Summary: Rural Poland, on the last days of World War II. The Nazis have surrendered, and the Red Army has criss-crossed the country. With the battle against the Nazis over, a new struggle emerges against the communists. A group of Polish patriots boldy set out to assassinate a mid-level communist-party functionary. Macick is the trigger man, but when he spots a blonde behind the bar, his priorities change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Polart Distribution 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASHSummary: A milestone of Polish cinema, this electrifying international sensation by Andrzej Wajda, the final film in his celebrated war trilogy, entwines the story of one man's moral crisis on the final day of World War II with the fate of a nation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ASHSummary: Follow a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LURSapkowski, Andrzej.
Summary: Into a tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witches of the world have been waiting. Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Cintra, has strange powers and a strange destiny, for prophecy names her the Flame, one with the power to change the world: for good, or for evil.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2009
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAPStasiuk, Andrzej
Summary: A collection of essays that explore how the past, present, and future coexist and intertwine along the highways and back roads of the small towns and villages of Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Albania, and his native Poland.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.858 STASapkowski, Andrzej
Summary: "The Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Tower of Swallows, in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired The Witcher video games. After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world... an Elven world. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are no...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit Books 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAPSapkowski, Andrzej
Summary: The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times. But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he has recovered from his injuries. While war rages...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAPSapkowski, Andrzej
Summary: "Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, one of the few capable of hunting the monsters that prey on humanity. A mutant who is tasked with killing unnatural beings. He uses magical signs, potions, and the pride of every Witcher--two swords, steel and silver. But a contract has gone wrong, and Geralt finds himself without his signature weapons. Now he needs them back, because sorcerers are scheming, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAPKorzynski, Andrzej.
Contents: The night the screaming stops -- Opetanie 1 -- Meeting with a pink tie -- Opentanie 2 -- Anna rewards Mark -- Possession - Orchestral theme 1 -- Kreuzberg 1 -- Opetanie 3 -- Mark looks in the fridge -- Heinrick's demise -- Opetanie 4 -- Possession Orchestral theme 2 -- Blue Ford B-Az6 -- Helen has green eyes -- Opentanie 5 -- Bloody embrace -- Kreuzberg 2 -- Detective's desserts -- Kreuzberg 3...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: PID 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC POSSapkowski, Andrzej
Summary: "Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2015
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Summary: The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life. But the net around her is closing. Geralt, the Witcher, has assembled a group of allies determined to rescue her. Both sides of the war have sent brutal mercenaries to hunt her down. Her crimes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2016
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAPSummary: A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COLGorski, Jill
Summary: Showcases valuable antique glass, ceramic, and plastic buttons, and provides a description and price for each button pictured.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.19075 GORBilski, Tory
Summary: "A wondrous story of adventure and friendship featuring a group of women who ride Icelandic horses. Each June, Tory Bilski meets up with fellow women travelers in Reykjavik where they head to northern Iceland, near the Greenland Sea. They escape their ordinary lives to live an extraordinary one at a horse farm perched at the edge of the world. If only for a short while. When they first came to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.16 BILBitov, Andreĭ
Summary: Seemingly unrelated stories attempt to recreate and identify the writer of a novel once read by the author.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEGrau, Andrée.
Summary: Surveys all forms of dance throughout the world, discussing its cultural and social significance, its costume, its history, and noted dancers and choreographers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Inc. 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 792.8 GRAPoulin, Andrée
Summary: "A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village. In Latika's village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business in a field. There are scorpions and snakes in the field, and germs that make people sick. For the girls in the village, no toilets mean...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC POUMolsky, Bruce.
Contents: Sugar babe (2:40) -- Five miles out of town (2:48) -- Pretty Saro (3:37) -- Half past four (2:51) -- Wagoner's lad (3:41) -- Shove the pig's foot a little bit further into the fire (3:21) -- John Henry (3:19) -- Rocky Mountain (3:29) -- Paddy won't you drink some good old cider (2:58) -- Robert's serenade (2:51) -- Old Paint (4:51) -- We'll all go to heaven when the devil goes blind (3:05) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MOLMolsky, Bruce.
Contents: Ways of the world -- Brushy run -- Hills of Mexico -- Wake up Susan/Durang's hornpipe -- Green grows the laurel -- Grey owl/Victor's no. 39 -- Knoxville blues -- Someone I love -- Diamond Joe/Green river -- Johnson City rag -- Let's go in huntin' -- Blackberry blossom -- Harveland waltz -- Richmond -- Charmin' Betsy -- Glory in the meeting house -- Winder slide.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Select 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MolskSoloski, Alexis
Summary: "A dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines between reality and performance. Vivian Parry likes the dark. A former actress, she now works as the junior theater critic at a major Manhattan magazine. Her nights are spent beyond the lights, in a reserved seat, giving herself over to the shows she loves. By day,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SOL1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: M SOLSummary: After discovering his mother is still alive, a six-year-old Russian boy escapes from his orphanage and sets out on a perilous journey to find her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ITACodrescu, Andrei
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9106 CODCodrescu, Andrei
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000