Summary: Three separate stories about love in Puerto Rico: a man accidentally reveals his brother's extra-marital affair to his sister-in-law when he mistakes her grief over the death of her grandmother for distress about the infidelity. The next story revolves around a man whose love for a bus driver drives him to take her and the bus passengers hostage until she consents to marriage. In the final...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MALSummary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRABotero, Fernando
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement Llc 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOTFernando Trueba
Summary: Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMCervantes, Fernando
Summary: "A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world "The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 CERVilela, Fernando
Summary: "Cauã and Inaê are a brother and sister who live in a small community along the Tapajós River in Brazil. Here, the homes are on stilts and everyone travels around by boat -- even to school! When the rainy season comes, they must leave their village and relocate to higher ground for a while. But after moving this year, Cauã and Inaê realize they've left behind something important: their pet...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VILCapobianco, Fernanda
Summary: "Creator of the acclaimed Vegan Divas product line and the chef and owner of NYC's Vegan Divas Bakery Fernanda Capobianco shares her award-winning recipes for creating decadent, flavorful treats adored by vegans and carnivores alike"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 CAPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5637 CAPLeger, Fernand
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameo/Abrams 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 LEGBotero, Fernando
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameo/Abrams 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.9861 BOTPessoa, Fernando
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 869.141 PESValverde, Fernando
Summary: "In Fernando Valverde's América, "sorrow is ancient." Mournfully lyrical, politically sharp, with a sweeping view of American roots, dysfunctions, and ideals--as if from above, and yet also from within--this is a book that deconstructs the legacy of empire. From the Mississippi River to Fulton Avenue, from slavery to "lone wolf" shooters, Valverde grieves but does not wince away from all that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 VALEberstadt, Fernanda
Summary: Rat is fifteen-year-old Celia Bonnet, who lives with her unmarried mother, Vanessa, a free-spirited local beauty, in a farmhouse compound with other single-parent families. Rat is the result of a one-night encounter between Vanessa and Gillem, the son of a London model from the 1960s, who used to spend summers in the area and whom Rat has never spoken to or met. But when Vanessa's current...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EBEMelchor, Fernanda
Summary: "The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELUgalde Ruiz, Fernando.
Contents: The flames beyond the cold mountain -- A heart has asked for the pleasure -- Yearning -- Are you there? -- The remains of the day -- Moonlight.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Temporary Residence 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MONFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: Kady makes waves in the bathtub, and plays with the fish, polar bears, and sea otters while singing the bathtub song.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FERFernández, Bernardo
Summary: ¿Y si los dragones fueran reales? ¿Y si todos esos avistamientos en lagos africanos y en los océanos de Indonesia fueran ciertos? ¿Y si los hemos confundido con dinosaurios? ¿Y si fueran capaces de volar, de respirar bajo el agua, de reproducirse...? En la que considera la más querida de sus novelas, Bef nos cuenta que la respuesta a todas esas preguntas pudo haberse hallado en el barrio chino...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gran Travesía 2019
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FERRossi, Ferdinando.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 729.7 ROSFinando, Donna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Healing Arts Press 2005
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Summary: A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days provides his account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of frozen wilderness to find help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 982 PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival ParradoFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: Autumn has settled on the farm but fallen leaves aren't the only signs of the season. Find out what animals Kitten sees preparing themselves for winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERTarrant, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.752 TARFerland, Lisa
Summary: "The magic of the forest is calling. Birds sing, twigs snap, and leaves rustle. What's up ahead? Is it a butterfly or another animal behind that tree? Come along on this wondrous adventure in the great outdoors. Let your imagination run wild." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Lisa Ferland] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Ferland 2020Tarrant, Graham
Summary: "A light-hearted book about books and the people who write them for all lovers of literature. Do you know: Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China? Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? What superstitions Truman Capote kept whenever he wrote? Who the other Winston Churchill was? A treasure trove of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 TARFernandez, Caroline
Summary: "Grandma keeps running off doing funny business. On a field trip! And if she doesn't stop, we'll miss the school bus. It's field trip day and all we want to do is have a simple, no shenanigans, fun day at the museum. But when dust makes Grandma start sneezing, we know we're in for a wild time. With each sneeze, Grandma turns into a different dinosaur and takes off. It's up to me and Moonie to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Common Deer Press 2020