Summary: In 1667, the powerful king of France, Louis XIV, is but 28 years old when he decides to build Versailles, the greatest palace in the world. After draining the budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VER

Summary: A young boy tries to train an albino colt into a race horse.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY THU

Summary: Ken McLaughlin has a new horse, Crown Jewel, with whom he hopes to win enough money to help his father raise money for Goose Bar Ranch's financial crisis. Crown Jewel's heart is not in the race, since she is more captivated by the stallion Thunderhead.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GRE

Summary: In 1684 France, Louis XIV, the Sun King, is the most powerful and influential monarch on the planet. But his birthday is approaching along with a rare solar eclipse and he's worried about the future of France. His spiritual advisor, Pr̈e La Chaise, comforts him, while his physician, Dr. Labarthe informs him that scientists believe mermaids contain a life force that grants immortality. Louis...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2022

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY KIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie King's

Flint, Eric

Summary: In 1636 France, King Louis sends his expectant wife, Queen Anne, into seclusion to keep her safe, while France's foreign enemies as well as traitors within the court make their move, forcing factions both inside and outside of the country to choose sides.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLI

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

Dumas, Alexandre

Summary: In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUM

Erickson, Carolly

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ERI

Gregory, Philippa

Summary: When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined with Margaret's younger sister Mary to a sisterhood unique in the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRE

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRE

Contents: CD A. Mabel's dream ; Riverside blues (King Oliver's Jazz Band) -- Buddy's habits ; Henpecked blues (Charlie Straight & his orchestra) -- Piggly wiggly blues ; South African blues (Windy Rhythm Kings) -- Mr. Jelly Lord ; Steady Roll (Jelly Roll Morton's Stomp Kings) -- Steppin' on the blues ; Traveling blues ; Charleston, South Carolina ; Heebie jeebies ; Peepin' blues (Lovie Austin & her Blues...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2009

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PAR

Summary: 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 MAR

Summary: A romantic drama following Sabine, a strong-willed and talented landscape designer, who is selected to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape artist Andre Le Notre.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Little 2015

Summary: Molly's in a tizzy over wedding plans, but Mike doesn't get what all the fuss is about. His-and-her versions of wedding planning woes are at the heart of the second season.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Mike

Koen, Karleen.

Summary: Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man -- the man before Versailles? After the death of his prime minister, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps in to govern France. He's still a young man, but one who, as king, willfully takes all he can get -- including his brother's wife. As the love affair between Louis and Princess...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KOE

Steinberg, David

Summary: "Get to know the hilarious true story of King Louis XIV of France and his famous high-heeled shoes!"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LOU

Contents: Now you has jazz / Bing Crosby -- I've got the world on a string / Frank Sinatra -- Until the real thing comes along / Dean Martin -- Let's face the music and dance / Matt Monro -- Always / Bobby Darin -- I want a little girl / Billy Eckstine -- I cried for you (now it's your turn to cry over me) / Andy Russell -- But not for me / Chet Baker -- It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 1995

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL PEN

Summary: Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. When she arrives at Versailles, she must obey the numerous and complex rules of the French court.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MAR

Armstrong, Louis

Contents: Just gone -- Canal Street blues -- Mandy Lee blues -- I'm going away to wear you off my mind -- Chimes blues -- Weather bird rag -- Dipper mouth blues -- Froggie Moore -- Snake rag -- Alligator hop -- Zulu's ball -- Workingman blues -- Krooked blues -- Mabel's dream -- Southern stomp -- Riverside blues -- Texas moaner blues -- Of all the wrongs you've done to me -- Terrible blues -- Santa Claus...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Musical Heritage 1993

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ARM

Summary: The story of a callous monarch, swept to her death in the torrent of the French Revolution. It is also the tale of a fragile young woman struggling to find herself during one of the most turbulent moments in human history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAR

Contents: You're nobody 'til somebody loves you (Dean Martin) -- Paid for loving (Love Jones) -- With plenty of money and you (Count Basie, Tony Bennett) -- You & me & the bottle makes 3 tonight (Baby) (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy) -- Knock me a kiss (Louis Jordan) -- Wake up (the Jazz Jury) -- Groove me (King Floyd) -- I wan'na be like you (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy) -- Mucci's jag M.K. II (Joey Altruda) -- King of...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Records/Hollywood Records 1996

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MUS

Kruger, Diane

Summary: Follows the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her servants in July 1789, the beginning of the French Revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: eOne 2013

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

Worsley, Lucy

Summary: Lucy Worsley explores locations important to royal history and attempts to sort out facts from fiction about the past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2021

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LUC

Summary: Tells the story of the 14-year-old ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France. Marie Antoinette has became one of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria. And how the young woman must grow up in front of the entire country of France.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAR

Louie, Ai-Ling.

Summary: A young Chinese girl overcomes the wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a prince.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PaperStar 1996

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 LOU
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