Ulitskaya, Ludmila
Summary: An orphaned poet, a gifted pianist and a budding photographer meet in a mid-20th-century Moscow school and eventually embody the heroism, folly, compromise and hope of the Soviet dissident experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ULIZeman, Ludmila.
Summary: Gilgamesh, half-god and half-man, in his loneliness and isolation becomes a cruel tyrant over the citizens of Uruk. To impress them forever he orders a great wall to be built, driving his people to exhaustion and despair so that they cry to the Sun God for help. In answer, another kind of man, Enkidu, is sent to earth to live among the animals and learn kindness from them. He falls in love with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.21 ZEMZeman, Ludmila.
Summary: Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, makes a dangerous journey in search of the secret of immortality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books of Northern New York 1995
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Summary: Masterworks of economy and acuity, these brief, trenchant tales by Russian author and playwrite Petrushevskaya, selected from her wide-ranging but little translated oeuvre over the past 30 years, offer an enticement to English readers to seek out more of her writing. The tales explore the inexplicable workings of fate, the supernatural, grief and madness, and range from adroit, straightforward...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETZeman, Ludmila.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ZEMZeman, Ludmila.
Summary: While striving to kill Humbaba, the monster who has attacked the city of Uruk, Gilgamesh spurns the advances of the goddess Ishtar, prompting her revenge, in a retelling of an episode from the story of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest legend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 1993
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Contents: Riqsiqa kasunchik -- Ch'uwa yaku kawsaypuni -- Warmip kawsaynin -- Uqhumanta -- Warmikuna yupag-chasqapuni kasunchik -- Arawi -- Yanapariway takiriyta -- Killpa -- Pachamamata t'ikanchasun -- Kusichisun wawitata -- Tillpi tillpilla -- Sumaq awaq warmi -- Jiwasay -- Qalay qalay -- Kawsay jap'isunchik -- Wataq killasnin -- Amautayku avelino siñani.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Squirrel Thing 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/SOUTH AME CARUlit͡skai͡a, Li͡udmila.
Contents: Orlovy-Sokolovy -- Zverʹ -- Pikovai͡a dama -- Golubchik -- T͡Si͡u-I͡Urikhʹ -- Zhenshchiny russkikh seleniĭ -- Perlovyĭ sup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: "ĖKSMO" 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 FIC ULIUlit͡skai͡a, Li͡udmila
Summary: An orphaned poet, a gifted pianist and a budding photographer meet in a mid-20th-century Moscow school and eventually embody the heroism, folly, compromise and hope of the Soviet dissident experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Izdatelʹstvo AST 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 FIC ULISummary: Powell and Pressburger merge film with opera and dance to tell the tale of a poet who dreams of three women who all break his heart. He tells "the three tales of my folly of love"--In Paris, when he fancied himself in love with Olympia, who turned out to be a life-sized doll; in Venice, when bewitched by a beautiful courtesan; and on a Grecian isle, in love with daughter of a singer and conductor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TALFerrari, Alessandro
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of the move the good dinosaur. What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? In this epic journey into the world of dinosaurs, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC DISSummary: A journey to the beginning of time (1955) : Youngest of four boys one day finds a fossil of trilobite. So his older friend take him on journey through prehistory, up to beginning of time, to see real live trilobites.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THRSummary: Practice the ancient art of belly dance to get into shape. Presents belly dance movements that help promote weight loss by leading the dancer through a variety of vibrant movements, or "shimmies". By stimulating the cardiovascular system, belly dancing thoroughly exercises the whole body, and is low impact.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goldhil Home Media 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.715 BELSummary: "Aspiring musician Miguel journeys to the land of the dead to meet his ancestor and change his family's ban on music."--provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC DISSummary: Guiliana is the wife of Ugo, a plant manager in Ravenna. Recently released from the hospital after a car accident, Giuliana is in dire straits mentally, but Ugo thinks she's just hysterical. When she meets the charming Corrado, he seems sympathetic, shares her feeling of being lost, but he doesn't fully understand and his amatory advances are not what she needs. Living in the shadow of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REDSummary: A famous psychotherapist is forced to steal thirteen paintings from the world's renowned museums and private collections to prevent his suffering from terrible nightmares he has as a result of subliminal messaging he received as a child. Accompanied by his four patients, he and his band of thieves strike regularly and with great success: the Louvre, Tate, Uffizi, Hermitage, the Museum of Modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUBSummary: In 2025, Eastern Ukraine is a desert unsuitable for human habitation, water a dear commodity brought in by trucks. A wall is being built on the border. Sergiy, a former soldier having trouble adapting to his new reality, meets Katya while she's on a humanitarian mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATLSummary: Bhoot is an urban supernatural thriller set in Mumbai city. Vishal, a married stock analyst is in search of a flat for him and his wife Swati. He finds the perfect place on the 12th floor of a tall apartment building. The flat has a problem... the previous occupant a young woman plunged to her death from a balcony. But un-superstitious Vishal does not let this affect his decision to shift...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spark Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BHORoerich, Nicholas
Summary: V jetom sbornike rabot velikogo russkogo hudozhnika, puteshestvennika, myslitelja N.K. Reriha predstavleny proizvedenija raznyh zhanrov – belye stihi, filosofskie pritchi, rasskazy, ocherki, aforizmy. Tematika jetih rabot raznoobrazna – ot legend i pritch do rasskazov o tainstvennyh javlenijah prirody; ot osnov filosofskih uchenij Vostoka do mudryh sovetov i naputstvij. Odno neizmenno: o chem...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sov. Fond Rerikhov, T͡Sentr-muzeĭ im. N.K. Rerikha 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.7 ROEShevelev, Mikhail
Summary: "One evening in 2015, the journalist Pavel Vladimirovich and his wife Tatyana are at home when the news breaks that there has been a terrorist attack. Over a hundred people have been taken hostage in the Church of the Epiphany in the village of Nikolskoye near Moscow. As they watch, on the TV screen appears the face of one of the terrorists: Vadim Petrovich Seryegin, an old friend of Pavel's....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHESummary: The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko's final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASCSummary: A painstakingly detailed adaptation of the Tolstoy novel which follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats from 1805 to 1812, including Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000