Summary: Before he was the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. A compelling drama about a group of unsung heroes who put themselves in harm's way to rise above hatred and oppression during World War II.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2020

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Summary: In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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Rowe, Kaz

Summary: "This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Getty Publications 2023

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Summary: The story of Jean Cadoret, a man who inherits a farm from his mother and foolishly hopes to become a gentleman farmer. But even before he arrives, his powerful neighbor is plotting to steal his land.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001

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Mack, Jeff

Summary: Describes how artist Marcel Duchamp turned a toilet into a famous work of art.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022

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Summary: The enchanting story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood in the south of France, and a very special summer when he was 11 years old. In the countryside of Provence he fell under the spell of the rugged hills, made new friends and strengthened the unique bond w

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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Summary: The story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood holidays in Provence continues in My Mother's Castle. During a Christmas in the region Marcel's affection for the area deepens and he also learns to love and appreciate his mother's true nature.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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Duchamp, Marcel

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cameo/Abrams 1996

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Summary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007

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Herman-Giddens, Marcia Edwina

Summary: "A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight. Marcia Herman's family moved to Birmingham in 1946, when she was five years old, and settled in the steel-making city dense with smog and a rigid apartheid system. Marcia, a shy only child, struggled to fit in and understand this world, shadowed as it was by her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Alabama Press 2023

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Summary: Based on a true story of the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the two DEA agents that brought the famed Medellin Cartel to its knees.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Summary: Storks used to deliver babies, they now deliver packages for a global internet store. Junior, top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine which produces an unauthorized baby girl! Desperately Junior must deliver the bundle of joy before his boss finds out. Get ready for this wild revealing journey that could make more than one family whole...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Castillo, Marcelo Hernandez

Summary: "With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his familys encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his fathers...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Pagnol, Marcel

Summary: Roman inspiré des souvenirs d'enfance provençaux de l'auteur. Joseph, le père instituteur, Augustine, la maman couturière, la tante Rose, l'oncle Jules, le petit frère Paul forment le cocon familial. Les premiers souvenirs sont ceux de l'école primaire, des premières vacances dans les collines, de la première chasse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: De Fallois 2004

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Meyerowitz, Seth

Summary: Documents the story of a World War II American Air Force turret-gunner who was one of two escapees when his team's plane was shot down near Cognac in 1943, tracing his harrowing six-month flight to safety across the Pyrenees under constant pursuit by the Gestapo.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Carter, William C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2000

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Weinstein, Arnold L.

Summary: "Great art discovers for us who we are," writes literature professor and critic Weinstein in this book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers who "reinvent the novel by exploding our sense of what we are." He invites us to discover our perceptions, our dreams, our own elusive, deepest stories in these masterpieces of modernist...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006

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Proust, Marcel

Summary: Le troisième volume de À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust, qui décrit la vie parisienne à la mode de la fin du XIXe siècle, où le narrateur entre dans le monde brillant et superficiel des salons littéraires et aristocratiques. Salut et satire dévastatrice d'une époque, d'un lieu et d'une culture à la fois.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 0000

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Schrefer, Eliot

Summary: They say Léon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris Conservatory, there's no way an impoverished musician can make his way in 1890s Paris without an outside patron. Young gossip columnist Marcel Proust takes Léon under his wing, and the boys game their way through an extravagant new world. When the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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White, Edmund.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lipper/Viking 1999

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Peterson, Tracie

Summary: "Trouble is brewing, and there are those who hope Isabella stays just as she is, even if it costs her everything"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022

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