Summary: Featuring film clips, reenactments, and dramatizations, this program examines the imperishable spirit of Don Quijote through the life of Cervantes and the literary masterpiece that bears Quijote's name. Topics range from the place of Don Quijote in world literature and its influence on later writers, to autobiographical parallels between Quijote and Cervantes, to the universal qualities of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Featuring film clips, reenactments, and dramatizations, this program examines the imperishable spirit of Don Quijote through the life of Cervantes and the literary masterpiece that bears Quijote's name. Topics range from the place of Don Quijote in world literature and its influence on later writers, to autobiographical parallels between Quijote and Cervantes, to the universal qualities of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: With compelling dramatizations filmed at authentic Spanish locations, this program explores the farcical structure of Don Quixote as well as the parallels between Cervantes' magnum opus and his own unusual life. Studying the richness of meaning and moral commentary associated with the would-be knight-errant, the program highlights the universality of Cervantes' narrative-while evoking contrasts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Cervantes, Kelly
Summary: "Normal Broken was born out of a desire to meet people where they are in their grief journeys, to lend a hand, or maybe to just sit in the dark with them. To acknowledge your brokenness and to feel broken together-never pressured to "move on" or "think positive.""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 CERSummary: With compelling dramatizations filmed at authentic Spanish locations, this program explores the farcical structure of Don Quixote as well as the parallels between Cervantes' magnum opus and his own unusual life. Studying the richness of meaning and moral commentary associated with the would-be knight-errant, the program highlights the universality of Cervantes' narrative-while evoking contrasts...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Summary: Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray – he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants – Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: State Street Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CERSummary: Here is a true and faithful interpretation of one of the bulwarks of world literature. It is a grandly conceived, beautifully executed visual epic, rooted in Cervantes' own words. The episodic format of the production follows the structure of the book as the adventures gradually reveal Don Quijote's character and madness. Don Quijote wanted, in his youth, to be an actor; his words in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Walser, Don.
Contents: Rolling stone from Texas -- The John Deere tractor song -- Cowpoke -- Shotgun boogie -- Whispering pines -- Texas top hand -- Danny Boy -- Rose Marie (with Kronos Quartet) -- Hot rod mercury -- Please help me I'm falling -- Arkansas -- Fool such as I -- We could, you and I (with Crystal Gayle) -- Big ball's in cowtown -- Legend in my time -- I really don't want to know -- Truck drivin' man --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lone Star/Texas Music Group 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY WALSummary: This program weaves art, music, and literature with Western culture to explore the enormous impact of Cervantes' classic on our world today. Artists, critics, and others, from novelist Carlos Fuentes to General Norman Schwarzkopf, reveal how the work-the most translated in history-has affected their lives. Mixing discussions of the text with music, poems, other writings influenced by Don...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Byas, Don
Contents: Please don't talk about me when I'm gone (2:38) -- Mad monk (2:37) -- Billie's bounce (2:47) -- I surrender dear (3:07) -- Red cross (2:38) -- Dynamo A (3:16) -- Summertime (2:49) -- Stardust (3:18) -- Old man river (2:47) -- Night and day (2:38) -- The man I love (2:44) -- Georgia on my mind (2:53) -- Easy to love (2:59) -- Over the rainbow (2:50) -- Where or when (2:41) -- En ce temps-la...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BYASaunders, George
Summary: "In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 891.7 SAUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.708 SAUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.708 SAUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word SaundersNardo, Don
Summary: "Southeast Asian Cultures in Perspective is an in-depth look at the different regional cultures of Southeast Asia with an emphasis on current culture. The young reader is presented with an overview of a variety of regional cultures that developed historically and analyzes how the cultural history shapes the Southeast Asian region's current culture. The book is written in a lively and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Place Cult NardoFulsom, Don
Summary: Unbeknownst to most people even now, the election of 1968 placed the patron saint of the Mafia in the White House. In other words, Richard Nixon would go on to not only lead a criminal presidency; he would be totally indebted to our nation's top mobsters. By 1969, thanks in large part to his long-time campaign manager and political advisor Murray Chotiner, a lawyer who specialized in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 FULGershwin, George
Contents: Disc 1. Swanee (Al Jolson) -- The Yankee doodle blues (Van & Schenck) -- Do it again (Arthur Lange's Orchestra) -- Somebody loves me (Isabelle & Tom Patricola) -- Fascinating rhythm (Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards) -- Oh, lady be good (Buck & Bubbles) -- Tell me more (Alexander Gray) -- Sweet and low-down (Singing Sophomores ; Ed Smalle) -- Song of the flame (Tessa Kosta ; The Russian Art Choir)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GERNardo, Don
Summary: Describes how, before the advent of vaccines, epidemics of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, and other crippling diseases ravaged humanity around the globe, and how that began to change when medical researchers developed the first vaccines, using a portion of a disease germ to stimulate the bodys immune reaction. Today, hundreds of millions of people gain immunity to deadly diseases...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 615.3Treml, Renée
Summary: Georgie is a moose who loves to pull practical jokes on his friends, and Ollie and Bea are getting tired of his pranks, and need to figure out a way to tell him, without hurting his feelings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the Mongol ruler, from his childhood in a nomadic tribe to his rise as a fierce warrior and leader, his implementation of military and legal reforms, and his achievments as a conquerer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 950.2 NARMcLean, Don.
Contents: American pie -- Vincent -- And I love you so -- Crying -- Castles in the air -- Driedel -- Winterwood -- Every day -- Mountains O'Mourne -- Prime time.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI USA 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MCLEAColbert, Don.
Contents: Part I : the diagnosis : understanding damaging emotions -- What you feel emotionally becomes how you feel physically -- The path from damaging emotion to deadly disease -- Turn off the stress hormones! -- The worst things you can feel for your heart -- Ouch! the link between rage and pain -- Depression isn't "just in your head" -- The downward spiral of guilt and shame -- The emotional poison...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oliver Nelson/Thomas Nelson Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 COLLemon, Don
Summary: "The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America's systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 LEMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 LEMSummary: In this program, Chef José Andrés uses widely available Manchego cheese to prepare a salad of cheese, tomato, thyme, and walnuts. He shows us the food eaten by the Man from La Mancha - Cervantes’ Don Quixote. And he is witness to the wonder of saffron, when the remarkable crocus emerges from the earth and is turned into the world’s most expensive spice. Chef José cooks a traditional dish of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Faber, Don
Contents: The Battle of Phillips Corners -- Roots of the dispute I : the Northwest Ordinance -- Roots of the dispute II : Ohio statehood -- Prelude to war, 1815-30 -- Path to statehood -- A war of words opens the curtain -- Acts of provocation -- Events of April-June 1835 -- Bloodshed in Toledo -- The case for Ohio -- The case for Michigan -- Governor Mason is fired -- Statehood in the balance --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.103 FABBlack, George
Summary: "The moving story of a small group of veterans, scientists, and pacifists who forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the horrors inflicted on the Vietnamese with unexploded munitions and the toxic defoliant Agent Orange"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 BLAMusser, George
Summary: "An exploration of the interconnections between quantum mechanics, cosmology, and neuroscience"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023