Summary: A chambermaid at a high-end Mexico City hotel, into a beautifully observed film of rich detail. Set entirely in this alienating environment, with extended scenes taking place in the guest rooms, hallways, and cleaning facilities, this minimalist yet sumptuous movie brings to the fore Eve's hopes, dreams, and desires.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHASummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARAugustine
Summary: The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Library 1982
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 242 AUGAugustine
Summary: One of the great works of Western literature, from perhaps the most important thinker of Christian antiquity, in a revolutionary new translation by one of today's leading classicists Sarah Ruden's fresh, dynamic translation of Confessions brings us closer to Augustine's intent than any previous version. It puts a glaring spotlight on the life of one individual to show how all lives have meaning...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUGUSTINE, SAINT AUGAugustine
Summary: In this book, which corresponds to Book Ten of the Confessiones, Augustine pursues his meditation on the self and his intimate testimony to God by moving from his life before baptism to his entrance into a holy life and embrace of the Trinity, the celebration of which will occupy him for the remaining chapters. Augustine contemplates this transition within his own memory, for to him, the "vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.2 AUGAugustine
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Books/Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 252 AUGAugustine
Summary: St. Augustine's view of history and humanity reflect his dedication to Christian thought and theology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 239 AUGAugustine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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Summary: According to Garry Wills, most readers of Augustine interpret his meditation on sin in the Confessiones as an indication of his obsession with sex. But as Wills suggests in his discussion of book two of Augustine's influential work, sexual transgression is not Augustine's main focus as he reflects on the nature of human sinfulness. Instead, Augustine seeks to understand man's power to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270 WILAugustine
Summary: "St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo, is one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and City of God is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defense of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of Rome, the arguments of the Greek philosophers and the revelations of the Bible. Pointing the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 239.3 AUGJones, Quincy
Contents: Pawnbroker. Theme from the Pawnbroker (Marc Allen, vocal) ; Main title ; Harlem drive ; The naked truth ; Otez's night off ; Theme from the Pawnbroker (instrumental version no. 1) ; How come you people (narration, Rod Steiger) ; Rack 'em up ; Death scene ; End title ; Theme from the Pawnbroker (45 rpm single version ; Sarah Vaughan, vocal) -- The deadly affair. Who needs forever? (Astrid...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Soundtracks 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC PAWAgustin, 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 AGUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B AGUSTIN AGUBazterrica, Agustina María
Summary: "Nadie le dice que no a la Hermana Superior. Nadie que quiera seguir viva. El mundo como lo conocemos ha desaparecido después del gran apagón y de varias crisis climáticas. Apenas hay animales ni naturaleza y pocas personas han sobrevivido. Varias mujeres llegaron a una suerte de convento buscando refugio y han sido captadas por una secta religiosa. Una de ellas cuenta esta historia, escrita a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC BAZBazterrica, Agustina María
Summary: A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAZJones, Quincy
Contents: Dead end (4 min., 5 sec.) -- Walking in space (12 min.) -- Killer Joe (5 min., 8 sec.) -- Love and peace (5 min., 45 sec.) -- I never told you (4 min., 15 sec.) -- Oh happy day (3 min., 35 sec.).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A & M Records 1970
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ JONBazterrica, Agustina Maraia
Summary: Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans-- though no one calls them that anymore. First an infectious virus made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the "Transition." Now, eating "special meat" is legal. Then one day he is given a live specimen of the finest quality. Though aware that any form of personal contact is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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Contents: Dead end -- Walking in space -- Killer Joe -- Love and peace -- I never told you -- Oh happy day.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JONAugustin, Marion
Summary: "As two kids give their grandpa a tour of Paris, he starts an interesting conversation with them - about where all the art they see in their lives started"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 700.9 AUGJones, Quincy
Contents: Stuff like that (3:00) -- Everything must change (6:05) -- Body heat (4:18) -- Betcha' wouldn't hurt me (3:33) -- Killer Joe (4:12) -- Ai no corrida (4:20) -- If I ever lose this heaven (3:32) -- Just once (4:32) -- I'm gonna miss you in the morning (3:34) -- What's going on? (3:20).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A & M Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JONJones, Quincy
Contents: Dancin' pants (3:47) -- Blues day (4:40) -- Bright moon (5:17) --No bones at all (3:55) -- The oom is blues (5:06) -- Be my guest (4:27) -- Medley: What's new ; We'll be together again ; Time on my hands ; You go to my head ; Laura (6:17) -- London derriere (4:03) -- Kings Road blues (5:02).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: GRP Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JONTroupe, Quincy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAVIS, MILES TROGustine, Amy
Summary: ""Amy Gustine's You Should Pity Us Instead is a devastating, funny, and astonishingly frank collection of stories. Gustine can be brutally honest about the murky calculations, secret dreams and suppressed malice to which most of us never admit, not even to ourselves."--Karen Russell"You Should Pity Us Instead is an unbroken spell from first story to last, despite the enormous range of subjects...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUSSummary: Firepower meets flower power in this outrageous western about two thrill-seeking cowboys who rock the range. Two cowboys set out for adventure and join up with a band of rock 'n' roll outlaws. However, as the two friends are seduced by their own quick-draw ambitions, a deadly rivalry grows between them, and they must struggle to find a path to peace, before they lose more than their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN ZACJONES, QUINCY
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989