Summary: God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides to rewrite the world, which leaves God angry, powerless and adamant to get his power back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BRAJarawan, Pierre
Summary: "Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family's adopted home in Germany for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. His only clues are an old photo and the bedtime stories his father used to tell him. The Storyteller follows Samir's search for Brahim, the father whose heart was always yearning for his homeland, Lebanon. This moving and gripping novel about family secrets,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Quand il était petit, Pierre ne voulait pas manger sa soupe. «Tu sais ce qui arrive aux petits garçons qui ne veulent pas manger leur soupe?» lui disait son père, «Eh bien, à minuit, la sorcière Cornebidouille vient les voir dans leur chambre, et elle leur fait tellement peur que le lendemain, non seulement ils mangent leur soupe, mais ils avalent la soupière avec.» Pierre s’en fichait. Il ne...
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Publisher / Publication Date: École des loisirs 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 BON FRENCHLemaître, Pierre
Summary: Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven must learn all he can about a woman with a troubled past if he is ever going to save her from the twisted killer who is holding her hostage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMLemaître, Pierre
Summary: Normally happy and well-adjusted, Sophie Duguet doesn't understand what's happening to her: she has begun losing things, from her recently delivered mail to the car she parked the night before. She is constantly forgetting things she's said and done, too ... only to be reminded of them by her acquaintances. She's even detained by the police for shoplifting--a crime she has no memory whatsoever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacLehose Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMLemaître, Pierre
Summary: For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he's happily married, and expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder so savage that even the most hardened officers on the force are shaken to the core. In the face of the seemingly motiveless horror, only Verhoeven makes the vital connection - the crime scene resembles one described in a James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MaLehose Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMMagnan, Pierre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGSummary: "The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their reclusive grandfather in Tuscany, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious story of their ancestors -- a tragic tale filled with forbidden love, passion, vengeance and betrayal"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIOBoullGe, Pierre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers Press 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOUFrei, Pierre
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREMagnan, Pierre
Summary: At the turn of the century in Upper Provence, a family is violently massacred. The sole survivor of the tragedy is a three-week-old baby. Twenty years later, the orphaned survivor returns home to avenge his family's killers, but for each murder he plots, another hand executes it in his place, and unexpected secrets set in motion a dreadful unveiling of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MAGFierro, Julia.
Summary: "One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, their young children in tow. Nicole, the hostess, struggles to keep her OCD behaviors unnoticed. Stay-at-home dad Rip grapples with the reality that his careerist wife will likely deny him a second child,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEFierro, Julia
Summary: "It is the summer of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early summer serenity on Avalon, an islet off the coast of Long Island--dropping onto novels left open on picnic blankets, crawling across the T-shirts of children playing games of tag and capture the flag in the island's leafy woods. The caterpillars become a relentless topic of island...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEBierce, Ambrose
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio State University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 BIEPerret, Delphine.
Summary: When Bernard, the Big Bad Wolf, joins Louis and his grandfather on their annual trip to the beach, getting there is half the fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2012
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Summary: "Throughout the woodland, someone kind has hidden one hundred eggs to find . . . Join Bear and his friends as they set off to find and count one hundred eggs. A delightful board book, perfect for the youngest nature spotters."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Cat 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: BOARD PIEBierce, Ambrose
Summary: This volume of selected stories represents an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm, irony and element of surprise, they differ from the fiction admired in Ambrose Bierce's time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BIESummary: The plot revolves around the unraveling of the identity of a 16th century peasant who disappeared as a young husband, and the man who returns to resume his marriage nine years later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1997
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RETLapierre, Alexandra
Summary: "Born into Russian aristocracy, wealth, and security, Moura never had any reason to worry. But in the upheaval of the Bolshevik Revolution, her entire world crumbles. As her family and friends are being persecuted by Vladimir Lenin's ruthless police, she falls into a passionate affair with British secret agent Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart. But when he's abruptly and mysteriously deported from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAPPiedra, Tony
Summary: Eliot's grandfather, El Capitán, has retired from the sea, and after listening to his grandfather's stories, Eliot is ready for an adventure--so they set out together to find one they can share.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PIEPiercy, Marge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1994
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Summary: "Anna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarred by a terrible early emotional wound, he reminds Anna of Jude the Obscure. Adrift and lovelorn, she tries unsuccessfully to fend off her attraction, torn between the two men. 'How strange it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SERBierce, Ambrose
Contents: The death of Halpin Frayser -- The secret of Macarger's Gulch --One summer night -- The moonlit road -- A diagnosis of death -- Moxon's master -- A tough tussle -- One of twins -- The haunted valley -- A jug of syrup --Staley Fleming's hallucination -- A resumed identity -- A baby tramp -- The night-doings at 'Deadman's' -- Beyond the wall -- A psychological shipwreck --The middle toe of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wildside Press 1909
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIEPiercy, Marge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1982