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Summary: 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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEL

Rodríguez, Patty

Summary: Introduce your little readers to Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, one of the most famous cities for finding emeralds. Children will travel through colorful streets and find hidden gems rooted in history and culture.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lil' Libros 2021

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Summary: An older writer, Fernando, returns to his hometown, Medellin, Colombia. There he falls in love with 16-year-old assassin, Alexis. After Alexis is killed, Fernando hunts for his killer in the Medellin slums and falls in love with Wilmar, a boy who resembles Alexis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OUR

Montaña Ibáñez, Francisco

Summary: "Two intertwining stories of Bogotá. One, a family of five children, left to live on their own. The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious Immortal Boy"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MON

Grostephan, Alan.

Summary: In this taut, moving novel set in present-day Columbia, Wilfredo decides to relocate his family from their small town to a slum in Bogota with relatives. Plunged into a world of almost total ruin, fear, and violence, the family fights to stay alive and stay together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRO

Medina, Juana

Summary: "Juana's life in Bogotá, Colombia, is just about perfect. Every now and then a big problema comes along--like having to learn English or Juana's mami getting remarried--but things eventually settle down, and life goes back to feeling pretty perfect again. But then Mami springs two new sorpresas on Juana. One: Juana will be spending her school break going to skating camp instead of relaxing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MED

Rojas Contreras, Ingrid

2 holds on 3 copies

Summary: A novel set against the violence of 1990s Columbia follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid, who forge an unlikely friendship as the families of both struggle to maintain stability amidst Bogot©Ł's rapidly escalating violence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROJ

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROJ

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROJ

Engel, Patricia

Summary: Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogataa.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENG

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENG

1 hold on 9 copies

Summary: Is based on an incredible true story, and shines a light on even the darkest of places. After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy's sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free himself from...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA SOU
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOU

Summary: Follows the adventures of Dominic Da Vinci, coroner of Vancouver, British Columbia, as he investigates suspicious deaths along side the police.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed exclusively by Acorn Media 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DAV

Kunkel, Angela Burke

Summary: In Bogotá, Columbia, young José eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by José Alberto Gutiérrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiérrez's life and Bogotá.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 GUT

Medina, Juana

Summary: A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016

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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MED

Rojas Contreras, Ingrid

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

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Medina, Juana

Summary: When Juana's mother starts spending lots of time with her new friend Luis, Juana worries that these new developments will mean lots of change for her and her dog Lucas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MED

Summary: The Madrigals live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal, every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Encanto

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ENC

Summary: A drama that takes you deep inside organized crime and the cops who keep tabs on it. A father, businessman and drug smuggler, Jimmy Reardon, feels the heat from outlaw bikers muscling in on his territory. Mary Spalding, head of Vancouver's Organized Crime Unit, fears her rivals in the intelligence community more than criminals. Together, they form an alliance that threatens to undo them both.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2008

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INT

Barnes, Linda.

Summary: When she receives word that Paolina, the fourteen-year-old girl with whom she had been paired in a Boston mentoring program, has vanished, private detective Carlotta Carlyle embarks on her own search for the missing teen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Summary: When an angry client firebombs her offices, consulting solicitor Josephine Newton is forced to take a new job as a barrister at Knox, a high-powered legal firm where her old flame Lewis works. Worried about leaving behind her former clients turned colleagues, Josephine sets up a new legal office in the building's basement for Johnny, a reformed car thief, and Helena, a brilliant legal mind with...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NEW

Summary: Based on the true story of George Jung. This is an uncompromising look at the rise and fall of the man who became the largest importer of Colombia cocaine to the United States in the 1970's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BLO

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blow 2001

Kunkel, Angela Burke

Summary: In Bogotaa, Columbia, young Josae eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by Josae Alberto Gutiaerrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiaerrez's life and Bogotaa.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUT

Summary: For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo traveled the villages of northern Colombia, playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. He eventually married and settled in a small town, leaving the nomadic life behind. But after the traumatic death of his wife, he vows never to play again, and embarks on one last journey to return the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIN

Summary: The Madrigals live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal, every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY ENC

Summary: The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIR

Fernando Trueba

Summary: Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEM

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