Summary: Shaun Russel's life is thrown into turmoil after her father's unexpected death. She takes her two young children out to his mansion in Malibu in order to attempt to settle his estate. The mansion is designed with state-of-the-art security that ends up trapping her kids inside, along with four criminals who plan to capture her late father's wealth as well. Shaun must now attempt to save her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BRESummary: An American widower in Paris, desolate at the unexplained suicide of his wife, plunges into a torrid sexual relationship with a stranger, a young French girl half his age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: Pasolini's rendition of 8 of Boccaccio's tales. Includes lusty nuns who perform sexual "miracles," a cheating wife with a head for business, a dying con artist attempting a heavenly swindle, young lovers caught with their pants down, a servant who loses his head for love and a gullible farmer who tries to turn his wife into a mare.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DECJarawan, Pierre
Summary: "Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family's adopted home in Germany for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. His only clues are an old photo and the bedtime stories his father used to tell him. The Storyteller follows Samir's search for Brahim, the father whose heart was always yearning for his homeland, Lebanon. This moving and gripping novel about family secrets,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jarawan 2019Summary: "The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their reclusive grandfather in Tuscany, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious story of their ancestors -- a tragic tale filled with forbidden love, passion, vengeance and betrayal"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIOBertrand, Pierre.
Summary: Quand il était petit, Pierre ne voulait pas manger sa soupe. «Tu sais ce qui arrive aux petits garçons qui ne veulent pas manger leur soupe?» lui disait son père, «Eh bien, à minuit, la sorcière Cornebidouille vient les voir dans leur chambre, et elle leur fait tellement peur que le lendemain, non seulement ils mangent leur soupe, mais ils avalent la soupière avec.» Pierre s’en fichait. Il ne...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: École des loisirs 2005
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 BON FRENCHLemaître, Pierre
Summary: Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven must learn all he can about a woman with a troubled past if he is ever going to save her from the twisted killer who is holding her hostage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMLemaître, Pierre
Summary: Normally happy and well-adjusted, Sophie Duguet doesn't understand what's happening to her: she has begun losing things, from her recently delivered mail to the car she parked the night before. She is constantly forgetting things she's said and done, too ... only to be reminded of them by her acquaintances. She's even detained by the police for shoplifting--a crime she has no memory whatsoever...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MacLehose Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMLemaître, Pierre
Summary: For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he's happily married, and expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder so savage that even the most hardened officers on the force are shaken to the core. In the face of the seemingly motiveless horror, only Verhoeven makes the vital connection - the crime scene resembles one described in a James...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MaLehose Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEMMagnan, Pierre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGGrimard, Gabrielle
Summary: Lila has just moved to a new town and can't wait to make friends at school. But on the first day, a boy points at her and shouts: "A crow! A crow! The new girl's hair is black like a crow!" The others whisper and laugh, and Lila's heart grows as heavy as a stone. The next day, Lila covers her hair. But this time, the boy points at her dark skin. When she covers her face, he mocks her dark eyes....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRIBoullGe, Pierre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers Press 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOUFrei, Pierre
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREMagnan, Pierre
Summary: At the turn of the century in Upper Provence, a family is violently massacred. The sole survivor of the tragedy is a three-week-old baby. Twenty years later, the orphaned survivor returns home to avenge his family's killers, but for each murder he plots, another hand executes it in his place, and unexpected secrets set in motion a dreadful unveiling of the past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MAGBierce, Ambrose
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio State University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 BIEFierro, Julia
Summary: "It is the summer of 1992 and a gypsy moth invasion blankets Avalon Island. Ravenous caterpillars disrupt early summer serenity on Avalon, an islet off the coast of Long Island--dropping onto novels left open on picnic blankets, crawling across the T-shirts of children playing games of tag and capture the flag in the island's leafy woods. The caterpillars become a relentless topic of island...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEGreiman, Lois.
Summary: Welcome to the Lazy Windmill, where guests find that life is what you make it, love is priceless, and family is determined by far more than DNA. Casie Carmichael's accidental dude ranch is well on its way, but the residents of her Hope Springs haven are running wild. With an unwed mother-to-be, a turbulent teen romance, and a bronc-riding grandmother to contend with, the last thing Casie has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGrindal, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIFierro, Julia.
Summary: "One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, their young children in tow. Nicole, the hostess, struggles to keep her OCD behaviors unnoticed. Stay-at-home dad Rip grapples with the reality that his careerist wife will likely deny him a second child,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEGrimaldi, Virginie.
Summary: Anna, 37 ans, croule sous le travail et les relances des huissiers. Ses filles, elle ne fait que les croiser au petit déjeuner. Sa vie défile, et elle l'observe depuis la bulle dans laquelle elle s'est enfermée. A 17 ans, Chloé a des rêves plein la tête mais a choisi d'y renoncer pour aider sa mère. Elle cherche de l'affection auprès des garçons, mais cela ne dure jamais. Comme le carrosse de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fayard 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIBierce, Ambrose
Summary: This volume of selected stories represents an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm, irony and element of surprise, they differ from the fiction admired in Ambrose Bierce's time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BIEGrimly, Gris
Summary: "Join goblins, ghosts, witches, and more in this rhythmic countdown, traveling through the countryside and discovering more Halloween creatures along the way. Finally, the story culminates with them all joining together in a joyful celebration under the full harvest moon, dancing until it's time for bed."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GRIPerret, Delphine.
Summary: When Bernard, the Big Bad Wolf, joins Louis and his grandfather on their annual trip to the beach, getting there is half the fun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2012