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Blessing and cursing Comic books, strips, etc French language materials Friendship Comic books, strips, etc Friendship Juvenile fiction Graphic novels Hippies United States Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Outcasts Comic books, strips, etc Princes Comic books, strips, etc Princesses Comic books, strips, etcSummary: Anguished young lovers, fallen women, wanted criminals, and all manner of social castoffs: these are the disreputable denizens of the Hôtel du Nord, an atmospherically seedy boardinghouse on the bustling banks of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, whose lives collide in Marcel Carné's bittersweet rhapsody of romance, betrayal, revelry, and violence. --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOTSummary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMSummary: Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPLSummary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY KILLambCat
Summary: "Gwendolyn, the youngest of the King's three daughters, is living proof that princesses don't always have it all. She isn't like a typical fairy-tale princess, or other princesses in the Pastel Kingdom. Gwendolyn, with her big heart and love of baking, isn't particularly attractive. Unlike her sisters who have woodland creatures do their hair and makeup, or have flowers blossom wherever they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Webtoon Unscrolled, a division of Wattpad Corp. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: David Chappellet, a ruthlessly ambitious skier competing for Olympic gold with an underdog American team in Europe, clashes with his coach, who tries to temper the upstart's narcissistic drive for glory.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOWLambCat
Summary: "Gwendolyn, the youngest of the king's three daughters, is living proof that princesses don't always have it all. She isn't like a typical fairy-tale princess, or other princesses in the Pastel Kingdom. Gwendolyn, with her big heart and love of baking, isn't particularly attractive... When her father proposes marriage for her and her sisters to make an alliance with the Plaid Kingdom, it breaks...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Webtoon Unscrolled, a division of Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, Inc. 2024
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Summary: Introduces the Princels, princes who have shunned society because of their own insecurities about their physical appearance and their inabilities to find romantic partners.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Webtoon Unscrolled 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Dory, the forgetful blue tang, suddenly remembers she has a family who may be looking for her, she, Marlin, and Nemo take off on a life-changing quest to find them, with help from Hank, a cantankerous octopus; Bailey, a beluga whale who's convinced his biological sonar skills are on the fritz; and Destiny, a nearsighted whale shark!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY FINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FiCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD FindingSummary: When Dory, the forgetful blue tang, suddenly remembers she has a family who may be looking for her, she, Marlin, and Nemo take off on a life-changing quest to find them, with help from Hank, a cantankerous octopus; Bailey, a beluga whale who's convinced his biological sonar skills are on the fritz; and Destiny, a nearsighted whale shark! Dive into the movie overflowing with unforgettable...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIN RATED PGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FINRuge, Eugen
Summary: An enthralling story of an East German family through the long years of communism and its aftermath, this novel flows both back and forth in time, creating a panoramic view of a family's saga and a country that has vanished into memory and history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUGFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: Autumn has settled on the farm but fallen leaves aren't the only signs of the season. Find out what animals Kitten sees preparing themselves for winter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FERFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: When the rain starts suddenly, Kitten and the other animals must find someplace dry to stay.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Flaubert, Gustave
Summary: Features short fiction by the French naturalist author that is introduced by an essay describing his life, works, and artistic abilities, as well as explanatory notes, a chronology, and suggestions for further reading.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1924
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAWilson, Lambert
Summary: Based on a true story, eight French Christian monks choose to stay in their Muslim community in Algeria despite the growing threat of terrorism by an Islamic fundamentalist group.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN OFSummary: Two motorcyclists embark on a coast-to-coast odyssey in search of the real United States. They encounter hippies and prostitutes, make friends with an alcoholic small town lawyer, take drugs, and are harassed and attacked by rednecks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA EASField, Eugene
Summary: A classic lullaby poem about three fishermen who try to catch the stars in nets of silver and gold.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.4 FIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FieldYelchin, Eugene
Summary: In this wordless story, a hare and a young girl spring up from a trampoline and take an imaginary journey through the clouds into outer space.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC YELLambelet, Anne
Summary: When a young girl learns that the bullfight prize is her favorite food, churros, she decides to become a matador.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids, an imprint of Page Street Publishing Co. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAMSummary: When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him aboard the barge "L'Atalante", where they travel along the Seine River. The bride, becomes bored and leaves the ship for Paris where she starts flirting with other men.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATABurdick, Eugene.
Summary: The question of accidental war is examined in this novel about American planes which fly past the point of recall to drop nuclear bombs on Moscow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1962
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURFernandes, Eugenie
Summary: "Lucy is happy painting the color of laughter in her garden, but loses her way when she follows feedback from a series of animal critics. With wise encouragement from her cat, Lucy finds her authentic self in her work again and painting is rewarding once more."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2019