Summary: Monsieur Oscar, a mysterious, shadowy character, spends a day traveling through Paris in a limousine driven by his loyal chauffeur, Celine. During his travel, he journeys from one life to the next, taking on the appearances of a wide variety of characters, including a captain of industry, an assassin, a beggar, a monster, a reptilian sex god, a melancholy father, and a dying old man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vivendi Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOLSummary: Set in the 15th century, two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. Often interpreted as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France, during which it was...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VISMassenet, Jules
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TDK Mediactive 2003
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MANSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: The red balloon: A French boy named Pascal discovers a stray red balloon in the streets of Paris. Pascal and the balloon become fast friends and share many adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: "Sunset Story is a funny and intimate documentary that will make you think differently about growing old. It tells the story of Irja (81) and Lucille (95), two friends at a rest home for retired radicals. As they attend demonstrations, register their fellow residents to vote and debate everything under the sun, Irja and Lucille's verve and humor delight us. Sunset Story doesn't shy away from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Capital Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUNHubert
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Comics Lit 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HUBPuccini, Giacomo
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA PUCSummary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KENHalbert, Frederic
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.2 HALProvost, Mique
Summary: The Random Acts of Kindness movement started in the 1980s. It is attributed to Anne Herbert, a peace activist who wrote a challenge on a restaurant place mat: Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. Today the movement has spread around the world. Make & Share Random Acts of Kindness is a unique compilation of step-by-step projects and quick & easy ideas for practicing acts of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 PROAubert, Rosemary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bridge Works Pub. 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUBTalbert, Tom
Contents: Clothes line ballet (Waller) -- In a mist (Beiderbecke) -- Bond Street (Waller) -- Prelude to a kiss (Ellington) -- Green night & orange bright (Talbert) -- Black and blue (Waller/Razaf/Brooks) -- Candlelights (Beiderbecke) -- Keepin' out of mischief now (Waller/Razaf) -- In the dark (Beiderbecke) -- Do nothin' till you hear from me & Ko-Ko (Ellington/Russell).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Concepts 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ TALAlburt, Lev.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 794.12 ALBH Provost
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Edward Schuberth & Co. 1936
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMAlberts, Laurie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of New England 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBWalbert, Kate
Summary: "In Sunken Cathedral, Kate Walbert tells the stories of four women living in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, more or less now. Two, Marie and Simone, friends for decades, are widows in their seventies, yet robust, engaged, appetiteful, even ready to find love again. They were immigrants, survivors of World War II in Europe, and now are living alone in the houses where they raised their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Walbert 2015Little, Elbert L. (Elbert Luther)
Summary: An identification guide to trees of western North America, with 855 color photographs, three identification keys, and detailed descriptive information.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1980
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 582.16 LITAlberg, Lucas
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE ALBAlbers, Susan
Summary: Albers has discovered that the key to successful weight loss is not physical exercise, calorie counting, or willpower-- it's emotional intelligence (EI). Learn how to use EI to strengthen your relationship with food, and get out of the vicious cycle of dieting failure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.25 ALBAlberti, Rafael
Summary: A bilingual anthology by a Spanish poet, illustrated with paintings that inspired it. In the poem, Botticelli, accompanied by the painting, The Birth of Venus, he writes: "Upon the sea / all is curling witchery, / twirling curl / & rippling wave, / a geometric order / carried to the border / by uncooling winds that shower bird & flower."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ALBHalbert, Sam.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALWalbert, Kate
Summary: "They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens on a "borrowed" golf cart, at night, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018