Summary: At six, Vitus is both incredibly talented and wonderfully precocious. When it becomes evident that he has an exceptionally high IQ and can play piano like a young Mozart, expectations run high. His parents love him, his grandfather understands him, but no one knows the truth - that his real genius is in his heart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAU

Bongianni, Maurizio.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bonanza Books 1984

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Abril, Mauricio

Summary: Practically perfect Pintro the robot learns how to create art.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024

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Warrington, Freda

Summary: "A painting, depicting haunting scenes of a ruined palace and a scarlet-haired goddess in front of a fiery city, arrives unheralded in an art gallery with a cryptic note saying, "The world needs to see this." The painting begins to change the lives of the woman who is the gallery's curator and that of an ancient man of the fey Aetherial folk who has mysteriously risen from the depths of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAR

Warrington, Freda

Summary: A young woman studying art at a vast country estate near the site where a child was snatched by fairies decades earlier stumbles onto the portal to the Otherworld through which a handsome, charming, and innocent young man emerges and captures her heart.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: In the abyss of a profound personal crisis, Commissario Ricciardi feels unable to open himself up to life. He has refused the love of both Enrica and Livia and the friendship of his partner, Maione. Contentment for Ricciardi proves as elusive as clues to the latest crime he has been asked to investigate -- amazon.com

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2017

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: Believing that Matteo, a young boy from the streets of 1930s Naples, was murdered, Commissario Ricciardi must conduct his investigation in secret since his superiors are preparing for a state visit from Benito Mussolini.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2014

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: Naples, March 1931: a bitter wind stalks the city streets, and murder lies at its chilled heart. As one of the world s greatest tenors, Maestro Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples famous San Carlo Theatre, the enigmatic and aloof Commissario Ricciardi is called in to investigate. Arrogant and bad-tempered, Vezzi was hated by many, but with the livelihoods of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2012

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(MAURIZIO ALLESANDRA ORCHESTRA.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1989

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most torrid, conflicting and enduring of human passions. In the world Ricciardi and Maione are about...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: They've made a fresh start at the Pizzofalcone precinct of Naples. They fired every member of the investigative branch after they were found guilty of corruption. Now, there's a group of detectives, a new commissario, and a new superintendent. The new cops immediately find themselves investigating a high-profile murder that has the whole town on edge. Heading the investigation is Inspector...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2016

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: Investigating the death of a duchess in 1931 Naples, Commissario Ricciardi is assisted by Brigadier Maione to connect the victim's demise to her associates in the Neapolitan privileged social circles and the local fascist elite.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2013

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De Giovanni, Maurizio, 1958-

Summary: In 1931 Naples, Commissario Ricciardi, who sees and hears the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths, investigates the murder of an elderly woman who, moonlighting as a fortuneteller and moneylender, had many enemies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2013

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Ardito, Fabrizio

Summary: Sardinia, one of the great prizes of the Mediterranean, was fought over by the Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Spanish, and Austrians before ending up as part of unified Italy. It bears traces of all these cultures plus thousands of prehistoric stone dwellings called nuraghi. These days Sardinia is equally popular with the jet set as with rock climbers, sailors, and wind-surfers. With so to see and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.5 SAR

Contents: Don't knock my love, part 1 / Wilson Pickett. -- Love or let me be lonely / Friends of Distinction. -- Deepr & deeper / Freda Payne. -- Pay to the piper / Chairman of the Board. -- Mr. Big Stuff / Jean Knight. -- Women's love rights / Laura Lee. -- Whatcha see is watcha get / Dramatics. -- Baby let me kiss you / King Floyd. -- Right on the tip of my tongue / Brenda & the Tabulations. -- Thin...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 2001

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Fumaça Preta (Musical group)

Contents: Pupilas dilatadas -- Toda pessoa -- Eu era um cão -- Você enlouqueceu -- Recitando à toa -- Espelhos fundidos -- Fumaça preta -- Amor tece dor -- Vou me libertar -- Tire sua máscara -- Perdidos.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: As Naples prepares for its holiday celebrations, behind the facade of order and happiness imposed by the fascist regime lurks terrible poverty and blinding desperation. In a luxurious apartment on the Mergellina Beach the bodies of a fascist militia officer and his wife have been found. The woman has had her throat cut while the man has been stabbed over sixty times. Seemingly, the hands of two...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2014

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: This is Naples as you've never seen it before. A chaotic, shadowy city full of ominous echoes and dark alleyways where each inhabitant seems too absorbed by his or her own problems to give a damn about anybody else. And that is exactly what makes it possible for a cold, methodical killer to commit his atrocious crimes largely undisturbed, to merge with the crowd as if he were invisible. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: "A Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery that packs a real punch. Years ago, Vinnie Sannino left Naples on a ship bound for America, where he found fame and wealth as a boxer. But his gilded life in the new world came to an abrupt end when, during a fight, with a heavy punch to the head of his opponent, Vinnie killed a man in the ring. Now, Vinnie's back in Italy, pining for the woman he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018

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De Giovanni, Maurizio

Summary: Springtime proffers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples. But evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swears that when he left her she was alive and well. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa 2015

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Chalmers, Irena.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.568 CHA