Summary: In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UTA1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UTA
Babul, Denna D.
Summary: "Drawing on interviews with over 5000 women who became fatherless due to death, divorce, neglect, and outright abandonment, the authors have found that fatherless daughters tend to push their emotions underground. These issues in turn become distinct patterns in their relationships as adult women and they often can't figure out why. Delivered with compassion and expertise, this book allows...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 BABBrahms, Johannes
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BRASummary: 1900s Vienna is a hotbed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. Brilliant Dr. Max Liebermann is a student of Sigmund Freud, and together with Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt, they investigate a series of unusual and disturbing murders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Vienna 2022Summary: Over the course of several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. The film rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder's earliest and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EIGSummary: 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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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VITRota, Nino
Contents: Amarcord (7:13) -- Roma (5:22) -- La Strada (30:33) -- Otto e mezzo (4:46).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Radio Suisse Romande 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ROTSummary: A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOSummary: Ziegfeld is a theatrical impresario, whose show business empire begins when he stage-manages a tour for a strongman. With almost no money in the bank, he charms European stage star Anna Held to headline his "Follies". From 1907, Ziegfeld stages annual editions of Broadway's most fabulous revue. Eventually, Ziegfeld abandons Anna in favor of other beauties. Ziegfeld comes to realize that his new...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: 1900s Vienna is a hotbed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. Brilliant Dr. Max Liebermann is a student of Sigmund Freud, and together with Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt, they investigate a series of unusual and disturbing murders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VIESummary: The world's rarest and cutest creature, Amazon Jack, lives happily on a peaceful island with his best friend Rita. When a greedy millionaire puts out a reward for finding him, Jack must leave his home, evade capture, and outwit the tycoon before he ends up in a zoo for good.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KaBoom! Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMAFauns(Musical group)
Contents: Point zero -- Seven hours -- Ease down -- In flames -- Nothing ever -- Lights -- Rise -- 4 am -- With you -- Let's go -- Give me your love
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Invada
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FAUSummary: The final section in the series, Part 7 details the skeptical and critical answers reached in the second half of the twentieth century to the questions posed in the previous fifty years. This section covers the work of late twentieth-century philosophers and theorists who focused on two critical features of modernity. One issue focused on modern political theory and practice. The other focused...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: A young bullfighter is injured in the ring and the bull is killed. A little girl named Winnie gets one of the bones as a treat for her giant Great Dane; a philandering scientist and his pregnant wife receive the eyes; a taxidermist gets the horns as a gift from his mother; a Spanish woman dines on Toro en rioja in a restaurant. These stories are all woven together and shows that beneath the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CARFlorio, John
Summary: "...recount[s] the politically and racially charged rivalry between African-American boxing champion Joe Louis and white German boxer Max Schmeling, which grew between their 1936 and 1938 matches. Tracing both men's careers from inception until they hung up their gloves, the authors illuminate how emblematic each was to his country while exploring the social issues of the day."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.83 FLOMaita, Luisa
Contents: Na asa -- Around you -- Olé -- Porão -- Fio da memória -- Musica popular -- Ela -- Volta -- Sutil -- Folia -- Jump.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MAILuna, Louisa.
Summary: Melody is just out of prison and struggling to adjust to the harsh realities of life on the outside. Haunted by glimpses of her owwn harrowing girlhood and of the mysterious circumstances that put her in prison in the first place, she slowly, bravely begins to forge a potential path toward redemption and escape.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MTV Books/Pocket Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNSummary: Pope Francis travels the world speaking to those in need and delivering a message of hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC POPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD POPLiima
Contents: 1982 -- David Copperfield -- Life is dangerous -- People like you -- 2-hearted -- Kirby's dream land -- Jonathan, I can't tell you -- My mind is yours
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: City Slang 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LIILuna, Louisa
Summary: ""Alice Vega is sensational-I want to see lots more of her."-Lee Child A powerful new thriller from Louisa Luna. Alice Vega and Max Caplan return, uncovering a network of white supremacists in their search for a long-lost counter-culture hero. Alice Vega has made a career of finding the missing and vulnerable against a ticking clock, but she's never had a case like that of Zeb Williams, missing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNLuna, Louisa
Summary: On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, and no family looking for them. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, the police and FBI reach out to Alice Vega, a private investigator known for finding the missing, for help in finding out who the Janes were—and finding the others who are missing. Alice Vega is a powerful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUNCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNLuna, Louisa
Summary: Hired to locate two young girls who disappeared from a small Pennsylvania town, enigmatic bounty hunter Alice Vega is rebuffed by the overextended local police and enlists the help of disgraced former cop Max Caplan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M LUNLhasa
Contents: Con toda palabra -- La marée haute -- Anywhere on this road -- Abro la ventana -- J'arrive à la ville -- La frontera -- La confession -- Small song -- My name -- Pa'llegar a tu lado -- Para el fin del mundo o el an̋o nuevo -- Soon this space will be too small.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nettwerk 2004