Summary: Dynamite proudly presents the comic book misadventures of Grumpy Cat, featuring The World's Grumpiest Cat and her brother, Pokey! With her ever-present pout and sassy disposition, Grumpy Cat has won the hearts of people everywhere.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dynamite Entertainment 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC AYO

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 VAR

Vargas 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAR
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Vargas Llosa, Mario

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH LLO

Vargas Llosa, Mario

Summary: "4/5"--Spine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Punto de lectura 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 VAR

Vargas 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAR

Vargas Llosa, Mario

Summary: "The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAR

Vargas 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 VAR

Vargas Llosa, Mario

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Publisher / Publication Date: Noonday Press 1990

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAR

Vargas 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAR

Vargas Llosa, Mario

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Publisher / Publication Date: 1987

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAR

Vargas 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 VAR

Vargas 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 VAR

Sarvas, Mark

Summary: After receiving an unexpected call from the Australian consulate, Matt Santos becomes aware of a painting that he believes was looted from his family in Hungary during the Second World War. To recover the painting, he must repair his strained relationship with his harshly judgmental father, uncover his family history, and restore his connection to his own Judaism. Along the way to illuminating...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAR

Manuro

Summary: "This new middle-grade graphic novel series features an interactive pick-a-path storyline, full of puzzles, treasures, fantasy creatures, and gameplay you can enjoy again and again! Enter a world inspired by favorite fairy tales, complete with gingerbread houses, a girl dressed in red, and seven brothers lost in the woods. Readers can play as Hocus (a girl) or Pocus (a boy), choose a magic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAN

Manuro

Summary: Siblings Hocus and Pocus, students at a magical school, investigate the strange disappearance of Snow White's seven cousins, in a book where the reader's decisions determine the end of the story.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAN

Summary: A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high-turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. Among the survivors, one eccentric passenger leads the crew to build a new plane - against all odds, against all hope, and sometimes - against each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FLI

Gianluigi Trovesi Ottetto

Contents: As strange as a ballad -- Sogno d'Orfeo -- African triptych -- Canto di lavoro -- Clumsy dancing of the fat bird -- Siparietto I -- Blues and west -- Siparietto II -- Il domatore -- Ramble -- Siparietto III -- Fugace -- Siparietto IV -- Totò nei caraibi.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: ECM 2003

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ Gianl

Summary: A comical satire which charts the rise and fall of a Madison Avenue ad agency previously controlled by Whites and is taken over by Blacks who are dedicated to the downfall of the White Establishment. The picture is mostly a parade of vignettes, dealing with people and campaigns of the advertising world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: P.S. Company 2006

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PUT

Valdés, 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 Valde

Summary: "The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their reclusive grandfather in Tuscany, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious story of their ancestors -- a tragic tale filled with forbidden love, passion, vengeance and betrayal"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIO

Summary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROM

Summary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROM