Summary: In this enchanting feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village. Tati shot this film simultaneously in black and white and in an untested color process that proved impossible to print copies of. In 1964 he re-edited it with added hand-colored footage, and in 1995 the full-color film was able to be released from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JOUMaret, Sherri
Summary: "In this reimagined version of The Twelve Days of Christmas, winter wildlife is observed as the snow comes. What animals do you think you might see? Do you think bears will be included? Why or why not? The only way to find out is to read or sing along as animals watch their world get blanketed by gentle layers of snow"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Muddy Boots 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARSummary: Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris, a singer with "stars in her eyes" ignores the protest of her covetous husband and pursues a meeting with a lecherous movie financier. When her husband attempts to crash the rendevous, murder ensues. Enter the detective, whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path of alibis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUAPerez Marquez, Barbara
Summary: Twelve-year-old Paulina is delivering bread to her new friend Fabia's home when Mount Vesuvius begins erupting, but when Fabia's father leaves to help fellow Pompeii residents evacuate, the girls make their way through the city, helping others where they can. Includes facts about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAR (GRAPHIC NOVELL)Peach-Pit
Summary: Schoolgirl Amu has 3 secret magical companions. They are searching for a magic egg, a powerful weapon that could mean trouble in the wrong hands.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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Contents: Earthquake -- Hair sticks -- Serpent -- Blue spring --Forgot my horse's name -- Joy -- Joy2 -- No wings -- My heart is an open field
Format: sound recording-musical
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TENSummary: 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 2010Summary: When the patriarch of a French-Arab family, Slimane, acts on his wish to open a portside restaurant specializing in his ex-wife's fish couscous, the extended clan's passions and problems explode.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN SECCharrière, Henri
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.6 CHAPourrat, Henri
Summary: A rich treasury of more than one hundred tales incorporates local legends, fairy tales, animal stories, devotional pieces, and humor from Pourrat's native Auvergne, France.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 POUMarques, Luana.
Summary: In Almost Anxious, Luana Marques, Ph.D., describes the spectrum of almost anxiety symptoms, from normal situational anxiety on one end to a full-blown diagnosable anxiety disorder on the other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hazelden 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8522 MARDikongue, Henri.
Contents: N'dolo (5:04) -- Clone (4:24) -- Mot'a bobe (4:57) -- Non retour (5:35) -- Ya di la bobe (4:09) -- N'oublie jamais (4:04) -- Na sengi oa bwam (4:12) -- Mot'a benama (5:08) -- Bun'a te (4:31) -- Ongele (6:03) -- N'oublie jamais (instrumental) (4:07).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tinder Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN DIKLandwirth, Henri.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: s.n. 1996
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PARHeart
Summary: The sixteenth release and highly anticipated first album in over four years from Ann and Nancy Wilson. The album includes special guests Ne-Yo and Metallica's James Hetfield.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Concord Records 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD HeHerji
Summary: "Go back in time with Nobel Prize laureate Michel Mayor to understand the secrets of the Universe and meet the great names in physics: Newton, Einstein and many more. This graphic-novel guide to the Universe explains complex ideas in a way anyone can understand. It's a book full of adventure-- as well as some of the most important concepts humankind has ever studied. On the program:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Helvetiq 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: Y GRAPHIC HERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 523.1 HERToliver, Marques.
Contents: CanAan -- Stay -- If only -- Try your best -- Repetition -- Weather man -- Magical look -- Control -- Something wrong -- Find your way back home.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bella Union 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TOLCole, Henri.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 COLMarques, Luana
Summary: "A Harvard-based psychotherapist presents a clinically-proven three-step method to overcome anxiety and achieve goals that is based on the lessons she learned growing up in poverty in Brazil"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 MARDikongué, Henri.
Contents: Ndutu (4:29) -- Ndol'asu (5:47) -- C'est la vie (4:17) -- Na tem ité idiba (4:33) -- Na teleye owa ngea (6:12) -- We nde mba (3:43) -- Bulu bo windi tenge (3:35) -- Françoise (4:29) -- A mumi (5:47) -- Wen te mba wenge (3:45) -- Douala (2:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tinder Records 1997
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN DIKSchindler, Henri.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 394.25 SCHDorra, Henri
Contents: Gauguin's heritage : his family and their nineteenth-century world -- Budding symbolism -- Caricatures and friendships -- The great dilemmas of humanity -- The artist as Messiah -- Visions of death, visions of escape -- From Papeete to Mataiea -- The Polynesian pantheon -- Desire of the night -- Paris furlough -- The last years in Tahiti -- Hiva Hoa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 DORMeunier, Henri
Summary: Bird eggs have been stolen and when the Super Duo find out they drop their Easter egg hunt and hunt for the thief that stole the real eggs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE MEUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE MEUSummary: From filmmaker Hubert Sauper comes an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, 'utopian' Cuba. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. At the same time, a powerful tool of conquest was born: cinema as propaganda. Sauper explores a century of interventionism and myth making together with the extraordinary people...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021