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Bandes dessinées de vampires Boys Psychology Drama Interpersonal relations Fiction Michigan Mothers and daughters Fiction Schweblin, Samanta 1978- Translations into English Vampires Vampires Comic books, strips, etc World War, 1939-1945 Finland Drama World War, 1939-1945 Sweden DramaSummary: Documentary featuring a performance of Rollins' Quintet and the world premiere of his concerto and presents interviews with Rollins, Sarmanto, and others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SONSummary: During World War II, 70,000 Finnish children were shipped off to Swedish families who had agreed to shelter them for their own protection until the end of the war. This is the story of one such boy, Eero. After the death her husband, grief stricken Kirsti agrees with great reluctance to send Eero to Sweden. His surrogate parents, Signe and Hjalmar, are grieving the recent loss of a daughter....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Matila Röhr Productions 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOTSummary: Based on true love, this decades spanning romance begins in Mexico between an aspiring chef and a teacher. Their lives restart in incredible ways as societal pressure propels them to embark on a treacherous journey to NYC with dreams, hopes, and memories in tow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISarmiento, Michi.
Contents: El sonerito -- Aqui los bravos -- Cumbia raja -- Vamos negra -- El arroyo de macuya -- A los sicodelicos -- Mirame San Miguel -- La vaca nueva -- Tumbando -- Hong Kong -- El negro y ray -- Se fue la cumbia -- Suena ahora -- Caprichosa -- Son retoson -- Purification.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soundway 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN SARSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: "Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where every shadow and bump in the dark take on huge implications; they leave your pulse racing and the line between the real and the strange blurring."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHGarzon, Armando.
Contents: Flor de ausencia -- Si me comprendieras -- Escandalo -- Nosotros -- La mentira -- Alfonsina y el mar -- Tenia que ser asi -- Capullito de alheli -- Eso -- Rosa dormida -- Guarina -- Sabor a mi -- Le dije a una rosa -- No me vayas a engan
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Corason 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN GARTaranto, Julius
Summary: A funny novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEGalarraga, Armando.
Summary: The Detroit Tigers pitcher and veteran umpire share their respective views on the June 2, 2010 game that was entered into the record books with what the umpire believes was his erroneous call on the final out, tracing their career stories while impartingthe significance of the game in their lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.3 GALSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: El campo ha cambiado frente a nuestros ojos sin que nadie se diera cuenta. Y quizá no se trata solo de sequías y herbicidas, quizá se trate del hilo vital y filoso que nos ata a nuestros hijos, y del veneno que echamos sobre ellos. Nada es un cliché cuando finalmente sucede. "Distancia de rescate" sigue esta vertiginosa fatalidad haciéndose siempre las mismas preguntas: ¿hay acaso algún...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SCHSchweblin, Samanta
Summary: "The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with a dark choice or the fallibility of parents. This was the collection that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCHHeikkilä, Otava
Summary: When the vampire Lucardo fell in love with Edmund Fiedler, a 61-year-old mortal scrivener, their passion became legendary before Lucardo's practical father intervened. The royal Court of Night has gone back to its peaceful reign, Ed has exiled himself, and Lucardo . . . well, Lucardo is hopelessly enraged. Determined to seize control of his life again, Lucardo mounts a search for his missing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HEISchweblin, Samanta
Summary: "A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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Summary: "A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv,bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHHeikkilä, Otava
Summary: "Ed Fiedler is a common man. 61 years old and employed as a scribe in a royal palace, his most regular client is Lucardo von Gishaupt, a forever-young aristocrat ... and member of the mysterious and revered Night Court. When the eternally 33-year-old Lucardo and the aging Ed develop feelings for one another, both are forced to contend with the culture shock of a mortal man's presence among the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HEIConradi, Heike
Summary: A persistent dove searches for the right words to inspire the smallest church bell to ring.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CONIlilonga, Rikki.
Contents: Tsegulani -- Mpondolo -- Walk and fight -- The sun -- Dark sunrise -- One reply -- The wings of Africa -- Jekete yamankowa : part 1 -- Jekete yamankowa : part 2 -- Chalo chawama -- Ng ombe Shala -- Mpulula -- Smoke -- Sansa kuwa -- Sheebeen queen -- Stop dreaming Mr. D -- The hole -- Hot fingers -- Se keel me queek -- The nature of man -- Musamuseka -- Zambia -- The queen blues -- Love is the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now Again 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ILICorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp. Desperate to save her children, Amanda flees toward the south of France, where the widow of an old friend of her husband's has agreed to take her in. Along the way,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORVanSickle, Vikki
Summary: "After having her heart broken, seventeen-year-old Nora Nichols decides to escape her hometown and take a summer job as an arts and crafts counsellor at an all-girls' camp in the mountains of West Virginia. There, she meets girls and women from all walks of life with their own heartaches and triumphs. But when a letter from home comes bearing unexpected news, Nora finds inner strength in her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2024
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Summary: "Learn all about the importance of a healthy diet, from what foods you should eat to what effect they will have on your health."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613 PELCarr, Vikki.
Contents: It must be him--Can't take my eyes off you (live)--One more mountain--A million years or so--So much in love with you--Tunesmith--A bit of love--Alfie--Forget you--Look again (Theme from Irma la Douce)--Her little heart went to loveland--For once in my life/after today--Happy together--Yesterday I heard the rain--Come rain or come shine/This girl's in love with you--It must be him--Can't take...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI-Capitol Music 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL CARVanSickle, Vikki
Summary: "The teddy bears' picnic gets a modern twist in this warm and fuzzy picture book about a young teddy bear who learns that small acts of kindness can make a big difference."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020
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Summary: Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall as they embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of maternal love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: Una novela inolvidable ambientada en el Berlín de la primavera de 1939, la Cuba pre- y postrevolucionaria y el Nueva York después del 11 de septiembre. Antes de que todo se desmoronara, Hannah Rosenthal y sus padres tenían una vida encantadora. Su familia, una de las más distinguidas en los altos círculos sociales berlineses, era admirada por amigos y vecinos. Ahora en 1939, Berlín se ha teñido...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Español 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC CORCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she's blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024