Fernando 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMHolub, Joan
Summary: Learn all about artists who changed history in this engaging and colorful board book perfect for creators-in-training!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019
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Summary: Award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos explores illegal immigration with this emotionally raw and timely nonfiction book about ten Central American teens and their journeys to the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Magazines, Call number: YA 305.235 VILVillalobos, Juan Pablo
Summary: What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia for his private zoo. But Tochtli is growing up in his drug baron father's luxury hideout, shared with hit men and dealers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VILSummary: An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NERSummary: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GrSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Barbieri, Gian Paolo
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 391.65 BARSummary: Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WISPauls, Alan.
Summary: The hero of this novel is obsessed with money. His father makes money in poker games and casinos. His mother marries again and squanders her small inherited fortune. A novel of hardcore economics where the sex was replaced with money, and the economy of an entire country goes insane without hope of recovery, a centrifuge created by inflation and financial irrationality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUSummary: A touching story about women whose emotional lives are as rich as their surroundings are poor. Maria is a troubled woman who drinks, smokes, and steals, desperate for oblivion and angry at the entire world. Emotional rescue comes in the form of her own mother who comes to visit while her father is in the hospital. Her mother cooks, crochets and befriends the gentlemanly neighbor who lives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOLSummary: Laura decides to purchase her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. The new environment awakens the imagination of Laura's son. His ongoing fantasy games played with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ORPSummary: During a road trip through Chile, boorish American expatriate Jamie and three Chilean brothers plan to set off in search of the prized San Pedro cactus and its promise of unrivaled hallucinations. But during a night's drunken stupor Jamie invites free-spirited fellow American Crystal Fairy along on their psychedelic-driven journey, and before long Crystal's devil-may-care attitude gives them...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CRYSummary: La historia verdadera de Pablo Escobar, el jefe del cartel de drogas de Medellín, relatado por la primera vez por su hijo Sebastián y su viuda María Isabel Campos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SINSummary: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2017Brahms, Johannes
Contents: No. 1 in G minor / Orch. [Johannes] Brahms (3:08) -- No. 2 in D minor / Orch. [Andreas] Hallén (3:07) -- No. 3 in F / Orch. Brahms (2:18) -- No. 4 in F sharp minor / Orch. [Paul] Juon (4:39) -- No. 5 in G minor (2:43) ; No. 6 in D (3:26) / Orch. Parlow -- No. 7 in F / Orch. [Martin] Schmeling (1:39) -- No. 8 in A minor (3:43) ; No. 9 in E minor (2:10) / Orch. Schollum (2:10) -- No. 10 in F /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Philips 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BRASummary: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TANSummary: Harry, Arch, and Dan head into Del Norte, a small town in the middle of nowhere. Harry decides to return home after a seven-year absence, but not before Dan runs afoul of a group of unsavory characters and Harry vows vengeance for the lad's death. Harry and Arch flee from the town. Harry's wife, Hannah, is none too pleased to see her wayward husband at her doorstep. Taking his wife's anger in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HIRSummary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSValdés, Bebo
Contents: Suite cubana. Är ni froken pehrsön? (Intro) ; Cachao, creador del mambo ; Devoción ; El son de Cecilio ; Ecuación ; Copla no. 4 ; Nocturno en batanga ; Är ni froken pehrsön? (Comparsa) -- El solar de Bebo. El solar de Bebo ; Kabul y Lorenzo ; A Mayra ; El quitrín (Haciendo patria) ; La mula ; Iballah ; Rose Marie ; De baracutey ; Miriam ; El guajeo de Rickard.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Calle 54 Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ValdeSummary: A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GUISummary: When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him aboard the barge "L'Atalante", where they travel along the Seine River. The bride, becomes bored and leaves the ship for Paris where she starts flirting with other men.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATASummary: Even among cinema's greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Bunũel, Vigo's films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005