Luzzi, Joseph.
Summary: "In the aftermath of a heartbreaking tragedy, a scholar and writer uses Dante's Divine Comedy to shepherd him through the dark wood of grief and mourning--a rich and emotionally resonant memoir of suffering, hope, love, and the power of literature to inspire and heal the most devastating loss.Where do we turn when we lose everything? Joseph Luzzi found the answer in the opening of The Divine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperWave 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 851.1 LUZLuzzi, Joseph.
Summary: "A charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, in My Two Italies Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives tolink his family's dramatic story to Italy's north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its passion for art, food, and family. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUZZI, JOSEPH LUZGambell, Lizi
Summary: The Unschooled Life combines personal storytelling with advice and guidance for any parent on a home education journey. In this book, Lizi Gambell tells how her eldest son became deeply unhappy at school, and how things transformed when they left the system and started to build their own learning life. Lizi shares the ups and downs of this decision, including the process of confronting her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shore Line 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.042 GAMBoyd, Lizi
Summary: In this story without words, a boy explores the woods after dark with a flashlight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books Llc 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOYBoyd, Lizi
Summary: In this story without words, a boy and his dog play inside and outside of their home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOYBoyd, Lizi
Summary: A celebration of the joy of reading books.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
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Summary: Book reviews and articles accompany the stories of an artist's decline, a dentist's greed, and a clash between California ranchers and the railroad monopoly
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORSummary: A senator, forced to vote for a law with which he profoundly disagrees, is torn between his conscience and his loyalty towards the leaders of his party. His daughter, a right-to- life activist, falls in love with an advocate for assisted suicide. A famous actress turns towards faith and miracle cures in the hope of bringing her daughter out of an irreversible coma. And the beautiful Rossa is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DORPuccini, Giacomo
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA PUCSummary: It centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside. The dynamic of their overcrowded household is disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy taken in as a farmhand and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family. Both intrusions are of particular interest to the eldest daughter, who is struggling to find her footing in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WONContents: [Disc 1]. The inheritance (1997; 93 min.) / a Kraft Premier movie ; Alliance Atlantis Communications presents an Alliance Atlantis Communications/Cosgrove Meurer/Televest production ; producer, Ed Self ; teleplay by Maria Nation ; directed by Bobby Roth -- Love among the ruins (1975; 103 min.) / ABC/Circle Films ; produced by Allan Davis ; directed by George Cukor ; written by James Costigan....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BrContents: Disc one, Bossa Nova Brasilia. Desafinado / A.C. Jobim, Newton Mendonca (Joao Gilberto) (2:00) -- Dindi / A.C. Jobim, Aloysio de Oliveira (Sylvia Telles) (2:36) -- One Note Samba / A.C. Jobim, Newton Mendonca (Antonio Carlos Jobim) (3:20) -- Chega De Saudade / A.C. Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes (Elizete Cardoso) (3:29) -- A Felicidade / A.C. Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes (Agostinho Dos Santos) (2:47)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN BOSSummary: Starship troopers: Charts the lives of elite members of the Mobile Infantry, a corps of dedicated young men and women soldiers fighting side by side in the ultimate intergalactic war ... the battle to save humankind. The enemy is mysterious and incredibly powerful with only one mission: survival of their species no matter what the human cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRASummary: Using non-professional actors, this film follows the Gospel of Matthew to tell the story of the birth, life, teachings and death on the cross of Jesus Christ. There was no script except the Bible itself. The narrative portions are voiced by "Jesus Christ." It is presented almost as a cinema-verité documentary and without the glossy coating of the Church and Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GOSSummary: It tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PAISummary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TANBoccherini, Luigi
Contents: Sonate Nr. 6 A-Dur, G 4 (15:07) -- Sonate Es-Dur (G 75) fFur 2 Violoncelli (18:30) -- Sonate Nr. 9 F-Dur, G 9 (10:40) -- Sonate Nr. 10 c-moll, G 2 (12:56)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EBS 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BocGies, Miep
Summary: An autobiography by the woman who helped hide the Frank family in Amsterdam during World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5315 GIEBoccherini, Luigi
Contents: v. 1. Op. 7 (G. 491) in C major ; G. 523 (op. 10, no. 4) in C major ; G. 490 in D major -- v. 2. Op. 12, no. 1 (G. 503) in D major ; Op. 12, no. 2 (G. 504) in E flat major ; Op. 12, no. 3 (G. 505) in C major -- v. 3. Op. 12, no. 4 (G. 506) in D minor ; Op. 12, no. 5 (G. 507) in B major ; Op. 12, no. 6 (G. 508) in A major -- v. 4. Op. 21, no. 1 (G. 493) in B flat major ; Op. 21, no. 2 (G. 494)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Classic Produktion Osnabrück 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BOCGies, Miep.
Summary: While most are familiar with Anne Frank's diary, fewer remember the courage of the people who helped her family. Otto Frank's employee, Miep Gies, coordinated the hiding place and worked through her own exhaustion and terror to keep the family safe and supplied with food and company. Barbara Rosenblat speaks with Gies's own voice, bringing an impeccable Dutch flavor to her words and flawlessly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio, LLC 2009
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Lizzo
Summary: Channeling boundless self-confidence through a downright earth-quaking voice, colorful persona, and undeniable star power, Lizzo struts into the spotlight and steps up with a whole lot of sass, spirit, and soul. Embracing her vocal range like never before and celebrating herself to the fullest, she speaks her mind, censors nothing, and delivers an enviable level of honesty, pure passion, and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 2019