Summary: St. Marie-La-Mauderne is a tiny fishing village. For eight years the locals have stood in line for weekly welfare checks, remembering the good old days when the catch was good. A small company wants to build a factory on the island, but only if a full-time doctor lives in St. Marie. The situation seems hopeless until a young doctor in Montreal has an unfortunate incident with a traffic cop and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEDContents: Bad things (Machine Gun Kelly & Camila Cabello) -- I don't wanna live forever (Fifty shades darker) (Zayn & Taylor Swift) -- Mercy (Shawn Mendes) -- Paris (the Chainsmokers) -- That's what I like (Bruno Mars) -- Cold (Maroon 5 feat. Future) -- I feel it coming (the Weeknd feat. Daft Punk) -- Chained to the rhythm (Katy Perry feat. Skip Marley) -- Rockabye (Clean Bandit feat. Sean Paul &...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Group 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWSummary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Geneviève, a shop assistant, falls in love with Guy, a gas station mechanic. But a life with him will not be in her future. A tender, bittersweet love story, sung throughout in French.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBSummary: Krzysztof Kieślowski's trilogy of the human condition in contemporary French society, with each film drawing its theme from a color in the French flag: liberty (Bleu), equality (Blanc) and fraternity (Rouge).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A book that lists French language words and gives their equivalent in English, and English language words with their equivalent in French.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 443.21 OXFSummary: A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRISummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSNadeau, Jean-Benoît.
Summary: Explores the origins and evolution of the French language, from the first extant document written in French in the mid-ninth century and the purging of Latin from the French courts to the obsession of French speakers to protect the purity of the language.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 440 NADJean Lenoir
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Harms 1930
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Poelvoorde, Benoit
Summary: The owner of a chocolate company and one of his workers suffer from extreme anxiety, which threatens to ruin their new relationship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROMChan, Darcie.
Summary: "Having unexpectedly lost her husband and lacking the means to support herself and her two young daughters, Josie DiSanti takes refuge with her aunt in Mill River, Vermont. Thanks to Aunt Ivy, who runs the town's book shop, the community quickly come to know Josie and her girls, Rose and Emily. The sisters are inseparable growing up, but in their early college years, a tragedy tears them apart....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHABruce Siever Jean Lenoir
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Harms 1930
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Auguste Renoir experienced the loss of his wife, the pains of old age, and bad news from the front: his son Jean is injured. But a girl, Andree, appeared in his life as a miracle, the old man will infuse energy that only waited. Bursting with vitality and radiant beauty, Andree is the latest model of the painter, his fountain of youth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mongrel Media 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RENSummary: Kind, quiet Tannie Maria isn't a woman who draws much notice. She leads a solitary life, writing recipes for the local gazette, cooking with ingredients from her garden, and chatting with her pet chicken, Morag. When Maria becomes the newspaper's advice columnist, she peppers her responses with delectable recipes to help people fix their problems. But after a woman who wrote to her turns up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RECSummary: The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. There are rumors of a village, hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. There is even talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to bring the dead back to life. Ulric, a fearsome knight, is charged by the church to investigate...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BLASummary: An American writer in Italy becomes an amateur sleuth when he witnesses a failed attempt by a serial killer to take the life of the wife of a wealthy gallery owner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BIRJarre, Jean-Michel.
Contents: Ethnicolor -- Diva -- Zoolookologie (remix) -- Woolloomooloo -- Zoolook (remix) -- Blah-blah cafe -- Ethnicolor II.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Disques Dreyfus 1985
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Place a hold to request this item.Jarre, Jean-Michel.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Disques Dreyfus 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC JARHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: "Before Marie Curie was the first woman in France to earn the highest degree in physics, before she discovered two new radioactive elements, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and then the first person to win two!)— she was a little girl named Marie Sklodowska who dreamed of being a scientist—and was determined to make that dream come true."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Mance, Ajuan Maria
Summary: "A picture book with illustrated portraits of real Black men celebrating the daily lives and activities of African Americans, from visiting the barber shop to exploring outer space"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MANSummary: "Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. The two women get on well together. Louise earns her living by looking after children. Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job. Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer she knew in her youth. They are set on a collision course because of an incredible lie that Jeanne invents, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GIRSummary: Jean Renoir, one of the greatest French directors, tells the epic story of the French Revolution. Made towards the end of France's left wing Popular Front government when Europe was on the brink of war, this is a markedly political film about a country in flux. Filmed in a jaunty newsreel style, it follows a cross section of people, from the citizens of Marseilles to Louis XVI, who are affected...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019