Smilios, Maria
Summary: "During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.72 SMIMariza.
Contents: O silencio da guitarra -- Cavaleiro monge -- Feira de Castro -- Vielas de Alfama -- Retrato -- Fado curvo -- Menino do bairro negro -- Caravelas -- Entre o rio e a razao -- O deserto -- Primavera -- Aneis do meu cabelo.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Times Square Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MARMariza
Contents: Trigueirinha -- Quem me dera -- Amor perfeito -- Oração -- Sou (rochedo) -- É mentira -- Semente viva -- Por tanto te amar -- Nosso tempo -- Verde limão -- Quebranto -- Oi nha mãe -- Fado errado -- Fado refúgio -- Triguerinha.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Music 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MARMariza.
Summary: Master of Portugal's fado, Mariza'a debut finds her escaping with a familiar sound of her voice accompanied by her evocative guitar.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Times Square Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MARMariza
Summary: New Best of from much-loved Portuguese Fado singer, who was a smash at the Sydney Festival in 2006 and subsequently toured Australia again in 2007 and 2009 (both times performing at the Sydney Opera House). The album features a guest appearance from recent Australian visitor Buika.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MARMariza.
Contents: Loucura -- Medo -- Maria Lisboa -- Montras -- Há uma música do povo -- Menino do bairro negro -- Meu fado meu -- Duas lágrimas de orvalho -- Cavaleiro monge -- Recusa -- Há palavras que nos beijam -- Feira de Castro -- Desejos vãos -- Primavera -- Chuva -- Ó gente da minha terra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Square Records 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN MAROttaviani, Jim
Summary: Introduces the lives and work of three eminent primatologists, sharing insights into their educations under mentor Louis Leakey while exploring their pivotal contributions to twentieth-century natural science.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish, First Second 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARMarta
Contents: Intro -- Today -- When it's going wrong -- Nowhere -- Think of you -- Moving through water -- Swimming away -- Walking -- Czarno czarny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MARSummary: As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw is a young man who is captured for sacrifice, but flees to avoid his fate. He is taken on a perilous journey to a world that is ruled by fear and oppression, where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN APOMarina
Contents: Ancient dreams in a modern land -- Venus fly trap -- Man's world -- Purge the poison -- Highly emotional people -- New America -- Pandora's box -- I love you but I love me more -- Flowers -- Goodbye.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MARBasia.
Contents: Promises (4:03) -- Run for cover (3:38) -- Time and tide (4:03) -- Freeze thaw (3:57) -- From now on (3:45) -- New day for you (4:27) -- Prime time TV (5:20) -- Astrud (4:39) -- How dare you (3:22) -- Miles away (4:10).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Epic 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BASSummary: "An age-old family curse hits sisters Kitty and Franziska following the death of their grandfather Tobias. Every hundred years, so the legend goes, the bloodthirsty Red Queen returns and claims seven fresh victims. Was Tobias just the first ... and are Kitty and Franziska next?"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Florez, Juan Diego
Summary: Count Almaviva, in love with Rosina, the ward of Dr. Bartolo, succeeds, with the help of the barber, Figaro, in defeating the doctor's attempts to separate the lovers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BARFerrari, Alessandro
Summary: "When the kingdom's most wanted and charming bandit, Flynn Rider, hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel, a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with seventy feet of magical, golden hair. Flynn's curious captor, who's looking for her ticket out of the tower she's been locked in for years, strikes a deal with the handsome thief, and the unlikely duo sets off on an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Carta
Contents: Alfred M--Building bridges--Hourglass--Small lights--The likeness is undeniable--Sidereal--Santander--Descension--Prettier at night--Bank of England--Back to nature--Who killed the clerk?--The late Alfred M
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silber records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CARChu, Amy
Summary: "In Turning Red, Mei Lee is a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. And as if changes to her interests, relationships, and body weren't enough, whenever she gets too excited (which for a teenager is practically ALWAYS), she "poofs" into a giant red panda!"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: I got you babe (Sonny & Cher) (3:11) -- Little ole man (Bill Cosby) (4:12) -- Deep purple (Nino Tempo & April Stevens) (2:42) -- Angel on my shoulder (Shelby Flint) (2:19) -- Johnny get angry (Joanie Sommers) (2:32) -- (I'll be with you in) Apple blossom time (Tab Hunter) (2:11) -- White silver sands (Don Rondo) (2:43) -- Ebony eyes (The Everly Brothers) (3:07) -- Let's think about living (Bob...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eric Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARGarcia, Karina
Summary: A humorous adventure comic featuring three friends who run their own slime shop and the slimes that come alive to help them. Includes slime recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Baeten, Marja
Summary: Meet the nicest wild animals of the savanna. Learn funny and interesting facts, followed by double pages of action-packed photographs and illustrations. Facts and fiction are combined in special cooperation with the World Wildlife Fund. Kids will love getting to know more about their favorite animals! In this title, readers will learn about the wild animals of the savanna (such as the zebra,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 590 BAEMarra, Anthony.
Summary: Stegner Fellow, Iowa MFA, and winner of The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, Anthony Marra has written a brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences. In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2013
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Hassouri, Paria
Summary: "In this autobiographical narrative, an Iranian-American pediatrician and mother of three is blindsided when one of her children comes out as transgender. As the author grapples with her child's transition from male to female, she is forced to re-examineher ideas of parenting, gender, and personal identity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HASSOURI, PARIA HASHornbacher, Marya
Summary: When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted, she did not yet know the reason for her all-but-shattered young life. At age 24, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type 1 rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disease there is. Here, in her trademark wry, self-revealing voice, Hornbacher tells her new story. She takes us inside her own desperate attempts to control violently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008