Varela, Alejandro
Summary: "When his father falls ill, Andrés, a professor of public health, returns to his suburban hometown to tend to his father's recovery. Reevaluating his rocky marriage in the wake of his husband's infidelity and with little else to do, he decides to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, where he runs into the long-lost characters of his youth. Jeremy, his first love, is now married with two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VARSummary: A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegría's poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COWSummary: Four priests exiled to a small seaside town to atone for the sins of their pasts find their fragile stability disrupted by the arrival of a newly-disgraced companion in this taut blackly comic drama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLUSummary: Newcastle United's favorite player, Santiago Muñez, reaches superstardom and starts to live every footballer's dream when he is transferred to Real Madrid to play in the UEFA European Champions League. He gets to play alongside some of the greatest players, including David Beckham. As Santiago basks in the glory, acclaim and money, he discovers that success has an ugly face, one that threatens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOASummary: Collection of episodes of the television Dark Shadows about a two hundred year old vampire named Barnabas Collins living on his family estate in Maine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARSummary: Clara, a young single doctor, has everything she wants, except love. Invited to a family wedding in Mexico, Clara convinces a charming coworker to pose as her current boyfriend, only to run into her old flame at the festivities. Now, with a little help from her colorful family, Clara must choose between two men, and two futures, in this heartwarming romantic comedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EvSummary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAMVarela, Barry.
Summary: Follows Nanu, a baby polar bear, and Seela, a newborn walrus, as they grow up in the Arctic and deal with the possibly deadly consequences of a warming climate. Portrays their often dangerous struggles for survival, with only their natural instincts and mothers' guidance to help them face the many challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC VarelRuiz, Alejandro
Summary: "In The Food of Oaxaca, chef Alejandro Ruiz introduces home cooks to the vibrant foods of his home state--"the culinary capital of Mexico" (CNN)--with more than 50 recipes both ancestral and original. Divided into three parts, the book covers the traditional dishes of the region, where Ruiz grew up; the cuisine of the Oaxacan coast, where he spent many years; and the food he serves today at his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5972 RUIStilton, Geronimo
Summary: The enchanted Winged Ring which Queen Blossom gave to Geronimo is missing, apparently stolen by the dark fairy Wither and her dark crow allies, and whoever possesses it gains enormous power and can travel between the Kingdom of Fantasy and the real world--now nightmares are starting to affect Mouse Island, the entire Kingdom is furious with Geronimo, and it is up to one mouse to set things...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2017
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Summary: Geronimo is in the Kingdom of Fantasy for training on the "Balanced Path" when he learns that Queen Blossom has had a beautiful baby girl, Winglet, and that the baby princess has been kidnapped--and it is up to the brave mouse as Guardian of the Realm todiscover who has taken Winglet, and return her to her distraught parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIPizarnik, Alejandra
Summary: Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 1972 unearths this extraordinary poet for English readers in a bilingual edition that spans the heights of Pizarnik s oeuvre. In her brief life, Pizarnik produced an astonishingly powerful body of work. In her own words, she was drawn to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 PIZSchrader, Alejandra
Summary: Determining a food's carbon cost can be difficult. From examining the impact of the supply chain for foods to evaluating the carbon footprint of various plant-based options, this cookbook shows you exactly how to make the most environmentally friendly food choices. Packed with over 140 delicious recipes made with sustainable ingredients, this climate-friendly cooking book will teach you how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.56362 SCHStilton, Geronimo
Summary: Professor von Volt plans to send Geronimo and his time traveling friends back to King Solomon's court to borrow a ring that supposedly will restore harmony to Mouse Island and balance the environment--but they soon find themselves taking an unplanned detour through Napoleon's court, a Viking village, and the Minotaur's labyrinth, before finally arriving before the wise King.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Pub. Co. 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5972 MAROliva, Alejandra
Summary: In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. Having worked with asylum seekers since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 OLIStilton, Geronimo
Summary: When Geronimo Stilton and his friends time travel to three different centuries seeking artifacts missing from the mouseum, they meet Alexander the Great, Queen Cleopatra, Francis Drake, and Mozart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC STIStilton, Geronimo
Summary: On his way to the Grand Masked Ball and what promises to be a disaster of a date, Geronimo is once again whisked away to the Kingdom of Fantasy, and this time he must save the Princess of the Vanilla Fairies from an evil wizard who is using the pirate ship, Ship of Secrets, to gather magical objects to increase his power and take over the kingdom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIAlejandro, Rauw
Contents: Dile a él -- Strawberry kiwi -- Mood (& Sech) -- Química (Zion & Lennox ; feat. The Martinez Brothers) -- Enchule -- Decora <3 (& J Balvin) -- Un Sueño (feat. Trippie Redd) -- Reloj (& Anuel AA) -- No te creo (& Wisin & Yandel Mr. NasiGai) -- Soy una gargola (& Arcangel & Randy) -- Pensándote (& Tainy) -- Perreo pesau -- Algo Mágico -- Pomte pa mí (& Myke Towers & Sky Rompiendo) -- Elegi...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ALEBahamón, Alejandro.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins Design 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.79 BAHEscovedo, Alejandro.
Contents: disc 1. Pyramid of tears (Lucinda Williams) -- Sacramento & Polk (Lenny Kaye) -- Paradise (Steve Earle & Reckless Kelly) -- Broken bottle (Jon Langford & Sally Timms) -- Wave (Calexico) -- Pissed off 2AM (Jennifer Warnes) -- She doesn't live here anymore (John Cale) -- Castanets (Los Lonely Boys) -- Don't need you (Cowboy Junkies) -- Dear head on the wall (Charlie Sexton) -- Helpless (Jon Dee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Or Music 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PORFernández, Alejandro
Contents: Concavo Y Convexo (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (5:50) -- Se Me Va La Voz (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (4:14) -- Estuve (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (4:09) -- Te Amare (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (3:46) -- Me Hace Tanto Bien (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (3:12) -- Hoy Tengo Ganas De Ti (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (4:44) -- Te Quiero, Te Quiero (En Vivo Desde El Teatro Real) (3:35)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: UMLE - Latino 2014
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Green, Alejandra
Summary: Reunited rebels Nathan, Haven, Sina and Bardou continue their journey to the Edge during which they discover that lost legends of the past may prevent two realms from tearing Nothing apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005