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Beauty, Personal Fiction Belgium Belgium Brussels Brussels (Belgium) Fiction Life change events Fiction Mannequins (Personnes) Romans, nouvelles, etc Models (Persons) Fiction Terrorism Belgium Brussels Fiction Terrorisme Belgique Bruxelles Romans, nouvelles, etc Événements stressants de la vie Romans, nouvelles, etcSummary: Jeanne Dielman is a young widow who goes through her daily domestic routine including making the bed, cooking for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN JEACall number: DVD FOREIGN JEA
Marsh, Katherine
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and thirteen-year-old Max, an American boy, are bound by a secret that sets them on the adventure of a lifetime"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MARSummary: JCVD is an out of luck actor. He's out of money, his agent can't find him a decent production, and a judge is inclined to give his ex-wife custody of his daughter. He returns to his childhood home of Brussels. When he goes into a post office to receive a wire transfer, he finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation. Due to an unfortunate mistake, the police believe JCVD is responsible...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Peace Arch Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JCVSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BRARamzipoor, E. R.
Summary: "Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene's world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion's team and give them an impossible...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAMSteel, Danielle
Summary: "A renowned supermodel's world is torn apart in an instant, sending her on an unexpected journey of discovery in this masterful novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. Veronique Vincent is a star. At age twenty-two, she is one of the most sought-after models in fashion, gracing the covers of magazines and walking the runways of haute couture shows across the globe. Yet,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Like fish bait cast into a pool of sharks, idealistic Dorfmann arrives in Brussels with visions of a united Europe to serve an ambitious British Director of the European Economic Community, Michael Spearpoint. Planning to get rich exploiting the newly-liberated nations of Eastern Europe, wily bureaucrats and entrepreneurs compete to misuse the naïve Dorfmann, dubbed "Prince Stupid," for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GRAJenoff, Pam
Summary: "1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind. Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Jenoff, Pam
Summary: "Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENSteel, Danielle
Summary: Veronique Vincent graces the covers of magazines and walks the runways of haute couture shows across the globe, yet she prefers spending time at home or with her boyfriend. An explosion at Zaventem Airport in Brussels changes her life forever: Veronique finds herself hospitalized and alone after the blast kills both of the people she loved most. Severely injured, she plunges into seclusion and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STESteel, Danielle
Summary: A famous, young model has her appearance forever altered and loses the people she loves most in a terrorist attack and changes the course and purpose of her life after reading a revealing letter that accompanied her mother's will.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESteel, Danielle
Summary: A famous, young model has her appearance forever altered and loses the people she loves most in a terrorist attack and changes the course and purpose of her life after reading a revealing letter that accompanied her mother's will.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC STEChevalier, Tracy.
Summary: Bewitching art experts and enthusiasts alike for centuries, the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries hang today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. In each, an elegant lady and a unicorn stand or sit on an island of grass surrounded by a rich background of animals and flowers. Little is known about them except that they were woven toward the end of the fifteenth century and bear the coat of arms of a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHEMay, Peter
Summary: There are two men on their way to Brussels from the UK: Neil Bannerman, an iconoclastic journalist for Scotland's Daily Standard whose irate editor wants him out of the way, and Kale--a professional assassin. Expecting to find only a difficult, dreary political investigation in Belgium, Bannerman has barely settled in when tragedy strikes. His host, a fellow journalist, along with a British...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYChevalier, Tracy.
Summary: Interweaves historical fact with fiction to explore the mystery behind the creation of the remarkable Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, woven at the end of the fifteenth century, which today hang in the Cluny Museum in Paris.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ChevalierNorman, Hilary.
Summary: After their parents die in a helicopter crash, two girls and a boy, all three students in the American School in London, vow to stick together forever. As adults the pact is tested many times, culminating in the search for a killer when one of them discovers the crash was no accident. By the author of Laura.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOROrens, Jeffrey
Summary: "In 1911, some of the greatest minds in science convened at the First Solvay Conference in Physics, a meeting like no other. Almost half of the attendees had won or would go on to win the Nobel Prize. Over the course of those few days, these minds began to realize that classical physics was about to give way to quantum theory, a seismic shift in our history and how we understand not just our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books, Ltd 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 OREKarr, Paul.
Summary: Here is the unbiased lowdown on more than 200 hostels throughout Europe. From Vienna to Lisbon, Prague to Edinburgh, Berlin to Paris--more than thirty cities are covered. Whether you're looking to party or just looking for a clean, quiet, affordable place to crash, this guide will get you exactly where you want to go. Inside you'll find: At-a-glance ratings - Candid descriptions - Local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GPP Travel 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914 KARSummary: Contains seven complete TV shows, first broadcast from 2000 to 2005, featuring: Paris, Normandy, Provence, French Riviera, Belgium, Amsterdam, Dutch side-trips, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Back Door Productions 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 RICBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bill Bryon backpacks across Europe, retracing the same steps he took 30 years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 914 BRYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.04 BRYVarga, Bernadett
Summary: Belgium has somehow acquired the reputation of being Europe's most boring country--a reputation that is entirely undeserved. But perhaps this bland image is a smokescreen, the conventional exterior hiding a subversive sense of humor, a surreal imagination, and a deep-rooted disdain for authority. Or perhaps it is a camouflage, a way in which Belgium, still overrun--however peacefully--by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2022