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A haunting in Hialeah Gardens : a novel / by Palma, Raul,author.(CARDINAL)878351;
"Since his wife died, Hugo Contreras's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. His world in Miami has shrunk. He shuffles between his efficiency apartment, La Carreta (his favorite place for a cafecito), and a botanica in a strip mall where he works as the resident babaláwo. One day, Hugo's nemesis calls. Alexi Ramirez is a debt collector who has been hounding Hugo for years, and Hugo assumes this call is just more of the same. Except this time Alexi is calling because he needs spiritual help. His house is haunted. Alexi proposes a deal: If Hugo can successfully cleanse his home before Noche Buena, Alexi will forgive Hugo's debt. Hugo reluctantly accepts, but there's one issue: Despite being a babaláwo, he doesn't believe in spirits. Hugo plans to do what he's done with dozens of clients before: use sleight of hand and amateur psychology to convince Alexi the spirits have departed. But when the job turns out to be more than Hugo bargained for, Hugo's old tricks don't work. Memories of his past--his childhood in the Bolivian silver mines and a fraught crossing into the United States as a boy--collide with Alexi's demons in an explosive climax."--
Subjects: Novels.; Widowers; Haunted houses; Exorcism; Debt; Bolivian Americans;
Available copies: 26 / Total copies: 27
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A haunting in Hialeah Gardens : a novel / by Palma, Raul,Author(DLC)n 2022031110;
"Hugo Contreras's world in Miami has shrunk. Since his wife died, Hugo's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. He shuffles between his efficiency apartment, La Carreta (his favorite place for a cafecito), and a botanica in a strip mall where he works as the resident babaláwo. One day, Hugo's nemesis calls. Alexi Ramirez is a debt collector who has been hounding Hugo for years, and Hugo assumes this call is just more of the same. Except this time Alexi is calling because he needs spiritual help. His house is haunted. Alexi proposes a deal: If Hugo can successfully cleanse his home before Noche Buena, Alexi will forgive Hugo's debt. Hugo reluctantly accepts, but there's one issue: Despite being a babaláwo, he doesn't believe in spirits. Hugo plans to do what he's done with dozens of clients before: use sleight of hand and amateur psychology to convince Alexi the spirits have departed. But when the job turns out to be more than Hugo bargained for, Hugo's old tricks don't work. Memories of his past--his childhood in the Bolivian silver mines and a fraught crossing into the United States as a boy--collide with Alexi's demons in an explosive climax."--.
Subjects: Horror fiction; Widowers; Haunted houses; Exorcism; Debt; Bolivian Americans; Large type books.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Un fantasma en Hialeah Gardens / by Palma, Raul,author.(CARDINAL)878351; Pimentel, David Horta,translator.;
"Un moderno Bob Cratchit, Hugo Contreras, vive en un húmedo departamento de una sola habitación y sabe que nunca dejará de pagar las cuentas médicas de su difunta esposa ni sus propias deudas, acumuladas durante su juventud. Su Scrooge es Alexi Ramírez, un avaricioso abogado de cobranza cubano-americano con un rostro familiar por sus anuncios en las paradas de autobús y un serio problema personal: un fantasma en el caserón de su familia. Es bajo estas circunstancias que los dos hombres se conocen, ya que Hugo trabaja como babalawo, ayudando a los habitantes de Miami a limpiar sus hogares de malos espíritus. Desde hace mucho ya no cree en lo paranormal, pero cuando Alexi, a quien Hugo abomina porque ha estado quitándole su dinero durante años, le promete perdonarle la deuda a cambio de sus servicios, no se puede negar. Dispuesto a salir de deudas y vengarse en nombre de su difunta esposa, Hugo hará lo que ha hecho con decenas de clientes antes: usar trucos psicológicos amateurs para convencer a Alexi de que los espíritus ya se han ido y escapar libre de deudas antes de la próxima Navidad"--publisher.
Subjects: Paranormal fiction.; Horror fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Widowers; Haunted houses; Exorcism; Debt; Bolivian Americans; Spanish language materials.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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American visa / by Recacoechea, Juan de,1936-(CARDINAL)718381; Althoff, Adrian.(CARDINAL)552738;
Subjects: Fiction.; Teachers; Bolivians; Fathers and sons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Our brand is crisis [videorecording] by Almeida, Joaquim de,1957-actor.; Bullock, Sandra,actor.(CARDINAL)637042; Clooney, George,film producer.(CARDINAL)529899; Green, David Gordon,1975-film director.; Mackie, Anthony,1978-actor.(CARDINAL)357179; Straughan, Peterscreenwriter.; Thornton, Billy Bob,actor.(CARDINAL)638288; Warner Home Video (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)218485;
Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony MacKie, Joaquim De Almeida, Ann Dowd, Scoot McNairy.A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist "Calamity" Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.MPAA rating: R; for language including some sexual references.DVD.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Political films.; Heslov, Grant, 1963-; Political campaigns; Political consultants;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Our brand is crisis [videorecording] / by Green, David Gordon,1975-film director.; Heslov, Grant,1963-film producer.(CARDINAL)786800; Clooney, George,film producer.(CARDINAL)529899; Straughan, Peter,screenwriter.; Bullock, Sandra,actor.(CARDINAL)637042; Thornton, Billy Bob,actor.(CARDINAL)638288; Mackie, Anthony,1978-actor.(CARDINAL)357179; Almeida, Joaquim de,1957-actor.; Dowd, Ann,actor.(CARDINAL)786761; McNairy, Scoot,actor.(CARDINAL)342895; Kazan, Zoe,actor.; Wingo, David,composer.(CARDINAL)887029; Patton, Colin,editor of moving image work.; Wright, Richard A.,production designer.; Orr, Tim,cinematographer.; Participant Media (Firm),presenter.; Smokehouse Pictures (Firm),production company.; Warner Bros. Entertainment (Firm),film publisher.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ),presenter.; Warner Home Video (Firm),film distributor.(CARDINAL)218485;
Music, David Wingo ; editor, Colin Patton ; director of photography, Tim Orr.Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony MacKie, Joaquim De Almeida, Ann Dowd, Scoot McNairy, Zoe Kazan.A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist 'Calamity' Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.MPAA rating: R; for language including some sexual references.DVD ; region 1 ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Comedy films.; Political films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Political consultants; Presidential candidates; Political campaigns;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 12
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Out West : travels through the American West--past and present / by Slessor, Tim,author.(CARDINAL)688814;
Includes bibliographical references (pagds 332-337) and index.First things first -- La vente de la Louisiane -- Lewis and Clark --Mountain men --The overland trail -- The Gold Rush -- The hostiles and the military -- No survivors -- The railroad -- Custer and Little Big Horn -- Towards Wounded Knee -- Cowboys and cow-towns -- Cattle barons -- Range war-- Butch Cassidy and all that -- The sod-house frontier -- Last things last."Many books about the American West leave out the more intriguing details... For example, was Butch Cassidy really killed in a Bolivian shoot-out? It seems that he probably returned, under a false name, to live out his days in the West. In 1935 he even submitted an autobiographical script to Hollywood only to have it rejected as being too preposterous to be believable. He died two years later, penniless. Working for the BBC, British writer Tim Slessor has filmed and traveled out West for over forty years; indeed, at one time he quit his job to go and work for a very happy year in western Nebraska. In this book he selects a series of beguiling stories that range from the mountain men and their fur trade to the pioneers of the overland trail, from Custer and the disaster at the Little Big Horn to the last stand of the Sioux at Wounded Knee, from the early cow-towns and the railroads to the cattle barons and the emigrant sod-busters. Full of surprises and insights, Out West casts new and entertaining light on the history and personalities of the American West." -- Back Cover.
Subjects: Indians of North America;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Andean ontologies : new archaeological perspectives / by Lozada, María Cecilia,editor,writer of introduction,contributor.(CARDINAL)856033; Tantaleán, Henry,1974-editor,writer of introduction,contributor.(CARDINAL)856032; Lunniss, Richard,contributor.(CARDINAL)856031; Sayre, Matthew,contributor.; La Mattina, Nicco,contributor.; Muro Ynon̋an, Luis,contributor.(CARDINAL)856030; Castillo, Luis Jaime,contributor.(CARDINAL)783925; Tomasto Cagigao, Elsa Lucila,contributor.(CARDINAL)856029; Spence-Morrow, Giles,contributor.; Swenson, Edward,contributor.(CARDINAL)856028; Glowacki, Mary,contributor.(CARDINAL)856027; Alberti, Benjamin,1968-contributor.(CARDINAL)856026; Laguens, Andrés,1957-contributor.(CARDINAL)856025; Mannheim, Bruce,contributor.(CARDINAL)855985; Villanueva Criales, Juan,1984-contributor.(CARDINAL)856024; Troncoso, Andrés,contributor.(CARDINAL)856023; Allen, Catherine J.,contributor.(CARDINAL)855984; University Press of Florida,publisher.(CARDINAL)327729;
Includes bibliographical references and index.This volume explores the Pre-Columbian Andean concepts of time, space, and the human body through objects, skeletal remains, and language. This interdisciplinary approach to conceptualizing what the Andean concepts of being may have been brings contemporary approaches to past notions of the sacred, with each discipline adding its own unique perspective to the Andean ontology. A particular strength of this volume is that most of the contributors are South American researchers, offering North American scholars entry into scholarship that has been confined to Spanish language publications.
Subjects: Archaeology; Indians of South America; Ontologism; Ontology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Review of Bolivian soybeans, U.S. drug policy, and the Food for Peace program : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Wheat, Soybeans, and Feed Grains and the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, second session, June 27, 1990. by United States.Congress.House.Committee on Agriculture.Subcommittee on Wheat.(CARDINAL)273956; United States.Congress.House.Committee on Agriculture.Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition.(CARDINAL)267489;
Subjects: Coca industry; Soybean industry; Agricultural assistance, American; Competition, International.; Drug traffic; Drug control; United States. Agency for International Development.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Sounds of neotropical rainforest mammals [sound recording] / by Emmons, Louise.(CARDINAL)316483; Barker, Margaret A.(CARDINAL)329042; Budney, Gregory F.; Ross, David L.(CARDINAL)329043; Whitney, Bret M.(CARDINAL)333314; Conservation International.(CARDINAL)322446; Cornell University.Laboratory of Ornithology.(CARDINAL)280713; Cornell University.Library of Natural Sounds.(CARDINAL)327581;
Producer, Gregory F. Budney; narration, Margaret A. Barker.Contains the characteristic sounds of 109 species of rainforest mammals. Complete contents in pamphlet.Companion to: Neotropical rainforest mammals : a field guide. 2nd ed., 1997 / Louise H. Emmons (published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press).
Subjects: Animal sounds; Mammals;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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