Summary: Shows Camille Claudel, a protégé and mistress of Auguste Rodin, in 1915 when she was imprisoned in an insane asylum. Camille was also the sister of the Christian mystic poet Paul Claudel, the last of her family to pay her regular visits. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, the movie focuses on Camille 's struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy in a crowd of schizophrenics....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAMSummary: Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through the unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INDBoujon, Claude
Summary: Escarbille, le long loup maigre, et Chaboudo, le toutouà courtes pattes, ne s'ennuient jamais. L'autre jour, en se promenant dans un désert très désertique (du sable, du sable et encore du sable, une pierre, une autre, un tas de cailloux et encore du sable…) les copains trouvent une chaise. Une chaise bleue, toute bête, toute seule au milieu de nulle part. Au lieu d'y poser leurs derrières...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lutin de poche de l'école des loisirs 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 BOU FRENCHLebrun, Claude.
Summary: Little Brown Bear feels cranky when he gets up in the morning, but a hug from Mama Bear makes everything better.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LEBStanush, Claude
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STALebrun, Claude.
Summary: Little Brown Bear makes snowballs and does other fun things in the snow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LEBClauss, Lauren
Summary: "An all-new Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader featuring Nickelodeon's Corn & Peg! Step 2 readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. Peg and Corn are inseparable best buddies who love to make their home, Galloping Grove, a better place. This mighty unicorn and Pegasus duo...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green ClaussLebrun, Claude.
Summary: Little Brown Bear tries on the various shoes which he finds in the closet, including a pair of house slippers, Mama's high heels, and Papa's big boots.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LEBLandman, Tanya
Summary: "How did the nightingale get its golden voice? A beautiful creation story answers the question. The mountains, trees, and plants are young and full of color, but the animals are dull and drab, so the painter gets to work. She dabs dots on ladybugs and spots on butterflies, stripes on zebras and pentagons on giraffes. Finally, she comes to the very last creature--a patient beetle--and uses her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studios an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LANIzner, Claude.
Summary: Despite his promises to give up the dangerous hobby of amateur sleuthing, belle-epoque bookseller Victor Legris's interest is piqued by a killer who refers to leopards in his notes and seems determined to exact revenge for events that took place many years before during the Commune.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IZNIzner, Claude.
Summary: "The coast of Normandy, 1894: A mysterious young woman is rescued by an anonymous man after a deadly shipwreck. Paris, a few months later: The body of a well-dressed woman in a velvet mask is found in the abattoir district of La Villette in Paris. Next to the brutally strangled corpse, the drunk watchman--who witnessed the crime but was too terrified to intervene--finds a pendant featuring a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IZNMiller-Lachmann, Lyn
Summary: "When 17-year-old Pavol fatally sets himself on fire in Prague in 1969 to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, his three best friends must figure out how to survive an oppressive regime without him"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MILAguilera, Claudio
Summary: "As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AGUBlade, Adam
Summary: "One boy's journey to help his village becomes a quest to save the kingdom. Strange things are happening in Tom's village. First, the horses were attacked. Then, the river dried up. Now, the last of the crops has mysteriously burned. Everyone is terrified. But Tom isn't afraid. He's always dreamed of a quest -- a real quest! -- and vows to go to the king and bring help for them. But Tom soon...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BLASummary: Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUEChaud, Benjamin.
Summary: Papa Bear wakes up to find his son missing, and his search leads him to an opera house and a command performance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CHAEdgerton, Clyde
Summary: In 1963, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. Meanwhile, Dwayne's forbidden black friend Larry, aspiring to play piano like Thelonius Monk, apprentices to a jazz musician called the Bleeder. A mutual passion for music help Dwayne and Larry as they try to achieve their dreams.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: Living under the Salazar dictatorship in 1960s Portugal, Sónia must find her voice as a poet and an activist after the government arrests her boyfriend and shuts down her family's business.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MILClauss, Lauren
Summary: Welcome to the magical world of Palace Pets, where each Disney Princess has a furry pet to love and care for! Blondie loves being Princess Rapunzel's royal pony. What will happen when a new pet moves into the castle? Young readers and Disney Princess Palace Pets fans ages 3 to 5 will love this book, which is full of sweet, cuddly pets--and 30+ stickers! Step 1 readers feature big type and easy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CLAClauss, Lauren
Summary: "Young readers ages 4 to 6 can get to know Berry, Snow White's bunny, and learn how she became the princess's fur-ever friend"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Summary: Teenaged Mouchette finds solace in nature and routine as she takes care of her baby brother while her mother lies dying and her alcoholic father is absent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOUMourlevat, Jean-Claude.
Summary: Fleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men sent to hunt them down, four teenagers escape from their prison-like boarding schools to take up the fight against the tyrannical government that murdered their parents fifteen years earlier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: YA FIC MOURijckeghem, Jean-Claude van
Summary: In 1808 Ghent, eighteen-year-old Constance runs away from an arranged marriage to a much older man and by stealing his clothes, sneaking out of the house disguised as a man, and joining Napoleon's army.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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Summary: Ever wonder what Santa does with all those letters? (And all those cookies?) After a particularly long, cold night staring at nine smelly reindeer butts, the old man lets loose with the real answers to those stupid, whiny, hard-to-read letters from kids. Turns out, we really do get what we deserve.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2008