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Beagle (Dog breed) Juvenile fiction Christian fiction Dogs Juvenile fiction France France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction German Occupation of France (1940-1945) Large type books Political refugees Mexico Fiction World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 France FictionSummary: A billionaire decides on a whim to create a movie, hiring a team he considers the best: a renowned filmmaker and two egotistical actors -- one from Hollywood and the other from experimental theatre -- who cannot get along. While the director creates bizarre rituals to test their abilities, the actors find themselves confronting each other as well as their pasts and their bodies of work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OFFSummary: Five classic films that offer a rare glimpse at a lost era of provocative filmmaking.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORDrenge
Contents: Introduction -- Running wild -- Never awake -- We can do what we want -- Favourite son -- The snake -- Side by side -- The woods -- Undertow -- Standing in the cold -- Have you forgotten my name?
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DREEscobar, Mario
Summary: "August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESCEscobar, Mario
Summary: "Madrid, 1934. Though the Spanish Civil War has not yet begun, the streets of Madrid have become dangerous for thirteen-year-old Marco Alcalde and his younger sisters, Isabel and Ana. When Marco's parents align themselves against General Franco and his fascist regime, they have no inkling that their ideals will endanger them and everyone they love--nor do they predict the violence that is to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ESCChalmers, Irena.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.568 CHARone.
Contents: (00) -- Acid reflux -- Elle -- Sing song -- Memory -- Sir Orfeo -- Ouija -- Roads -- Calice Texas -- Freaks -- Quitter la ville -- VIF.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Infiné 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC RONEscobar, Mario
Summary: August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ESCEscobar, Mario
Summary: "From international bestseller Mario Escobar comes a 20th-century historical novel of tragedy and resilience inspired by Spain's famed Children of Morelia and the true events that shaped their lives"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESCCooper, Ilene
Summary: An inside look at the early lives of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, This Boy is a perfect book for any young reader embracing their inner Beatlemania.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 COOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BEATTLES COOIreene Wicker
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Pillsbury Flour Mills 1936
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMLassus, Irène
Summary: Paris is famous for its superb restaurants, but this book throws the net much wider and selects choice examples of the best food that the Parisians themselves eat and buy. The French love talking about food, and new tastes and ideas quickly become hot topics of conversation. The former restaurateur and cook, Irène Lassus-Fuchs, has her ear to the latest culinary talk, and here she has made a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 FRANCE LASSUS-FUCHSKobald, Irena
Summary: A homesick little girl who has recently moved to an unfamiliar country comforts herself by clinging to an old blanket, but when she meets a new friend, the relationship helps her take her first steps into a new culture.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC KOBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KOBNémirovsky, Irène
Summary: A novel about life and death in occupied France during World War II.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NEMNémirovsky, Irène
Summary: Ecrit dans le feu de l'Histoire, Suite française dépeint presque en direct l'Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un désordre tragique des familles françaises de toute sorte, des plus huppées aux plus modestes. Avec bonheur, Ireáne Némirovsky traque les innombrables petites lâchetés et les fragiles élans de solidarité d'une population en déroute. Cocottes larguées par leur amant, grands...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Denoël 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FRENCH 468 NEMEscobar, Mario
Summary: "Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Escobar 2021Escobar, Mario
Summary: "International bestselling author Mario Escobar captures the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of kindness in this moving novel based on the true story of a brave Polish teacher who cared for hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse, an imprint of Harper Collins Focus LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction EscobarCooper, Ilene.
Summary: Explains the origins and meaning of the major Jewish holidays, describes how they are observed, and suggests related crafts and recipes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 296.43 COOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Holiday CooperCooper, Ilene.
Summary: Halloween is near and Bobby has a great idea for costumes for himself and his dog, Lucy, but when he brings Lucy's costume to school for show-and-tell it disappears, and Bobby suspects the unfriendly new student took it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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Summary: In 1943 Germany, Helene is just about to wake up her children to go to school when a group of policemen break into her house. The policemen want to haul away her gypsy husband and their five children. The police tell Helene that as a German she does not have to go with them, but she decides to share the fate of her family. After convincing her children that they are going off to a vacation...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESCCooper, Ilene.
Summary: Bobby is a shy boy until he gets a beagle puppy named Lucy, who helps him to make new friends.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1977
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Place a hold to request this item.Haas, Irene
Summary: A little girl's wish to sail for a day on a boat named for her "with someone nice for company" comes true.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 1975