Delacourt, Grégoire.
Summary: "The #1 bestselling international phenomenon that asks, If you won the lottery, would you trade your life for the life of your dreams? Jocelyne lives in a small town in France where she runs a fabric shop, has been married to the same man for twenty-one years, and has raised two children. She is beginning to wonder what happened to all those dreams she had when she was seventeen. Could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELNewland, Courttia
Summary: "The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the entrance closed without warning. Years after the Ark was cut off from the world--a world much like our own, but in which slavery has never existed--a chance of survival within the Ark's confines is granted to a select few who can prove their worth. Among their number is Markriss Denny, whose path to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWParquet Courts
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PARBourgois, Philippe I.
Summary: This study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. The authors followed a social network of heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling, recycling and day labour.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9084 BOUSummary: The story of the Henry family as they experience World War II in Europe and the Pacific, depicting the final years of the war and its impact on everyday people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WARParquet Courts (Musical group)
Contents: Dust -- Human performance -- Outside -- I was just here -- Paraphrased -- Captive of the sun -- Steady on my mind -- One man, no city -- Berlin got blurry -- Keep it even -- Two dead cops -- Pathos prairie -- It's gonna happen.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PARWright, J. C. (John Couchois)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Letter Press 1984
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 WRIChung, Céline
Summary: "Bao Family Cookbook symbolizes the bridge between two cultures: the traditions of China and the modernity of Parisian life. The Bao family run four Chinese restaurants in Paris that bridge the gap between two cultures, and between traditional and modern cuisine-here they share their love of bao and other Chinese dishes, with recipes that span the eight culinary regions of China. Through over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of the time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant sows the seeds of his ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN BEAParquet Courts (Musical group)
Contents: Master of my craft (Gold record diamond minds) -- Borrowed thyme -- Donuts only -- Yr no stoner -- Yonder is closer to the heart -- Careers in combat -- Light up gold pt. 1 (The color of something) -- Light up gold pt. 2 (Gleaning embers from a burning field) -- N. Dakota (A Souix, an Apache, and a mohawk) -- Stoned & starving -- No ideas -- Caster of worthless spells -- Disney P.T. (A borelis...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: What's Your Rupture? 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PARParquet Courts (Musical group)
Contents: Total football -- Violence -- Before the water gets too high -- Mardi Gras beads -- Almost had to start a fight -- In and out of patience -- Freebird 2 -- Normalisation -- Back to Earth -- Wide awake! -- NYC observation -- Extinction -- Death will bring change -- Tenderness.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PARSummary: After the German occupation of Paris during World War II, a young widow flees the war-torn city with her two children and must rely on a mysterious young stranger in order to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STRWright, J. C. (John Couchois)
Summary: In The Crooked Tree we find a collection of authentic Indian legends. John Wright listened to his grandmother weave these legends of her people and as a result, we find that he has combined this nameless trait of the Indian storyteller with a sense of realism that makes one believe that the story actually happened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 WRI1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 WRI
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 398 WRI
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1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 398.2 WRI1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 WRI
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Native WrightContents: Office de l'Exaltation de la Sainte-Croix (14 septembre): hirmi du canon -- Grand Carême et Nuit de Paques: Les Béatitudes; Grand prokeimenon; Notre Père; Tropaire de Saint-Jean Chrysostome; Hymne acathiste; Kontakion du grand canon; Stichère du Vendredi Saint; Grande entrée du Samedi Saint.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CHASummary: Moliere is a down-and-out actor and playwright who is up to his ears in debt. The wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise. Disguised as a priest, Molière becomes a guest in Jourdain's palace on the subtext of teaching Jourdain the craft of the stage, all this to the annoyance of Jourdain's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MOLBerlioz, Hector
Contents: disc 1. Acte 1 (Voigt, Lakes) --
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Decca Music Group 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA BERSummary: Two adulterous lovers go from pillow talk to possible murder in this sexy, brain-teasing thriller. Julien is a middle-age salesman embroiled in a steamy love affair with a married woman who, after a round of kinky sex, makes a startling suggestion. Suddenly Julien is caught up in a police investigation, but just what exactly happened?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLUSummary: Set in the 16th century, Marie de Mezieres is deeply in love with her dashing cousin Henri de Guise. However, due to her father's political ambitions, she is forced into a marriage with the well-connected Philippe de Montpensier, who she has never met. When Philippe is called away to fight, she is left in the care of Count Chabannes, an aging nobleman. It isn't long before she is exposed to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRISummary: Three months after surviving a mass shooting at a Parisian bistro, Mia is determined to reconstruct the sequence of events by bonding with fellow survivors, and piecing together their stories to rediscover her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REVReeves, Dianne.
Contents: I Want You (4:57) -- Feels So Good (Lifted) (4:26) -- Dreams (5:20) -- Satiated (Been Waiting) (5:39) -- Waiting In Vain (6:35) -- 32 Flavors (5:27) -- Cold (6:14) -- Wild Rose (5:51) -- Stormy Weather (8:03) -- Tango (6:36) -- Unconditional Love (For You) (5:43) -- Long Road Ahead (3:59).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Concord Records 2014
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Summary: Captain Marleau has a hunter's instinct, disguised under a deliberately offbeat veneer. As she says herself, she doesn't skim over cases; she plunges into them. Always on the prowl, she lies in wait for clues and her prey and takes them by surprise. In each episode, her hunt centers around a character played by a famous actor, men and women who are a match for the outstanding cop. The volume...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CAPSummary: The true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood. Quickly rising within the ranks of the Church; Lustiger was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope Jean Paul II- and found a new platform to celebrate his dual identity as a Catholic Jew;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JEWSummary: Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Beatrice, the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017