Summary: An older writer, Fernando, returns to his hometown, Medellin, Colombia. There he falls in love with 16-year-old assassin, Alexis. After Alexis is killed, Fernando hunts for his killer in the Medellin slums and falls in love with Wilmar, a boy who resembles Alexis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OURVásquez, Juan Gabriel
Summary: "A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence -- sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing -- but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire, and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces. A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASKalandra
Contents: Borders -- The waiting game -- Slow motion -- Naive -- Virkelighetens etterklang -- Ensom -- Brave new world -- On the run -- Wonderland -- With you -- It gets easier.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Norse Music
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KALVazquez, Jennifer
Summary: A fun and easy way for young children to learn the planets of the Solar System. Rhyme and repetition promote and enhance the learning process.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Booksurge publishing 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Vazquez 2007Summary: It is 2153. The crew of the starship Enterprise are engaging in the third year of their mission under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. An alien probe has attacked the Earth, killing over seven million people. The Enterprise is sent to track down and stop the aliens from attacking again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STAKaina
Contents: Anybody can be in love (2:58) -- It was a home (3:35) -- Good feeling / ft. Sen Morimoto (3:12) -- Sweetness (3:12) -- In my mind (3:09) -- Ultraviolet / ft. Sleater-Kinney (2:47) -- Come back as a flower (4:17) -- Blue / ft. Helado Negro (4:00) -- Casita (3:39) -- Apple (3:24) -- Friend of mine (4:19) -- Golden mirror (3:44).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KAISummary: Captain Jonathan Archer leads the crew of the starship Enterprise NX-01 in humanity's first contact with a myriad of alien species.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STALo, Malinda
Summary: The summer of 2013 in the Bay is a momentous one for eighteen-year-old Aria Tang West, for the working-class queer community she finds herself in, and for her artist grandmother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOVasquez, Junior.
Contents: disc a. Magic orgasm (House Heroes) ; Meet her at the love parade (Hans) ; The lightning (Future Primitive) ; Annihilate (Major North) ; Dreamers (The Music Makers) ; The build up (Razor & Guido) ; Voodoo drums (Kult of Krameria) ; Elements (Danny Tenaglia) ; Stellar funk (Jestofunk) ; Men beat their men (Razor & Guido) ; Future is overrated (Arkarna) ; The future (Future Primitive) ; Music...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Drive Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC VASVazquez Galvez, Madelaine
Summary: "Cuban food is known worldwide for its blend of bright colours and intense flavors, and Cuba: The Cookbook is the first book to celebrate and document comprehensively its cuisine and contemporary food culture. Collected by those who best know the entire Cuban culinary landscape, the 350 home-cooking recipes in this compendium explore the country's myriad traditions and influences - from Spanish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon Press Limited 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 VAZSummary: Captain Jonathan Archer leads the crew of the starship Enterprise in humanity's first contact with a myriad of alien species.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: "A scrapbook-style teen guide to understanding what it really means to be a feminist packed with contributions from a diverse range of voices, including celebrities and public figures, and featuring more than forty-four pieces, including an eight-page insert of full-color illustrations"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.4 HERGalindo, Linda A.
Summary: "A guide to personal accountability-the fundamental key to leadership success With the toughest economic downturn in recent history, the issue of accountability has taken center stage. However accountability is often confused with punishment, fault, blame and guilt. In this book, the author argues that the only true accountability is "personal accountability" and the only way to achieve it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2009
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Summary: When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status and eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOLo, Malinda.
Summary: In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOLo, Malinda.
Summary: Cinderella retold In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2009
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Alexandra, Belinda.
Summary: "From internationally bestselling author Belinda Alexandra comes a sweeping, emotional journey that depicts vividly the powerful lifelong bond between mothers and daughters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEBuckhanon, Kalisha
Summary: "On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer's twin sister Summer walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again, the door to the roof is locked, and no footsteps are found. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing woman, Autumn must pursue answers on her own, all while grieving her mother's recent death. With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBrohi, Khalida
Summary: "A fearless memoir about tribal life in Pakistan--and the act of violence that inspired one ambitious young woman to pursue a life of activism and female empowerment. From a young age, Khalida Brohi was raised to believe in the sanctity of arranged marriage. Her mother was forced to marry a thirteen-year-old boy when she was only nine; Khalida herself was promised as a bride before she was even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, an imprint and division of Penquin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROHI, KHALIDA BROBuckhanon, Kalisha
Summary: On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer's twin sister Summer walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again, the door to the roof is locked, and no footsteps are found. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing woman, Autumn must pursue answers on her own, all while grieving her mother's recent death. With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUCTownsend, Jacinda.
Summary: Two friends from the mountains of eastern Kentucky try to retain their friendship when one of them is invited to play the Apollo with a jazz group while the other sinks lower in her poor, backward, backwoods life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOWKamanda, Ali
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text encourage Black boys to learn about the accomplishments of famous men in Black history and then forge their own paths. The last two pages provide information on the accomplishments of the eight men mentioned in the book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks eXplore 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KAMTownsend, Jacinda
Summary: An African American woman traveling in Marrakech with her boyfriend encounters a toddler in a pink jacket and impulsively decides to adopt her and take her home to Kentucky, separating the child from her mother, a victim of human trafficking who was trying to rebuild her life in Morocco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022