Carrère, Emmanuel
Summary: "A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures This is how Emmanuel Carrère, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, chameleon, describes his subject: "Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He was a rogue in Ukraine; an idol of the Soviet underground under Brezhnev; a bum, then a multimillionaire's valet in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LIMONOV, EDUARD CARCarrère, Emmanuel
Summary: "Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully--he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leaving his phone, his books, and his daily life behind. But he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARRERE, EMMANUEL CARCarrère, Emmanuel
Summary: Story of lives racked by tragedy and redeemed by love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A French village ... chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The series follows the lives of the villagers during the war as their lives become irrevocably changed by the German occupation and its aftermath. The Germans arrive in June 1940; the occupation will go on for five years and will reveal the strengths, weaknesses and secrets of the characters as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FREDevos, Emmanuelle
Summary: An Israeli teenager discovers that he was accidentally switched at birth with the son of a Palestinian family, and the news turns the lives of these two families upside down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2013
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OTHEmanuel, Gabrielle.
Summary: A young child describes her experiences of life in Mali as she spends a day carried in a blanket on her mother's back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, An Imprint of Penguin Group, (USA) 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC EMAAboulela, Leila
Summary: Their fortune threatened by shifting powers in Sudan and their heir's debilitating accident, a powerful family under the leadership of Mahmoud Bey is torn between the traditional and modern values of Mahmoud's two wives and his son's efforts to break with cultural limits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOAboulela, Leila
Summary: "Since her award-winning debut novel, Minaret, Leila Aboulela has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith, Aminatta Forna, and Anthony Marra among others for her rich and nuanced depictions of Islamic spiritual and political life. Her latest collection, Elsewhere, Home, draws us ineluctably into the lives of immigrants at home and abroad as they forge new identities and reshape old ones. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOBergmann, Emanuel
Summary: "Sweeping between Prague during World War II and modern day Los Angeles, this deeply moving debut follows a young Jewish man in 1934 who falls in love and joins the circus as the country descends into war. Decades later, a young boy seeks out the now cynical, elderly magician in the hopes that his spells might keep his family together. Prague, 1934: The fifteen-year-old rabbi's son Moshe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEREmanuel, Jake
Summary: "What if the whole world fell asleep...and didn't wake up again? Dave Torres, a night watchman in a placid coastal town, knows all about sleep troubles. Since childhood, he's battled terrors and nightmares. Sometimes those battles leak into his waking life, with disastrous consequences for those he loves. Now Dave lives alone and self-medicates to neutralize his dreams. It's not much of a life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EMAAboulela, Leila
Summary: "This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOAboulela, Leila
Summary: "When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOAboulela, Leila
Summary: It’s 2010 and Natasha, a half Russian, half Sudanese professor of history, is researching the life of Imam Shamil, the 19th century Muslim leader who led the anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasian War. When shy, single Natasha discovers that her star student, Oz, is not only descended from the warrior but also possesses Shamil’s priceless sword, the Imam’s story comes vividly to life. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABOSummary: The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists. Beginning with the Germans' arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: Beginning with the Germans arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals, and strain to keep some semblance of their existence intact. The war shatters all their lives, but a few of them, even in the shadow of destruction, reach out to find fleeting moments of connection and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESummary: When a man shaves off his mustache, a trademark he's had for years, no one around him notices, instead insisting he's never even had one. Is he going insane, or is this some kind of strange conspiracy?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MOUSummary: When André suffers a debilitating stroke and calls on his daughter Emmanuèle to help him die with dignity, she finds herself faced with a painful decision. Based on Emmanuèle Bernheim's memoir and an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, the film's matter-of-factness elicits moments of humor that renders an otherwise weighty topic accessible. Steering clear of the moral arguments such...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EVEMuñoz, Manuel
Summary: ""Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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Summary: "Three generations of women untangle a complex family story that encompasses the First and Second World Wars, revealing unexpected lessons about marriage and fidelity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction DeVillepin 2018Vilas, Manuel
Summary: "A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life returns to the small mountain town where he was born and where his parents have recently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write. What follows is a dizzying, audacious chronicleof his childhood and an unsparing account of his life's trials, failures, and triumphs that becomes a moving look at what family gives and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VILGonzales, Manuel
Summary: When a prophecy suggests that an insider might bring about the downfall of a powerful underground organization known as the Regional Office, devoted recruit Sarah and young assassin Rose find their respective lives clashing in a dispute that threatens everything they know.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GONManuel, Jennifer
Summary: "The #MeToo movement has revealed the prevalence of sexual assault in society, especially as committed by powerful men. But it is an issue that also affects the lives of teen girls. This book tells the story of seventeenyear-old Ana Santos, who has ambitions to make it big in music and signs a contract with the owner of a music café without knowing there are sexual strings attached. It looks at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Manuel 2021Summary: Zaman and his wife Najma have built their happy life together in a house of reeds. When Najma falls ill, the doctor tells them she needs surgery or some medicine he does not have. Zaman sets off in his boat and journeys to Baghdad for the cure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZAMArias, John Manuel
Summary: "In John Manuel Arias's lush and lyrical debut, a Costa Rican family wrestles with the aftermath of neocolonialism, a deadly secret, and an all-consuming fire. Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family is changed forever. Now, twenty-seven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023