Summary: At a Montreal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MON1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MON
Summary: Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRASummary: Two-time Critics Choice Award-winner Tatiana Maslany returns in the pulse-racing third season of Orphan Black. After the shocking discovery of Project Castor, Sarah and her sister clones are left to battle the top-secret military project producing these lethal male clones. At the same time, Sarah tries to track down her missing twin Helena and an ailing Cosima searches for the key to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ORPSummary: Three months after surviving a mass shooting at a Parisian bistro, Mia is determined to reconstruct the sequence of events by bonding with fellow survivors, and piecing together their stories to rediscover her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REVSummary: In 1962 Baltimore there are changes in the air. Plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad, with big hair and even bigger heart, has only one passion, to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corney Collins Show" and is transformed overnight from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. The trendsetting Tracy aims to win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAI RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HaSummary: In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFCaron, Claude
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Familles Caron d'Amérique 1989
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 CARCaron, Lucille.
Summary: A guide to unraveling the mysteries of decimals and fractions, whether you are learning them for the first time or brushing up on your skills.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.26 CARDuron, Lori.
Summary: Discusses the author's experiences raising an effeminate son who may be gay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 DURAkron/Family
Contents: Silly bears -- Island -- A AAA O A WAY -- So it goes -- Another sky -- Light emerges -- Cast a net -- Tatsuya neon purple walkby -- Fuji I (Global dub) -- Say what you want to -- Fuji II (Single pane) -- Canopy -- Creator.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Oceans 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AKRMyron, Vicki.
Summary: Traces the author's discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline's development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships, in a tale told against a backdrop of the town's struggles with the 1980s farm crisis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.8092 MYRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.8092 MYRSwade, Doron.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 681.145 SWAYaron, Ruth.
Summary: Presents more than three hundred recipes along with information on such topics as food allergies, kitchen equipment, methods of freezing and thawing, vitamin and mineral supplements, and food decorating.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: F.J. Roberts Pub. Co. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 YARAcemoglu, Daron.
Summary: Evaluates the reasons that some nations are poor while others succeed, outlining provocative perspectives that support theories about the importance of institutions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 ACEZola, Émile
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ] 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZOLNoroc, Mihaela
Summary: Noroc has journeyed through more than fifty countries to celebrate the diversity of this fascinating world. This volume contains photographs of five hundred women, from tribes, conservative communities, and modern cities. Most were struggling and working hard, and were facing discrimination as women. But through it all they were shining with dignity, strength, and beauty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 NORNoxon, Christopher
Summary: "Christopher Noxon's debut novel Plus One is a comedic take on bread-winning women and caretaking men in contemporary Los Angeles. Alex Sherman-Zicklin is a mid-level marketing executive whose wife's fourteenth attempt at a TV pilot is produced, ordered to series, and awarded an Emmy. Overnight, she's sucked into a mad show-business vortex and he's tasked with managing their new high-profile...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prospect Park Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOXPyron, Bobbie
Summary: Piper's life is turned upside down when her family moves into a shelter in a whole new city. She misses her house, her friends, and her privacy--and she hates being labeled the homeless girl at her new school. But while Hope House offers her new challenges, it also brings new friendships, like the girls in Firefly Girls Troop 423 and a sweet street dog named Baby. So when Baby's person goes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PYRSummary: In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society, leading him to embark on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime that brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego, the Joker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY JOKAcemoglu, Daron
Summary: Artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies won't guarantee a rising standard of living for workers, according to this lucid manifesto. MIT economists Acemoglu and Johnson explore historical instances of new technology failing to pay off for workers: improved agricultural practices and equipment in medieval Europe conferred few benefits on peasants while lords and churchmen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 ACEYoung, Faron.
Summary: EU four CD set containing six albums from the late Country great: Sweethearts Or Strangers, Object Of My Affection, This Is Faron Young, My Garden Of Prayer, Talk About Hits, Sings The Best Of Faron Young, Hello Walls and The Young Approach.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Real Gone Music 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY YOUDufresne, Emilie
Summary: Racism is a complex issue that still affects many in the diverse United States and world. This book helps readers understand this problem from the roots of racial identities to what is being done today to stand up to racism and help people affected by it. Vibrant photographs, diagrams, and a timeline of the U.S. civil rights movement enhance the approachable text. This book helps students...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 DUFHebert, Emilie
Summary: "Why trust your baby's care--or your own--to the chemical-laden products with unpronounceable names on supermarket shelves? The fantastic guide to feeling good and looking good that upcoming and new French mothers rely on to care for themselves and theirlittle ones is now in English for the very first time. Inside you'll find more than forty tried-and-true original, stress-free recipes to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Apollo Publishers 2021