Summary: Comedy about a Hollywood bigwig who is giving a party to which every climber in town wants to be invited. By mistake, an accident-prone Indian actor is invited, and the result is hilarious slapstick and a wicked and shrewd insider's view of Tinseltown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PARMerberg, Julie.
Summary: Provides a simple introduction to the work of French artist Claude Monet, featuring his Impressionist paintings of city and country scenes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2003
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE MERMonet, Claude
Summary: Presents paintings of Claude Monet, accompanied by phrases in the painter's own words, edited to form a simple rhyme that runs through the text.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2009
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Summary: A comprehensive catalog highlights the artist's career with examples of his paintings from every period, drawings and pastels, and a year-by-year chronology of his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.44 MONMonet, Claude
Summary: Discusses Monet's career, and shows his paintings of the water lily pond in his garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Lane 1991
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Summary: Between the motif and the artist Claude Monet (1840-1926) was both the most typical and the most individual painter of Impressionism. His long life and extraordinary work capacity - coupled with a sometimes furious perfectionism--he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape offer the human eye.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 MONMaltbie, P. I.
Summary: Explains how Claude Monet came to paint trains and forever changed the minds of critics about his art and about the Impressionists in general.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759.44 MALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MONJoyes, Claire.
Summary: One of the most influential painters of modern times, Claude Monet lived for half his life in the famous house at Giverny. It was after moving here in 1883 with his future second wife, Alice Hoschede, and their eight children that Monet's work finally achieved recognition. His growing success meant that he was able to indulge his passion for comfort and good living. Family meals, special...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5944 JOYBjörk, Christina
Summary: A little girl visits the home and garden of Claude Monet at Giverny, France, and learns about the artist's paintings and his life. The illustrations include photographs of the painter and his family as well as examples of his work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: R. & S. Books 1987
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759.44 BJODanneberg, Julie
Summary: Recounts a day of painting under the stone arch--Manneporte--as artist Claude Monet, so engrossed in his painting, fails to watch the tide.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DANHouse, John
Summary: John House's introduction to Monet's life and work presents a sequence of dazzling illustrations that chart the artist's progress as he became increasingly preoccupied with color and atmospheric effect, and the direct studies of nature gave way to paintings of greater richness and harmony, in which the play of varied colors replaced the conventional drawing and modeling of forms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Borders Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 MONET HOUSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISHoward, Michael
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 GORRosenstock, Barb
Summary: Describes how as a young artist, Claude Monet rejected a traditional life path while embracing initially unpopular new approaches to painting and seeing, launching the French Impressionism movement.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROSRubio, Salva
Summary: From many years without recognition, money and yet a family to raise, all the way to great success, critically and financially, Monet pursued insistently one vision: catching the light in painting, refusing to compromise on this ethereal pursuit. It cost him dearly but he was a beacon for his contemporaries. We discover in this comics biography how he came to this vision as well as his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RUBSagner-Düchting, Karin.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 SAGSummary: Inspired by the story of a real-life hero, Huo Yuanjia. When an ill-advised fight destroys the reputation of a renowned martial arts champion and his family, his difficult path to redemption will bring him face-to-face with the most ferocious fighters in the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FEAGershwin, George
Contents: Disc 1. Swanee (Al Jolson) -- The Yankee doodle blues (Van & Schenck) -- Do it again (Arthur Lange's Orchestra) -- Somebody loves me (Isabelle & Tom Patricola) -- Fascinating rhythm (Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards) -- Oh, lady be good (Buck & Bubbles) -- Tell me more (Alexander Gray) -- Sweet and low-down (Singing Sophomores ; Ed Smalle) -- Song of the flame (Tessa Kosta ; The Russian Art Choir)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A second-generation petty thief arranges to get out of prison to spend time with his ailing son by taking on a job with his father to pay back the syndicate that arranged his release.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOR RATED RMichels, Heide.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.37 MICLongest, David.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collectible Books 1990