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Coumont, Alain

Summary: "Le Pain Quotidien Cookbook presents over 100 recipes for simple, elegant and healthy fare - handmade bread, breakfast, tartines, soup, salads, sharing dishes and desserts. Le Pain Quotidien is best known for its organic bread and its signature tartines but it's also about sharing great food made with love at any time of the day. With everything from grissini, baguettes and focaccia to chia...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 COU

Summary: Monsieur Ladmiral is a widowed painter in his twilight years who welcomes his bourgeois son Gonzague and free-spirited daughter Irene and their families to his home for a lazy afternoon lunch. Over the course of the day buried resentments come to the surface. The passage of time has left no family member unscathed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SUN

Alai

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALA

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAN

Summary: "A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is love-struck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world" --IMDb.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SCI

Summary: Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIN

Summary: A wealthy merchant in nineteenth century Macao becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IMM

Summary: Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a piercing, darkly comic character study that questions notions of good and evil, love and jealousy, and success in the modern world. A mirror image of Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins recasts that film's stars, Jean-Claude...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COU

Summary: Quinquin is all grown up and goes by the nickname CoinCoin. He hangs out on the Cote D'Opale and attends meetings of the Nationalist Party with his childhood friend Fatso. His old love, Eve, has abandoned him for Corinne. When a strange magma is found near the town, the inhabitants suddenly start to behave very strangely. Our beloved heroes Captain Van Der Weyden and his loyal assistant...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COI

Summary: This absurdist, metaphysical murder mystery opens with the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a cow on the outskirts of the English Channel in northern France. The bumbling and mumbling Captain Van der Weyden is assigned to investigate the crime, but he has to contend with a young prankster, the mischievous Quinquin, as he proceeds to investigate the case.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIL

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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAN

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR HAM

Summary: Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormenter. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man's fiancé, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression. A small-town fable about violence and redemption, it is the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MOO

Common

Contents: Joy and peace (feat. Bilal) (2:40) -- Home (feat. Bilbal) (3:31) -- Word from moe luv interlude (:40) -- Black America again (feat. Stevie Wonder) (6:09) -- Love star (feat. Marsha Ambrosius) (5:09) -- On a whim interlude (:41) -- Red wine (feat. Syd the Kid) (4:35) -- Pyramids (3:30) -- A moment in the sun interlude (:51) -- Unfamiliar (feat. PJ) (3:58) -- A bigger picture called free (feat....

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Def Jam 2016

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP COM

Common

Contents: Time travelin' (a tribute to Fela) -- Heat -- Coldblooded -- Dooinit -- The light -- Funky for you -- The questions -- Time travelin' reprise -- The 6th sense -- A film called (Pimp) -- NAG champa (Afrodisiac for the world) -- Thelonius -- Payback is a grandmother -- Geto heaven part two -- A song for Assata -- Pops Rap III...all my children.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 2000

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP COM

Common

Summary: Common's 2014 album, his tenth studio album overall, is inspired by the events taking place in his native Chicago. With tracks like Kingdom, he hopes that this music will serve as a call to action.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Def Jam 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP COM

Aline

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5486 ALI

Common

Summary: The continuation of Common's movement music. Part two recognizes there is much work to be done while acknowledging progress and starting to live our dreams.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP COM

Common

Contents: Good morning love / (feat. Samora Pinderhughes) (5:31) -- Her love / (feat. Daniel Caesar w/ special guest Dwele) (4:29) -- Dwele's interlude (1:09) -- Hercules / (feat. Swizz Beatz) (2:54) -- Fifth story / (feat. Leikeli47) (5:18) -- Forever your love / (feat. BJ The Chicago Kid) (3:39) -- Leaders (crib love) / (feat. A-Track) (3:41) -- Memories of home / (feat. BJ The Chicago Kid and Samora...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES COM

Alien.

Contents: Everyting I never said -- Frankie the prankster -- Blind summit -- Time timed -- Slow fader -- Honeycreeper -- The pleasure of leisure -- The return of the rat phink -- Progress is progress -- A man's eye -- A killer in the family.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Room 1998

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC Alien

Common

Contents: (A beautiful revolution) Intro (featuring Jessica Care Moore) -- Fallin' (featuring PJ) -- Say peace (featuring Black Thought, PJ) -- What do you say (Move it baby) (featuring PJ) -- A place in this world (featuring PJ) -- A riot in my mind (featuring Lenny Kravitz, Chuck D.) -- Don't forget who you are (featuring PJ) -- (A beautiful revolution) Outro (featuring Morgan Parker).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2020

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP COM

Common

Summary: Common's 2007 release features production by Kanye West, J Dilla, and will.i.am, and includes the singles Finding Forever and Drivin' Me Wild.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES COM

Common

Summary: "Common believes that the phrase "let love have the last word" is not just a declaration; it is a statement of purpose, a daily promise. Love is the most powerful force on the planet and ultimately, the way you love determines who you are and how you experience life. Courageous, insightful, brave, and characteristically authentic, Let Love Have the Last Word shares Common's own unique and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COMMON COM

Mabanckou, Alain

Summary: "A rollicking new novel described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles) by the finalist for the Man International Booker Prize It's not easy being Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko. There's that long name of his for a start, which means, "Let us thank God, the black Moses is born on the lands of the ancestors." Most people just call him Moses. Then...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAB

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mabanckou 2017

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