Summary: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem. He does so by buying heroin directly from a source in South East Asia. He comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY AMESummary: "This collection features three classic noir films from the 1950s. Thunder on the Hill (1951)--directed by the great Douglas Sirk, a nun (Claudette Colbert) races against time to prove the innocence of a convicted murderess (Ann Blyth) who is being escorted to prison for a date with the gallows. The Price of Fear (1956)--a woman (Merle Oberon) guilty of a hit-and-run accident frames another...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILSummary: Fry, a slacker pizza delivery man, is accidentally frozen on New Year's Eve 1999, he is awakened on New Year's Eve 2999 and tries to survive life in the 31st century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FUTSummary: Crank up the gravity and put your head safely in a jar! It's Volume Seven of FUTURAMA, the animated sci-fi comedy from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening. Crammed with a whole new dimension of extras not shown on TV, this cosmic collection includes 13 bizarre and brilliant episodes involving ancient prophecies, presidents' heads, robot gangsters, angry butterflies, and of course,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FUTSummary: Dark forces older than time itself are on the attack, hell-bent on stopping the dawn of a wondrous new green age. More shocking, Bender's in love with a married fembot and Leela's on the run from the Zapp Brannigan's law. Fry is the last hope of the universe and has been recruited for an ultra-top-secret mission.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV FUTSummary: Evil nudist aliens send Bender on a rampage through time, forcing him to steal all of Earth's priceless historic treasures. Will the heroic Planet Express crew save the planet? Will Leela find true love? Will the ancient and terrible secret of Fry's back side be revealed?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FUTNadal, Rafael
Summary: With candor, heart, and intelligence, Rafael Nadal takes readers on his life's dramatic and triumphant journey, never losing sight along the way of the prize he values above all others: the unity and love of his family. In this memoir, written with award-winning journalist John Carlin, Nadal, one of the greatest players in the history of tennis, reveals the secrets of his game and shares the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NADAL, RAFAEL NADNadim
Summary: "Four-year-old Nadim puts his words on paper and gives us a glimpse of how he sees the world: one filled with glitter, magical boxes, and cuddles with Mom. A place where school smells like daffodils and honey (and sometimes dirty socks), where Wednesdaysare rainbow-colored, where fish in the sea make a shhhh sound, and where everyone has love, even baddies. The poems in this anthology make for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821 NADNada Surf
Contents: Concrete bed -- Do it again -- Always love -- What is your secret? -- Your legs grow -- All is a game -- Blankest year -- Comes a time -- In the mirror -- Armies walk -- Imaginary friends.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Barsuk Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NADNadel, Estelle
Summary: "A heartrending graphic memoir about a young Jewish girl's fight for survival in Nazi occupied Poland, The Girl Who Sang illustrates the power of a brother's love, the kindness of strangers, and finding hope when facing the unimaginable." -- Publisher annotation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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Summary: Afro-Cuban music derives its richness from the fusion of various cultures. On the island of tobacco, rum and coffee, sacred and secular African musical genres have merged with Spanish and French melodies to give rise to numerous genres that have gained international fame: son, rhumba, guaracheam congal mambo, cha-cha-cha, pachanga, and nuova timba. The history of Cuban music unfolds in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 LEYMeneses, Limara
Summary: A piano player and a singer chase their dreams, and each other, from Havana to New York and Las Vegas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2012
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHIGrupo Aymara
Contents: Aririña = Arise : medley (6:53): Ancestro = Ancestor ; Aliriña = Arise ; Awki awki = Old -- Evocacion a los apus = Evocation of the chiefs : medley (5:06): Evocacion a los apus ; Jacha ayllis = Great communities -- Navidad en el altiplano = Christmas in the highlands : medley (6:02): Jiska imillita = Little girl ; Ilaqui chuyma = Sad heart -- Pachamama = Mother Earth (2:13) -- Ilabeña (5:16) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Fish 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/SOUTH AMERICAN GRULamarr, Delvon
Contents: Hole in one -- Call your mom -- Girly face -- From the streets -- Fo sho -- Aces -- Careless whisper -- Right place, right time -- I don't know.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LAMLeymarie, Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skira 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 LEYSummary: A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRINaval Historical Foundation
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.9 NAVSaadawi, Nawal El.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zed Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SAADAWI, NAWAL EL SAANaman, Christine Pisera
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: R to R NamanLaMarr, Phil
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IZZSummary: It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSBacal, Jessica
Summary: "The perfect gift and conversation starter for women who talk about dealing with failure and accepting not being perfect, this book features fascinating interviews with twenty-five women, including Keri Smith, Angela Duckworth, and Roz Chast, about triumphing over career setbacks and challenges. Jessica Bacal, the author of Mistakes I Made at Work, is a well-respected career-development...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume, Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1092 BACGhent, Natale
Summary: In Ontario, Canada, in 1977, twelve-year-old Nat and his sisters find that owning, training, and caring for a pony they acquired for free makes it easier to cope with the poverty they have faced since their father abandoned them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GHEKamal, Sheena
Summary: "Love and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha's trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent. Her father comes and goes as he pleases, his presence adding a layer...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Teen, an imprint of Penguin House Canada Young Readers 2022