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Summary: Two young South Africans set out to determine what happened to early '70s Detroit rocker Rodriguez, who became a cult superstar in their country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD SEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SEARodriguez, Sixto.
Summary: In 1970, singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez relaesed his debut album to little fanfare in the US. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, he became a phenomenon. The film follows the story of two South African fans who set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation leads them to a story more extraordinary than...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC SEAContents: Silent passage (Bob Carpenter) -- Time's the thief (Bread, Love and Dreams) -- Genesis Hall (Fairport Convention) -- The blacksmith (Steeleye Span) -- Warmth of your eyes (Lazarus) -- Caroline (Espers) -- Esmaria (Jimmie Spheeris) -- Copenhagan (Scott Walker) -- Am I going insane (exclusive cover version) (Midlake) -- Unravel (Björk) -- Silver soul (Beach House) -- Carnival (Sandy Denny & Harry...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Night Time Stories 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MIDPeirce, Lincoln
Summary: "Warning : Big Nate is back, and the whole school's on high alert. Can drama queen Dee Dee compete with Nate's down-and-dirty gossip gathering? Will Mrs. Godfrey lighten up when she learns that she and Nate share a common obsession? And what happens after Coach John wanders into the flight path of a Nate-powered projectile? In this brand-new collection of Big Nate comics, the self-styled King...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PEIBuckley, James
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Pub. 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR BLUE BUCRodriguez, Luis J.
Summary: "Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. Rodriguez has a distinctly inspiring passion and wisdom in his approach. Ultimately, the book carries the message that we must come together if we are to move forward. As he reminds us in the first essay, "The End of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RODRIGUEZ, LUIS J. RODSummary: "This collection offers a rich sampling of significant Mexican short stories published from 1843 to 1918. Nine different tales range from the realism of López Portillo's 'Reloj sin dueño' and the modernismo saturating Gutiérrez Nájera's 'La mañana de San Juan' to the historical accuracy of Riva Palacio's 'Las mulas de Su Excelencia' and the vivid romanticism of 'Amor secreto' by Manual Payno,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 863.0108 MEXSasuga, Yu
Summary: In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries but is now complete. The colonization of Mars by humanity is an epoch-making event, but an unintended side effect of the terraforming process unleashes a horror no one could ever have imagined... The Annex 1 survivors find...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TERSummary: What should your child learn in the sixth grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American sixth graders.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.19 WHA1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372 WHA
Sasuga, Yu
Summary: In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries but is now complete. The colonization of Mars by humanity is an epoch-making event, but an unintended side effect of the terraforming process unleashes a horror no one could ever have imagined... Mankind's final nightmare has become...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TERKix, Paul
Summary: It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo-that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd-he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.1 KIXRowling, J. K.
Summary: Por la cicatriz que lleva en la frente, sabemos que Harry Potter no es un niño como los demás, sino el héroe que venció a lord Voldemort, el mago más temible y maligno de todos los tiempos y culpable de la muerte de los padres de Harry. Desde entonces, Harry no tiene más remedio que vivir con sus pesados tíos y su insoportable primo Dudley, todos ellos muggles, o sea, personas no magas, que...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salamandra 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH FIC ROWSummary: "Nineteen sixty-eight was a pivotal year that grew more intense with each day. As thousands of Vietnamese and Americans were killed in war, students across four continents took over colleges and city streets. Assassins murdered Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy. Demonstrators turned out in Prague and Chicago, and in Mexico City, young people and Olympic athletes protested. In those intense months,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 NINRodriguez, Deborah.
Summary: "Deborah Rodriquez's memoir of her journey of self-discovery and renewal after she was forced to flee Afghanistan in 2007"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 RODRIGUEZ, DEBORAH RODSasuga, Yu
Summary: "In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries but is now complete. The colonization of Mars by humanity is an epoch-making event, but an unintended side effect of the terraforming process unleashes a horror no one could ever have imagined ... The members of Ichi Security and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TERWhitaker, Mark
Summary: Deeply researched and widely reported, this exploration of the Black Power phenomenon that began to challenge the traditional civil rights movement in 1966 offers portraits of the major characters in the yearlong drama and the fierce battles over voting rights, identity politics, and the teaching of Black history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 WHISummary: Michelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier and Linda Chavez all share Spanish colonial roots, yet each views their own identity very differently. In this episode we ask what it means to be Hispanic-and find that the answer lies in the tangled histories of European, Native American and African peoples. Crisscrossing Mexico, Spain, the Caribbean, and the Southwest, Professor Gates reveals stories of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Aragon, Cecilia Rodriguez
Summary: The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, timid child in a small midwestern town during the 1960s. Targeted by school bullies and dismissed by many of her teachers, she worried that people would find out the truth: that she was INTF. Incompetent. Nerd. Terrified. Failure. This feeling stayed with her well into her twenties when she was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARAGON, CECILIA RODRIGUEZ ARASasuga, Yu
Summary: "In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries but is now complete. The colonization of Mars by humanity is an epoch-making event, but an unintended side effect of the terraforming process unleashes a horror no one could ever have imagined... The Terraformars have infested...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TERElfrink, Tim
Summary: Describes how stolen ledgers revealed how the Florida clinic Biogenesis of America provided performance-enhancing drugs to professional baseball players, and discusses the resulting scandal and season-long suspension for Alex Rodriguez.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 ELFBrown, Monica
Summary: En este vibrante libro ilustrado bilingüe sobre la biografía del músico Tito Puente, los lectores bailarán al ritmo de la vida de este rey del mambo. A Tito Puente le encantaba golpear ollas y sartenes cuando era niño, pero lo que realmente soñaba era tener su propia banda algún día. Desde Spanish Harlem hasta los premios Grammy, y todos los ritmos intermedios, esta es la historia real de la...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROLeonard, Elmore
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Borders 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEORodriguez, Deborah.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014