Summary: "A housebound trophy housewife steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF POTSummary: A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGSummary: Jean Renoir, one of the greatest French directors, tells the epic story of the French Revolution. Made towards the end of France's left wing Popular Front government when Europe was on the brink of war, this is a markedly political film about a country in flux. Filmed in a jaunty newsreel style, it follows a cross section of people, from the citizens of Marseilles to Louis XVI, who are affected...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: "An age-old family curse hits sisters Kitty and Franziska following the death of their grandfather Tobias. Every hundred years, so the legend goes, the bloodthirsty Red Queen returns and claims seven fresh victims. Was Tobias just the first ... and are Kitty and Franziska next?"--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN REDSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: 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 TWOSummary: The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Called to the foreign field ; I am bound for the promised land ; Where we'll never grow old ; When they ring the golden bells ; To the work ; Do not wait 'till I'm laid beneath the clay ; The days of my childhood plays ; We shall be reunited (Alfred G. Karnes) -- Crossed old Jordan's stream (Bird's Kentucky Corn Crackers) -- I am on my way to heaven (Hill Brothers with Willie Simmons) -- Music...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS MOUSummary: Oliver is working as a carpentry instructor in a French suburb. He develops an obsession with a new student and offers him friendship and advice with a frightening lack of affection. Oliver's connection to the boy is slowly and painfully revealed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONSummary: Young & innocent: Robert is the estranged husband of a beautiful actress with a bad reputation. When he discovers her lifeless body on the beach, he is mistaken for the murderer and soon finds himself on the run, learning that the murder makes for very strange bedfellows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BCI Eclipse 2007
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ALFSummary: 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 STOSummary: At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performances, a dysfunctional sonic collective faces power struggles, vendettas, and gastrointestinal disorders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FLUSummary: Jake Doyle is a new breed of private investigator, cracking cases in contemporary St. John's, N.L. His hometown is changing in a big way, transforming from a small seaport to a booming oil town. Along with his father/partner-in-crime-solving, Malachy Doyle, the two are ready to take on whatever mystery turns up on their doorstep.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBC Home Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REPSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Prevost, Jean Pierre.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Continuum 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 224.06 PRESummary: Geneviève, a shop assistant, falls in love with Guy, a gas station mechanic. But a life with him will not be in her future. A tender, bittersweet love story, sung throughout in French.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UMBVernant, Jean Pierre.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 292.13 VernaFlorez, Juan Diego
Summary: Count Almaviva, in love with Rosina, the ward of Dr. Bartolo, succeeds, with the help of the barber, Figaro, in defeating the doctor's attempts to separate the lovers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BARMoullé, Jean-Pierre.
Summary: Jean-Pierre and Denise Moullé met on a street corner in Berkeley, California, in 1980; six months later they were married. French Roots is the story of their lives told through the food they cook—beginning with the dishes of old-world France, the couple’s birthplace, and focusing on the simple, pared-down preparations of French food common in the postwar period. The story then travels to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 MOUKerinec, Jean-Claude.
Contents: Samba -- Kericongaia -- Ambiance / Tropicana -- Cristal -- Coconote -- Ambiance / Vendetta Conga -- Mamba -- Ambiance / Staffa Conga
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Disques Pierre Verany 1900
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN MAMMirouze, Jean-Pierre.
Contents: Together -- Sexopolis -- Tivoli Garden -- Ulla et Georgie -- Karin On the Ryke -- Lovers Party -- Tivoli By Night -- Scene du Port -- Tandoori Dance.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Born Bad Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MARRampal, Jean Pierre.
Contents: Andante con variazioni (4:15) / G. Rossini -- Fantaisie, op. 124 (12:32) / C. Saint-Saëns -- Sonata concertante, op. 113: Adagio (4:39) / L. Spohr -- Berceuse, op. 16 (2:52) / G. Fauré -- Duo, op. 30: Allegro (6:52), Rondo: Allegro (3:36) / F. Petrini -- Romance, op. 37 (5:45) / C. Saint-Saëns -- Adagio für eine spieluhr, WoO 33/1 (5:27) / L. van Beethoven -- Sicilienne, op. 78 (3:25) / G....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RAMSiméon, Jean-Pierre
Summary: After his mother, hurrying to her tuba lesson, tells him that a poem will cure his pet fish's boredom, a little boy tries to find out what a poem is by asking friends, neighbors, and other members of his family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Simeon 2007Verdet, Jean-Pierre.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1992