Summary: Set in pre-World War II Poland, a man visits the sanatorium where his father is dying and enters the surreal world where he relives some of his past and encounters strangeness at every turn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mr. Bongo Worldwide 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: A compelling drama about the difficulty of reconciling political ideals with personal happiness. This unforgettable film follows Witek, a medical student with an uncertain future in Communist Poland; the movie dramatizes Witek's journey as a series of different possibilities, suggesting that chance rules our lives as much as choice. First suppressed and then censored by the Polish government.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLISummary: 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: In a small provincial town, arrangements and events surrounding the firemen's annual ball, honoring a retiring firechief, go wrong at every turn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIRSlesin, Suzanne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: C.N. Potter, Inc. 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.0952 SLESlesin, Suzanne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 681.7631 SLEVecchini, Silvia
Summary: "Matteo, Guilia, and Federico have ordinary lives: they spend time with friends, help out their families, go to school, and deal with the many mood swings that come with growing up. Then, in a single night, everything changes. The ground shakes. An earthquake devastates their town and their security. But after everything is gone, life must go on. Anger and fear affect everyone in the community,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VECFerrara, Silvia
Summary: "Silvia Ferrara leads a code cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention-the art of writing"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 411.09 FEROlivas, Silvia
Summary: Elena and Naomi organize a dig for lost treasure and uncover a few unexpected surprises along the way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: After naming their firstborn son Pacho-Nacho-Nico-Tico-Melo-Felo-Kiko-Rico, Mama and Papa insist everyone use his full name, which causes trouble when their second son, Juan, says his brother needs help. Includes notes about the folktale on which the story is based and glossary of Spanish terms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, a Capstone imprint 2020
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Summary: Enthralling their failing industrial town on the coast of Italy during a summer when they discover their budding sexuality, adolescents Anna and Francesca are separated by a test of their friendship and eventually discover that they must reconnect to escape small-town destinies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AVANakkach, Silvia.
Contents: Ah, breath voices -- Glass mantra -- Meending, singing the space in between -- Singing to disappear.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Relaxation Co. 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE NakkaTarozzi, Silvia.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n] 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK TARMoreno-Garcia, Silvia
Summary: Antonina Beaulieu is in the glittering city of Loisail for her first Grand Season, where she will attend balls and mingle among high society in hopes of landing a suitable husband. But Antonina is telekinetic, and strange events in her past have made her the subject of malicious gossip and hardly a sought-after bride. Now, under the tutelage of her cousin's wife, she is finally ready to shed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORMoreno-Garcia, Silvia
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome thug, and the mystery of the missing woman that brings them together. 1970s Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance. While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC 2021