Summary: After a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer, Ema, a reggaeton dancer, sets out on an odyssey of personal liberation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMASummary: Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAISummary: Rafael is very charming salesman to the ladies in the deluxe department store he works in, but when he doesn't get the position of manager, he changes his whole attitude. When his rival goes missing, Rafael becomes the prime suspect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video USA 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PERSummary: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this...
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 PERSummary: "An age-old family curse hits sisters Kitty and Franziska following the death of their grandfather Tobias. Every hundred years, so the legend goes, the bloodthirsty Red Queen returns and claims seven fresh victims. Was Tobias just the first ... and are Kitty and Franziska next?"--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN REDSummary: The emotionally charged finale of the acclaimed bilingual crime thriller reunites Stephen Dillane with Clemence Poesy for the last outing of the unlikely Anglo-French partnership. Set amidst mid-Brexit hysteria, an escalating refugee crisis, and the increasing threat of terror from disenfranchised, exiled souls on whom society has turned its back.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TUNEnriquez, Mariana
Summary: "Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRSummary: This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASSSummary: The Final Season revolves around more court machinations, complicated relationships, and coup attempts. Catherine is still in charge, meeting with peasants and nobles to get input on her quest to modernize Russia. She₂s working on bonding with Peter and their young son Paul. Meanwhile, the sidelined Peter tries his hand at "First Husband" duties like hunting and inventing new cuisines but soon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GRESummary: After nearly half a century of communist rule, poverty stricken Albania falls subject to the invasion of two exploitive capitalists looking to prosper within the changing economy. As Albania's people try desperately to flee destitution, Gino and Fiore arrive from Italy with plans to use a makeshift manufacturing plant to front their next scam. Forced to name an Albanian as their company's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Yorker Films 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAMDe Blasi, Marlena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 945 DEBDe Blasi, Marlena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike/Chivers 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 945 DEBRosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: CASA is a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment, with a view of all of Paris. A dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But is this residency a dream or a nightmare? Since moving in, Clarissa has had ominous discomfort, the feeling of being watched. Who is behind CASA? Is Clarissa right to be wary or does she too easily give in to paranoia, falling victim to an overly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSRosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: "Paris, France: 1860s. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently alter the face of old Paris, molding it into a modern city. The reforms will erase generations of history-but in the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand. Rose...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rosnay 2012Rosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: "The first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, in the tradition of THE NEST. "Hypnotic, passionate, ominous and tender--unforgettable." --Jenna Blum, New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Those Who Save Us The Rain Watcher is a powerful family drama set in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROSDe Blasi, Marlena.
Summary: Deemed an illegitimate child by her royal Polish family, Amandine is abandoned as a baby at a French convent. As she grows, Amandine struggles to accept her orphaned state. She longs to put together the missing pieces of her identity, but as WWII engulfs Europe, her time to find answers may be running short.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEBDe Blasi, Marlena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.5804 DEBRosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an article on this dark episode and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P DERSummary: Naples 1904: Italian theatre is thriving, and comic actor, Eduardo Scarpetta is the box office king. Known in the Neapolitan theater for his cheeky alter egos, Scarpetta's larger-than-life stage productions were matched only by his eccentric personal life. Composed of wives, partners, lovers, legitimate and illegitimate children, Scarpetta's home situation resembled one of his comedies more...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINRosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay's Flowers of Darkness explores how artificial intelligence tampers with love, sex, and the basis of artistic creation in a new future Paris. CASA is a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment, with a view of all of Paris. A dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But is this residency a dream or a nightmare? Since...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSRosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: An irreverent yet heartfelt collection that examines our most intimate and forbidden desires -- a portrait of the most forbidden of loves, in many different shades.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSRosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: In this passionate and perceptive collection, Tatiana de Rosnay paints a portrait of the most forbidden of loves, in many different shades, sometimes tragic, sometimes humorous, sometimes heartfelt, always with a dry wit and an unflinching authenticity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROSRosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: Linden Malegarde has come home to Paris from the United States. It has been years since the whole family was all together. Now the Malegarde family is gathering for Paul, Linden’s father’s 70th birthday. Paul, the quiet patriarch, an internationally-renowned arborist obsessed with his trees and little else, has always had an uneasy relationship with his son. Tilia, Linden’s blunt older sister,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSBlasi, Marlena de.
Summary: When Fernando spots her in a Venice café and knows immediately that she is the One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. A divorced American woman traveling through Italy, she thought she was satisfied with her life. Yet within a few months, she quits her job as a chef, sells her house, kisses her two grown kids good-bye, and moves to Venice. Once there, she finds herself sitting in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2002