La Fontaine, Jean de
Summary: First published between 1668 and 1693, the Fables of La Fontaine rank among the masterpieces of French literature. This volume contains 75 of the best, in the original French with new English line-for-line literal translations. "The Cicada and the Ant," "The City Rat and the Country Rat," "The Fox and the Grapes," many more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 LA FLa Fontaine, Jean de
Summary: Among the masterpieces of French literature: 75 Fables in original French with new English line-for-line literal translations. "The Cicada & the Ant," "The Fox & the Grapes," many more. Annotation. First published between 1668 and 1693, the Fables of La Fontaine rank among the masterpieces of French literature. This volume contains 75 of the best, in the original French with new English...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1997
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 468 LAF FRENCHLi, Christina
Summary: The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. Benjamin Burns doesn't like science, but he can't get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LILi, Christina
Summary: "Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LISummary: Follows the trials and tribulations of a busload of tourists who get stranded in an abandoned mining town in the middle of the African desert. After a fine bout of partying, they fall prey to the heat, isolation, and fear of death that pushes them to the extremes of introspection and emotional exploration. And in a beautifully futile gesture, they begin to rehearse a production of Shakespeare's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KINVarious artists
Contents: Crazy in love (Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z) -- Where is the love? (The Black Eyed Peas & Justin Timberlake) -- Clocks (Coldplay) -- Lose yourself (Eminem) -- Work it (Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott) -- Going under (Evanescence) -- The way you move (Outkast) -- Cry me a river (Justin Timberlake) -- Beautiful (Christina Aguilera) -- I'm with you (Avril Lavigne) -- Dance with my father (Luther Vandross)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grammy Recordings 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GraSummary: Follows the story of a Federal Marshal with the Witness Protection program who must hide her high-risk, high-impact job from her family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INSummary: "Ousmane Sembène ... made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot--about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally--into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLASummary: It's been 10 years since glam-rock superstar Brian Slade faked his own death and vanished from the spotlight. Now, it's the job of an investigative reporter to locate this living legend and uncover the truth behind his disappearance!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VELde la Peña, Matt
Summary: While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DE LCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DE LMa-Kellams, Christine
Summary: "The biting literary satire of The Sellout meets the pulsing thrill of Mouth to Mouth in this darkly humorous, surreal debut about a seductive, but problematic bond between an unhappily married therapist and the cancelled K-Pop idol she meets at a Los Angeles H Mart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEDrake, Nick
Contents: disc 1. Voices (prelude) (the Wandering Hearts) ; 'Cello song (Fontaines D.C.) ; Hazey Jane II (Camille) ; Saturday sun (Mike Lindsay feat. Guy Garvey) ; Road (Bombay Bicycle Club & the Staves) ; From the morning (Let's Eat Grandma) ; Place to be (David Gray) ; Three hours (John Parish & Aldous Harding) ; Parasite (Stick in the Wheel) ; Time has told me (Ben Harper) ; One of these things first...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ENDSummary: "A young F.B.I. agent is assigned watchdog duty over a fellow agent, but finds herself drawn into his investigations of paranormal and unexplained phenomena."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV XSummary: Based on a true story about revenge, fear and redemption. In 19th century St. Pierre, a convict sentenced to death strives to better himself in the eyes of the police chief's beautiful wife and that of the town that she has him working in. Since there is no guillotine or executioner, one of each has to be sent for from France.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIDBat Dawid, Angel
Contents: Enlightenment -- Destination -- Capetown -- Black family -- What shall I tell my children who are black -- London -- We hearby declare the african look -- We are starzz -- VIKTORious return --Tha wicked shall not prevail -- Melo Deez from Heab'N -- HELL.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ DAWContents: Wayfaring pilgrim / Ola Belle Reed (4:29) -- Free a little bird / Bascom Lamar Lunsford (2:42) -- Cripple creek / Mike Seeger with Etta Baker (1:54) -- Cindy / George Pegram and Red Parham (1:55) -- And am I born to die / Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton (3:30) -- Poor soldier / Ginny Hawker (2:45) -- Wild rose of the mountain / J.P. Fraley (2:11) -- Times are not what they used to be / Ginny...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MOUSummary: "In a rundown circus on the outskirts of Mexico City, 13 year-old Alma earns a living as a trapeze artist. When her fellow performers find out that she is pregnant, Alma is expelled from the circus. She lives on the streets until she meets a troupe of traveling puppeteers that preach the word of God. Alma sees a promise in them, a glimpse of hope. This is a story of a young girl's search for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Desert Mountain Media 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANGContents: Freak levels / Brant Bjork and the Bros -- Reverberation / The 13th Floor Elevators -- Purple haze / The Flames -- Day of the change / Andromeda -- After gong / Flowers Must Die -- Let it be unknown / Endless Boogie -- Mothers of the sun / Black Mountain -- Liquid bridges / Hedvig Mollestad Trio -- London stone / The Bevis Frond -- Night witch / Wolf People -- Union of mind and soul / Goat -- I...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: The story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment manifests itself into her relationships with her adopted children, Christina and Christopher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOMde la Peña, Matt
Summary: Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby? Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How come they always have to get off in the dirty part of town? Each question is met with an encouraging answer from grandma, who helps him see the beauty-and fun-in their routine and the world around...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV LASMountain
Contents: Disc one. Blood of the sun (2:35) ; Long red (3:15) ; Blind man (3:54) ; Dreams of milk and honey (3:34) Southbound train (2:59) ; Because you are my friend / West (3:12) ; Mississippi queen (2:31) ; Theme from an imaginary western (5:06) ; Never in my life (3:51) ; Silver paper (3:17) ; For yasgur's farm (3:23) ; To my friend / West (3:37) ; Sittin' on a rainbow (2:22) ; Stormy monday [live] /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOUde la Peña, Matt.
Summary: A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015