Summary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VIOCarlson, W. Bernard
Summary: "This is a biography of one of the major 20th-century scientists, Nikola Tesla. It is interdisciplinary, containing accounts of U.S. manufacturing in the early 1900s and other contemporary cultural materials"-
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 TESLA, NICOLA CARReich, Steve
Summary: "Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.92 REISummary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NINGili, Oberto
Summary: An insider’s tour of the most creative and inspiring rooms belonging to tastemakers—artists, interior designers, craftspeople, collectors, and aristocrats—in Italy today. Italy has been a source of inspiration for generations of artists and lovers of beauty. In this book, Italians Oberto Gili and Marella Caracciolo Chia take us around the country and into the homes of some of its most stylish...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 670 GILSummary: A documentary based on a series of interviews with Paul Bowles shortly before his death and anecdotes provided by his friends and collaborators including Gore Vidal, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Walters, Ruth Fainlight, Edmund White, William Burroughs, Francis Bacon and many others --Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features [distributor] 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PAUCrispin, Jessa
Summary: "Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism... and a bracing manifesto for revolution"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 CRISesma, Candido.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bilingual Dictionaries 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPARobertson, Kay
Summary: Outlines the roles of Duck Dynasty women, discussing the core values that make their relationships work and explaining how their spiritual beliefs shape family dynamics and have helped them work through various challenges.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Recount the life of scientist, inventor, and visionary Nikola Tesla, often remembered as more of an eccentric cult figure than an electrical engineering genius. Tesla's suprising inventions are revealed in his autobiographical and scientific writings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TESSesma, Candido.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bilingual Dictionaries 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN UKRPiumini, Roberto.
Summary: Hansel and Gretel wander through the woods as they try to find their way home, and spot a house made of candy! The old woman inside promises them good things to eat, but what she has in mind in anything but sweet!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 PIUPiumini, Roberto.
Summary: A beautiful young princess is cursed with a hundred years of sleep, and she can only be awakened by a prince. Bright illustrations and colorful language come together in a retelling of this classic tale.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 PIUSchezen, Roberto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 662.2 WebbSchezen, Roberto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 1992
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.8 SCHTrotta, Roberto
Summary: "Here's what it is about: For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. In the glow of today's artificial lighting, when even professional astronomers study the universe by staring at screens rather than through eyepieces, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos. Roberto Trotta is here to remind us: one of our species' most enduring and (literally) universal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Trotta, Roberto.
Summary: From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology—with a twist. The book’s lexicon is limited to the thousand most common words in the English language, excluding physics, energy, galaxy, or even universe. Through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 TROSummary: Digging through the vast collection of his father's home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REW1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF REW
Ressa, Maria
Summary: Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to a democracy. As a reporter from CNN, she transformed news coverage in her region, which led her in 2012 to create a new and innovative online news organization, Rappler....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RESSA, MARIA RESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B RESSA RESBolaño, Roberto
Summary: Collects some of the Chilean poet's earliest verse, including love poems, political pieces, and works that highlight such themes as the search for poetry, detectives, and the interrelationship of life, death, and the weather.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 BOLPiumini, Roberto.
Summary: Cinderella is constantly teased by her evil stepmother and stepsisters. They make her do all the chores when her father is away. Then, when everyone in the city is invited to the Prince's palace for a royal ball, no one thinks of inviting Cinderella! As she watches her stepsisters leave for the dance, she wishes she could go too. Suddenly, a kindly old woman appears out of nowhere and promises...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 PIUValenzuela, Roberto.
Summary: The author presents his advice and practice routines for composing and capturing photographs of people, illustrated with examples from his own practice sessions and from his extensive work photographing weddings around the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 VALLovato, Roberto
Summary: Roberto Lovato shares a timely and no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerilla warfare, immigration, and intergenerational trauma.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Piumini, Roberto.
Summary: "A pied piper rids the city of Hamelin of rats in this retelling of the classic tale"--Unedited summary from book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2011