Summary: This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time. Features classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth-century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Vessel Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VERRameau, 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 RAMFhilippe, Jean
Summary: "A wildly imaginative fantasy graphic novel about the responsibilities of creation.... Leftstar can't seem to access the world they've been building. They also haven't slept in a long time. These things are almost certainly unrelated, and they should really go get the mail, anyway. But their trip to the post office is interrupted by a curious visitor: an enormous fruit bat. Whisked away in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Sprocket 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FHIBlondell, Joan
Summary: An ambitious man working as part of a surreal and disturbing traveling carnival sets out to become a mentalist and take over the job of someone else in the sideshow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGRameau, Jean-Philippe
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA ZORRAMEAU, JEAN PHILIPPE
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RAMSendker, Jan-Philipp
Summary: "American expat Paul Leibovitz was once an ambitious advisor, dedicated father, and loving husband. But after living for nearly thirty years in Hong Kong, personal tragedy strikes and Paul's marriage unravels in the fallout. Now Paul is living as a recluse on an outlying island of Hong Kong. When he makes a fleeting connection with Elizabeth, a distressed American woman on the verge of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Atria 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SENSendker, Jan-Philipp.
Summary: When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter has any idea where he might be--until they find a love letter he wrote many years before, to a Burmese woman who is unknown to them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SENSendker, Jan-Philipp.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Sendker 2014Reemtsma, Jan Philipp.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.154 REESendker, Jan-Philipp
Summary: Starting over in Hong Kong after a devastating family tragedy, journalist Paul Leibovitz investigates a mysterious illness in a remote village outside Shanghai, where he discovers that a powerful chemical conglomerate is polluting a local lake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 37Ink, Atria 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SENSendker, Jan-Philipp.
Summary: When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be--until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father's past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Sendker 2012Blinder, Alan S.
Summary: An assessment of the U.S. financial crisis and its lessons explores its complex contributing factors while revealing some of its more devastating consequences, outlining potentially divisive solutions that may be necessary for recovery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 BLIBlinder, Alan S.
Summary: "In this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in the United States. Spanning twelve presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Joe Biden, and eight Federal Reserve chairs, from William McChesney Martin to Jerome...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.973 BLISummary: Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUESummary: In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOR RATED PG-13Summary: Two mischievous twin tiger cubs are born in the jungle but are soon seperated and taken into captivity. One is sold off to the circus and the other becomes the pampered pet of the governor's son. They are reunited years later by an explorer who trains them to be sport fighters and inadvertently forces them to fight each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWOSummary: An epic fantasy tale of good versus evil, friendship and sacrifice. With the help of a courageous fellowship of friends and allies, Frodo the hobbit embarks on a perilous mission to destroy the legendary One Ring. Hunting him are servants of the Dark Lord Sauron, the Ring's evil creator. If Sauron reclaims the Ring, the whole of Middle-Earth is doomed. Part one of three films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LORSummary: "A French village ... chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The series follows the lives of the villagers during the war as their lives become irrevocably changed by the German occupation and its aftermath. The Germans arrive in June 1940; the occupation will go on for five years and will reveal the strengths, weaknesses and secrets of the characters as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FREBlondes.
Contents: Disc 1 Lover -- Hater -- Business -- Pleasure -- Wine -- Water -- Gold -- Amber
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RVNG 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BLOSummary: The lady, Grace Elliot, was once the mistress of the Prince of Wales. She left him for Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, a cousin of Louis XVI. The film opens a year after the fall of the Bastille, and while their affair is over, Grace and the Duc have stayed close friends. But just because they're friends doesn't mean they can't (and don't) have powerful political arguments. Organized around five...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADSummary: Tom Powers (Cagney) begins his life of crime at an early age with boyhood companion Matt Doyle (Woods). Powers' eventual rise to a notorious prohibiton gangster is only darkened when a rival gang brutally murders his friend. Powers tries to avenge Doyle's death, but his efforts lead to a chilling and savage conclusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PUBSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DAMContents: Afterglow / Small Faces -- I can show you / Rupert's People -- Day of the change / Andromeda -- Mr Universe / Episode Six -- She says good morning / The Pretty Things -- On a meadow-lea / Bobak, Johns, Malone -- Yesterday was such a lovely day / Sadie's Expression -- The Open ground / Pussy -- Magic in the air / The Attack -- Heart without a home / Blonde on Blonde -- All along the watchtower /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2018