Summary: Interweaves multiple stories and is set inside a magically snowbound Paris. Six lonely souls converge and commingle in their search for lasting connections.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PRISummary: A struggling merchant stumbles upon the magical domain of the fearsome Beast, who sentences him to death for stealing a rose. The merchant's youngest daughter Belle bravely sacrifices herself and takes her father's place. Once at the Beast's castle, it is not death that awaits Belle, but a strange and fantastical life unlike anything she has ever experienced, and the discovery that her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEA RATED PG-13Summary: The story of a troubled relationship festering between two couples: young Alain Getty, a home automation engineer, and his wife, sweet Bénédicte ; and middle-aged André, Alain's boss, who is married to the mysterious Alice. Their encounter does not leave the young couple's harmony unscathed. The discovery of a mysterious rodent's corpse blocking the waste pipe of their kitchen sink does...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LEMSummary: George Riley has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Three couples react to the news with various degrees of emotion. The women are each separately invited to a seaside resort by Riley, and hidden resentments and insecurities in each relationship bubble to the surface, causing a re-evaluation of each couple's love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIFSummary: Following in the tradition of Antonioni's Blowup or Coppola's The Conversation, director Yann Gozlan, and an excellent cast led by the ever-impeccable Pierre Niney, crafts a taut, suspenseful intrigue, unraveling the events behind a tragic incident, this time in the aeronautics industry. Matthieu, a brilliant young black-box analyst with an extraordinarily acute ear is charged with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLASummary: After a struggling actress stands trial for the murder of a lascivious producer in 1930s Paris, she ascends to scandalous stardom with her lawyer roommate. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits, until the truth comes out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: First it was a mine that exploded in the Moroccan desert. Years later, it was a stray bullet that lodged in his brain. Bazil doesn't have much luck with weapons. Released from the hospital after his accident, Bazil is homeless. Luckily, he is taken in by a motley crew of junkyard dealers living in a veritable Ali Baba's cave. One day, while out walking, Bazil recognizes the logos of the weapons...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MICSummary: A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist films 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DIP
Summary: When André suffers a debilitating stroke and calls on his daughter Emmanuèle to help him die with dignity, she finds herself faced with a painful decision. Based on Emmanuèle Bernheim's memoir and an Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, the film's matter-of-factness elicits moments of humor that renders an otherwise weighty topic accessible. Steering clear of the moral arguments such...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Camille, a concert violinist, becomes intrigued by her lover's business partner, Stephane. She interprets his distance as a sign of intellectual seduction. The love triangle that develops reveals the complexity and imperfection of the three characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KOCH Lorber Films 2006
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEASummary: Alex Beck is a kindhearted pediatrician in Paris who goes out of his way to help the poor in the clinic where he works. Blissfully married to his childhood sweetheart Margot, she disappears (and he is left in a coma) while on vacation. On the eighth anniversary of her death, the police interrogate Alex after two bodies are unearthed near the site of her murder, along items that seem to connect...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by] Music Box Films 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TELMathiot, Ginette
Summary: With more than 1,400 recipes, Mathiot guides the reader through all the classic recipes and techniques of French cooking with a clear and authoritative voice. The recipes have been fully updated by Clothilde Dusoulie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 MATAciman, André
Summary: In this follow-up to Call Me By Your Name, Elio has become a classical pianist in Paris, while Oliver, now a college professor, finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ACIAciman, André
Summary: In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the bestseller "Call Me by Your Name" revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ACIGerolymatos, André.
Summary: Provides an account of the history of covert operations in the Middle East, looking at how the United States and other Western powers have tried to establish control over the region's resources and commerce, while at the same time working to prevent the spread of communism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1241 GERLinklater, Andro.
Summary: Linklater's fascinating, provocative and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures, is explained in this volume that also shows how it has shaped the culture and country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LINGrau, Andrée.
Summary: Surveys all forms of dance throughout the world, discussing its cultural and social significance, its costume, its history, and noted dancers and choreographers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Inc. 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 792.8 GRALinklater, Andro.
Summary: Historian Linklater relates how the borders and boundaries that formed states and a nation inspired the sense of identity that has ever since been central to the American experiment. Linklater opens with America's greatest surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, measuring the contentious boundary between Pennsylvania and Virginia in the summer of 1784; and he ends standing at the yellow line dividing the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 911.73 LINAndry, Andrew C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1979
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 612.6 ANDDusoulier, Clotilde
Summary: The idiosyncrasies of language can tell us a lot about a culture. In this delightful book, Clotilde Dusoulier, creator of the award-winning food blog Chocolate & Zucchini, delves into the history and meaning of fifty of the French language's most popular food-related expressions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A Perigee Book 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Darlington, André
Summary: Whether you're planning your finest Ugly Christmas Sweater Party or spending a quiet evening by the stocking-lined fireside at home, make the season bright with this guide to 40 favorite holiday albums from the 1940s to the present. Each entry features liner notes on the album and accompanying boozy beverage recipes that complement the music or connect the drink to the artist. Select holiday...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Picard, André
Summary: "It took the coronavirus pandemic to open our eyes to the deplorable state of so many of the nation's long-term care homes: the inhumane conditions, overworked and underpaid staff, and lack of oversight. In this timely new book, esteemed health reporter André Picard reveals the full extent of the crisis in eldercare, and offers an urgently needed prescription to fix a broken system. When...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Canada 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.6 PICRieu, André.
Contents: Dark eyes -- Thunder & lightening -- The Merry widow -- Song of the Volga boatman -- Hör ich zimbalklänge -- España cañi (bull) -- O mio babbino caro -- The Blue Danube waltz -- Announcement Olympia song -- Song of Olympia (puppet) -- My heart will go on (Titanic) -- All men shall be brothers - Beethoven 9th symphony -- Radetzky march -- Opera potpourri -- The Red Rose Cafe -- The Marino waltz...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Denon 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RIERodrigues, André
Summary: "Unhappy with Lion, the king of the jungle, the animals hold an election to choose a new leader"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2020