Lester, Natasha
Summary: "New York City/Paris, 1942: When American model Jessica May arrives in Europe to cover the war as a photojournalist for Vogue, most of the soldiers are determined to make her life as difficult as possible. But three friendships change that. Journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules. Captain Dan Hallworth keeps her safe in dangerous places so she can capture the stories that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LesterContents: Part I, Pembina Chippewa drum songs. Soldier's honor song ; New grass dance song ; Rock dance song ; Go homing song ; Love song/Round dance ; Buffalo song ; Many eagles set sun dance song -- Part II, French songs, from elders to children. Le matelot de Montréal = The sailor from Montreal ; Chanson à boire = Drinking song ; Le garçon le moins heureux = The most unhappy fellow ; Napoléon...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN PLALupiano, Vincent dePaul
Summary: "The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is recognized yearly throughout France with the same profundity as the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in the United States. The Oradour Massacre is taught in school in France and the anniversary is commemorated every year. Today, Oradour is a destination for people interested in one of the most horrific events in French history....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The color layout gives maximum case of access and enables effective communication for educational, business, and traveling purposes. Usage levels are indicated throughout, with extensive examples to illustrate how words are used in context. A system of style labels identifies whether a word is formal, informal, literary, offensive, dated, or euphemistic. In addition, specific meanings are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 443 COLSella, Vittorio
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aperture 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 SUMVance, J. D.
Summary: Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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4 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 VANCE, J.D. VANBagieu, Pénélope
Summary: With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 920 BAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 920 BagieuNorman, Diana.
Summary: Philippa risks her life to cross the Channel in France in order to save her old friend the Marquis de Condorcet from beheading during the Reign of Terror and finds love in the midst of danger and despair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORSummary: An unsentimental elegy to the American West follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SWESummary: After the wife of knight Jean de Carrouge accuses his squire of assaulting her virtue, King Charles VI declares that the men must fight to the death, leaving the truth to be revealed by God who will let the guilty man perish. This arrangement will leave the woman either berieved or besmirched, her life and position in society ruined no matter the result.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2021
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LASCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LASMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: It is up to mountain wisefolk Rattler and Nora Bonesteel to calm the Civil War ghosts who are still wandering the mountains and prevent a clash between the living the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCGurevich, Margaret
Summary: When Gabriela hears about tryouts for a solo dance at the next dance competition she is super excited, but when Brie, her best friend at Ms. Marianne's Academy of Dance, decides to try out as well, it seems like it might be the end of a beautiful friendship--because Gabby really wants this opportunity, and she is having trouble dealing with the idea of competing against a friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: an imprint of Stone Arch Books 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GURSummary: The owner of Montmartre's most notorious nightspot, the Café Le Bal Du Paradis, Simone Pistache spends a great deal of her time in court, thanks to the banning of that "lewd and lascivious" dance, the Can-Can. So when her nightlife-loving lawyer and boyfriend, François Durnais, refuses to settle down and marry her, Simone decides to play up to his rival in romance, Parisian judge Philipe...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CANMaddox, Jake.
Summary: Best friends Hannah and Caitlin are both on the high school dance team, but Hannah is troubled when her friend's preoccupation with a boy causes her to miss practice time and put their friendship at risk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a remote prehistoric mountain tribe, the young hunter D'Leh finds his heart's passion in the beautiful Evolet. But when a band of mysterious warlords raid their village and kidnaps Evolet, D'Leh leads a small group of hunters to save her. As they venture into unknown lands for the first time, the group discovers there are civilizations beyond their own and that mankind's reach is far greater...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TENScurr, Ruth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBESPIERRE, MAXIMILIE SCULawrence, Jack
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Music Co. 1953
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Filmed in Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, the movie uncovers an unexpected set of artists, poets, activists, queer musicians, 'Affrilachian' poets, and intersectional feminists, all unexpected voices emerging form this historically misunderstood region.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HILDiderot, Denis
Summary: This book invites you to venture not only among the great names in interior design and fashion, but also into the homes of ordinary people who have cleverly arranged their living rooms with both taste and imagination--P. [5].
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Publisher / Publication Date: Filipacchi Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.75 LIVSummary: Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by familial betrayal and Spain's invading army. She and her shrewd advisor must act to safeguard the lives of her people. When the dashing seafarer, Walter Raleigh, captures her heart, Elizabeth is forced to make her most tragic sacrifice for the good of her country. A tale of one woman's crusade to control her love, destroy her enemies and secure her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Elizabeth 2008Puhak, Shelley
Summary: The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule. Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet, in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PUHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PUHSummary: In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFHudak, Heather C.
Summary: An introduction to the ecosystems found on mountains, discussing what lives on a mountain and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wonder Books, an imprint of The Child's World 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.5 HUDSummary: Explores the small towns and scenic back roads of the U.S. Red Rock Rim looks at the western frontier by examining Western art, visiting a cowboy poet in Sedona, riding a mule in and a helicopter over the Grand Canyon, and discovering Monument Valley. Northern New Mexico visits Taos, famous for skiing and artists such as Ansel Adams and Geogia O'Keefe. Looks at Taos' artist community, takes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2004