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Bless me, Ultima [videorecording] / by Beaton, Jesse.; DiLeo, Sarah.; Johnson, Mark.(CARDINAL)367320; Franklin, Carl,1949-; Martinez, Benito,1971-; Cosío, Joaquín.; Heredia, Dolores.; Ganalon, Luke.; Colon, Miriam.; Guerra, Castulo.; Anaya, Rudolfo A.(CARDINAL)275361; Gran Via Productions,production company.(CARDINAL)849636; Monarch Pictures (Firm),production company.; Franklin, Carl,1949-screenwriter,film director.; Johnson, Mark,1945 December 27-film producer.(CARDINAL)787734; DiLeo, Sarah,film producer; Beaton, Jesse,film producer.; Walton, Christy,film producer.; Reidy, Kevin,film producer.; Colon, Miriam,actor.; Ganalon, Luke,actor.; Heredia, Dolores,actor.; Martinez, Benito,1971-actor.; Guerra, Castulo,actor.; Cosío, Joaquín,actor.; Castillo, Raul,actor.; Garcia-Rulfo, Manuel,1981-actor.(CARDINAL)867505; Miró-Rivera, Diego,1999-actor.; Gomez, Miguel,actor.; Molina, Alfred,1953-voice actor.(CARDINAL)348900; Huidobro, Paula,director of photography.; Bomba, David J.,production designer.; Heim, Alan,film editor.(CARDINAL)848538; Yates, Toby,film editor.; Kilian, Mark,composer (expression)(CARDINAL)356871; Zakowska, Donna,1954-costume designer.(CARDINAL)848372; Anaya, Rudolfo A.Bless me, Ultima.(CARDINAL)800971; Monkey Hill Films,production company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.(CARDINAL)282399; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)282399; Tenaja Productions (Firm); Tenaja Productions,production company,film distributor.;
Director of photography, Paula Huidobro ; editors, Alan Heim, Toby Yates ; music, Mark Kilian.Benito Martinez, Joaquin Cosio, Dolores Heredia, Luke Ganalon, Miriam Colon, Castulo Guerra.A turbulent coming of age story about a young boy growing up in New Mexico during World War II. When a curandera named Ultima moves in with his family, Antonio experiences a series of unusual and terrifying events, which causes him to fight with questions about his own destiny and the powers of this mystical woman.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some violence and sexual references.DVD, anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1).
Subjects: Feature films.; Coming-of-age films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Coming-of-age films.; Film adaptations.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Anaya, Rudolfo A.; Mexican American children; Mexican Americans; Healers; Women shamans; Anaya, Rudolfo A.; Niños mexicano-americanos; Mexicano-americanos; Curanderos (Medicina folklórica);
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 14
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El hombre que movía las nubes : memorias / by Rojas Contreras, Ingrid,author.(CARDINAL)355775; Guhl, Mercedes,translator.(CARDINAL)431837;
"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980s and 1990s 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 the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped on her mother's fortune-telling business from the stairs and waited eagerly for the moments when Mami appeared in two places at once. She was accustomed to "letting the ghosts in." So when Ingrid, now living in the U.S., suffered a head injury in her 20s that left her with amnesia-an accident eerily similar to a fall that had put her mother in a coma at the age of 8, from which she woke with not just amnesia, but the ability to see ghosts--the family assumes "the secrets" have finally been passed down to the next generation. But as Ingrid recovers her memories, they don't come with supernatural abilities. Rather, she is consumed by a powerful urge to learn even more about her heritage than she knew before the accident. Spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, wherein Nono communicates that he is unable to rest peacefully in the afterlife, Ingrid joins her mother on a journey home to Colombia to disinter her grandfather's remains. With her mother as her unpredictable, stubborn and often hilarious guide, Ingrid traces her lineage back to her indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her family into two camps: those who believe "the secrets" are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse. Interweaving family stories more enchanting than any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary"--"Para Ingrid Rojas Contreras, la magia viene de familia. Al crecer en la Colombia de los años 80 y 90 en una casa donde se preguntaba "¿qué soñaste?" en lugar de "¿cómo estás?", su mundo estaba lleno de profecías. y la violencia. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un renombrado curandero, un curandero comunitario dotado de la habilidad de hablar con los muertos, predecir el futuro, tratar a los enfermos y mover las nubes. Cuando era niña, Rojas Contreras la escuchaba a escondidas. El negocio de adivinación de su madre desde las escaleras y esperó ansiosamente los momentos en que Mami apareció en dos lugares a la vez. , de la que se despertó no solo con amnesia, sino también con la capacidad de ver fantasmas: la familia asume que "los secretos" finalmente se han transmitido a la siguiente generación. Pero a medida que Ingrid recupera sus recuerdos, estos no vienen con habilidades sobrenaturales Más bien, ella está consumida por un poderoso impulso de aprender aún más sobre su herencia de lo que sabía antes del accidente. Impulsada por un sueño compartido entre Mami y sus hermanas, en el que Nono comunica que no puede descansar en paz en el más allá, Ingrid se une a su madre en un viaje a casa en Colombia para desenterrar los restos de su abuelo. Con su madre como su guía impredecible, obstinada y a menudo hilarante, Ingrid rastrea su linaje hasta sus raíces indígenas y españolas, descubriendo la narrativa colonial violenta y rígida que eventualmente dividiría a su familia en dos bandos: aquellos que creen que "los secretos" son un regalo, y los que están convencidos de que son una maldición. Entrelazando historias familiares más encantadoras que cualquier novela, la historia colombiana resucitada y sus propios y profundos ajustes personales con los límites de la realidad, Rojas Contreras escribe su camino a través de lo incomprensible y hacia su herencia. El resultado es un testimonio luminoso del poder de la narración como arte curativo y una invitación a abrazar lo extraordinario"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Autobiografías.; Rojas Contreras, Ingrid.; Rojas Contreras, Ingrid; Rojas Contreras, Ingrid; Rojas Contreras, Ingrid; Rojas Contreras, Ingrid; Hispanic American authors; Autores hispanoamericanos; Madres y hijas; Abuelos (Hombres); Curanderos; Colombian Americans; Colombianos Americanos;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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Folk medicine / by Sieling, Peter.(CARDINAL)671036;
Includes bibliographical references (page 102-103) and index.A definition of folk medicine : honey, tar, and an alternate worldview -- Folk medicine's common roots : ancient medicine -- A different set of beliefs : "science" versus "folk" -- Native American medicine : reliance on the Earth -- Appalachian folk remedies : curative therapies, salt, and kerosene -- African American folk cures : root medicine -- Hispanic folk healers : curanderos -- Asian American folk medicine : organs, meridians, and acupuncture -- Folk medicine today : a living tradition.Explores the rich history of medicinal remedies, including traditional and non-traditional methods.
Subjects: Folklore; Traditional medicine; Traditional medicine;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Tales of the last frontier : one family's Western odyssey [large print] / by Crownover, James D.,author.(CARDINAL)353092;
Will Castleberry, guide, gambler and gunman, is an unconscious participant in the most incredible gunfight in the old west, just one tale in this last volume of the Five Trails West Series. In it, Zenas and his pals cross the Tularosa Basin in search of gold and adventure only to find the water holes fouled by avenging Indians. He participates in the Red River War and the rescue of the German girls. Zenas and Van Hunsucker encounter a most unusual breed of cattle. Death stalks them as they cross the Jornada Del Muerto. All that action and we haven't mentioned an Indian raid on a cattle drive, a wreck at the roundup, the preacher's Theory of Devolution, and a Curandero's unusual cure for his patients.
Subjects: Large print books.; Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; Families; Frontier and pioneer life;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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The secret language of prairie dogs / by Villanueva, James(James Robert),author.(CARDINAL)876729;
"Seventeen-year-old Santos Ramos is a curandero--Latinx shaman--living in a desolate West Texas. When a mute boy crosses the border through a sinister smuggler, Santos finds himself fascinated by the voiceless teen. Santos craves a more traditional high school life of parties, studying for the SATs, and writing for the school blog, but he was born with el don--the gift. People come to him for spiritual healing. Like his past Aztec roots, though, asking God for healing comes with the sacrifices of fevered charms, personal objects, snake venom, and even the blood of animals ... Sixteen-year-old Dulcero Lopez and his younger sister emigrate from Honduras after witnessing the brutal murder of his parents, causing him to have aphasia and lose the ability to speak. The two head north to the USA, where Dulcero is separated from her by ICE. Voiceless Dulcero is sent to live with his abusive uncle, Juan, who is a coyote and who he cannot pay for bringing him over. His only way out of this hell and to be reunited with his little sister is through the healing hands of Santos"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Gay fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Young adult fiction.; Teenage boys; Mexican American teenagers; Healers; Mute persons; Gay teenagers; Immigrants; Hondurans; Friendship; Psychic trauma; Identity (Psychology); Friendships.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Grizzly moon / by Dearen, Patrick,author.(CARDINAL)350189;
"For nineteen years, Wash Baker has been haunted by the memory of a cattle drive and firing into the night at what he thought was a grizzly, only to kill his young son and narrowly miss a second boy, Trey. Now, in 1899, confirmed tracks of grizzly-a species of bear unknown in Texas-have been found at a Davis Mountains camp meeting attended by Wash and his daughter, Grace. The congregants include Trey, now an adult and courting Grace, and Trey's father, Ed Mulholland. During the cattle drive, Mulholland's big talk about the dangers of a grizzly led Wash to panic and fire the fatal load of buckshot. Wash has long hated Mulholland, and even indoctrinated Grace from a young age to exact revenge on him someday. Now, with all of them striking out to hunt down this confirmed grizzly, Wash has a chance to right the wrongful shot of years ago and perhaps deliver judgment on Mulholland. Accompanying the party are Tommy, Wash's intellectually disabled hand whose affinity for Mulholland's mistreated bloodhound Sleuth is fated to cause strife. Also riding along is Isom, the camp meeting preacher who desperately searches for peace after losing his wife and newborn. Meanwhile, up from Mexico have come twelve-year-old Rosindo Mesa and his sister. In the Fronterizas range, the same grizzly has killed their father, and a curandero (healer) has told Rosindo that his father will be doomed to wander the nights as a spirit unless the boy kills the silver bear before the next full moon rises an hour into the sky. For both parties, the search for the bear, and for peace, becomes a matter of survival, as nature resists and personalities clash. Finally, on lofty Baldy Peak, the full moon rises-and Wash, Rosindo, and the others come face-to-face with not only the grizzly, but their destinies. This novel is based on the actual 1899 hunt for the only documented grizzly ever found in Texas"--
Subjects: Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Grizzly bear; Cattle drives; Revenge;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Journeying through the invisible : the craft of healing with, and beyond, sacred plants, as told by a Peruvian medicine man / by Hachumak, Jorge,Author(DLC)no2022093565; Carroll, David L.,Author(DLC)n 2009068535;
Journey into the world of Ayahuasca and healing. A mysterious and powerful plant medicine with curative powers that is drunk as a tea during a sacred ceremony, Ayahuasca has been known to change people's lives dramatically. But what was once a healing experience practiced only by Indigenous South Americans--and sought out by the adventurous few--has, in the past fifty years, become increasingly popular around the world. Hachumak, a Peruvian medicine man, has been practicing traditional healing arts in his country for more than twenty years. His unique approach is based on ritualistic simplicity and highlights the essence of the Art, which includes the borrowed forces from Nature. In this remarkable book, he shares his knowledge and experiences to broaden our understanding of this powerful medicine and protect it from misuse and exploitation. Whether you are among the uninitiated and curious, or a seasoned journeyer, you will gain a deeper understanding of what shamanism is and how and why it works, as well as its possibilities and limitations. Hachumak reveals his own path to becoming a shaman and explains how a well-crafted Ayahuasca ceremony unfolds when run by an experienced curandero. He describes in detail what to expect--both physically and psychologically--while under the guidance of the sacred plants. Central to the message of this book, Hachumak introduces his concepts of Soul Consciousness and Suffering Consciousness, which are central to his message and key to understanding the deep healing work that he performs while also provide new insights for personal self-reflection. Suffering Consciousness keeps us stuck in our negative ways, but when Soul Consciousness is awakened during a ceremony or spiritual moment, our entire being awakens, and we are shown the way to live according to the dictates of our conscience and the teachings of the spirits. With Hachumak as our experienced and trusted guide, Journeying Through the Invisible offers a new and healing way of seeing ourselves and the world around us.
Subjects: Ayahuasca; Shamans; Naturopathy.; Ayahuasca ceremony;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The man who could move clouds : a memoir / by Rojas Contreras, Ingrid,author.(CARDINAL)355775;
"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 the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped on her mother's fortune-telling business from the stairs and waited eagerly for the moments when Mami appeared in two places at once. She was accustomed to "letting the ghosts in." So when Ingrid, now living in the U.S., suffered a head injury in her 20's that left her with amnesia--an accident eerily similar to a fall that had put her mother in a coma at the age of 8, from which she woke with not just amnesia, but the ability to see ghosts--the family assumes "the secrets" have finally been passed down to the next generation. But as Ingrid recovers her memories, they don't come with supernatural abilities. Rather, she is consumed by a powerful urge to learn even more about her heritage than she knew before the accident. Spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, wherein Nono communicates that he is unable to rest peacefully in the afterlife, Ingrid joins her mother on a journey home to Colombia to disinter her grandfather's remains. With her mother as her unpredictable, stubborn and often hilarious guide, Ingrid traces her lineage back to her indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her family into two camps: those who believe "the secrets" are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse. Interweaving family stories more enchanting than any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Travel writing.; Rojas Contreras, Ingrid.; Rojas Contreras, Ingrid; Rojas Contreras, Ingrid; Hispanic American authors; Colombian Americans; Mothers and daughters; Amnesiacs.; Grandfathers; Healers;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 22
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Bendíceme, última / by Anaya, Rudolfo A.(CARDINAL)275361;
Antonio Marez tiene seis años cuando Última viene a quedarse con su familia. Última es una curandera, una persona que cura con hierbas y magia. Bajo su protección, Antonio va a explorar las ataduras de la familia que le rasgan y comprometen, y se va a descrubrir a si mismo en los secretos mágicos y el pasado pagano--legado mítico tan palpable como el catolicismo de América Latina.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Fiction.; Niños mexicano-americanos; Mexican American children; Mexicano-americanos; Curanderos (Medicina folklórica); Mexican Americans; Healers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Torre del alba / by Maas, Sarah J.,author.(CARDINAL)344992; Alvarado Graef, Carolina.(CARDINAL)605970;
La travesía a un imperio distante de sanadores mágicos. Chaol Westfall siempre se ha definido a sí mismo como un hombre de lealtad inquebrantable, de gran fortaleza y a partir de su posición como capitán de la Guardia. Pero todo eso ha cambiado desde que el castillo de cristal se hizo añicos: sus hombres fueron diezmados y el rey de Adarlan lo libró de un golpe mortal pero dejó su cuerpo destrozado. Su única oportunidad de recuperarse reside en los legendarios curanderos de la Torre Cesme en Antica -el bastión del poderoso imperio en el Continente Meridional. Y ahora que la guerra se cierne sobre Dorian y Aelin de vuelta en casa, su supervivencia quizá dependa de que Chaol y Nesryn convenzan a sus regidores de formar una alianza con ellos. Pero lo que descubren en Antica los cambiará por completo y será más vital salvar a Erilea de lo que podrían haber imaginado. --
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Romance fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Magia; Assassins; Magic; Queens; Asesinos; Reinas; Spanish language materials.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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