Summary: Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2010
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Contents: disc 1. Voices (prelude) (the Wandering Hearts) ; 'Cello song (Fontaines D.C.) ; Hazey Jane II (Camille) ; Saturday sun (Mike Lindsay feat. Guy Garvey) ; Road (Bombay Bicycle Club & the Staves) ; From the morning (Let's Eat Grandma) ; Place to be (David Gray) ; Three hours (John Parish & Aldous Harding) ; Parasite (Stick in the Wheel) ; Time has told me (Ben Harper) ; One of these things first...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ENDCaron, Claude
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Publisher / Publication Date: Familles Caron d'Amérique 1989
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 CARFontaine, Brigitte.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n] 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FONFontaine, Claire.
Summary: A mother, a daughter, and a life-changing adventure around the world . . Their bestselling memoir, Come Back , moved and inspired readers with the story of Mia Fontaine's harrowing drug addiction and her mother, Claire's, desperate and ultimately successful attempts to save her. Now it's a decade later and Claire and Mia each face a defining moment in her life, and a mother-daughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012
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Fontaine, Claire.
Summary: A mother, a daughter, and a life-changing adventure around the world . . Their bestselling memoir, Come Back , moved and inspired readers with the story of Mia Fontaine's harrowing drug addiction and her mother, Claire's, desperate and ultimately successful attempts to save her. Now it's a decade later and Claire and Mia each face a defining moment in her life, and a mother-daughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012
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Fontaine, Valérie
Summary: "The young girl tells us that her mom's new friend is just like the big bad wolf. At first the wolf is sweet and kind to her mom, though the girl notices the wolf's cold eyes from the very beginning. When her mom arrives home late one day, the wolf suddenly hurls angry words and terrible names at her. From that day on her mother doesn't smile anymore. The girl is careful to clean her room and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.829 FONFontaine, Claire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FONFontaine, Claire.
Summary: Told in alternating voices, a travelogue capturing the changing relationship between a mother and her adult daughter follows their sixteen-city, twelve-country tour during which their adventures and mishaps brought them closer together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.41 FONFontaine, Brigitte.
Contents: Vous et nous -- Patriarcat -- Mon enfance -- Vent d'automne -- Serveur du dme -- Je suis venu te voir -- Rein que changer -- Ciel est doux -- Pis -- Repas des dromadaires -- Vous et nous -- Amour parfait -- Soleil -- Dans ma rue -- Orage est fini -- Gamme -- Brin d'herbe -- Harpe jaune -- Je t'aimerai -- Diabolo -- Cher -- Ce n'est pas un ennemi -- Encaustique -- Petit sapin -- Mon lit -- Je...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: PID 1977
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Summary: "When her mother goes missing, a young woman uncovers the secrets beneath her protected community"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Methuen 1985
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 PANET GOUMontaigne, Michel de
Summary: "One of the great French Renaissance thinkers, sixteenth-century philosopher Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was remarkably modern in his views. His writings-brilliant forerunners of the modern essay-reflect his thoughts and opinions on poetry, philosophy, theology, law, literature, education, and world exploration. Highly readable works written in a lively, conversational style, Montaigne's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications, Inc. 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 840 MONGaroche, Camille
Summary: This wordless story is about two sisters, a walk in the snowy forest, and the appearance of an enchanted rabbit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GARGriep, Camille
Summary: "Everything is going according to story for CeCi (Cinderella), Bianca (Snow White), and Rory (Sleeping Beauty)-- until the day that Zell (Rapunzel) decides to leave Grimmland and pursue her life. Now, Zell's best friends are left to wonder whether their own passions are worth risking their predetermined "happily ever afters," regardless of the consequences. CeCi wonders whether she should...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIPagán, Camille
Summary: Libby Miller has always been an unwavering optimist -but when her husband drops a bomb on their marriage the same day a doctor delivers devastating news, she realizes her rose-colored glasses have actually been blinding her. With nothing left to lose, she abandons her life in Chicago for the clear waters and bright beaches of the Caribbean for what might be her last hurrah. Despite her new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PAGSummary: [Carmen] A beautiful gypsy girl uses her irresistable charms to seduce a faithful military guard so that a band of smugglers can penetrate his stronghold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARAubray, Camille
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Dressing the Resistance' explores how everyday people have harnessed the visual power of clothing, accessories and costume to spur social and cultural change. Throughout history, societies have used clothing to show acceptance and exclusion, convention and subversion, group belonging and rejection. In the same way, fashion, clothing, textiles and costume have served their own critical role in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Archetectural Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.0086 BENPaglia, Camille
Summary: America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some surprising discoveries of her own. She brings new energy and insight to our understanding of poems we already know, such as masterpieces by Shakespeare, Donne, Shelley, Dickinson, Lowell, and Plath. She leads us to appreciate the artistry of writers with whom we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 PAGPaglia, Camille
Summary: "From the fiery intellectual provocateur: a brilliant essay collection that both celebrates and challenges modern feminism--from motherhood to Madonna, football to Friedan, stilettos to Steinem. When Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her best-selling Sexual Personae, she established herself as a smart, fearless, and often dissenting voice among feminists. Now, for the first time,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 PAGAndros, Camille
Summary: The author presents a picture book biography of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, co-founder and director of the first private orphanage in New York City and wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton.--adapted from publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HAMILTON ANDAubray, Camille.
Summary: "Thrilling, fast-paced, and engaging, Cooking for Picasso is a novel that vividly portrays the South of France. Intrigue, art, food, and deception are woven together in a tale of love and betrayal around the life and legacy of Picasso. Touching and true, this well-written narrative made me long for my mother's coq au vin and for the sun of Juan-les-Pins."--Jacques Pépin, chef, TV personality,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AUBFinan, Camille.
Summary: Gone are the days of the traditional, ridiculously expensive kitchen remodel that's more form than function. Yes, you can have a new, beautiful, functional kitchen at a reasonable price! Camille Finan will show you how. Kitchen Love Story was written for women by a woman. Licensed contractor and cabinet builder Camille Finan, is your personal kitchen construction advocate. Throughout the book,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SparkPress 2014