Summary: This is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his beautiful girlfriend Reina leaves his life in Colombia to illegally cross the border and find fortune in New York. Marlon's journey, which takes him to through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, and the streets of Jackson Heights, ultimately takes him to a place he could have never predicted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distibuted in the USA by Phase 4 Films 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PARSummary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRASummary: Season 1 of this intense HBO drama focuses on 17-year-old Rue Bennett (multimedia star Zendaya), a drug addict fresh from rehab who's struggling to stay clean. Ahead of the second season, the Emmy-winning series returns with two special episodes set over the Christmas holiday. Season 2 continues to follow Rue's dynamic group of friends as they enter a new year and question their choices.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EUPSummary: A hilarious look at marriage, divorce, and everything in between. With a thriving Santa Barbara bakery, a new romance heating up, and her divorce finally behind her, Jane Adler has her life all figured out, until she finds herself trapped between the perfect new beau and her philandering ex-husband who's determined to win her back. When opposites attract all over again, will love be sweeter the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IT'SCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ITS RATED RCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ITSSummary: This compelling visual journey through our galaxy combines more than 350 photographs, illustrations, and graphics to present the universe as you've never seen it before. Visual Galaxy is a deep dive into the past, present, and future of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. In this mind-expanding visual tour through the cosmos, spectacular photographs are converted into interpretive graphics,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Crusades began as a holy mission to liberate Jerusalem and became the largest mass migration in European history. When they ended 200 years later, the Crusades had created a mythology of knights and chivalry, and left a legacy of distrust between East and West that continues to shape our world today. Filmed on location throughout Europe and the Middle East.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2001
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CRUSummary: Serafina is a Sicillian woman who now lives in the American South. She is mourning the death of her beloved husband, constantly telling herself stories of their time together. Her fragile, emotional existence is shattered when she discovers that her husband had been having an affair. Luckily, Serafina meets truck driver Mangiacavello and their tentative romance may help her through this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Johns, Geoff
Summary: Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps must join forces with their rivals of the other colors to battle the Black Lanterns, an army of undead superheroes and villains--all their deceased friends and foes--who are out to destroy all life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JOHSummary: The story of the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in 1970, which was immortalized in the most requested phonograph in the National Archives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ELVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELVSummary: Seventeen-year-old Veronica never thought she'd want to fail a test-that is until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with a blue plus. With a promising college-bound future now disappearing before her eyes, Veronica considers a decision she never imagined she'd have to make. This never-taken-lightly decision leads her on a 1000-mile hilarious road trip to New Mexico over three days...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UNPPereira, Crystelle
Summary: "Tasty, enticing, and bursting with flavor, Crystelle's recipes make cooking and baking with the most vibrant and exciting flavors easy. Cooking has always been an equal passion to baking for Crystelle, as shown by the coveted 'Hollywood Handshake' she received for her curried chicken and potato pie on The Great British Bake Off, a dish showcasing her Portuguese-Goan roots. Inspired by her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kyle Books, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group Limited 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5941 PERContents: Disc 1. Bellbottoms (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) (5:17) -- Harlem shuffle (Bob & Earl) (2:50) -- Egyptian reggae (Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers) (2:37) -- Smokey Joe's la la (Googie René) (2:55) -- Let's go away for awhile (The Beach Boys) (2:17) -- B-A-B-Y (Carla Thomas) (2:54) -- Kashmere (Kashmere Stage Band) (4:56) -- Unsquare dance (The Dave Brubeck Quartet) (2:02) -- Neat neat...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 30th Century Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BABSummary: En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER MINPerera Elsewhere
Contents: Drunk man -- Giddy (feat. Gonjasufi) -- Bizarre -- Light bulb -- Ebora (feat. Aremu) -- Dreamt that dream -- Shady (feat. Springintgut) -- Bongoloid -- Carousel -- The zap -- Lazy -- Dimmed down.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC PERAlai
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALAPerera, Anna.
Summary: Innocent until proven guilty? Not here, you're not. He's fifteen. He's hasn't done anything wrong. It was supposed to be just a trip to visit his mum's family in Pakistan. But for Khalid Ahmed, it was the beginning of a living nightmare. He's kidnapped—then taken to a place thousands of miles from his home in the UK. A place where torture and terror are the daily routine. A place he may never...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2011
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Perera Elsewhere
Contents: Delete -- Hold tite -- Who I am -- Stranger -- Like this -- Heatwave -- Early -- HKW -- Travel lit -- Der wurm Pt. 2 Translate optimizer.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL ELECTRONIC PERPerera, Anna.
Summary: Six months after the events of September 11, 2001, Khalid, a Muslim fifteen-year-old boy from England, is kidnapped during a family trip to Pakistan and imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he is held for two years suffering interrogations, water-boarding, isolation, and more for reasons unknown to him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PERAlien.
Contents: Everyting I never said -- Frankie the prankster -- Blind summit -- Time timed -- Slow fader -- Honeycreeper -- The pleasure of leisure -- The return of the rat phink -- Progress is progress -- A man's eye -- A killer in the family.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Room 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AlienSummary: Young Florya willing joins the Partisans fighting the Nazis in Byelorussia, USSR during World War II. Seperated from his comrades during a paratroop attack and struck deaf by German artillery, Florya, in the company of peasant girl, Glascha, wanders the battle-scorched Russian prehistoric forests and man-made slaughter. He witnesses an SS unit's spontaneous, self-congratulatory appause at their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMAdem.
Contents: Statued -- Ringing in my ear -- Gone away -- Cut -- These are your friends -- Everything you need -- Long drive home -- Pillow -- One in a million -- There will always be.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Domino Recording 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AdemSilva, Alen.
Summary: "Basque-born photographer Alen Silva has travelled twice across war-torn Afghanistan, to places few foreigners dare to venture. He brought back these soul-searing photographs of a devastated land. Among the ruins--of Kabul, of the Bamiyan Buddhas, of Soviet tanks, of Afghan society -- the hope for peace still lights the weary faces of the Afghan people who welcomed him."--Page 4 of cover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oliver Arts & Open Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld SilvaScott, Alev
Summary: "An exploration of the contemporary influence of the Ottoman Empire on the wider world, as the author uncovers the new Ottoman legacy across Europe and the Middle East."--Amazon.com summary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019