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Arco. Cleary, Rhona Menocal, Maria Rosa. Sawhney, Nitin Tosa, Marco Vargas Llosa, MarioTosa, Marco
Summary: Chronicles the history of the Barbie doll and discusses how the dolls are made, the different people and cultures dolls are based on, and other related topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 688.7221 TOSSummary: Sixth grader Peter is pretty much the average kid: he likes gaming, hanging with his friends, and his beloved pair of Air Jordans. But when he has to give up his most prized possession -- his bedroom -- when his recently widowed grandfather moves in with Peter's family, he's unwilling to let such an injustice stand. Peter devises a series of increasingly elaborate pranks to drive out the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WARVargas Llosa, Mario
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Publisher / Publication Date: Noonday Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. Felícito and Ismael are, each in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas Llosa, Mario
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: Mario falls in love with and and embarks on a secret love affair with his recently divorced Aunt Julia, scandalizing the town of Lima, Peru, while Mario's friend Pedro Camacho becomes more and more obsessed with the soap operas he writes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation-- penned by none other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 VARVargas Llosa, Mario
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 864.64 VARVargas Llosa, Mario
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARSummary: "Retells the story of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family that lives in the mountains of Colombia in a charmed region called Encanto--a wondrous place whose magic becomes threatened and whose rescue depends on the only member of the Madrigal family who doesn't possess magical gifts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Vargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe." This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable task. In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 VARVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world-especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon-but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAR1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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Summary: "Publicado a comienzos de la década de los setenta y desaparecido de las librerías desde hace muchos años, este ensayo, que en su origen fue la tesis que le valió a Vargas Llosa en 1971 el título de doctor por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, muestra la admiración del Nobel peruano por García Márquez y por su novela Cien años de soledad. En él se analiza en profundidad la obra del autor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH LLOVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "4/5"--Spine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Punto de lectura 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 VARSawhney, Nitin
Contents: Relaxin' at the club f****n (Nitin Sawhney edit) (Koop) -- Eastern eyes (Seiji remix) ; Homelands (Free Form Five remix) ; Homelands (Dzihin & Kamien mix) (Nitin Sawhney) -- Suzuki (Burnt Friedman/Nonplace dub) (Tosca) -- Valeu (4Hero remix) (Marcos Valle) -- Tempest (Atjazz remix) (Kabuki) -- Long (4Hero mix) (Nathan Haines) -- We who are not as others (Jazzanova remix) (4Hero) -- Bad thoughts...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fabric Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SAWMenocal, Maria Rosa.
Summary: Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as a young prince in exile--the last heir to an Islamic dynasty--founds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. Combining the best of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.02 MENSummary: Within certain neighborhoods of Mexico, it's commonplace for children to come home to find their parents have been disappeared and they suddenly must flee with few supplies to fend for themselves as orphans. One special girl finds herself armed with three magical wishes, which attracts the attention of evil spirits. Haunted by ghosts and hunted by the cartel, she collects a group of allies and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TIGCleary, Rhona
Summary: When boulders rain down into the fjord, putting her kingdom in danger, Queen Anna journeys up into the mountains to find the cause of the rockslides, only to discover that the source could be within Arendelle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head to Spain to sample the best of the country's gastronomic offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-the-cuff banter. Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair exchange barbs and their patented celebrity impressions, as well as more serious reflections on what it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRIArco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ArcoContents: Eu e o meu amor/Lamento no Morro (Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum) -- Cores (Da Lata) -- Papo de psicólogo (Jairzinho Oliveira) -- Lá vem a Baiana (Jussara Silveira) -- Deusa do amor (Moreno Veloso + 2) -- Preto, cor preta (Jorge Aragão) -- Meu mundo é hoje (Eliete Negreiros) -- Admiração (Paulinho Moska) -- E luxo só (Rosa Passos) -- Feitiço da Vila (Márcio Faraco) -- Banho cheiroso (Rita Ribeiro).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Putumayo World Music 2002
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN PUTSummary: "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.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2000