Summary: The troubled mayor of a small German town faces pressure from all sides. A village so deep in the Bavarian backwoods, its nightlife is dominated by a truck stop and a beer hall, its soccer team aspires to qualify for the ninth division next season, and its biggest employer is a faux-organic slaughterhouse. Mayor Alfons Zischl Jr. has his problems; he's neck-deep in debt, his Mercedes has been...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Brown, Monica

Summary: En este vibrante libro ilustrado bilingüe sobre la biografía del músico Tito Puente, los lectores bailarán al ritmo de la vida de este rey del mambo. A Tito Puente le encantaba golpear ollas y sartenes cuando era niño, pero lo que realmente soñaba era tener su propia banda algún día. Desde Spanish Harlem hasta los premios Grammy, y todos los ritmos intermedios, esta es la historia real de la...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Contents: Che che colé (Willie Colón) -- El todopoderoso (Héctor Lavoe) -- O mi shango (Mongo Santamaria) -- Pachito eché (Tito Puente, Celia Cruz) -- Do you feel it (Tu lo sientes) (Joe Cuba Sextet) -- Cúcala (Celia Cruz, Johnny Pacheco) -- Mama Güela (Fania All Stars) -- Brother, where are you? (Ralfi Pagan) -- Bilongo (Eddie Palmieri) -- Guaguancó arsenio (Tito Puente and his orchestra) -- Bomba...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Strut Records 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SAL

Brown, Monica

Summary: Meet Tito Puente-the King of Mambo. From musical prodigy on the streets of Harlem to five-time Grammy Award winner, Tito's life was full of rhythm. He grew up to lead his own big band and win five Grammys. Includes a brief biography and music for a simple rumba beat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Childrens Books 2013

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

Tarentel

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Neurot Recordings 1991

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TAR

Agustin, Rafael

Summary: "What happens when the all-American high school student discovers he's undocumented? Rafa's parents didn't want him to grow up feeling different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should not have borders." Rafa had no idea of his immigration status until he tried to get his driver's license during his junior year of high school. Suddenly, his perfectly curated and slightly racist (race-ish,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AGUSTIN, RAFAEL AGU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B AGUSTIN AGU

Toral, Rafael.

Contents: Blackbird -- Skyrocket -- Concorde -- Aardvark -- X-1 -- Firebee drone -- Super sabre.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecstatic Peace 2000

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE Toral

Raphael

Contents: Disappearing into you -- In paradiso -- Resurrection -- In paradiso -- Primitive silence -- Serpent -- I say rock 'n roll prayers to a dancing God -- Spirit guides -- Silence.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hearts of Space 1988

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Raphael

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harrison House 1978

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.5 RAP

Sabatini, Rafael

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAB

Steinberg, Rafael

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1980

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WOR

Steinberg, Rafael

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1978

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WOR

Parenti, Michael

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.703 PAR

Frumkin, Rafael

Summary: "At seventeen, Ezra Green doesn't have a lot going for him: he's shorter than average, snaggle-toothed, internet-addicted, and halfway to being legally blind. He's also on his way to Last Chance Camp, the final stop before juvie. But Ezra's summer at Last Chance turns life-changing when he meets Orson, brilliant and Adonis-like with a mind for hustling. Together, the two embark upon what...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRU

Parents Magazine.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Productions 2008

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VAR JUVENILE

Raffel, Dawn

Summary: "The extraordinary tale of how a mysterious immigrant "doctor" became the revolutionary innovator of saving premature babies-by placing them in incubators in World's Fair side shows and on Coney Island and Atlantic City. What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? As Dawn Raffel artfully recounts, Dr. Couney figured out he could use incubators and careful nursing to keep previously doomed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COUNEY, MARTIN RAF

Parenti, Christian.

Summary: An investigative journalist visits the economically and politically battered post-colonial nations around the earth's mid-latitudes and reveals how extreme weather in the era of climate change is breeding banditry, humanitarian crises, and state failure.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 PAR

Kotsul, Rafail

Summary: Criminal Handsome Hank, who wants to be an astronaut, takes the pilot's place in the space shuttle but does not know how to fly it, and the police and fire fighters must handle the situation while Hank endeavors to escape arrest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE KAT

Manríquez, Rafael.

Contents: La cueca de los poetas = The cueca of the poets (2:01) -- La golondrina chilota = The swallow from Chiloé (3:30) -- Espigas para un recuerdo = Ears of wheat as a memento (3:11) -- La burrerita = The little burro driver (3:16) -- Enredaderas = The creeping vine (3:18) -- Brindis por Violeta Parra = Toast to Violeta Parra (:57) -- Adios, corazón amante = Good-bye, dear lover (3:04) -- Mi casa de...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 2008

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MAN

Medoff, Rafael

Summary: Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration’s fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff delves into difficult truths: With FDR’s consent, the administration deliberately suppressed European immigration far below the limits set by U.S. law. His administration also refused to admit...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MED