Rojas Contreras, Ingrid
Summary: "For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROJAS CONTRERAS, INGRID ROJGaiteros de San Jacinto
Contents: Fuego de cumbia : cumbia = Cumbia fire / Rafael Pérez García (5:24) -- Sigan bailando : puya = Keep on dancing / Manuel Antonio García Caro (2:23) -- El manolo : bullerengue / Juan Alberto Fernández Polo (4:37) -- El millo se modernizó : cumbia = The millo got modernized / Aurelio Fernández (3:51) -- Canto de zafra = Worksong / Juan Alberto Fernández Polo (5:09) -- El corcovado : gaita corrida...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/SOUTH AMERICAN GAIOndatrópica (Musical group)
Contents: Commotion -- La Naranja madura -- Hummingbird -- De mar a mar -- Malaria -- Lazalypso -- Caldo parao -- Estar contigo -- Come back again -- Soy campesino -- Boga conoero -- Bogota -- Trustin' Cumbia Bcanera -- Just a moment
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soundway Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN ONDTotó la Momposina.
Contents: Adiós fulana -- El pescador -- Chi chi mani -- Curura -- Gallinacito -- La sombra negra -- Dame la mano Juancho -- La candela viva -- Dos de febrero -- Malanga -- La acabación -- Tambolero.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Real World Records 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN TOTSummary: The Madrigals live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal, every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ENCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD EncantoContents: A blanco y negro = In black and white (Riquelme Carrillo, vocal) (4:44) -- A lo tuyo tú = You with what's yours (Isaac Carrillo, vocal) (3:51) -- Pedazo de acordeón = A bit of accordion (Ivo Díaz, vocal ; Orangel "El Pangue" Maestre, accordion) (5:35) -- Cadenas = Chains (I. Díaz, vocal) (4:31) -- La botellita = The little bottle (3:38) ; Fidelina (4:59) (Reynaldo "El Papi" Díaz, vocal) -- La...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/SOUTH AMERICAN AYODuBois, Jill
Summary: "The culture of Colombia is presented to readers in a fresh and vibrant way in this meticulously updated guide. Readers are inspired to think about both the history and current events that have affected and are still affecting this nation as they explore the detailed main text. Additional information is presented in sidebars, which also include short biographies of Colombian citizens who are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 986.1 DUBMurphy, Steve (Steven E.)
Summary: The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos. Readers will go deep inside the inner workings of the Search Bloc, the joint Colombian-US task force that resulted in an intensive 18-month operation that tracked Escobar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 MURSummary: Alicia is helpless. War memories invade her mind like threatening thunder. Uprooted by the armed conflict, she tries to reshape her life in La Sirga, a dilapidated hostel on the shores of a great lake in the highlands of the Andes. There, on a swampy and murky beach, she will try to settle down until her fears and the threat of war resurface again. --http://www.filmmovement.com.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SIRFernando Trueba
Summary: Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMSanchez, Santiago Jose
Summary: In America, his mother works as a waitress when she was once a doctor. The boy embraces his queer identity as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. As he grows, his relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense that it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. She may have once forgotten...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SANEgerton, Alex
Summary: Lonely Planet's Colombia is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Journey to Ciudad Perdida, explore Cartagena's old town, and trek in El Cocuy; and see the giant statues of Easter Island; all with your trusted travel companion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.61 COLSidestepper (Musical group)
Contents: Fuego que te llama -- On the line -- Supernatural love -- Come see us play -- Magangué -- Song for the sinner -- Lover -- La flor y la voz, pt. 1 -- La flor y la voz, pt. 2 -- Hear the rain come -- Celestial -- Supernatural soul.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/SOUTH AMERICAN SIDEQuintana, Pilar
Summary: "In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age 'when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUISummary: After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father's truck, two incompatible siblings in their teenage years embark on a journey of reconciliation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BADM.A.K.U. Soundsystem (Musical group)
Contents: Agua -- Thank you, thank you -- Let it go -- Positivo -- La inevitable -- La haitana -- What do you wish for -- Happy hour -- De barrio.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT M.A.K.Golkar, Golriz
Summary: ""Engaging images accompany information about Colombia. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 986.1 GOLVasco, Irene
Summary: A woman explains to her son how she grew up in a remote village where almost no one could read and write, but she found a way to learn how when her sister began getting letters from a young doctor who used to live there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Vásquez, Juan Gabriel
Summary: An influential political cartoonist is paid an unexpected visit by a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to reevaluate his life, work, and position in the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASCervantes, Angela
Summary: The tale of an extraordinary family that lives hidden in the mountains of Colombia in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. Everyone in the Madrigal family has a unique gift, ranging from superstrength to the power to heal. Everyone except Mirabel. But when the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides she might just be her exceptional family's last hope.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Sumwalt, Martha Murray.
Summary: Brief text and black-and-white photographs introduce the geography, history, people, government, and economy of the fourth largest country in South America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1970
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Place a hold to request this item.Garcés, Juan M.
Summary: Love at Four Points is based on love letters and political intrigue written in code in an old Don Quixote volume from 1844. The people who wrote them, Sofía and Federico, exchanged secret messages during The Thousand Day War (1899-1902), between the military prison and the city in Popayán, Colombia. This book is a work of fiction about the micro-history of that horrendous civil and military...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Juan M. Garcés 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC GARSummary: Based on a true story of the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the two DEA agents that brought the famed Medellin Cartel to its knees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NARSummary: As in the case of coffee, sugar, and other cultivated products, the floral industry would collapse without a steady supply of cheap labor. This program goes inside the world of Colombia's flower growers, in particular those who work the hardest for the lowest pay. Profiling two women with varying experiences, the film reveals both the tenuous nature of life on the industry's bottom rung - Hilda...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009