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Summary: Timeless story of the trials and tribulations of a rich elderly man married to a cunning and unfaithful younger woman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: TDK 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA DON

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

Contents: Plainchant, Benedicta es (2:24) -- Motet, Benedicta es / Josquin des Prés (6:55) -- Missa Benedicta es / Palestrina (41:15) -- Plainchant, Nigra sum (1:31) -- Motet, Nigra sum / Lhériter (5:07) -- Missa Nigra sum (35:20) ; Missa Papae Marcelli (36:49) ; Missa brevis (21:24) / Palestrina -- Madrigal, Nasce la gioja mia / Primavera (2:30) -- Missa Nasce la gioja mia / Palestrina (24:22) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Gimell 1993

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL PIE

Summary: "A Japanese film crew interviews Fellini about his career as he films the memories of his life as a young journalist walking into his beloved studio Cinecitta for the first time"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INT

Ruffini, Patrick

Summary: "An eye-opening, revelatory account of the future of the Republican party as they unite working-class voters in a multi-racial, cross-generational populist coalition. Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election shocked the world. Yet his defeat in 2020 may have been even more surprising: he received 12 million more votes in 2020 than 2016 and his unexpectedly diverse coalition...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 320.56 RUF

Zoboli, Giovanna.

Summary: Illustrations and text express a desire for the sharp eyesight of a blackbird, the tail of a lemur, and other animal's strengths.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2013

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E ZOB

Boccaccio, Giovanni

Summary: Located in the Classics rotating display rack.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOC

Giovanni, Nikki.

Summary: For the first time ever, the complete poetry collection spanning three decades from Nikki Giovanni, renowned poet and one of America's national treasures. When her poems first emerged during the Black Arts Movement, in the 1960s, Nikki Giovanni immediately took her place among the most celebrated, controversial and influential poets of the era. Now, more than thirty years later, Giovanni still...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIO

Ruffin, Amber

Summary: "Families may not always see eye to eye; we get on each other's nerves, have different perspectives and lives-especially if we've grown up in different generations. But for the Ruffin family and many others, there has been one constant that connects them: racism hasn't gone anywhere. From her raucous musical numbers to turning upsetting news into laughs as the host of The Amber Ruffin Show or...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 RUF

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 RUF

Ruffin, Amber

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism. Now a writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and host of The Amber Ruffin Show, Amber Ruffin lives in New York, where she is no one's First Black Friend and everyone is, as she puts it, "stark raving...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 RUF

Aloi, Giovanni

Summary: This survey of birds, chronicling their scientific and popular appeal throughout the ages and around the world, showcases the remarkable diversity of species in the avian kingdom, from tiny hummingbirds to ostriches taller than humans, and icebound penguins to tropical macaws. With its content curated alongside an international panel of ornithologists, art historians, wildlife photographers,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon Press Limited 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 704.9 ALO

Arrighi, Giovanni.

Contents: Pt. 1. Adam Smith and the new Asian age -- Marx in Detroit, Smith in Beijing -- The historical sociology of Adam Smith -- Marx, Schumpeter, and the "endless" accumulation of capital and power -- Pt. 2. Tracking global turbulence -- The economics of global turbulence -- Social dynamics of global turbulence -- A crisis of hegemony -- Pt. 3. Hegemony unraveling -- Domination without Hegemony --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.06 ARR

Giovanni, Nikki

Summary: In what other place can a child "sail their dreams" and "surf the rainbow" without ever leaving the room? This ode to libraries is a celebration for everyone who loves stories, from seasoned readers to those just learning to love words, and it will have kids and parents alike imagining where their library can take them. This inspiring read-aloud includes stunning illustrations and a note from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, a division of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIO

Giovanni, Nikki

Summary: In what other place can a child "sail their dreams" and "surf the rainbow" without ever leaving the room? This ode to libraries is a celebration for everyone who loves stories, from seasoned readers to those just learning to love words, and it will have kids and parents alike imagining where their library can take them. This inspiring read-aloud includes stunning illustrations and a note from...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ ALONG GIO

Giovanni, Nikki.

Summary: Collection of 80 new poems and prose pieces including some about slavery, Rosa Parks, Hurricane Katrina, Emmett Till, Nina Simone, Dorothy Height, Mari Evans, Gwendolyn Brooks, June Jordan, Richard Fewell, the Ishley Brothers, Jackie Robinson, librarians, and libraries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIO

Giovanni, Nikki.

Summary: From the Publisher: In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, her poems move readers of all hues and generations. With Bicycles, she's collected...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIO

Giovanni, Nikki.

Contents: Gemini : an extended autobiographical statement on my first twenty-five years of being a black poet (1971) -- Sacred cows ... and other edibles ... (1988) -- Racism 101 (1994).

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5408 GIO

Giovanni, Nikki.

Summary: In Poem for Black Boys, she writes: "Where are your heroes, my little Black ones / You are the Indian you so disdainfully shoot / Not the big bad sheriff on his faggoty white horse / You should play run-away-slave or Mau-Mau / These are more in line with your history." By the author of Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow and Co. 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIO

Giovanni, Paul.

Contents: Songs from Summerisle : ballads of seduction, fertility and ritual slaughter. Corn rigs ; The landlord's daughter ; Gently Johnny ; Maypole ; Fire leap ; The tinker of Rye ; Willow's song ; Procession ; Chop chop ; Lullaby ; Festival ; Mirie it is ; Sumer is a-cumen in -- Incidental music from The wicker man. Opening music ; Loving couples ; The ruined church ; The masks ; The hobby horse ;...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Silva America 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC WIC

Pacioni, Giovanni.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1981

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 589.2 PAC

Boccaccio, Giovanni

Summary: Revised for the seven hundredth anniversary of the author's birth, this tale of medieval Italian life details how ten young Florentines retreat to the countryside to escape the plague-infested city and entertain themselves by telling stories.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOC

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOC

Caselli, Giovanni

Summary: Describes the discovery and excavation of the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., and what has been learned about life there.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: P. Bedrick Books 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 937.7 CAS

Giovanni, Nikki

Summary: A collection of the author's poetry conveys to young readers how much they are loved regardless of age and circumstance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 811.6 GIO

Giovanni, Nikki.

Summary: A collection of fifty-two poems by African-American poet Nikki Giovanni.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIO

Ruffin, Jimmy.

Contents: What becomes of the broken hearted -- I've passed this way before -- Gonna give her all the love I've got -- I'll say forever my love -- It's wonderful (to be loved by you) -- Since I've lost you -- As long as there is l-o-v-e love -- Farewell is a lonely sound -- Living in a world I created for myself -- Don't you miss me a little bit baby -- Stand by me (duet with David Ruffin).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Motown 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES Ruffi

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