Summary: It's Christmas Eve and an unidentified corpse is discovered in the Bois de Boulogne gardens and Inspector Antoine Jouin investigates the murder. Or was it suicide? It's a case that takes him deep into Paris' secret underbelly and into the heavily wooded park on the outskirts of Paris. In this place, people go to seek out and satisfy their darkest desires surreptitiously. This time, Jouin must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AROSummary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: Made up of intimate, revelatory footage of the singular author and poet filmed over the course of five years, Howard Brookner's 1983 documentary about William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch) was for decades mainly the stuff of legend; that changed when Aaron Brookner, the late director's nephew, discovered a print of it in 2011 and spearheaded a restoration. Includes on-screen appearances by Allen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BURSummary: We're the Millers: A small-time pot dealer must become a big-time drug smuggler, so he convinces his neighbors - a stripper, a loser and a runaway - to play his fake family as he heads south of the border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 2 FILFrançoise
Contents: Jeanne-Marie counts her sheep -- Springtime for Jeanne-Marie -- Noël for Jeanne-Marie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark Publishers 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FRASummary: Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the well respected current events and policy magazine 'The new republic'. He was also a freelance writer featured in 'Rolling Stone', 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'George'. By the mid 1990's, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington. That is until a bizarre chain of events suddenly stopped his career right in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHAFuret, Francois
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 335.4 FURMaison, Jessica
Summary: Eva has never been a typical teenager. She grew up in a climate apocalypse, her parents are dead, and the boy she once loved is probably trying to kill her. A few years ago, she discovered a new species born from plastic waste, and she and her world became even stranger. She quickly found she could mold these creatures into other beings - first a butterfly, then a fish, a deer, a bear - and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wicked Tree Press 0000
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAISummary: While she tackles some of her most gruesome homicide cases yet, Dr. Temperance Brennan also faces the delicate demands of motherhood and a deepening relationship with FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth. The thrills escalate this season when a pastor's wife goes missing and shipping clerks go postal, but the biggest shocker of all comes when clues left by a deranged cyber genius tag Brennan as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BONSummary: Earth is destroyed by a runaway star, but not before a few privately financed individuals can escape to start anew on another planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WHESummary: Brides of Dracula: "Marianne is traveling to Eastern Europe from Paris for a teaching post. She gets stranded at an inn after her stagecoach mysteriously leaves her. She is persuaded to stay at Baroness Meinster's chateau. During her stay Marianne meets the Baroness's son who is chained to a wall. Feeling bad for the son, Marianne frees him, only to discover that he is a vampire. Luckily for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR HAMSummary: Includes seven original Christmas classics, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town; Frosty the Snowman; and others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Classic Media 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORICouperin, François
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Keats Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.632 COULelord, François.
Summary: Story of a psychiatrist who traveled around the world to try to understand what made people happy or unhappy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LELPayard, François.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.86 PAYRobert, François
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779 ROBVigneault, François
Summary: "When MNGR First Class João da Silva arrives on the moon of Titan to take charge of Homestead Station, he finds the massive mining colony plagued by tensions between the giant, genetically-engineered Titan workers and the Terran management. As anger mounts, what began as a routine posting quickly turns into something far more dangerous. Phoebe Mackintosh thought she left her fighting days...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Lion Forge Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 VIGSamso, Raimon
Summary: Why some get their wishes and others do not? I have 12 reasons... Do you want to know them? This set of principles -as I have ordered and systematized them- they make up "The Manifestation Code" and they are a spiritual technology to make the invisible visible. Although the concepts on which I have based the "12 powers" may seem like a commonplace to you, or you think you already know them,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raimon Samso 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 SAMClemmons, François
Summary: The intimate debut memoir by the man known to the world as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood 's "Officer Clemmons," a Grammy Award-winning artist who made history as the first African American actor to have a recurring role on a children's television program
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEMMONS, FRANCOIS CLECorteggiani, François
Summary: One day, Alice chases the White Rabbit and disappears down a mysterious hole. Alice journeys into a topsy-turvy world of fantastical adventures. She meets lots of curious characters, including the Red Queen, who is not pleased to find Alice in her kingdom. Will Alice ever escape from Wonderland?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DISFrançois, Bill
Summary: "Bill François' Eloquence of the Sardine is a charming narrative nonfiction book about the secret lives of fishes. If we listen to the ocean, what do we hear? What can it teach us? How can it change us? Written by a marine scientist (and winner of French eloquence competitions), this work of narrative non-fiction blends Bill François' personal story with that of sea creatures to create an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 578.77 FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 578.77 FRACrozat, François.
Summary: A baby elephant describes his life with the rest of the herd, and how his mother teaches him and protects him from harm. On board pages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 1993