Summary: Follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy and her predatory instructor. In a breakthrough role, Noée Abita plays 15-year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps who has been accepted to an elite ski club known for producing some of the country's top professional athletes. Taking a chance on his new recruit, ex-champion turned coach Fred decides to mold Lyz into his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SLASummary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESSummary: 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: "Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed and await death"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHIContents: Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor Op.27 No.2, 'Moonlight' : I Adagio sostenuto (4:50) -- Peer Gynt Suite No.1 Op.46 : I Morning Mood (4:09) -- Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune (5:25) -- Pavane pour une infante defunte (7:10) -- Kinderszenen [Scenes from Childhood] Op.15 : VII Traumerei (2:56) -- 12 Etudes, Op. 10: No. 3 in E Major, 'Tristesse' (4:34) -- Nocturne No.1 in B flat...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Classics International 1981
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Contents: Brandenburg concerto no. 3 / J.S. Bach -- Pavane / Maurice Ravel -- Joc cu bata / Bela Bartok -- Aus Holberg Zeit. Aria / Grieg -- Vientos del desierto = Desert winds / Ron Carter -- Ombra mai fu / Handel.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ CARKayihura, Edouard
Summary: In 2004, the Academy Award-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Mille Collines during Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotel's refugees do not endorse...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967 KAYMauriat, Paul.
Contents: Somethin' stupid (2:35) -- Penny Lane (2:20) -- This is my song (from the motion picture "A Countess from Hong Kong") (2:52) -- Seuls au monde = Alone in the world (2:34) -- Inch allah (2:48) -- There's a kind of hush (all over the world) (2:13) -- Puppet on a string (2:06) -- L'amour est bleu = Love is blue (2:31) -- Adieu a la nuit = Adieu to the night (2:08) -- Mama (2:50).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Collectors' Choice Music 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING MAUContents: Night the ghost got in / James Thurber ; read by Isaiah Sheffer (11:50) -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton ; read by Maria Tucci (23:12) -- Mak westing / Jack London ; read by Steven Gilborn (19:41) -- Rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence ; read by John Shea (38:11) -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson ; read by Marian Seldes (21:21) -- Most dangerous game / Richard Connell ; read by Charles Keating...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELMauriat, Paul.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Croma Music Co. 1968
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMVarèse, Edgard
Contents: Ionisation (4:50) -- Density 21.5 (4:10) -- Intègrales (9:43) -- Octandre (6:45) -- Hyperprism (3:49) -- Poème électronique (8:04).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: One Way Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL VARManceau, Edouard
Summary: At bedtime, a brave child makes a monster disappear by tickling its various parts, such as its teeth so it cannot bite, and the parts transform into new objects that create a non-threatening scene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Naples 1904: Italian theatre is thriving, and comic actor, Eduardo Scarpetta is the box office king. Known in the Neapolitan theater for his cheeky alter egos, Scarpetta's larger-than-life stage productions were matched only by his eccentric personal life. Composed of wives, partners, lovers, legitimate and illegitimate children, Scarpetta's home situation resembled one of his comedies more...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KINSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: "Golden-age Hollywood's humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema's most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LOVRilke, Rainer Maria
Summary: "With more than two hundred and fifty selected poems by Rilke, including complete translations of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies, The Poetry of Rilke spans the arc of Rilke's work, from the breakthrough poems of The Book of Hours to the visionary masterpieces written only weeks before his death. This landmark bilingual edition also contains all of Snow's commentaries on Rilke, as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 RILLouis, Édouard
Summary: "An autobiographical novel from the international bestselling author Édouard Louis - about success, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LOUContents: Suite, no. 3 in D major, BWV 1068. Air / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Concerto for guitar, D major, RV 93. Largo / Antonio Vivaldi -- Gymnopédies, nos. 1 and 3 / Erik Satie (orch., Claude Debussy) -- Thaïs. Meditation / Jules Massenet -- Carnival of the animals. The swan / Camille Saint-Saëns -- Concerto for harpsichord, no. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056. Largo / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Rèverie / Claude...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music & Video 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE FORLouis, Édouard
Summary: "On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village, the family, and the past he had sworn to leave behind. A bestseller in France; challenged and vindicated in the courts; History of Violence is a short...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOUWagner, Eduard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spring Books 1967
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.441 WAGTchaikovsky, Peter Ilich
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BMG 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL TCHSummary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASSummary: The wealthy Recchi family has undergone sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. has named a successor to the reins of his company, and surprised everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi and grandson Edo. But Edo had always dreamed of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio. To make matters worse, the very foundation of the entire family may be totally shattered after Tancredi's wife Emma...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IBellini, Vincenzo
Summary: During the English Civil War of the 1640's, a Puritan bride goes mad when she feels betrayed by her Royalist bridegroom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2007