Summary: 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 MOTChaviano, Daina
Summary: Far from her family, her history, and her home in Cuba, Cecilia seeks refuge in a bar in the Little Havana section of Miami, where a mysterious woman's fascinating tale keeps her returning night after night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAFalk, Daina
Summary: Offers game-day recipes from a nationally recognized sports expert and fan, including such options as Cajun shrimp skewers, empanadas, buffalo chicken salad, and Italian hero sandwich, along with signature recipes from professional athletes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxmoor House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 FALAiya, Kyū
Summary: Help her, Master! Save Filo from her capture! Filo has been captured and put on display, and she is crying out for help. Her captors only stoke the flames of Naofumi's anger! And will Naofumi finally reunite with Raphtalia?!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Social Club Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RISAira, César
Summary: "An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRAida, Yu.
Summary: When new children are brought into the Social Welfare Agency, their minds are wiped and their bodies enhanced with the latest in cutting edge cybernetics. They are blank slates ready to be molded and conditioned as their handlers see fit. Yet for Angelica, the first of the Agency's cyborg assassins, memories of the life she once knew have started to return. Dreams of her childhood fills her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GUNAira, César
Summary: "In César Aira's new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general-"Rome's most illustrious and experienced"-is sent to pacify the remote province of Pannonia. He is a thoughtful, introspective person, a saturnine intellectual who greatly enjoys being on the march away from his loving family, and the sometimes deadly intrigues of Rome. Fulgentius is also a playwright (though...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRAida, Yu
Summary: "Dante's Inferno. After years in exile, Giacomo Dante, the infamous mastermind of the "The Croce Incident," has returned to take his rightful place as leader of the Five Republics. His first act as new leader is to seize control of Venice's landmark St. Mark's Campanile and demand the release of fellow terrorist Aaron Cicero, along with fifty of their comrades-in-arms who are being held as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GUNZasadsinska, Aida
Summary: Chronicles a man's search for his lost brother who was sent out to Israel for adoption after World War II when he was a child in a displaced persons camp.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIDAida, Yu.
Summary: The Social Welfare Agency: a secret counter-terrorism unit for the Italian government that rescues troubled young girls and turns them into cybernetically-enhanced ruthless killers who do the government's dirty work. Yet the child assassins are not as heartless as they were programmed to be. Henrietta struggles with her conflicted feelings towards her handler Jose, while fellow agent Triela...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GUNSalazar, Aida
Summary: As a child admires the moon, their mother imparts Mexican Indigenous wisdom of the moon's phases as they relate to our bodies and lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rise x Penguin Workshop 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Berry, Daina Ramey
Summary: "A Black Women's History of the United States is a critical survey of black women's complicated legacy in America, as it takes into account their exploitation and victimization as well as their undeniable and substantial contributions to the country sinceits inception"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 BERAida, Yu
Summary: When Henrietta barely survives a brutal attack that killed her family, she is "rescued" by the Social Welfare Agency who repairs her body with robotic components and brainwashes her to forget her past and become a lethal cyborg assassin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GUNSalazar, Aida
Summary: Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALSalazar, Aida
Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALSalazar, Aida
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Elio is struggling with "coming of age"--first love, first heartbreak, first real fight (which lands him in the hospital), and what it means to be a "man", a true friend, and an ally, as well as how to overcome a culture of toxic masculinity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALSummary: Paola is the beautiful and jealously guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana. In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lorber Films 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOPerez-Prado, Aixa
Summary: "Come along for a day of exploring the sights and sounds of Argentina from morning light to city night. Snack on medialunas, count the stalls at la feria and ride the caballito on the carousel. Argentinian author and illustrator Aixa Pérez-Prado and Mariana Ruiz Johnson (Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Run Little Chaski, The Last Hazlenut) draw on their lived experiences in Argentina to create...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: Loup Garrou, trickster rabbits, and spirits with names that can't be spoken--the plains and forests of North America are alive with characters like these, all waiting to meet you in this collection of folklore retold in comics! This fifth volume of the "Cautionary Fables and Fairytales" anthology series features updated takes on ancient stories from tribes spanning the continent, bursting with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC WOMContents: I sing ammore (Nicola Arigliano) -- Je so pazzo (Pino Daniele) -- Rosso relativo (Tiziano Ferro) -- Quando quando quando (Tony Renis) -- Figli delle stelle (Alan Sorrenti) -- Vacanze romane (Matia Bazaar [sic]) -- Dio e'morto (I Nomadi) -- Bandiera bianca (Franco Battiato) -- La descrizione di un attimo (Tiromancino) -- Per amore mio (Roberto Vecchioni) -- Nel sole (Albano) -- Tutto quello che...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Petrol 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN ITASummary: "The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, a dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Kaqchikel speaking Mayans on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. Immersing viewers in its characters' customs and beliefs, the film chronicles with unblinking realism, a disappearing tradition and a disappearing people."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IXCSummary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021