Torné de la Guardia, Gonzalo
Summary: "The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love -- and the end of love -- and how hard it can be to let go. There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife doesn't know -- but which henow sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage to an American woman named Helen, describing a vacation they took...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TORSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesus Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Producciones Iguana 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CROMarch de la Torre, Aleida.
Summary: Forty-five years after Che's assassination in Bolivia in 1967, his widow and the great love of his life has finally released her memoir of their years together. They met as fellow guerillas during the revolutionary war in Cuba and married in June 1959, a few months after the revolution. They had four children together. Here, with great passion and poignancy, Aleida describes their shared dreams...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ocean Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARCH DE LA TORRE, ALEIDA MARDe La Torre, Miguel A.
Summary: "How curiously different is this white God from the one preached by Jesus who understood faithfulness by how we treat the hungry and thirsty, the naked and alien, the incarcerated and infirm. This white God of empire may be appropriate for global conquerors who benefit from all that has been stolen and through the labor of all those defined as inferior; but such a deity can never be the God of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 DE LCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 DE LSummary: "Son is Cuba's principal dance and song form and the root of salsa. Fusing African and Spanish elements, it ranges in style from simple, rustic bands to the brassy arrangements of New York salsa. This rough guide, literally a 'who's who' in Cuban music, explores this rich tradition, from its conception in the early 1900s to the present day big-band revival"--Container verso.
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ROUCawthon, Scott
Summary: "Oscar, ever the miniature grown-up his mom needs him to be, decides to take something he wants . . . even though he knows it's wrong. Stanley is newly dumped, stuck in a dead-end job for a mysterious employer, and unable to connect with anyone. And Devon, abandoned by his dad and ignored by his mom, can't understand why love and friendship come so easily to everyone except him. Unfortunately,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: CD 1: Monks and troubadours I. Antiphons: Hosanna (0:48) ; Pueri Hebraerorum (2:56) -- En mai, quant rosier sont flouri (2:07) -- Antiphon: Cum audisset (5:51) -- Alle, psallite cum luya (1:07) -- Antiphons: Coeperunt omnes (1:34) ; Occurrunt turbae (1:18) ; Cum angelis (0:37) ; Ante sex dies (2:53) -- S'on me regarde (2:23) -- Hymnus: Gloria, laus et honor (6:41) -- El mois de mai (1:35) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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Contents: Plainchant, Benedicta es (2:24) -- Motet, Benedicta es / Josquin des Prés (6:55) -- Missa Benedicta es / Palestrina (41:15) -- Plainchant, Nigra sum (1:31) -- Motet, Nigra sum / Lhériter (5:07) -- Missa Nigra sum (35:20) ; Missa Papae Marcelli (36:49) ; Missa brevis (21:24) / Palestrina -- Madrigal, Nasce la gioja mia / Primavera (2:30) -- Missa Nasce la gioja mia / Palestrina (24:22) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gimell 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL PIECawthon, Scott
Summary: "What do you wish for most? It's a question that Oswald, Sarah, and Oscar think they know the answer to. Oswald wishes his summer wasn't so boring, Sarah wishes to be beautiful, and Oscar wishes to get his hands on the mechanical toy that's out of stock all over town. But in the twisted world of Five Nights at Freddy's, their hearts' deepest desires have an unexpected cost. In this volume,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.La Guardia, Anton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 LAGContents: Jump / Kriss Kross -- O.P.P. / Naughty by Nature -- Fantastic voyage / Coolio -- It's tricky / Run-D.M.C. -- The Humpty dance / Digital Underground -- Push it / Salt-N-Pepa -- Summertime / D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince -- It takes two / Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock -- Regulate / Warren G. -- 2 legit 2 quit / Hammer (introducing Saja aka Sonja Moore) -- Whoomp! there it is / Tag Team -- Funky...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razor & Tie 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 708.4 MUSCall number: DVD 708.4 MUS
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 708.4 MuseumSummary: In 1920s China, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. Competition between the wives is fierce, as their master's attention carries power, status and privileges. Each night Chen must decide which wife to spend the night with and a red...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razor Digital Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Live while we're young (One Direction) -- I cry (Flo Rida) -- Die young (Ke$ha) -- Let me love you (until you learn to love yourself) (Ne-Yo) -- Don't stop the party (Pitbull ; featuring TJR) -- Sweet nothing (Calvin Harris ; featuring Florence Welch) -- Hall of fame (the Script ; featuring Will.i.am) -- Daylight (Maroon 5) -- Home (Phillip Phillips) -- The A team (Ed Sheeran) -- We are never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWSummary: A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in 'The French Dispatch.'
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FRESummary: Based on a true story, Darlene longs for love, family and passion. She leaves her small rural town to find the one man that can fulfill all of her desires. One child, still single and three years later, Darlene, comes back home. She accepts a marriage proposal from a neighbor who turns her into his personal slave. Her husband's cousin comes to live with them and she finds comfort with him. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MESummary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLASummary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VOLSummary: "After a decade living in the United States, [filmmaker Asori] Soto returns to his homeland of Cuba to search for the missing flavors of his childhood--a journey to discover culinary traditions long thought lost due to the hardship that Cuba survived after the collapse of the Soviet Union."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CUBReed, Brian M.
Summary: With the Super Hero Registration Act in effect, Carol Danvers (aka Ms. Marvel) joins forces with Simon "Wonder Man" Williams and Julia "Arachne" Carpenter to police and train heroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2007