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Originally published in 1937, Their Eyes Were Watching God has become one of the most important and enduring works of modern American literature. Written with Zora Neale Hurston’s singular wit and pathos, this Southern love story recounts Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny."
A tale of awakening and independence featuring a strong female protagonist...
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Everyone dreams of a picture-perfect small-town Christmas, but when murder is in the cards, some holiday greetings are addressed to kill ... CHRISTMAS CARD MURDER by LESLIE MEIER In the midst of holiday home renovations, Lucy Stone accidentally unwraps a murder mystery decades in the making when she discovers an old Christmas card with a nasty message belonging to one of her farmhouse's previous residents. The case may be colder than a New England...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
A collection of short fiction features "L.T.'s Theory of Pets," "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe," and "In the Deathroom," as well as "1408," about a writer whose stay in Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel turns his life upside down.
Publisher
Galán Incorporated
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The arrival of the European button accordion to Texas and its merging with traditional Mexican songs gave birth to an explosive new sound called conjunto. From the early pioneers to the new generation of accordionists experimenting with rock, blues, and metal, ACCORDION DREAMS captures yesterday's and today's squeezebox trailblazers. Produced and directed by critically-acclaimed filmmaker Hector Galan and narrated by singer/songwriter Tish Hinojosa,...
Publisher
Last Colony Corporation
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 1898, the United States invaded and colonized Puerto Rico as part of the Spanish American War. For 114 years the people of Puerto Rico have maintained a polarizing debate on the STATUS ISSUE that has been front and center of the political discourse on the Island. Puerto Ricans (American citizens since 1917) constantly dispute between the options of Statehood, Independence and Commonwealth...On November 6, 2012 the people of Puerto Rico held the...
Publisher
Galán Incorporated
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Spanning a period of almost eighty years, this inspirational and compelling film captures the life and legacy of Patrick Flores, the first Mexican American to be appointed Bishop in the history of the Catholic Church. The film chronicles his childhood and early years as a migrant farm worker, high school drop- out and cantina musician. Patrick Flores dreamed of becoming a priest, a nearly impossible goal for a Mexican American in those days in Texas....
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war as she travels from village to village organizing the peasant population, and helps plan a major nationwide offensive...
Publisher
Artless Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (18 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
What do you do when your relationship conflicts with your religion? Santiago Gonzalez IV, a first generation Mexican-American, struggles with the tensions between his sexuality, nationality, and religion as he prepares for his college graduation.
11) Sunu
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Seen through the eyes of small, midsize and large Mexican maize producers, SUNU knits together different stories from a threatened rural world. This film documents how people realize their determination to stay free, to work the land and cultivate their seeds, to be true to their cultures and forms of spirituality, all in a modern world where corn is being threatened at the center of its origin: Mexico.
Publisher
Galán Incorporated
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Filmed on location throughout Texas, Songs of the Homeland tells the story of Tejano Music. This critically acclaimed documentary features images of the past and present and includes performances and interviews with musical pioneers such as Tony de la Rosa, Valerio Longoria, Lydia Mendoza, Isidro Lopez, Sunny Ozuna, Mingo Saldivar, and Little Joe Hernandez. Produced and Directed by Award Winning Filmmaker Hector GalA¡n, Songs of the Homeland is an...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Return of Ruben Blades follows the singer to Harvard, where he gets his master's degree in international law; to his old neighborhood in Panama; to California for a recording session with Linda Ronstadt, and to New York for a performance at S.O.B.'s. The music is a joy, as danceable as it is intelligent, and Mr. Blades makes every nuance count. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The True Story of Evita, as told by her Father Confessor, Her Friends, and ... Her Enemies. Actress, seductress, political powerhouse and cultural icon of Argentina and the world, the life and legend of Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, or Evita, as she came to be known, endures to this day. Yet Evita, a woman of poor origins who rose to become the first lady of Argentina, was as hated by the upperclass of her country as she was loved by the poor masses...
15) Intimidad
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An original Mexican love story about family relationships and the meaning of "home." Cecy and Camilo - ages 21 - recently moved to the border, Reynosa, Mexico, from Santa Maria, Puebla with a dream to save money, buy land, and build a home. A year later they return to their rural hometown to reunite with their two year-old daughter Loida. What seems like a satisfying reunion turns into a confusing dilemma that transforms the course of their marriage.....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
17) Becoming
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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Description
"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You fall down. You get hurt. You get up again. You know Jennifer Weiner as many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and "an unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker). She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister; a former rower and current runner; a best friend and a reality TV junkie. Here, in her first foray into nonfiction, she takes the raw stuff of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood as uproariously...
19) The confession
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Travis Boyette, recently paroled and suffering from an inoperable brain tumor, resolves to confess that he committed a murder nine years earlier for which another man was convicted and awaits execution, but finds it difficult to convince lawyers and judges of their error.
20) Surire
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Surire Salt Flat is placed at an altitude of 4300 m in the Chilean High Plateau and one of the very last places in the world, keeping the treasure of untouched nature with all its beauty, but also holds an allurement: a huge amount of borax, promising the mining industry profits in unknown levels...SURIRE, directed by two extraordinary filmmakers, tells us in an outstanding visual way metaphorically the story of our planet - about the very important...