Françoise

Contents: Jeanne-Marie counts her sheep -- Springtime for Jeanne-Marie -- Noël for Jeanne-Marie.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark Publishers 1999

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Sagan, Françoise

Summary: Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old CÃcile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her fatherâa handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eyeâfor a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. CÃcile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket 2009

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Sagan, Françoise

Summary: Cecile is the spoiled 17-year-old daughter of Raymond, a wealthy Parisian widower vacationing in a villa on the French Riviera. Their pleasure-seeking existence is threatened when Raymond decides to marry Cecile's straitlaced godmother, Anne, who disapproves of the teenager's steamy summer affair.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial Modern Classics 2008

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Summary: A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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Summary: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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Summary: A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: the Criterion Collection 2015

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Summary: The lady, Grace Elliot, was once the mistress of the Prince of Wales. She left him for Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, a cousin of Louis XVI. The film opens a year after the fall of the Bastille, and while their affair is over, Grace and the Duc have stayed close friends. But just because they're friends doesn't mean they can't (and don't) have powerful political arguments. Organized around five...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2002

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Liniers

Summary: "When Henrietta's mother gives her a box of colored pencils, she sets out to draw a terrifying and fantastic adventure"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TOON Books, an imprint of RAW Junior 2015

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Summary: L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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Summary: Shortly after his 9th birthday, Camille tells his mother Ariane that he is really Paul, and that he would like to return to his "real" mother, Isabella, who lives on the other side of town. Alarmed at first, but willing to humor him, she takes him to Isabella's and is startled to find out he knows her apartment intimately. It turns out that Isabella's son drowned two years earlier. Is Camille...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2003

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Summary: Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: This is a passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seems unable to live with him or without him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2015

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Summary: Nona, a consummate 70-year-old Parisienne, a feminist, and a strong and committed single mother of 40-year-old triplets. She is confronted with the surprise of a lifetime she is pregnant! Despite her secret love affair with André -- a mature university professor, he is not the father. But who is, then? Nona's daughters decide to move back into the family apartment to support their mother and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Lynch, Jay.

Summary: After a genie fulfills Otto the cat's wish by turning the whole world orange, Otto realizes that his favorite color is not the best color for everything.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Toon Books 2008

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Verne, Jules

Summary: This book tells the story of Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman who makes a fantastic trip as a bet. His adventures, with his French manservant Passepartout, by railway, steamship and elephant see him travel around the world pursued relentlessly by a detective who mistakes the traveler for a notorious criminal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallimard 2004

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Summary: A withdrawn couple's isolated house is infiltrated by a rude, burly American gangster on the run. The three engage in role-playing games of sexual and emotional humiliations. An evocative, claustrophobic, and morbidly funny tale of the modern world in chaos.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011

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Summary: A Scottish soldier is assigned the task of disarming a bomb in a small French town at the close of World War I. The townspeople have deserted the town leaving behind the inmates of the local insane asylum who embrace the soldier as their king.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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Summary: On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: A wealthy merchant in nineteenth century Macao becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: JCVD is an out of luck actor. He's out of money, his agent can't find him a decent production, and a judge is inclined to give his ex-wife custody of his daughter. He returns to his childhood home of Brussels. When he goes into a post office to receive a wire transfer, he finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation. Due to an unfortunate mistake, the police believe JCVD is responsible...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Peace Arch Home Entertainment 2009

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Lelord, François.

Summary: Story of a psychiatrist who traveled around the world to try to understand what made people happy or unhappy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010

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Aubineau, François

Summary: "Both the perspective of the wolf and the shepherd are seen in this flippable picture book."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2020

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Corteggiani, François

Summary: When evil Prince John tells the Sheriff of Nottingham to collect unreasonable taxes from the animals of Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood and his merry men wage a battle against their evil foes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021

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