Besson, Philippe
Summary: "The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson--"the French Brokeback Mountain" (Elle)--about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald. We drive at high speed along back roads, through woods, vineyards, and oat fields. The bike smells like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESBresson, Robert
Summary: Tells the story of Balthazar, a donkey whose grim life reflects the human nature around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AUSummary: Lancelot is a ruthless and ignoble opportunist who returns from his impossibly futile mission to locate the Holy Grail, only to callously rekindle his affair with the Lady Guinevere. A non-romanticized portrait of the knights of the round table.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LANSummary: In 1943 a French Resistance fighter is sent to an infamous Lyon prison, where 7,000 of the 12,000 prisoners died either by natural means or by execution. Lt. Fontaine, certain that execution awaits him, meticulously plans his escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: Brides of Dracula: "Marianne is traveling to Eastern Europe from Paris for a teaching post. She gets stranded at an inn after her stagecoach mysteriously leaves her. She is persuaded to stay at Baroness Meinster's chateau. During her stay Marianne meets the Baroness's son who is chained to a wall. Feeling bad for the son, Marianne frees him, only to discover that he is a vampire. Luckily for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MANSummary: Realizing that her lover Jean is losing interest in her, a society lady Helene gets revenge by tricking him into marrying a former prostitute Agnes. After the wedding Helene tells a stunned Jean about his wife's secret past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAMOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Tom and Léa are joined by Teddy and Kathleen as they travel to the snowy Land-Behind-the-Clouds, where they search for the eye of the Ice Wizard and attempt to help Merlin and Morgan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bayard jeunesse 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 OSB FRENCHSummary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLASummary: Tells the sweeping and dramatic story of religious life in America, examining more than 500 years of American religious history, from the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the 2008 presidential election. Examine this history as it has played out in public life, exploring the complex interaction between religion and democracy in the United States; the origins of the American concept of religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GODSummary: A quiet, timid file clerk whose unremarkable life begins to be increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new home - an apartment building with an unhappy past. Adding to his paranoia are the building's other occupants, who do nothing to alleviate his growing obsession with the untimely, tragic fate of the apartment's previous tenant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TENSummary: The show follows Margaret and Helen Schlegel, two intelligent, idealistic sisters living together in Edwardian London with their hypochondriac brother, Tibby. Their loving but interfering Aunt Juley tries to keep the siblings in line after the death of their parents, but a series of events push the sisters to lead unorthodox lives full of romance, tragedy, and drama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOWSummary: An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Osborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Tom et Léa sont transportés à La Nouvelle-Orléans en 1915. Ils rencontrent un jeune noir surnommé Dipper. A 14 ans, le garçon chante sans cesse et il a une belle voix. Il adore la musique, mais n'a pas le temps de s'y consacrer. Car il doit travailler dur pour faire vivre sa famille... Louis Armstrong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bayard Jeunesse 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 OSB FRENCHSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: Calamity Jane is a calamity at love--she's too busy cracking a bullwhip to pay much mind to such girlie what-alls as dresses and perfume.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Calamity 2005Kashkashian, Kim.
Contents: Neharót neharót : 2006/07, for viola solo, accordion, percussion, two string ensembles, and tape / Betty Olivero (16:20) -- Tagh for the funeral of the Lord / Tigran Mansurian (5:31) -- Oror / Komitas ; adapted by Tigran Mansurian (2:57) -- Three arias (sung out the window facing Mount Ararat) : 2008 / Tigran Mansurian (19:23) -- Rava deravin : for viola and string quartet, 2003 / Eitan...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ECM Records 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD AVANT-GARDE KASRameau, Jean Philippe
Contents: Zais. Ouverture 5:47) -- Castor et Pollux. Scene funebre (3:25) -- Les fetes d'Hebe. Air tendre (1:53) -- Dardanus. Tambourins I & II (1:51) -- Le temple de la gloire. Air tendre pour les muses (4:25) -- Les boreades. Contredanse (3:06) -- La naissance d'Osiris. Air gracieux (2:19) -- Les boreades. Gavottes I & II (2:44) -- Platee. Orage (2:32) -- Les boreades. Prelude (1:19) -- Concert no. 6...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Archiv Produktion 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RAMBesson, Luc.
Summary: In order to find his grandfather's lost treasure and save the Minimoys, Arthur and his companions, including Princess Selinia, travel into the forbidden city ruled by Maltazard the Cursed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BessoSummary: Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BATBesson, Luc.
Summary: In search of a stolen treasure and his missing grandfather, ten-year-old Arthur travels to the land of the Minimoys, a tribe of tiny people whom he must save from destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005