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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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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IMM

Summary: Cardinal Mazarin dies in 1661. The young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, who wants to be prime minister and is looting the treasury. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand. Louis' mistress reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TAK

Summary: Jean-Louis Trintignant plays an engineer seeking the perfect mate. Just when he thinks he has found her, he finds himself accidentally spending the night sharing the bed of a seductive divorcee, Maud.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1997

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MY

Summary: Two English sisters at the turn of the century are in love with the same man for seven years. His inability to choose between them (compounded by his overpossessive mother), and the girls' own powerful passions-- both expressed and repressed-- create a painful, emotionally charged triangle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1999

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWO

Summary: Adele, daughter of French author and patriot Victor Hugo, is beautiful, composed and filled with the same brilliant writing talent as her famous father. However, Adele is driven not by literary aspirations but by love. Impelled by a need that will not be denied, she has run away from home to follow her handsome, womanizing lover across an ocean to wintry Halifax, Nova Scotia. Wild with desire,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN STO

Françoise

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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark Publishers 1999

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FRA

Summary: Based on the true story of Adele Hugo's obsessive love affair which led her to run away from home to follow her womanizing lover across an ocean to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STO

Hardy, Francoise

Contents: Jazzy retro satanas -- Branche cassee -- Ame s'trame drame -- Si c'est vraiment vraiment vrai -- Bosse bossez bossa -- Gin tonic -- Juke box -- Seule comme une pomme -- Chanson ouverte -- Minuit minuit -- Que tu m'enterres

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI France 1994

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HAR

FREEDMAN, FRANCOISE

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2004

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796 FREED

Gilot, Francoise

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1990

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Furet, Francois

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.4 FUR

Frenkel, Françoise

Summary: "In 1921, Franc̦oise Frenkel-a Jewish woman from Poland-fulfills a lifelong dream. She opens Berlin's first French-language bookshop, La Maison du Livre, attracting artists, diplomats, celebrities, and poets. The shop soon becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. But as the occupation intensifies and politics darken, Frenkel's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 921 FRE

Hardy, Françoise

Contents: À cache-cache (3:31) -- Dors mon ange (4:06) -- Personne d'autre (3:01) -- Un seul geste (3:24) -- You're my home (3:24) -- Seras-tu là? (3:09) -- Quel dommage (3:19) -- Train spécial (4:08) -- Brumes (3:03) -- Trois petits tours (3:11) -- Le large (3:46) -- Un mal qui fait du bien (1:34).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Parlophone 2018

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HAR

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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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SAG FRENCH

Daulte, Francois.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books 1982

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 DAU

Summary: Marianne is the wife of a famous diamond jeweler. When he suddenly commits suicide, she learns that the business is in shambles and she is drawn back into the jewel dealing world. Forced to sell a cache of stolen gems her husband hid in their home, she finds herself confronted by plenty of would-be suitors, including the Russian mafia and the De Beers diamond cartel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PLA

RABELAIS, FRANCOIS

Contents: Francois Rabelais:Gargantua and Pantagruel

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1952

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Great v. 22 Rabelais

Rabelais, Francois

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1952

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RAB

Crozat, Francois.

Summary: A young dinosaur describes his family and activities and takes a look at other kinds of dinosaurs that share his environment.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1989

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ROBERT, FRANCOIS

Summary: Presents, with accompanying rhyming text, photographs of everyday objects depicting faces.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Raincoast Books 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC ROBER

Summary: "A stylish and poignant film about Jewish director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent), who is forced to hide in the basement of his theater during the Nazi occupation while his wife (Catherine Deneuve) stars in its latest production. Romantic tensions mount when she and her leading man (Gérard Depardieu) begin to fall in love with each other. At the same time, a pro-Nazi theater critic ensconces...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1999

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LAS

Frenkel, Françoise

Summary: In 1921, Françoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRE

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRENKEL, FRANOISE FRE

Hardy, Françoise

Contents: Ma jeunesse fout l'camp -- Viens là -- Mon amour adieu -- La fin de l'été -- En vous aimant bien -- Qui peut dire -- Des ronds dans l'eau -- Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux -- Il est trop loin -- Mais il y a des soirs -- Voilà -- C'était charmant -- Comment te dire adieu = It Hurts To Say Goodbye -- Où va la chance -- L'anamour -- Suzanne -- Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux -- La mésange -- Parlez moi...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Music France 2014

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HAR

Hardy, Françoise.

Contents: Disc 1. Tous les garçons et les filles -- J'suis d'accord -- Temps de l'amour -- Ton meilleur ami -- Fille avec toi -- Amour s'en va -- Je pense à lui -- Qui aime t'il vraiment -- Premier bonheur du jour -- Va pas prendre un tambour -- J'aurais voulu -- Sais tu -- Amour ne dure pas toujours -- Pourtant tu m'aimes -- On se quitte toujours -- Tout me ramène à toi -- Apprends le moi -- C'est le...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Camden Deluxe/BMG 2001

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HAR

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