Slimak, Ludovic
Summary: For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in paleoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different--and they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Contents: The artist ouverture -- 1927 : a Russian affair -- George Valentin -- Pretty Peppy -- At the Kinograph Studios -- Fantaisie d'amour -- Waltz for Peppy -- Estancia : op. 8 / Alberto Ginastera -- Imagination (Red Nichols & his Five Pennies) -- Silent rumble -- 1929 -- In the stairs -- Jubilee stomp / Duke Ellington -- Comme une rosée de larmes -- The sound of tears -- Pennies from heaven (Rose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ARTDebeurme, Ludovic.
Summary: Follows the lives of two teenagers, Lucille and Arthur, as they struggle with the complex legacies inherited from their families, and journey together across Europe, hoping to make their own destinies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DEBSlime
Contents: Thurible -- Striding edge -- Hot dog / ft. George Maple -- My company -- In one year -- Symptoms -- The way of asprilla -- At sea again / ft. Selah Sue -- Patricia's stories / ft. Jeremiah Jae -- Down and tell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weird World Record Co. 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SLIEinaudi, Ludovico
Contents: Luminous -- Rolling like a ball -- Indian yellow -- Flora -- Natural light -- Almost June -- Swordfish -- Wind song -- Atoms -- Temple white -- Nobody knows -- Underwater.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL EINKlima
Contents: French mittens -- By my side -- I will remember you -- Papilon de nuit -- Father -- In my room -- Sing to me -- Things get better with time -- Sylvia -- Orffans -- Bottomless sea
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Language 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KLISummary: In 1949, an innocent man, Timothy Evans, is charged with the gruesome slaying of his wife and baby. Convicted by the testimony of his landlord, John Christie, a mild-mannered ex-policeman, Evans is sentenced to hang. However, after the execution, evidence reveals that the real psychotic killer is continuing his mass murder spree. Public outcry over this true case led to Great Britain's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TENSummary: Shaun Russel's life is thrown into turmoil after her father's unexpected death. She takes her two young children out to his mansion in Malibu in order to attempt to settle his estate. The mansion is designed with state-of-the-art security that ends up trapping her kids inside, along with four criminals who plan to capture her late father's wealth as well. Shaun must now attempt to save her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BREAlikhan, Salima
Summary: Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ALISlimani, Leïla
Summary: "When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLISlimani, Leïla
Summary: "In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLISoliman, Moheb
Summary: "Moheb Soliman's HOMES maps the shoreline of the Great Lakes from the rocky North Shore of Minnesota to the Thousand Islands of eastern Ontario. This poetic travelogue offers an intimate perspective on an immigrant experience as Soliman drives his Corollapast exquisite vistas and abandoned mines, through tourist towns and midwestern suburbs, seeking to inhabit an entire region as home. Against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SOLVukovic, Diane
Summary: "Learn basic survival skills and connect with nature!Knowing how to build a safe shelter in any environment is a skill that every outdoor adventurer needs. Did you know that a shelter can be made from sticks and leaves? Or that it can even be made from snow? Learn all this and more in Shelter - a book that gives kids the confidence they need to get outside and explore.ABOUT THE SERIES:Learning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613.6 VUKVukovic, Diane
Summary: "A new installment in the A True Book series focusing on Survival Skills"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613.6 VUKStimac, Valerie
Summary: "Discover the best stargazing destinations around the world with Lonely Planet. This comprehensive companion includes guides to 35 dark-sky sites and national parks, where to see the aurora, the next decade of total solar eclipses and how to view rocket launches, plus the lowdown on commercial space flight"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520 STISuliman, Ali
Summary: Elia Suleiman tells stories of the Israeli state from 1948 up to the present day, through the writings found in his father's diaries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TIMAlikhan, Salima
Summary: When a massive fire breaks out in 1871 Chicago, twelve-year-old orphan Ollie and his young charge Leo scramble to escape the burning city, but before they find shelter they must search for Ollie's lost sister Eliza among the wreckage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALICopies Available at Peninsula
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Summary: Morocco, 1968: Two siblings, unusual for their biracial parentage--their father is Moroccan, their mother French--search for their place in a world not made to fit them. Aicha, strong-willed and studious, dreams of leaving Morocco to study medicine in her mother's homeland. Her younger brother, Selim, the family's errant misfit, will forge a path of rebellion among the European hippies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLISimak, Clifford D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSimak, Clifford D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: R. Bentley 1979
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMKlimek, Johnny
Contents: Believe (Franka Potente) (4:52) -- Introduction (5:44) -- Running one (featuring Franka Portente) (5:29) -- Supermarket (4:40) -- Running two (featuring Franka Potente) (4:11) -- Running three (featuring Franka Potente & Susie van der Meer) (4:56) -- Casino (7:09) -- Somebody has to pay (Susie van der Meer) (3:23) -- Wish (Komm zu mir) (Franka Potente & Thomas D) (4:05) -- Introduction (remix)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TVT Soundtrax 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC RUNSlezak, Suz
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK SLESimak, Clifford D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: N. Doubleday 1952
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMLebovic, Sam
Summary: "The Espionage Act was passed in 1917 to prosecute spies and critics during World War I. And yet, after a century of piecemeal revisions, the Espionage Act still forms the basis of our national security architecture today - a tool that lets the government keep an untold amount of information secret, without ever justifying the need for that secrecy. In State of Silence, political historian Sam...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023