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"--
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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: Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives comfortably and happily with her family in the suburbs. That is until the day she accidentally gets locked into a walk-in freezer. She escapes the next morning, half frozen and barely alive, only to realize that her husband and two children didn't even notice she was missing. But when Fiona develops an obsession for everything cold and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ICEVarga, 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
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN JEACall number: DVD FOREIGN JEA
Summary: For the 200th anniversary of Waterloo, Lord of the Rings actor Sean Bean tells the story of one of history's bloodiest battles through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEAGroom, Winston
Summary: An analysis of a pivotal battle of World War I revisits the four-year-long Battle of Ypres, an engagement that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and forever changed the way war would be waged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4144 GROSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Peace Arch Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JCVConnolly, Rebecca
Summary: "Based on the true story of two World War II heroines who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo by hiding them throughout Belgium. ... Young schoolteacher Andrée Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star of David. Andrée is not Jewish, but she feels a maternal connection to her students, who are living in constant fear, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain Publishing 2024
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Summary: 1915. In German-occupied Belgium, a tragic loss forces Josephine Descharmes to navigate dangerous new territory. By day it's compliance, serving German officers at the Hotel Metropole. By night it's resistance, working with her brothers underground to help Allied soldiers and civilians cross the border into Holland. Both paths put her and her family at great risk. As Josephine struggles to keep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIVZuckerman, Larry.
Summary: Publisher description: In August 1914, the German Army invaded the neutral nation of Belgium, violating a treaty that the German chancellor dismissed as a "scrap of paper." The invaders terrorized the Belgians, shooting thousands of civilians and looting and burning scores of towns, including Louvain, which housed the country's preeminent university. The Rape of Belgium recalls the bloodshed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3493 ZUCSummary: Hit men Ray and Ken have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INSelby, Scott Andrew.
Summary: The authors uncover how a group of thieves stole over $108 million dollars worth of diamonds from an allegedly airtight vault in the international diamond capital of Antwerp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 SELSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GRASummary: The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense verite drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold onto a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother. It's a swift and simple tale made revelatory by the raw, empathic way in which the directors render Rosetta's desperation, keeping the camera nearly perched on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROSRamzipoor, 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...
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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 RAMTurner, Dennis J.
Summary: "The book is a fictional memoir based on actual events. The inspiration for the book came from hundreds of letters and other accounts written by Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur who were living in German-occupied Belgium and Italy during World War Two. Turner created a composite character, Sister Christina, who is described as an Ohio farm girl, who joined the Sisters of Our Lady of Namur to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cincinnati Book Publishing 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.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 BRAFagan, Cary
Summary: "On May 10, 1940, the Nazi Army invaded Belgium, setting into motion the refugee story of Cary Fagan's father, Maurice. Maurice was only 12 at the time, and he and his family had no idea they would never again return to Brussels, the city of his birth. Instead, they would travel through France, Spain, and Portugal, running from war. Every time they thought they might be safe, Maurice would try...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OwlKids Books Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FAGRijckeghem, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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Summary: In World War II, an American flier is shot down over Belgium. He is rescued by a farmer and his wife who are in the resistance. The wife cares for the airman's wounds and while the husband is away they have a doomed affair which ends in betrayal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 1995
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Summary: In Dark Rye and Honey Cake, acclaimed food writer and historian Regula Ysewijn turns her focus to the bakes and culinary history of her Belgian homeland. Known as an expert in British baking and culture, acclaimed food writer and historian Regula Ysewijn turns her attention to her native Belgium for an intimate look at the culinary traditions and classic baked goods--including classic Carnival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WeldonOwen 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.815 YSESummary: Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. She returns to Belgium as WWII breaks out and is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NUNBalthazar (Musical group)
Contents: 1. Fever -- 2. Changes -- 3. Wrong faces -- 4. Whatchu doin' -- 5. Phone number -- 6. Entertainment -- 7. I'm never gonna let you down again -- 8. Grapefruit -- 9. Wrong vibration -- 10. Roller coaster -- 11. You're so real.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019