream music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Media 2010
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ROMLe Nevez, Catherine
Summary: Lonely Planet's Best of Paris is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Promenade down the Champs Elysees, lose yourself in the Louvre and work your way through a feast of food and wine - all with your trusted travel companion. Discover the best of Paris and begin your journey now!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Bach, Johann Sebastian
Contents: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 (41:04) -- Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131 (22:15) -- Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 (appendix) (5:48) -- Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus tragicus), BWV 106 (19:40) -- Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196 (10:54) -- Gott ist mein König, BWV 71 (18:15) -- Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150 (14:34) -- Der Himmel lacht! die Erde...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Erato 1995